SV Seeker
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Oh I doubt that. Unless he passes a single floating object a wave isn't a static anything.
Also since the 30' boat was FASTER, I don't think the 30' boat doing 9 knots
opcn
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The worst of the doomers have continued to be wrong and continued to make those of us with more moderate criticism look bad by talking to them.
That said seeker has yet to do anything that RawFaith couldn't do other than safely run aground, which given the circumstances is probably a pretty useful characteristic.
opcn
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I've said it before but I really wish Doug weren't a giant self important domineering asshole so I could feel happy for him about stuff like this. If they featured a shot of Tallyho or however you spell the name of the boat from Salt & Tar on one of their videos I would be so stoked for them. But they are featuring Doug's boat and all I can think about is people getting suckered in to supporting it.
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Sail4beer
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Nice design feature to have a 74’ boat that leaves no wake😵💫
dfw_sailor
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Lmao.
The 30' has barely any wake, so at best it is doing a lazy 5kts maybe up to 5.5 at most, on a reach.
Pulling away from seeker at about 2 kts, that puts seeker around 3, up to a max of 4 kts.
No wavelets in between small waves, relatively small waves with barely a white cap or two away from seekers influence, so 7-8 kts and fading wind.
With a substantially reefed main, and significant heel.
Yawn. Wake me when he gets 15 kts.
Call the CG when he is in 20 with 10' wave height. It should be quite v entertaining.
My money is still on a broad reach in 15 - 20, with 5' waves. This will be the BSO's earliest true weak spot.
The windward stem will lift and try going A over T, as the unbalanced rig digs in at the leeward forward quarter.
167149
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and it'll all be the fault of one brent swain
dfw_sailor
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I don't like Bent's design / build method, but to be fair the BSO is an abomination of the method, stretching it to absurd.
Jud - s/v Sputnik
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Multiple injuries after ship tips over at Edinburgh dockyard
Twenty three people were treated to hospital and another 12 at the scene of the incident in Leith.
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opcn
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The jokes fucking write themselves.
Mild steel bearings are rusting to pieces. Who would have possibly predicted this
Do we want the mizzen sheet blocks at the ends of the davits? No because the sheets get caught on the end of the davits and all tangled up. But nobody would have thought that. You have to experience things like this to know you fucked up. That's what life teaches us.
Chafing of the halyard? Tied through a hole in some metal? Chance in a million really.
Notice also the mild steel hairpin holding the sheave pin too. That barely counts. It will take a year to rust through.
8:21. He sounds so out of breath hoisting the foresail 1/2 way up. Has to get his helper to take over. He might just keel over with a heart attack if the boat ever heels any more.
Once more Doug seems to have trouble pre-visualizing where sheets will go as his retaining bolt is binding the sheet.
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This is the same fixed mainsheet block. He still thinks his tulip shaped sheaves will compensate for the bad leads instead of articulating the block.
I feel like Yogi Berra "You can observe a lot by watching"
Mild steel bearings are rusting to pieces. Who would have possibly predicted this
Do we want the mizzen sheet blocks at the ends of the davits? No because the sheets get caught on the end of the davits and all tangled up. But nobody would have thought that. You have to experience things like this to know you fucked up. That's what life teaches us.
Chafing of the halyard? Tied through a hole in some metal? Chance in a million really.
Notice also the mild steel hairpin holding the sheave pin too. That barely counts. It will take a year to rust through.
8:21. He sounds so out of breath hoisting the foresail 1/2 way up. Has to get his helper to take over. He might just keel over with a heart attack if the boat ever heels any more.
Once more Doug seems to have trouble pre-visualizing where sheets will go as his retaining bolt is binding the sheet.
This is the same fixed mainsheet block. He still thinks his tulip shaped sheaves will compensate for the bad leads instead of articulating the block.
I feel like Yogi Berra "You can observe a lot by watching"
qwerty57
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Junk rig sails generally alternate sides. That way there is no 'favored' side and it should point equally well (or badly) on either tack.
mathystuff
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Truely an idea worthy of someone named Doug. Also add some lifting foils.
Rasputin22
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So he ends up using Harken roller bearing sheaves to replace his rusting homebuilt ones. May as well buy the well proven Harken low profile flip flop blocks which would be self aligning and not foul.
I like those. I think I'll weld a bunch of them onto the 10 foot aluminum ladder I use for a combination bowsprit and diving platform. I know they have holes - I know I can bolt them - but I'm a self made man in a free country and I've never met my mother or been within 100 yards of a dock.
opcn
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Good buy. He clearly has a lot more shot he needs to weld up.
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