Forum: Gear & Maintenance
07-20-2012
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Replies: 120
Views: 8,432
Re: Roller furling is so over rated :D
There's another way to change the size of a headsail from the cockpit which offers some of the advantages of both hanks and rollers.
Slab reefing.
My offshore sailing started on a boat which...
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Forum: Gear & Maintenance
07-20-2012
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Replies: 120
Views: 8,432
Re: Roller furling is so over rated :D
I think some concepts are getting combined for the purposes of discussion which are not inextricably linked.
Boltropes/luff tapes are an example. They're a separate issue, or at least separable,...
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Forum: Seamanship
07-16-2012
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Replies: 45
Views: 5,680
Re: Length limit for single handers???
FWIW, I don't know of anybody inexperienced who taught themselves to sail, singlehanded, on a big boat.
I personally think it would be the height of foolishness to try.
You really need to have...
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Forum: Seamanship
07-16-2012
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Replies: 45
Views: 5,680
Re: Length limit for single handers???
Well .....
The length limit historically is probably held by Alain Colas, on Club Med, in the Observer Single handed Transatlantic Race of 1976
As for displacement, ditto -- Club Med's keel...
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Forum: Seamanship
07-16-2012
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,362
Re: heaving to awaiting a tide change
Hmm - if it was foggy (not mentioned previously - bit of a 'drip feed' topic !) then neither option seems particularly attractive to me:
Punching into a current at maximum revs, engine exhaust...
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Forum: Seamanship
07-16-2012
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Replies: 26
Views: 1,985
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