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Even for a devout worshipper at the Church of Beer, it would a bit extreme to abandon your boat just because of a postponed pint. I reckon that there must have been something deeper and darker going on in his head.  Poor divil.

Skipper and boat both appeared to be fit and healthy.

Huge vulnerable windows, massive windage from that pilothouse.   The archive advert at https://www.northropandjohnson.com/yachts-for-sale/barloventoii-72-abekingrasmussen#:~:text=Designed by-,Phillip Rhodes,-for Pierre S says she is a Philp Rhodes design.  Would Rhodes really have signed off on...

Brilliant. I gonna steal that.

Not faster, but AIUI they use a LOT less fuel per passenger mile

The boat I saw was a yellow or cream colour, and an Irish boat.  But that was in the late 1970s, and the intervening 40+ years is long enough for a switch to UK sail numbers and a radical repaint. Yes, that angle does show the weird hull shape.   But at that sort of money, the easily-handled...

Hmm.  I am torn between on one hand bowing to your huge expertise, and on the other hand the low probability that so many experienced skippers were so incompetent.    The only way I can see to resolve this gap is to consider that what little I know of the Pardey techniques is that they mostly...

Heavy full-keeled boats have their merits.   They dry out nice and safely alongside, or on legs.  They heave to well.  They usually have deep bilges. They can be built with encapsulated ballast, which avoids a few maintenance headaches. But even though the old-timers used to commend them for...

The path of progress doesn't have to go through weird deformations and multiple forms of unseaworthiness; that was an avoidable flaw of a misconceived rule.  A rule  which didn't deform and distort would still have had new boats appearing, tho possibly not as rapidly

The number of boats out racing was a function of the socio-economic conditions of the time. The IOR just ensured that the armada of new boats being built were warped and deformed.

Basically, to increase effective hull length, the stern has do some work, i.e it has to push the water downwards.  That requires broad flat surface that are actually immersed ... which this hull doesn't have. The water isn't fooled by a wee sliver kissing the water, and that stern offers the...

Sorry, but that stern doesn't make sense at any angle of heel.  Like the flat forefoot, it's all a ratings dodge whose purpose is to slow the boat a bit less than the rule thinks it has been slowed.   In this, the owner basically invited the critique.

Yes, it doesn't have full set of IOR vices.  The lack of massive genoa is very welcome. But that forefoot isn't just an aesthetic problem; it does horrible hings to the waterflow.  The stern is quite narrow on the waterline, and lacks immersed volume from the rudder aft, so it in practice it...

For starters, this forefoot.  Then the stern set up so it can't actually do any work. I am glad that you are happy with your boat, but it's well loaded with IOR bad attributes.

The only Julian Everett boat I ever saw up close was an Eliminator 32.   There's a good page on it at https://julianeveritt.com/2017/02/07/eliminator-32/ ... which confirms my recollection of its warped shape.

With a few honourable exceptions, standards keel attachment on modern sailboats are grim.  But it seems that most buyers place little priority on a well-engineered keel. As to collecting lots of data, I fear that it will be of limited use.  The sensors will be unlikely to record the sail area...

Evans, my sentence after the one you quoited begins "The quality of the info on forums is variable".  I was using restrained understatement, and maybe I should have been more direct and noted that web forums often contain a lot of crap. But frankly, anyone trying to work though all this needs...

Yes,the sea is harsh ... but I think we are a long way from finding the full set of combinations which work.  Some combinations which had previously been ruled out come back into play as technologies improve.  One example is big sloops, tamed by powered furling systems and powered sheets ...

All true.  But sailing books never had huge sales, and if a significant proportion of the potential market has turned to social media, then the shrinking makes the book less viable.  The wisdom (or otherwise) of that choice doesn't alter the bottom line.

A few thoughts here: I doubt that the bikini-driven video market is in competition with the howto book.  Mostly different audiences There's not much money in books anymore.  If anyone did write a 2020s offshore-howto book, would it find a publisher? How useful is a book these days? ...