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You don't necessarily have a choice in the way the boat owner does. Many jets legally require a copilot. If you don't hire one, you'll need to train your wife or kid or something. Speaking of training, for a long time now there has been one standard for passing the type rating checkride, so...

I do not want ANY kind of furling main. The potential mess is huge with in-mast, plus the fact the main is like an old bedsheet. In-boom, as we see here, gives one a boom with the size and weight of a wrecking ball.

My point is the boat wasn't that hard to sail *as long as nothing broke*. If the electrics or hydraulics took a shit at the wrong time, you were screwed. The owner was not a hard-corer racer, it was more the boat had power everything.

My mainsheet is at the end of the boom, which is right ahead of the wheel. Where should it be?

They can actually. I know someone who singlehanded a 90 foot sloop. The problem is you are screwed if the labor-saving devices don't work or you get them into a condition where they can't work :eek: For one very simple example, I was one of two on a smallish coastal freighter once. Dropping the...

The main sheet can be a deadly hazard, as much as the boom. We had one guy who we KEPT warning not to stand in the path of it keep doing it anyway and get launched head first. He didn't die but at first we thought we killed him, he was out cold and bloody. That was the end of that race, we got...

I suddenly like my crappy reefing system a bit better.

I vote no on a murder scheme because only the dumbest criminal would leave the bodies on the boat. "A big wave washed them off" is a 100% foolproof scheme unless one of the two perps brags about throwing them off. Also they got nothing out of this, they didn't try to make off with the boat or...