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The sailing nerd-out thread

So this happened yesterday :teeth

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I guess it's official and really happening!


OceanChick
 
Bring a book! Enjoy the great blue ocean.
 
I used to sail my cousins Venture Cat, basically a Hobiecat knock off. Multihulls are just crazy fast. Flying the hull is a hoot.

Mad
 
Well.... appears I may have spoken too soon.

The Westsail was indeed 'damaged' during recovery. Turns out that the damage is fairly superficial... and we found the salvage auction. Best friend of mine (who also sailed on the boat) is looking at buying it off the salvage company for cheap.

There may yet be a happy ending to this story...
 
Bring a book! Enjoy the great blue ocean.
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When we purchased our boat, had to stay in sales dock slip in Alameda for an extended stay to hammer out details and effect some repairs. Guy next to us was an experienced old salt that bought a boat he was outfitting for sailing back home to Oregon.

He related a story of his significant other reading a novel on her watch. He ascended the companion way steps looking aft, she saw his face and said,

"What?"

He pointed, she screeched, he switched off autopilot and maneuvered the sailboat out of the path of a huge container ship looming large to stern.

Had he not come topside...

Moral- Read a little, look a lot.
 
BillSmith said:


When we purchased our boat, had to stay in sales dock slip in Alameda for an extended stay to hammer out details and effect some repairs. Guy next to us was an experienced old salt that bought a boat he was outfitting for sailing back home to Oregon.

He related a story of his significant other reading a novel on her watch. He ascended the companion way steps looking aft, she saw his face and said,

"What?"

He pointed, she screeched, he switched off autopilot and maneuvered the sailboat out of the path of a huge container ship looming large to stern.

Had he not come topside...

Moral- Read a little, look a lot.
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:laughing It never occurred to me to read a book while on watch, and this is why! There's other down time, though. I mean, a crew of 7 and there's what...4 tacks once you get out the Gate? :laughing I spotted a copy of Two Years Before The Mast at my father-in-law's house last week. That will be going with me if I don't read it beforehand :party
 
Kestrel said:
Well, this sucks.

Just found out that a friend's Westsail 32 was totaled out. Tropical storm hit NC back in August and the surge carried the boat up the intracoastal waterway. Deposited it into some marshlands where it survived and was actually was in very good shape. But something went wrong during the salvage operation and the boat was destroyed in the process.

This one hurts. This boat was my introduction to ocean sailing and I was lucky enough to spend many nights out at sea on her. Not the fastest thing (6.5kts was about her best), but she was stout and safe - like a nice set of worn in leathers - and built to see the world. (And had! She'd transited the Panama canal at least once, to my knowledge...)

I'll miss her.

:rose

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This makes me upset. I know during Katrina we were instructed to just clear the vessels out of the way by any means. Salvage doesn’t always have to be brutal. Have your friends check her mast step. Sometimes they torque the heck out of the keel, can’t remember if Westsails have bolts or if the keel is encapsulated.
 
Back in the day... my pal is a carbon fibre dude and was working on an America’s Cup team.

Back then, the boats were like 80 feet long, 100 feet tall and weighed 50K pounds.
The bulb at the end of the keel weighed 40K pounds.
One time they modified the keel. The bulb broke off while practicing in New Zealand. Wham!

At least this is what I remember.
 
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SFMCjohn said:
Mr Jeremie Beyou and CHARAL, filmed by the Chilean Army - 01/16/2021

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Mr Beyou is currently in 14th place in the 2020-21 Vendée Globe.

quite a race, recently ... :party
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Thanks for that, John! :thumbup
Almost feels like a spa day watching it! When Eric sees it, though, his first reaction is “No f’ing way.” He is adamantly opposed to me sailing to Hawaii.
This man, whom I followed all over the country every 2 weeks so he could race his motorcycle, says it’s an unnecessary risk and way too dangerous...


RiskTakingMaritalPartnersChick
 
WoodsChick said:
Thanks for that, John! :thumbup
Almost feels like a spa day watching it! When Eric sees it, though, his first reaction is “No f’ing way.” He is adamantly opposed to me sailing to Hawaii.
This man, whom I followed all over the country every 2 weeks so he could race his motorcycle, says it’s an unnecessary risk and way too dangerous...


RiskTakingMaritalPartnersChick
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Isn't it always kind of that way.
 
Fuck. Didn't realize they switched to this 75ft sailing hydrofoil monohulls for this year's America's Cup.

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With something less than 24 hours until the first solo sailor finishes the Vendée Globe off Les Sables d'Olonne Wednesday night, even the most advanced modern weather routing programmes operated by some of the finest minds in ocean racing cannot seem to agree who the winner of a truly epic ninth edition of the non-stop solo round the world race will be.

The margin of victory looks set to be down to tiny minutes after 80 days and 24,350 miles of racing.
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:party
 
anyone else watching The Ocean Race? five (four right now) 60-foot IMOCA Class sailboats racing around the world for "The Ocean Race Trophy."

guess they are 1/3 of the way through leg 3, from South Africa to the east coast of South America through the roaring 40s:

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the 11th Hour Racing Team is the entry from the USA. :flag


:party
 
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You ought to hear what it sounds like inside of you ne of those things!
 
subscribed!
I have a pal that was on some team. I got to go to some parties. That and we live in the center of the universe. One of my favorite BARF quotes is "do you know who i am?"...

anyhow, awesome stuff. Sailing shit rocks almost as good motorcycles.
 
Hey, racing is racing. Period. Put any competitor who races or competes, even the ones in the bottom 25% of the lineup, up against anyone else in the sport, and the competitors will spank everyone else.

And that's what's cool about racing. Boats, planes, drones, bicycles - don't much matter what it is.

As I'm fond of saying, the difference between a track day and racing is the difference between deer hunting and combat. :party
 
ThumperX said:
You ought to hear what it sounds like inside of you ne of those things!
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think I could stand it for about five minutes. :facepalm:laughing

Butch said:
subscribed!
anyhow, awesome stuff. Sailing shit rocks almost as good motorcycles.
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:thumbup

ThinkFast said:
And that's what's cool about racing. Boats, planes, drones, bicycles - don't much matter what it is.
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here's the other sailboat race I've been following, recently:

Golden Globe Race
The ‘RETRO’ non-stop solo around the world saiboat race:

"Depart on September 4th, 2022 and sail solo, non-stop around the world, via the five Great Capes.

"Competitors must sail in production boats between 32ft and 36ft overall (9.75 – 10.97m) designed prior to 1988 that have a full-length keel with rudder attached to their trailing edge.

"Navigating with sextant on paper charts, and without electronic instruments or autopilots. They will hand-write their logs and determine the weather for themselves. Sailors entered in this race will spend around 250 days at sea in little boats, challenging themselves and each other.

"In contrast to the current professional world of elite ocean racing, this edition travels back to a time known as the ‘Golden Age’ of solo sailing."​

[YOUTUBE]eoV96LHy9ew[/YOUTUBE]

the sailors have been racing for 192 days, and the current leader, Ms Kirsten Neuschäfer, has a good lead off the coast of South America, having consulted the 200 year-old weather routing charts from Ocean Passages of the World, to help her make route decisions.

anyway, there's vintage sailboat racing for us. where's my sextant? :toothless
 
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