If it's cold, raining, and windy . . . On a sailboat you tack or jibe and grind the winches to warm up. On a motorboat, you turn up the...
I agree. I don't see why we can't put untreated sewage in the ocean, nuclear waste, AND aluminum cans. Gonna get there some day anyhow. Why...
I've owned a boat with sail drive and found that most of the critics of this system are wrong. It is more efficient, quieter, and offers much...
I have never seen this, and must try it out ASAP. Sounds right.
FF, Very interesting comment IMO. I did not have roller furling on my first boat, 33', and loved how I could walk away from everybody else when...
I stand corrected. My wife is metric, given the fact that she was born and raised in Korea. * * * My wife and I are both on the wrong...
You have conveniently left out the hard part: getting the darn thing out of the cockpit lazarette. Way far in the back, strapped next to the...
You mischaracterize my position. I agree that safety lies primarily in the competency of captain and crew, but recognize they are not aways...
Bingo, we have a winner here. RHough, I'm a major fan of JSD myself and in the middle sewing one for my boat, but I recognize that if I'm...
I would agree that speed is not the only motivation that has compromised, on occasion, seaworthiness. Large accomodations and cheap manufacturing...
You're right; I'm wrong. Have a nice day.
Well, you didn't. There is a trend in cruising designs to sacrifice seaworthiness for speed. Not in all designs, but some. Do you deny...
I've talked with people who spent 11 years going round and never met any storm of any consequence. Yet, myself, who has never even crossed an...
Please don't put words in my mouth. Any increase in the body of knowledge about weather and its prediction is a GOOD THING for sailors. I have...
That's not my understanding. Nobody, certainly not me, is advocating limitations on the right to cross an ocean in the boat of their choosing. I...
I'm afraid that he may succeed, and then others will conclude that his method can succeed everywhere, any time. Somebody tell me, what...
Seriously. Arguments are the most protracted, loudest, and get the most personal where there is the least amount of empirical evidence to...
Exactly. How else to explain this thread?
That's a straw argument. The statistics you require are not offered because they don't exist. Nobody is keeping track of sailboat designs...
1. Ask anybody in the estate planning field, you will learn that most wealth in the U.S. is inherited, not made. For every Bill Gates, there...
