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PHRF formula: Step 1: Grab Dart Step 2: Throw at dart board Step 3: Adjust as needed Step 4: If you lose a race complain about above formula Step 5: If you win a race discuss how accurate PHRF ratings are.

Regardless of the cause, you're exactly right regarding contacting someone else to get them off the boat asap. It's rare CVA patients are unresponsive or disorientated unless it's a massive brain bleed because typically a CVA/TIA only occurs on one side of the brain. This is why it affects...

Are you referring to heat stroke or a CVA/TIA? Heat stroke treatment involves just rapid cooling as best you can and I can see some benefit to wet towels. For CVA or TIA there would generally be no benefit to driving blood into the core, and theoretically could cause harm if you're taking away...

There are just 3 important concepts to resuscitation and to even to the most advanced medical training: 1) Air goes in and out 2) Blood goes round and round 3) Oxygen is good On a serious note though, CPR can only do so much, getting an AED and medics with good drugs is the only way to have...

Hey thanks for the free PR @floater ! Admittedly, we have it priced a bit high right now. Happy to discuss fair market value with anyone interested. Hate to let her go, while I may be slightly biased I think it's a really special boat and without a doubt the best boat we've ever owned. Just...

Agree. I think a some heel is still helpful, I would think there's a point when it starts engaging the leeward bottom where it becomes counterproductive though? Not really sure about anything now, still grappling with the whole no Santa Claus thing!

Pics that confirm your point it seems. That's quite a flat bottom.

yeah I think you guys are correct, I was wrong. Unfortunately will not be the last time Im wrong

hmm, I read that as the opposite, but after re-reading that maybe you're right. I feel like you just told me there's no Santa Claus :) What's next, no easter bunny either?

Maybe not the best picture (and clearly not an IMOCA), but a shot of our boat freshly hauled out of the water showing the reduced wetted surface area when sitting flat. The more heel, the more surface area and stability comes into play, especially with the lateral aspect of the stern and...

It was shortened to "C2H2ForS2N,A" after they realized "California to Hawaii to Fiji or Samoa to Newcastle, Australia" wouldn't fit on a T-shirt.

It's like a like a life-size version of the old kids game battleship. "You sunk my battleship!", or perhaps more accurately "You sunk my floating meth lab".

I believe that's the point, there's a 30% decrease in wetted surface (39sq/m vs 59sq/m) when heeled less than 20 degrees in light wind. When you see these type of designs hauled out of the water you can see the footprint of wetted surface is far less than one would expect when they're sitting...

I draw the line at asking for directions though! I'll find it, maybe by accident, but I'll find it eventually.

If you use leather save yourself some time and frustration and wet the leather as you're doing it. I did one a few years ago and it was a struggle to pull and stretch it into place. After I was done and my fingers and hands were cramped & sore that's when I read that you're supposed to wet the...

And why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

Social media post looks like Sunrise broke their boom at some point, yet impressively it appears as though they will still place 1st in IRC 3. This clearly proves what we've all known all along, a working boom is a completely superfluous piece of equipment.

The diameter and type of line are critical for these type of furlers also. Too big and there's too much friction, too small and it slips. I've also found a line with a looser weave to the cover helps grab a little better too. A snatch block on a bungee cord at the back of the line helps...

Occasionally the continuous Furler lines can slip through these types of furlers which could be a problem with two free ends on the line. Once you run out of line you're in trouble. With a continuous line you just keep pulling until it catches. Theoretically you could still set it up the way...

Correct, which is why I mentioned the FC line having bulbs. Having said that, in my personal experience there has never been a time when I felt like our boat lacked any stability or stiffness, and that’s sailing in commonly 20-30+ daily winds in our local conditions.