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(Cross posted from Crew Anarchy) You: an experienced captain with some time available in late September/October/early November. Me: Dude with boat currently in Greece, which I need to end up in Israel. Gotta be out of Greece by late Oct/early Nov before weather turns nasty, but you can cruise...

You: an experienced captain with some time available in late September/October/early November. Me: Dude with boat currently in Greece, which I need to end up in Israel. Gotta be out of Greece by late Oct/early Nov before weather turns nasty, but you can cruise the Greek islands till then, check...

Someone want to record that for those of us on the wrong side of (all) the pond(s)?

MADE MY DAY +++++++++LOTS Take that Raymarine. Py if you come to Ottawa in the last week of August I will buy you a beer.

Was going to put the nooks/kindles in some kind of totally sealed box (except for rubber-grommetted charging port). They are cheap enough and big enough I think I can skip buttons to switch the display. I assumed everyone keeps a normal laptop below for OpenCPN and whatever other stuff...

But shouldn't I just write a web page that pulls data from the laptop running OpenCRM and display it on sunlight-visible e-paper nooks or kindles at <$99/ea. (Running over the wifi)?

You have to ask?! Awesome website, very informative about all aspects of the process. Thanks especially for the part about costs - In a million years I wouldn't have thought it could be so reasonable. Really in spitting range for anyone who would consider a new boat in this size range.

Mine is still on the way, so you can put it towards the dodger fund. Give it another 3 weeks. Or buy Jeff a bottle of scotch.

This was our preferred method for model airplane wings back when I was in HS. Hotwire cutting with a jig beats the heck out of cutting a zillion ribs by x-acto. Gee whiz I spent a lot of time doing that. Laser cutting would have totally changed our life. We built small glider wings out of the...

I was looking back through the thread and I couldn't find (though it's probably there) - how much does the hull weigh (w/o ballast)?

When I moved my old boat from outside Hamilton to Lake Simcoe (~150km? including an explosive tire failure on the 407, good thing the trailer was 2-axle) we discovered a surprised and unhappy mother racoon and her kits under the cockpit. I called a local exterminator with coon experience, he...

I think our next collection will have to be for a nicer dodger for Jeff. Sorry, the watermaker can wait.

Bob I'm in for $50. I'll put a cheque in the mail but it may be about a month till it gets there :-) If the postal service here sent it by Baba 40 it might be faster.

If someone sets up a crowdfunding thingy to get Jeff a nice half-hull of a Baba 40, I'll chip in. GK?

+1 Ajax. Sweet ride.

Interesting. Maybe that's the definition: my ketch would not go to weather without the mizzen. But I could make (slow) progress in a blow without the main. Could be an easy way to cut out weather helm. Mizzens are also good for steering - lock the tiller in the middle (I had a clutch) and helm...

Just one gripe Bob: where do you get off calling it a ketch?! The mizzen is too small. It is a yawl.

Good theory. Not explicitly in the book.

When Brian started the ugly boat thread way back, I thought to myself, "Oh, he means like a Centaur."

Am I correct that Jeff gets to hang a port and get the hell out of the 40s after West Cape?