what are they doing racing in "Cowes Week" - if they don't understand the basics of sailing - keep the f$#ck out of the way! definitely Jonah award of the year
All these go fast sport boats are starting to look the same as the Flying Tigers, except for the pricing. How safe are these boats or do we have another modern Venture like boat with major safety issues???
PHRF / IRC ratings. In San Diego deep keel rates 18. Do you happen to know the cost for the keel swop out?
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Question: As far as J130 deep vs. shallow keel is there are difference in rating? how much? I have been looking for the last 5 months for a deep keel J130 - the one available on Yachtworld "Orizaba" has had rudder post & cockpit core issues. Plenty shoal drafts available.
The other deep...
Question: As far as J130 deep vs. shallow keel is there are difference in rating? how much? I have been looking for the last 5 months for a deep keel J130 - the one available on Yachtworld "Orizaba" has had rudder post & cockpit core issues. Plenty shoal drafts available.
The other deep...
Organized chaos for sure! too many crew standing high doing sh!t with the main trimmer rushing forward to pull in the tack line? - where the hell did he get all that loose sheet? lucky they did not jibe, would have knocked a few more crew overboard with boom.
Shelter Island residents Diana Roberts and Stanley Pendleton saw an overloaded boat that seemed out of place on San Diego Bay Sunday. They were so shocked, they decided to take a picture. It turns out the boat captured in the image is the same one that capsized Sunday evening, killing two and...
Can't believe they allowed 9 people on this type of sailboat. Wind switched from WNW to NNE @ 18 knots on our way to Half Moon Bay 15 minutes before this accident happened. Photo lifted from Lee Pearce of the Mac Gregor in accident on SD Bay. Not a keel in the true sense - two elongated rudders...
Hope you guys out of touch with reality take the time to bitch at CBS who also have a web photo of the accident - (2 bodies on the dock). Great on the spot reporting from SA
So you can bitch go here: http://www.cbsnews.c...n20047722.shtml
On the water just before this happened on our way to mooring in Half Moon Bay - wind changed to WNW and was blowing 15 knots although it felt like 18 which might have caught them by unawares if inexperienced sailors