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  1. mookiesurfs

    Fastnet 2021

    It’s going to be the best beer ever in Cherbourg, though.
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    Obtaining a NACA template

    Agreed. At a typical trolling motor speed of around one knot, a one inch round shaft is fairly low drag. You also lose the ability to raise or retract the trolling motor if you install a fairing, but that may not be an issue here. If you want to get serious, you’re going to need to incorporate...
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    Windelo Catamarans - Yeah or Nah? (Dah or Nyet?)

    Those horns on the bow are called “bridle catchers”. Jets used to have a harness called a “bridle” hooked to them, and then the bridle was hooked to the catapult. The Jet continued at the end of the cat shot, but the bridle stayed with the ship. ”Scotty” btw, was a genuine war hero in WW2 I...
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    Obtaining a NACA template

    I hate to rain on this parade, but NACA foils are only efficient (lower drag per unit of pressure differential) at generating lift. They are not the lowest drag fairing.
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    Windelo Catamarans - Yeah or Nah? (Dah or Nyet?)

    I’ve been on aircraft carriers in seas that made me apprehensive. You keep saying to yourself: “Self, I know it can take it, and there’s nothing I can do about it anyway”.
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    First 40.7 keel reinforcement

    See X-Yachts
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    Fastnet 2021

    Yes, but if you think you have sailed the correct course, and are oblivious to the fact that you didn’t, Rambler signs this with a clear conscience.
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    1,300-Year-Old Technology In Comox harbour

    Dragonflies evolved 300 MILLION years ago. They have seen the dinosaurs come and go.
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    1,300-Year-Old Technology In Comox harbour

    It’s no longer a pandemic; it’s an IQ test.
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    First 40.7 keel reinforcement

    Proas are the one true way.
  11. mookiesurfs

    Fastnet 2021

    Perfect. Thank you.
  12. mookiesurfs

    Fastnet 2021

    By that interpretation, sailing the course is voluntary. The course is defined in the SI, including marks, roundings, TSSs and if to port or starboard. Does the absence of “shall” (if it is absent) mean it is all voluntary, and you could instead sail straight to Cherbourg for the win? I don’t...
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    Fastnet 2021

    You had ONE job…
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    1,300-Year-Old Technology In Comox harbour

    We are infinitesimal specks living on an equally infinitesimal speck in an infinite void. More of us or fewer of us doesn’t have any cosmic implications, so I vote for fewer. 
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    How to sink someone else’s boat

    If you ever were to actually do this, just holding your hand near the intakes will tell you which one is in use.
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    1,300-Year-Old Technology In Comox harbour

    Crabs suffer from a lot more than crabbers. Specifically, all the housing development along shorelines introduces turbidity, pet feces/nutrients, lawn fertilizer/nutrients, herbicides, pesticides, you get the idea. The Chesapeake has been fighting this battle for a long time, but is hampered by...
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    Top and Bottom of the food chain

    Hell, Florida paid me to surf when I went there. Not much, but still. However, that former girl’s school in Tallahassee probably has a better sailing program, in all honesty. Florida is a better school now. One of our ankle biters is there, and the average GPA for entering freshmen is 4.45 on a...
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    What type of ship is this

    Try not to go behind, or at least be extremely careful. Things being towed by big long cables are not uncommon.
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    Mocking Ads on Craigslist

    Here we go https://daytona.craigslist.org/boa/d/ormond-beach-44-stuck-sailboat/7357010728.html
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    PT Boatfest

    Me too too. There’s one in the local museum five miles from my house. Now I have to go look at it.


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