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Condensation from my forward hatch lands right on your head :angry: In the winter I throw a yoga mat on top of it and some old anchor chain to keep it in place. Works great and so does bubble wrap.

2,000 hours at 100 knots is more like 200,000 miles. "Has to be" torn down is only for commercial service, if you own the airplane and only fly it for fun you can run it until it dies. I flew a Cessna once with 3800 hours on the engine :o * it can be false economy if you chew up the crank...

If you run ethanol gas that becomes somewhat useless, the water does not separate. I know of someone that learned that the hard way, their seaplane came back on the end of a towline thanks to trying auto gas, which is not legal anyway for airplanes if it has ethanol in it.

1930 Waco: 2021 Waco: The radio is better in the 2021 version ;) Where I work we still have Cobol programmers too. Turbocharging, supercharging, 4 valves per cylinder, and a whole shitload of "the newest thing" in cars is stuff that actually predates WW II. There were even electronic...

It seems like if a boat isn't a racing boat, it is designed for the charter market and mainly needs 4 heads and 4 showers in a 40 foot boat :rolleyes:

FYI - Something like 95% of everything known about subsonic aerodynamics was known by the mid 1930s. I am not sure it is a good thing, but a 1935 era aeronautical engineer would be right at home over at the Piper or Cessna factory today. They aren't doing much that is different except aluminum...

Before my first offshore trip as skipper I read through all the Fastnet reports and got this out of it: The boat will take it if you can, do not EVER get off the boat unless it is a step up. Remember the guy left for dead on a boat "about to sink" who eventually came home not dead in that very...

My boat doesn't do that, she'll put on a burst of speed and get out in front of the breaking wave. The challenge is not to stuff yourself into the wave in front of you. The issue we had was it was very hard to work to steer, an hour wore you out. It would not have been doable for a cruising...

"IOR Boats are awful" yet somehow they got more boats out there than we can ever dream of today.

Able to sail in a gale? If you define gale as anything over 28 knots of COURSE you need to be able to do it. That is just making miles for us sometimes. One great sail we had was leaving from Block Island for Cape May with about 35 knots on the beam. The seas were regular long period big rollers...

Forget PA, think practical. Now there is NO certainty that there is a safe predictable gap between winter storms and summer storms.

You know who to get the best advice from? Delivery skippers. It isn't their boat, they aren't in love with her and blind to her flaws. They have to get the boat from A to B despite the weather or the owner would be making the trip, so they bang through uncomfortable weather instead of waiting a...

My wife loves to hear all the stories like the one about the time the battery cracked in a  hurricane and the acid ate our canned food. She has NO interest in actually having that happen to her!

I remember pushing the boat as hard as possible in horrendous weather and loving the speed and excitement :D Fixing all the shit we broke - well that can start to add up :rolleyes: That is no sustainable all the way around the world.

The most desirable characteristic is that the crew trusts the boat and the most undesirable characteristic is that they don't trust the boat. How many "rescues" have you seen where the crew is getting off a boat with an intact rig, floating on her lines, and in moderate weather :rolleyes...