As a result of geography if I was deciding how to spend public money to encourage the Florida marine industry it would all go to small motor boat launching ramps , docks and fisheries improvements
This is a very important business in Florida
Sailing is insignificant
Did the polish reporter inform you of the trainloads of refrigerated Ukrainian corpse parked on the polish Ukraine border ….photos suggest they hold about 30,000
Yah ..loose a few kgs
you would be surprised at how much a few kgs of blubber slows you down
when working on deck it’s about fast reflexes and little frog jumps
Sad the hear this …that was always an important regatta and the British are keen sailors
perhaps it’s the bad economy or demographics ?
I see similar things happening in France and Italy ..some regattas have completely disappeared
If you know Russia and Russians then you know that everything you read in the media is garbage .
America doesn’t give a dam about Ukraine .
Americas proxy war is to break the China , Russia. Europe economic link and enable America to live beyond its means… last year you consumed one trillion...
The drone does seem perfect for marine work
Unfortunately I notice their popularity and how obnoxious it is to have two or three of those things hovering over the anchorage each evening
The problem is that the US is governed By a uniparty ,
All controlled by special interests inside the beltway
difficult to understand how a voter could change this rotten system on a nationwide scale
your best hope is to elect authentic local representative and solve local problems
as a...
A fin keel boat , minus its rudder will spin like a top on its keel
you need lateral resistance aft ….
a wind vane rudder is very small …better than nothing , but too small , to little lateral resistance, to keep the boat on track
the NA s tell me the emergency rudder blade needs to be 50...
Inefficient and vulnerable
rudders, to be efficient need an endplate , typically the hull is the endplate
transom hung are best for small boats…shallow berth , trailer sailed or some special purpose