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Often wrong, always certain. That's our Zitsky.

Damn. Someone besides Nat got the Herreschoff white/wood balance right.

Transients are an inescapable feature of wave train interference. They can be caused by two trains of comparable frequency intersecting at angles, or by parallel trains of differing frequency. The transient can be a one-off event at a single location -- like right under your boat -- or it can...

Pretty much all ice gear falls under the category "psychological protection." Maybe it'll catch a fall, probably it won't, can give the leader a sense of comfort having something to clip a rope to. Ice climbers are a special bunch. :unsure: Once you enter that world, you are buying into such a...

Yeah -- when the boat is lifted bodily up and falls vertically onto its side, the finer points of yaw characteristics rather fall by the way. (Tho you could say a boat with optimal broach resistance is less likely to find itself beam to a breaking wave, so the hydrodynamics are still worth...

It's the Sailor's Categorical Imperative: "There is only one correct way to do things and that is my stated way* of doing things and if you do things differently you are an idiot and will die." *NB: "I may not obey these absolutist rules myself, but I am steadfast in pushing my beliefs on...

Or they just died at the first asking, without SAR videos or 9-1-1 transcripts or "Stupid Boaters of the Week" compilations on YouTube. My default position is "People today are exactly the same as people 50/500/5000 years ago ... only more so."

Can't be a Lucas. No smoke pouring out of it.

That's how they've got much better at hurricane track forecasting, for example. In complex multivariate systems, sometimes you start with maximal data sets and then model backwards thru raw computational power, rather than beginning with a few presumptive equations and projecting those forward. ...

Strangely, Ish's "heaved to" is the correct verb form (past participle); "hove to" is the adjectival condition.  Having heaved to, the boat is now hove to. English is weird. :lol:

No, I didn't. I am very good at reading and analyzing texts. You seem rather heavily invested in the people and philosophies embodied in the book, which is fine. But appeals to authority, 'wisdom', and 'common sense' are intrinsically weak arguments, and this anthology is all that.  The...

I own a copy of DAUCOOY and have read it a couple times. It has some very good information tucked in here and there. Mostly it is a protracted whinge by owners of CCA yachts that the (comparatively plebian) IOR scene has ruined their clubby gentleman-racer eminence and rendered their pampered...