Raised Helm Deck for Inlet Surf Running Idea

CT249 · Mar 21, 2016

DouglasEagleson said: ↑

About the term Force 5. Why does my term usage alter the factual. I am concerned about sea.

What in the world do you mean "why does the term usage alter the factual"??? You are simply and utterly wrong. A Force 5 breeze is not a gale or anything close to it.I]

Here is the demanded class of vessel in my world of 30 foot waves as commonplace. At thirty foot you can expect a full thirty foot breaker.
No, a thirty foot wave does not create a thirty foot breaker in the open ocean. Try going sailing. Try reading. Hell, even try playing with waves in your bathtub.
Take a atkin or mason "Tahiti" design. Raise the freeboard by 2 foot at a minimum. This eliminates a Davy Jones event almost.

No it wouldn't. IT would make the boat less stable, less able to go to windward, and harder to handle.

By the way, in the world of real sailors people don't refer to "Davy Jones events". That is the talk of kids' comic books.
Put in emergency high rate pumps to clear a half flooded interior. This eliminates a true panic evacuation. Sitting in the "locker" panics. So have a pump suitable.

Put the rudder. on a skeg with a spare for the stern.

Put in fuel for a half motor trip across the Atlantic. Always use the northern route.

As PAR noted, this puts you in the most severe conditions and increases the risk of fogs and icebergs....

Put in a interlocked hatch type of sealable pilot house. Put water tanks in the forfoot part of the bilge to double hull at the hull-sea container collision point. Loosing a tank should be handleable.

And 1 and 3/4 inch hull thickness. The wiki has the photos of the seas to design for.
Why do you refuse to design for the true seas?

Because unlike you, we have actually been to sea and we know that it is not like the bizarre creation of your fevered imagination.

A low pressure system is something squallable.

What does that mean in English? In the usa we have the whole midwest on emergency radio alerts system because of weather.

A low can house the cyclone type of tornado. This is reality. Why not react. There can be small tornados front large low or otherwise.

1-3/4 fiberglass cabin deck and hull is an obvious conclusion necessary. If you are in thirty foot waves why not have to be in a pilot house so you don't have to hold your breath so long?
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Come on Douglas, the trolling has gone on long enough. We've bitten, now in return why don't you stop being do extraordinarily arrogant as to imagine that you know better than the entire world of ocean sailors.

The reason people don't do as you say is because real ocean sailors know better, not because you are right and they are wrong. Why not respect them and learn from them?

bregalad · Mar 21, 2016

" .......... try playing with waves in your bathtub."

Best comment in this entire thread.

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Raised Helm Deck for Inlet Surf Running Idea

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