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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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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
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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
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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 cabi
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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 cabi
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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
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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 sim -
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 faste
