Hey man, unplug your WiFi router for a few days, take a break from this place and go outside and enjoy yourself. If that doesn't work, buy a wooden boat and do all the bright work yourself. Life is too short to sit around arguing things on the internet that don't matter and that you can't control.
They've actually done a great job putting together videos and circulating them to the club membership, unfortunately I can't seem to find them in a publicly available format to share here.
I just looked at Grady's other listings on North Point's site and I'm not sure that the owners give him access to the interior of the boats. Every listing is missing interior photos, it's all just shots of the hull or pictures of the boat sailing. I can say with certainty that brokers in all...
That bridle set up is going to send some of your non-sailor guests flying when they trip over it. Beyond the upwind performance issues that have been mentioned, you're also going to lose the ability to easily trim and shape the main at all points of sail. In my opinion, you should move the...
It works the same way it worked for the long lasting Farr 40 and J/105 One Design classes, as well as the less successful Soto 40 class.
All the club owned boats are tillers, that will never change. For a private owner who may be lacking youth or strength, the wheel can prove to be a very good...
Great program that is helping to grow our sport in a very unique way. Nice to see American Magic supporting this effort.
https://warriorsailing.org/donate
A few years from now you're going to see this boat cruising around Narragansett Bay with two dozen bloated tourists, each dreaming about their next ice cream cone. But for now, we'll have to settle for these pics.
Official launch is tomorrow.
I've talked to some people who have seen the boat up close, been given the tour by the design team, and the summary I got was "it's like nothing I've ever seen, it looks like a fucking airplane." The intention was to design a boat that is fast above the water.
The official launch of the boat...
They're waiting for the boat registration stickers from the State of RI. It takes 4 weeks by mail.
http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/bpoladm/manserv/hfb/boating/pdfs/boatreg.pdf