Why I'm Following Sven Yrvind

In the Sea there are Waves, I know it is almost impossible to believe but I assure you that in the Sea there are Waves, waves that are big in relation to a small sailboat (which is what this thread is about) and the oceans are crossed downwind, and that is what this thread is about: small sailboats with Oceanic pretensions and that hoist 15-10 and 0, zero, square meters of Sail per Ton.

And those little sailboats are driven by Wind Force and/or Earth Force (= Displacement x sine of the Angle of the Wave slope).

 

This old sailboat sailing in the Atlantic with an old merchant marine sailor surfed the waves beautifully.

With 19,19 feet LWL and 300 D/L she was doing 5-6 knots and 10-12 knots with the Wave, and when the Waves were growing 12-14 knots and at the end she did a top speed of 20 knots (!)

The question here is not the top speed reached, but the control.

 

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It is evident that nobody (outside of four crazy people) is interested in this question of the small sailboat with oceanic pretensions.

For the interest is dominated by big ships, motor yachts, dinghies, racing yachts and summer caravans.

 

1924

There is the apparent paradox that in this issue 1924 is not in the past but in the future.

In other words, how is it possible that we have been going around like a merry-go-round for a hundred years around two fxxxx axes: Pitch and Yaw

 

Indeed

"Indeed, in the realm of small, non-production cruising Yachts it is perhaps only the amateur
[the "aficionado", the passionate] who, absent of commercial pressure, is truly able to devote the time and attention necessary for a fully argued solution"

(Ed Burnett, 2015, Foreword: T. Harrison Butler, Cruising Yachts, 1945, fifth edition, London, 2015)

 

I see four philosophies and four types of solutions for the small sailboat (< 6 meters) capable of crossing oceans while protecting the crew member:

(1) the Jester philosophy that we have seen very well carried out by Roger Taylor (AKA the simple sailor): "MingMing and the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing", 2010

(2) LOLA, which summarizes and expresses very well a good path

(3) possible variants starting from "Baluchon"

(4) "the fourth philosophy": a 1 ton surfboard, which is my proposal and the bad thing about it is that it is expensive because it aspires to fulfill two functions: the small ocean sailboat and the small coastal sailboat capable of sailing well against the wind.

 

The Minimalism Tribe

We came to Minimalism on the one hand because of let's say 'budget constraint' and on the other hand because it fits well with control-obsessed minds, and thirdly because of sheer conviction.

First I came to Minimalism because I went broke, then I saw that it fit well with my way of being, and now I'm a total believer in the goodness of the small sailboat.

On the other hand I think that a big sailboat is a 30 Ton sailboat, and I think that the typical 12-15 meters sailboat is quite insufferable, for many reasons, among others it fits in a 30 meters wave.

 

Is the Minimalist condemned to loneliness?

No, sailing even crossing an ocean is not that long, and there are airplanes, and there are means of communication, even in the last century we were able to meet in a city many days in advance, I mean I don't see the need to turn a sailboat into a mobile home

 

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The issue of small sailboat habitability is as important or more important than hydrodynamics.

Miserable life on the small boat is often a sum of leaks, not being able to separate wet clothes from dry clothes, and living in a storage room.

 

Right now, my little sailboat is the perfect example of the perfect disaster: the roof is full of screws, there is no good place for wet clothes, it is a storage room, and the layout is a typical French disaster.

(I don't dare to put the picture I just took, haha)

 

This is what we could call "French layout type 50-60's of the last century".



The French layout is characterized by the fact that there is sleeping space for a battalion of infantry in a 6 meter boat,
But the actual functionality is a disaster for an 'old fogey'

 

"French layout type 50-60's of the last century"

clearly is a couple with two young children

 

When I saw this photograph I discovered a new world:

 

So my idea is as follows:

-WC is not necessary either in port or offshore; but it is necessary anchored on a nice beach. So WC in the Cockpit under awning-tent and thus comply with the Geneva Convention prohibiting gas warfare.

-Two good cargo boxes in the cockpit.

-Two watertight hatches to enter enter the cabin

-The entry is made by stepping on a board that goes from one side to the other, and clothes are hung on both ends.

-That board that goes from port to starboard forms a cargo box for food, of course divided into smaller spaces, and is where the young adventurer sleeps while sailing.

-Two seats

-A large triangle with a height of 90 cm, which can be accessed comfortably and where even a couple can maneuver.