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Forum: Learning to Sail

1 Day Ago

Replies: 17

handling gusts

Views: 617

Posted By nolatom

Re: handling gusts

Edit: Wait, i was flat wrong above. the puff will seem like a Lift since your existing forward speed won't pull it forward as much as it did the pre-gust wind. So the apparent wind vector...

Forum: Learning to Sail

1 Day Ago

Replies: 17

handling gusts

Views: 617

Posted By nolatom

Re: handling gusts

Technically correct advice since increase in wind speed tends to move the apparent wind direction forward ( a "header") but in practice I prefer to head up as you do, keeping her "on her feet" is...

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

3 Days Ago

Replies: 4

What should be on my Launch List

Views: 182

Posted By nolatom

Re: What should be on my Launch List

Make sure you've paid the boatyard. "No cash, no splash"... ;-)

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

4 Days Ago

Replies: 14

USCG 2012 Boating Accident stats--"It ain't us?"..

Views: 413

Posted By nolatom

Re: USCG 2012 Boating Accident stats--"It ain't us?"..

The numbers I saw here:

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/websites/retiredsites/natdia_pdf/14boatus.pdf

indicate about 15 million boats, of which 1.7 million are sailboats, or around 11%

whereas...

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

4 Days Ago

Replies: 14

USCG 2012 Boating Accident stats--"It ain't us?"..

Views: 413

Posted By nolatom

USCG 2012 Boating Accident stats--"It ain't us?"..

It looks as though it's those damn "open motorboats" followed by personal watercraft, cabin motorboat, canoe/kayak and "pontoon", that have the highest casualty numbers:
...

Forum: Seamanship

4 Days Ago

Replies: 20

Navlights identification help

Views: 537

Posted By nolatom

Re: Navlights identification help

Balagans over 50 meters have to carry a range light too.

And the Balagan day shape--black, tattered, confusing, no specific shape

Forum: Seamanship

5 Days Ago

Replies: 20

Navlights identification help

Views: 537

Posted By nolatom

Re: Navlights identification help

Re 68:

A fishing vessel trawling but sorta looking to sweep mines too, can't quite decide?? ;-)

(ha ha-- I don't understand it either)

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

5 Days Ago

Replies: 23

Coming out

Views: 1,042

Posted By nolatom

Re: Coming out

"Shave and a haircut---two bits!"

Okay, maybe a little more than two bits, but gotta be done..

If not Alberg design, then whose? Nice lines.

Forum: Seamanship

5 Days Ago

Replies: 5

reef line set up

Views: 238

Posted By nolatom

Re: reef line set up

Without photos, this is a bit of a guess, but per your explanation, I'd agree with you and take the knot out. You want to balance that load from the reef-eye, evenly between block and ring (ring...

Forum: Gear & Maintenance

5 Days Ago

Replies: 11

Weather Gods...F**# Off.

Views: 492

Posted By nolatom

Re: Weather Gods...F**# Off.

Uh-oh, you know you can't use that language towards the weather Gods!!

Now you have to bring full foul weather gear for all hands your next five sunny day sails!! Trust me, it's the only way...

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

1 Week Ago

Replies: 46

Bounty Lawsuit Filed

Views: 1,926

Posted By nolatom

Re: Bounty Lawsuit Filed

I knew one of the two attorneys on the complaint, from his time down here in New Orleans some years ago with an admiralty defense firm before heading to New York and plaintiffs' work. Both of them...

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

1 Week Ago

Replies: 271

Another America’s Cup entry destroyed

Views: 5,334

Posted By nolatom

Re: Another America’s Cup entry destroyed

My traditional heart yearns for the 12-meter days of the 50s and 60s, not least because I grew up around, and worked in, a boatyard that built two of the last wood 12s, both beautiful and faster than...

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

1 Week Ago

Replies: 18

Jeff_h has been deceiving us!!!

Views: 992

Posted By nolatom

Re: Jeff_h has been deceiving us!!!

Jeff has to disclaim it to keep things on the down-low.

But look for an article soon on "Turbo-ing the O'Day 30" and how he hit 30 knots on a reach with foils and a secret new staysail made fast...

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 19

Terminology: spar vs. mast

Views: 437

Posted By nolatom

Re: Terminology: spar vs. mast

"bend on" the main, but "hank on" the jib? that sound right? It's what I've heard through the years from the tragically salty...

Forum: Seamanship

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 134

You are NOT "FISHING"

Views: 4,455

Posted By nolatom

Re: You are NOT "FISHING"

Yeah, I also think that lack of proper lights and shapes doesn't change your status, you're still off my starboard bow and crossing so you're still privileged under rule 15 even if your red running...

Forum: Seamanship

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 134

You are NOT "FISHING"

Views: 4,455

Posted By nolatom

Re: You are NOT "FISHING"

You don't like the Homer Simpson whistle??? Can be done in short blasts, quicker.

Forum: Seamanship

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 134

You are NOT "FISHING"

Views: 4,455

Posted By nolatom

Re: You are NOT "FISHING"

Re the definition of "in sight of", it might be there to emphasize that the Section II Rules (11-18) don't apply when you "see" each other by radar or AIS, but rather only when you see each other...

Forum: Seamanship

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 134

You are NOT "FISHING"

Views: 4,455

Posted By nolatom

Re: You are NOT "FISHING"

Excellent idea, but let's graft it onto an existing Rule for ease of IMO approval and Colregs implementation, here goes:

"New Rule 27(i):

A vessel under the control of one who is free of...

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 5

Room enough to sail

Views: 340

Posted By nolatom

Re: Room enough to sail

Really shows how the plate tectonics created the island chains, like a slow assembly line..

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 3

Pascagoula To Mobile Bay

Views: 136

Posted By nolatom

Re: Pascagoula To Mobile Bay

Monitor both 16 and 13 for the GIWW tows, and 13 for Mobile pilots. You could check in with Pilots on 13 before you get to the GIWW/ship channel intersection. The commercial guys are friendly and...

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 16

Ever back into the slip under sail power?

Views: 699

Posted By nolatom

Re: Ever back into the slip under sail power?

Bravo. I've sailed into the slip bow-in, don't recall having backed in. Our piers are close together so little room in which to reverse direction and build up any working sternway for the rudder to...

Forum: Seamanship

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 134

You are NOT "FISHING"

Views: 4,455

Posted By nolatom

Re: You are NOT "FISHING"

I sometimes encounter shrimp boats net-fishing off the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain. Never see day shapes, but I do know they can't maneuver very much at all and I behave accordingly. The tell-tale...

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 34

Man overboard drill

Views: 1,190

Posted By nolatom

Re: Man overboard drill

Thanks, I must try this. Though in our little tall-rig lightweight boat, in a breeze, this may be a lot of heeling at the hove-to finish, maybe too much, especially with a couple of crew to leeward...

Forum: Seamanship

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 134

You are NOT "FISHING"

Views: 4,455

Posted By nolatom

Re: You are NOT "FISHING"

And equally unpersuasive would be the contention that whatever lines in the water caused you to be maneuver-restricted, you evidently didn't consider the situation "important" enough to put up the...

Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)

2 Weeks Ago

Replies: 34

Man overboard drill

Views: 1,190

Posted By nolatom

Re: Man overboard drill

I teach both drills to students, on an outboard-powered 24' sportboat. I mention power, but teach sail--in real time, the seas may be too lumpy to keep the outboard in the water.

Figure-8 is in...

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