Eighty-year old wooden full keel boat beats new "Interesting Boats" in Transpac
Dorade, a 1930 wooden 52' full keel S&S design corrected to 1st place in the fleet in the 2013 Transpac: Yacht Scoring - A complete web based regatta administration and yacht scoring program
Read the results and weep, all followers of the "Interesting Sailboats" thread!
On elapsed time, (that is real time) boat for boat, Dorade beat a Jeanneau 44 Sleeper, a Tripp 40 Sansari, and a Beaneateau 47.7 La Sirena !!! :laugher
Dorade is:
1. 80 years old;
2. Wooden;
3. a yawl; and,
4. Full/deep keel.
Again, like the "Classic Plastic Smokes the Fleet.." thread ( http://www.sailnet.com/forums/gener...lastic-smokes-fleet-2013-down-bay-race-7.html ) wherein a 40-year-old Hobie 33 beat the living daylights out of some larger, modern boat show boats, is is just possible that all the advances in sailboat design and technology are merely incremental, and a good old boat can still kick arse in the right conditions?
Let's hear the excuses in support of the boat show boats!
Let's hear from those who say deep/full keel boats are slow!
Let's hear from those who say new, modern sailboats are faster in all respects!
BTW, Dorade, at 52' in length, has a beam of only 10'3", about the same as a modern 30' boat-show sailboat (no sugar scoop transom, aft shower or double berth under the cockpit!).
Dorade, a 1930 wooden 52' full keel S&S design corrected to 1st place in the fleet in the 2013 Transpac: Yacht Scoring - A complete web based regatta administration and yacht scoring program
Read the results and weep, all followers of the "Interesting Sailboats" thread!
On elapsed time, (that is real time) boat for boat, Dorade beat a Jeanneau 44 Sleeper, a Tripp 40 Sansari, and a Beaneateau 47.7 La Sirena !!! :laugher
Dorade is:
1. 80 years old;
2. Wooden;
3. a yawl; and,
4. Full/deep keel.
Again, like the "Classic Plastic Smokes the Fleet.." thread ( http://www.sailnet.com/forums/gener...lastic-smokes-fleet-2013-down-bay-race-7.html ) wherein a 40-year-old Hobie 33 beat the living daylights out of some larger, modern boat show boats, is is just possible that all the advances in sailboat design and technology are merely incremental, and a good old boat can still kick arse in the right conditions?
Let's hear the excuses in support of the boat show boats!
Let's hear from those who say deep/full keel boats are slow!
Let's hear from those who say new, modern sailboats are faster in all respects!
BTW, Dorade, at 52' in length, has a beam of only 10'3", about the same as a modern 30' boat-show sailboat (no sugar scoop transom, aft shower or double berth under the cockpit!).