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I hope they caught a cooler full of Mahi from under that Pseudo-Sargasso raft. We could usually get one or two from something as simple as a floating wooden pallet in the Caribbean. Read Steve Callahan's account of getting rescued from his liferaft after 76 days by some fishermen off of...

Nice find! Wasn't until the second zoom that I realized the scale of that thing. Those are big buildings that you didn't even notice in the first take!

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I met the Skipper of the 'Big Eagle' shortly after his mis-adventure and the loss of the vessel due to a 'I want to be there now!' attitude by the owner. He said he really felt like telling the owner he was nuts to make that short passage and offered to fly the owner over to the big wingding...

We should form a special group to study disruptive tech!

I think that it was actually Dogbert that came up with the term.

I see that you did there!

Dreamer, Thanks for your input, I've always admired your boat. Way ahead of its time. Still at the top of my list!

I had the fwd berth on a Catana for a Trans-Atlantic trip and could just open the pull down shade over the escape hatch which was right in my bunk and witness just the intergerence convergence wave that Soma mentions and at times it didn't just tickle the underside of the wing but would bash...

The bow and stern wakes do converge but that is a function as to how fast one is going at the time. I've seen in a multihull database where this factor is identified by a relative beam to length ratio which points out when that convergence will occur under the bridgedeck, just where you don't...

Great summation Soma. Good for you to pass on your familiarity with both breeds of Gunboats and I think you are spot on with your post. This is a huge factor in multihull design, that 'breakaway point' that Soma has described.

Hemisphere! I got to do some design work on her tender sling and retrieval system that was pretty wild. The gull wing doors under the bridgedeck you can see in this image hinged outward much like bomb bay doors and a 23' waterjet RIB was slung tucked up into that space. Lots of challenges to...

Proa makes a great point here. Somehow the old song and parable about walking a mile in another man's shoes comes to mind. I delivered this Givens 56 catamaran from the VI to Newport a bit early in the season. It was originally an open bridgedeck racing design with a very large and tall...

Charlie has screwed the pooch himself on ill-timed departures, and blamed the routers. Remember the NARC rally about four years ago?

Maybe being named Boat of the Year by Sailing World is the jinx. The Gunboat 55 for 2015 and the Chris White MastFoil in 2014!? There have been a couple of MastFoil dismastings since. The ill-fated Alpha 42 met its end in very similar conditions in the same patch of ocean last year and it was a...

Better days...