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I'm new to this, all of this... I sailed sunfish at boy scout camp for a week about 15 years ago, then went on the Chesapeake for an afternoon in a beneteau. Now I'm crewing for a friend on his Pearson 424, and the first night out we had gusts over 35kts and a significant wave height of 10'. I want to get into single-handed dinghy cruising and I've been checking the forums. Most people don't have an interest in what I'm looking for, so it's hard to find. I want something comparable to a wayfarer, which is hard to say having never seen one. My neighbor has had an albacore parked in the driveway since his son passed almost 20 years ago. I'm thinking about making an offer, but want some input as to what might better suit my "needs." Models I'm considering: Wayfarer, Flying Scot, Buccaneer, Paceshup Alouette, Pumpkin Seed, and Albacore. I'm not looking for a racing boat like a laser, but something robust, fast, forgiving, open (no, no O'Days, etc.), 15+', trailerable, single-handed (even if it's with practice), and "spacious..." Does the albacore even come close? Budget is $1500, tops, but I'm willing to do some beefing up, re-rigging, modifying, etc. I've been looking into this for a bit, but wanted to put it forward. Is there something I'm missing? I'm looking to do extended offshore sailing, starting in the Bay, then maybe the Great Lakes, after I get off this roller coaster.
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I'm in the market for a cruising boat and came across the Catalina 38 SS shoal keel. Thoughts/comments on this model for cruising? Does anyone know this particular boat? https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1984/catalina-sparkman-stevens-2947107/
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We've quietly been working on something new the past few months. Watch this space!
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So, here is a question for the group – Does anyone know where and when the first modern asymmetrical spinnaker was developed? I have a story about how we developed the concept on the west coast of Florida in 1982 for racing a custom 30’ Stiletto catamaran, but I was wondering if others were using them somewhere else earlier than that. I would have thought that the 18 footers in Sydney would have been the birthplace, but an ‘83 video on Youtube shows them using a symmetric on a mast mounted pole at that time.
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I am looking for opinions on budget electronics, as I am a single Parent on an MPS teachers budget. I am looking for a basic GPS/fish-finder (real time depth) for under 500 dollars. I have found some for fishing boats, but they come with transducers to be mounted on the transom of fishing boats that requires drilling holes in the fiberglass transom. I have read discussions, but not reviews, of how skimmer transducers work epoxied in front of the keel in the bilge, reading through the hull. Has anyone done it????? does it work????? I have a thru-hull for an old depth sounder, but those transducers seem to be pretty expensive, or not available. Lowrance, Eagle, and Hummingbird are the standards in the fishing world. BUT…….. the sailing world (West Marine) likes Garmin. Does Garmin talk to Raymarine, or BNG???? We all know what they say about opinions:-) I'm sure everyone here has one………. about their electronics. I can't wait to read them all, as I am hoping to make a wise informed decision………. As this Is my second post, I should probably introduce myself. Sometime in the early 70"s, my parents went to St. Croix with another couple. The summer after, I was a: shaggy haired, 4-5 year old, ginger fish in a human body, and my parents had a Cape Dory 25, named "Fellowship" on Lake Winnebago. Growing up, we cruised Green Bay, Northwest Michigan, usually starting at Manitou Island going north to Beaver Island. We did this on a Hunter 30, and a Pearson 34. I had a Butterfly, as a kid, and have sailed Scows, as captain and crew until I met "EvaOdland" of "hate on that 70's boat". She hooked me up with her first boat, an '84 Hunter 25.5 named RAIDO. My first post in "pictures while Sailing", Is of her sailing out of McKinley marina out one MKE. Eva took the one of me healing, and the one in the fog was sent by an awesome sailor that thought the pic in the fog made a great pic:-} #KEEPINGOLDPLASTICALIVE:-!!!!!!!
