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Beth's book - I'm just the deck ape. She is the brains. I think jud has ordered it but dont think he has read yet.

That's ok - it is probably only of interest to Jud and he seems willing to read long sections, even of blue font.

I think perhaps just a tiny bit of exaggeration.  -_- Honestly either (keel or deck) is perfectly fine if they are done properly. Just some trade-offs and compromises. You can plug (in various different ways) the inside of a keel stepped mast at the partners. I personally lean toward keel...

From the Pacific - there are two options - down the coast or a big loop out to polynesia and around the big stationary high and back in at Chile.  This later is quite long sea distance, but with favorable conditions and some really nice stops which most cruisers doing the pacific dont get to...

a bit more regarding the atlantic and pacific approaches . . .  From the Atlantic there is basically one way to do it.  You get to Uruguay and then go down the coast and turn right at the beagle.  We sailed non-stop from iceland down to uruguay, but probably the easiest is a passage from the...

we were in chile 3 times, came at it both ways (from the atlantic and the pacific). To get to chile, down the atlantic is (arguably) a bit easier than the pacific.  But once there are the first port it is a whole lot easier if you did the pacific, because southbound (downwind) in the chanels is...

yea, we had a sleeve inside from below the partners up to just above the gooseneck and then tapered for a ways further - hoped it would snap off somewhere above the sleeve. If the boom was still there it was designed so we could hoist the boom vertical and get a reasonably decent mast (Ellen did...

My father in law used to be the last link in a draft dodger railroad to canada. He would put them in the trunk and drive  across the border.  He was an ex-navy flyer, crew cut, everything squared away, and senior guy in small local Masonic lodge to boot, so no-one ever gave him even a second...

we have had the mast get wet near 90 degrees, but never fully immersed. This used to be 'a thing', I am a little out of touch with the cutting edge but I suspect no serious race boats today want to take the weight aloft penalty.

In Fremantle my wife asked one of the guys how they searched the ships which were coming in the port when it took them this long to do us. And he said they did not much bother because there was no way they could effectively search them.  I was thinking at that moment that their search of our...

Our first trip to Aust (pre 9-11) was marvelous, everyone wonderful. And we put it on our 'must go back next time' list. Our 2nd trip (well post 9-11) the everyday bloke was generally good but a little more standoffish. I could see how the local folks in Tasi might well be on the more helpful...

Newfoundland is like this today,  everywhere, even the capital town. I once dinghied ashore with two jerry jugs looking for a harbor tap for some water.  A guy in a pickup asked what I was doing, I told him, he said jump in, and he drove me off for like 45 minutes to a historic spring, we...

Kinsale was actually truly marvelous in the winter. In the summer it was a tourist trap - a nice one, but still all fake. In the winter 85% of it shut down, but what was left was really terrifically local - get to meet and dance and sing and drink with real people.

Patience is an underrated skill.  You need to be able to relax and not stress and wait just long enough and then go, if you wait too long hoping it will get even more perfect then often it cycles to worse and you have to start waiting all over. It has unfortunately become almost a meaningless...

I hear you.   I apologize if I sounded over-bearing or 'know-it-all'.  I know you, among other places do get actual weather. I see it as something a skilled sailor just has to anticipate and plan for, rather than something to leave to 'luck'.  I do recognize that I am fortunate to have...

Yea :) It is fun when it is delivered with a bit of cheek or irony. In Kinsale (ireland) I was told 'we are happy the weather is so bad here because it keeps the Germans away'.

sure, but . . .   'heavy weather' is not the same as 'survival conditions'.  'heavy weather' is (generally, short of some exceptional rip current or shallow bar or such) quite manageable with some care and attention, and good practice. and, yea, as you know, I have sailed round there (and...

yes, it does - gives you both longer legs and (generally) greater capsize resistance. It does bring with it some other compromises. And I personally generally consider your size to be too big for me, but I appreciate and respect your ability to deal with it. Even with size, I think we can...