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This is quite the sobering view. I hope he turned the engine off before he abandoned. 

One of the characteristics of free-standing rigs is they don't break at the spreaders.

Nice looking boat, and great little voyager. Looks like you could strap an outboard on that transom too. :lol: :ph34r:

I will extend to the use as an oral thermometer, but that's it.

We have one of these on board as well as at home: It's useful for all sorts of things besides making sure the chicken is done. Waterproof, too.

Certainly better than this solution.

Are we getting into keel up/keel down discussions again?

I was actually taking the mickey, since I have a fixed (hopefully) keel. Keel up is never a good look in most cases.

I prefer to keep the keel down in any kind of weather.

It doesn't look like you have a lot of meat on that original mast fitting. I would be tempted to double it somehow.

Thank you. I missed that thread.

I moved as soon as I could, then got my double idiot badge by going back. I'm cured now.

Growing up in Saskatchewan, where the temperature range is -40C to +40C, we only had single-pane windows, so every fall we had to put the storm windows on and take them off again in spring.

Some friends of ours did their house every winter, it worked well for them. Big windows, too. It's important to make it as airtight as possible.

Doesn't look like there's much of a clothing budget. NTTAWWT.

? you'll have to explain that one to me.

Beginning of June. We went out 100 miles and then came back in to 50 to avoid the worst of it. Didn't work.  http://sailvalis.com/wordpress_1/?p=597

We donate them to our local newspaper's book drive if they are in good shape. Broken books...blue bin. 

In light of the "around the world in less than 35 knots" comments, I have to say that Juan de Fuca Strait to San Francisco was an enlightening first foray into open ocean sailing, only a hundred miles off the coast. Despite good weather routing, we ended up off the Oregon coast in mid-fifties...

I am not worthy.