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Hello all! I'm considering two Wauquiez 40 Pilot Saloons available on the eastern seaboard. I've never been aboard any of their boats except the much different and older Pretorien 35, manufactured well before the they were owned (for a period) by Beneteau. I'd really like to get some feedback from those that have owned them, or who have at least been aboard/crewed before I commit to a trip up and over from my home here in New Orleans. (perhaps someone might know who has if not themselves) * I'm already aware of the compromises with the pilot saloon design, to include the usable cabin space allocation and the potential liability of large windows in heavy weather, but I feel this might be a good niche-design for me as a single live-aboard. I'd love to do some extensive blue water sailing but feel this may be a better investment in terms of liveability and the reality of the kind of coastal sailing I expect to primarily do with it. Much appreciated! - Hunt
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Hello all! I'm considering two Wauquiez 40 Pilot Saloons available on the eastern seaboard. I've never been aboard any of their boats except the much different and older Pretorien 35, manufactured well before the they were owned (for a period) by Beneteau. I'd really like to get some feedback from those that have owned them, or who have at least been aboard/crewed before I commit to a trip up and over from my home here in New Orleans. (perhaps someone might know who has if not themselves) * I'm already aware of the compromises with the pilot saloon design, to include the usable cabin space allocation and the potential liability of large windows in heavy weather, but I feel this might be a good niche-design for me as a single live-aboard. I'd love to do some extensive blue water sailing but feel this may be a better investment in terms of liveability and the reality of the kind of coastal sailing I expect to primarily do with it. Much appreciated! - Hunt
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I bought Mike’s DURACELL from him as he was building his next boat COYOTE. My plan was to do my own, non-racing, solo non-stop circumnavigation. After bringing her to Seattle (through the canal) and winning the Pan-Pacific Race, I brought her solo back from Japan as a shakedown. My circumnavigation was cut short by losing the top 50’ of the mast in a collision with a freighter down by the equator. Putting her on the hard next to my home, it was my intention to put it back together and return to sailing. Shore life got in the way with business and family obligations and now age and health issues. I no longer have the means to chase that dream. So what now? I love that boat. I can’t imagine a more easily handled, sea kindly, safe, proven, shorthanded boat capable of sailing anywhere on earth. So a refit for a solo circumnavigator? Or shorthanded go anywhere? Move the helm aft and replace the short pilot house with a long coach roof, build in creature comforts for a fast, shorthanded cruiser or ‘six pack’ charter boat? A Salish Sea, sailing/whale watching boat sailing out of Deception Pass? Much of the movie “Coyote: The Mike Plant Story” was shot of and aboard this boat. The movie trailer can be viewed here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6739894/ In any case, I want to make it possible for another individual or organization to own her and get her sailing again. I’m looking for a buyer, proposals and/or ideas. Thanks! 21 knots minutes at a time...
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Incredible live VOLCANO, part 2 Sailing Indonesia (Learning By Doing Ep 91)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn3TjucvGrw Dukono Volcano Part 2 After a very short night we got ready to climb to the Volcano crater in part 2 of the Dukono adventure. As our clothes had not had time to dry out and the climate on the mountain being very different than on the coast we spent a very cold few hours in the tent trying to sleep. Toby seemed to be doing fine as his bloody loud snoring proved to Maxi and I. We than had a quick coffee and begun the 90 min hike in the dark to the crater rim. The redhot lava that was being thrown hundreds of meters into the air was simply amazing as the was the sound! Impossible to capture the lava though as it was only visible in the dark. The amount of sandy ash being thrown up was amazing and it wasn't until it began to get light that I realised how much of it was getting on my camera, wow, big cleanup job needed after. We spent a few hours up there then slowly made our way back down to a small pool where we had a quick dip to get the ash off then continued on down to meet the motorbike boys again. At the bottom there is a pool with hot water directly from the mountain, we really enjoyed some time there to clean off but also relax the muscles after what was a very tough couple of days for this sailors skinny legs. -
Kleen Breeze, a 60+ foot Harryproa, is doing its first sea trials. It features a novel combination of unstayed wing masts in schooner configuration and two bidirectional Speer foil rudder boards. Looking very promising so far.
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Unless you've been living under a rock or in West Virginia for the last several years you've probably heard of this "climate change" thing. Along with mass extinctions and other colorful forms of certain doom there's a pretty interesting phenomenon called the "blue ocean event" that's going to occur in my life time (unless I get run over by a truck first). Essentially, it's when arctic albedo (reflection of sunlight by light vs absorption by water) reaches negligible levels and you can sail to the north pole. No one really knows when it will happen, but we seem to be heading there faster than most people guessed. Here's a cool superposition of IPCC projections vs actual arctic sea Ice over the last few years. Most of the not fringe lunatic models estimate the first Blue Ocean Event at anywhere between 2032 and 2058 depending on CO2 emissions and other unknowable factors. If you are curious about research into the phenomenon and are a super huge data nerd like me then you might enjoy this additional reading Obviously this will open up sailing possibilities that never before existed. Imagine sailing from Vancouver to Svalbard, or Anchorage to Reykjavik. Of course there will be a million container ships because screw the panama canal at this point, and maybe Russia will invade Ellesmere island; who knows? At any rate, I've been obsessing over sailing to the north pole for a while, possibly as some sort of coping mechanism. I don't hear a lot about it from other cruisers 'tho. Probably because they are mostly too old to be thinking of cruising in 30-50 years. Anyone else gonna give it a try? Who do you think will be the first person to sail to the geographic North pole? Do you have any wild pet speculations of your own? Should I have posted this in another forum?
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I see that the winner of the recent Golden Globe race was sailing a Rustler 36. The second and third place finishers also sailed a Rustler 36, as did some others. My questions: Why this boat? What makes it good for a race like this? Are these the qualities that make for a good cruising boat?
