All good mate, just sounded like a dick generalisation to make. Now that we've clarified only blue water cruisers with two wheels are the cunts in your book, a quick look around a few well respected blue water makes don't necessarily appear to agree. I'm sure you are right, they probably just don't sell any.
That was what ChatGPT decided a trim tab is and what it wrote.
Well, we all know ChatGPT is a fucking idiot.
Yeah, your probably right. Which of the above would you select for long distance? I'd go for the Oyster 57 myself based on hull design, and the pic shown, but the wheels seem too close together?. The Hanse 46 cockpit looks a bit sharp around the edges. Swan 48 looks handful for single/Mrs on board?
What aspect of it do you think is a nightmare?
Word.
I've never sailed with a large wheel that sits partially in a slot like this, but I would be afraid that right at the moment when some variety of shit has just hit the fan and the helm needs to react vigorously, there would be something big, like maybe a crewmember's leg or neck, sticking through the spokes at deck level
I broke my arm exactly that way on a IOR maxi with a large wheel well. Screaming down a wave, full 2.2oz kite, arm fulls of wheel either way, big broach, I fell over with my arm through the spokes... arm snapped like a twig and dislocated elbow. Good times.
Probably, tho I haven't sailed a 2-wheel Bene. I still need training wheels.
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It is a bit of a gimmick though... You could have the benches going all the way to the stern and a tiller with an extension! Simpler, lighter and cheaper... With the money and weight you saved, you can even add a traveller so that the helm can control the twist of the sail without tensioning the kicker like a guitar string. That's a bit boring but why would you replace something simple which works with something more complicated ?
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