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Ah, so now you do include a roof over your head. That's a rather large change from:



So, does the minimum income mean to you that the person may be sleeping in a dormitory, or that they will be...

Quite a few manage to get out of homeless shelters and into housing, either by improving their employment situation or by working with social services. Most people don't stay long. There are also the...

Here's what the new rig looks like, at least for now.
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I don't know how ancient the springboard is. I suspect someone invented it in some class that might be impossible to discover, and it was easy to copy, so people did. Maybe it was invented more than...

Same policy, two different levels of funding. By most standards, having a roof over your head would be part of a minimum income or an adequate income, but I see plenty of homeless people around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Act_of_1875

I expect Republicans to do reasonably well in 2014, which will delay any change. They should have a real opportunity in 2016, because generally, when a party has held the White House for 8 years, the...

Sailing without the rudder? Does she balance that well?

I'm sure you'll do fine in the sixes, it's just a bigger Dragon.

I miss Vern. He and I started the Sail Now program together, among other things.

More on French sharpies:
1863 is pretty early for a gent to recognize the qualities of sharpies.

Wonderful!

Which afternoon?

Nor am I convinced that voting often is a good qualification for a candidate.

Wow, if I'm interpreting that right, you're sailing on Goose? That's great! When will you be at CWB?

So, should we restrict the free market in public data?

And yet, it has been advocated by a pretty prominent anti-communist.


I'm not at all convinced the idea is workable, and it's certainly not likely to happen, but since the program would leave...

I'm thinking what made it possible to drive the canoes really hard was the sliding seat, an evolution of the springboard, and I'm not sure whether the springboard originated in the sharpies or the...

And indeed, some prefer to believe that their own generation invented things. I recall reading in Classic Boat about an early version of the trapeze, called "bell ropes," used on Thames Raters. Don't...

From the 1895 edition of Dixon Kemp's A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing, one of Linton Hope's ballasted sailing canoes, not to different from the canoes still popular in the Scandinavian countries,...

Now, this is interesting. I'd always thought of George Holmes in terms of heavy, ballasted canoe yawls. It seems he built some lighter boats for racing, and the Selway Fisher 'Lillie' is one of those...

Yup, that's the way you do the snotter. Now that you know where the eye goes, you can do a proper eye splice.

I keep finding that Dragonfly Canoe has done wonderful research on the early planing canoes. This is also from that site:
http://www.dragonflycanoe.com/d_canoes/isalo/isalo.html
Isalo (From Forest...

Douglas Brooks built a racing sharpie from plans in an 1886 edition of Forest & Stream. Note how much lower the bottom of the transom is than on working sharpies.
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I read that the French were impressed with the speed of sharpies, and imported one from America, taking up the type, so I went looking for one.

Forest & Stream published lines for this one in...

Actually, outsourcing and expert systems are reducing the demand for lawyers.

Frederick Hayek was an advocate of the minimum guaranteed income, so this is yet another idea that used to be...

Yes, I think we have a timeline in our heads, but it would be a great resource to have a timeline written down.

I suppose history is what gets written down, and most sailboat races don't get...

Thank you!

You don't seem to have read very carefully. Krugman is suggesting that a social safety net is needed in order to retrain workers. From the column in question:



The point is not that the social...

The average wind speed in Seattle is less than 7 knots. There's a lot of variation around the country.

Question was by far the fastest in her class in strong winds, but was not selected to defend...

I admire him as a designer, a sailor, a writer, and a self-promoter. He was a genius at all of these things.

In this study, average wind speed over a nine-year period at Buzzards Bay was 17 mph.

http://www.coonamessettfarm.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/env-ass2.pdf

As for San Francisco:
...

My apologies to Kathy, she does amazing work.

There's hardly ever a day on Buzzard's Bay when the wind isn't gusting to 20, and it's often gusting to 30.

The Yankee One Design I used to own was designed on the idea that a boat had to be...

Fairly calm compared to most afternoons on Buzzard's Bay or San Francisco Bay, quite lively compared to a typical day on Long Island Sound.

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I've been looking into the racing sharpies again. The two in American Small Sailing Craft are from the 1880, and some of the information about them Chapelle attributes to C.P. Kunhardt.

So I read...

Workboats tended to have a better dye job. The tanbark treatment was intended to preserve the sail cloth, and not getting the whole thing dyed was a way to have parts of the sail not protected. But I...

Have you thought about tie-dying? Or batik. I think some beautiful things could be done with sails that way.

While the English adopted the flattish "sharpie" canoe, the Americans went from boats like Charm in 1887:

http://www.intcanoe.org/iclife/hist/dsc_m/charm_body_plan.gif
...

Another tantalizing clue:

From the history of the Shelter Island Yacht Club, toward the eastern end of Long Island.

And I have another clue to why the British were racing "sharpie canoes" on...

When Ted Turner was involved, the boats racing for the cup were fairly conventional keelboats built to Lloyd's 100 A-1 standard. Some were converted into ocean racers with very little change, they...

The Deed of Gift does not allow the defender to determine the conditions entirely. That's how the big boat challenge and the first catamaran defender happened. San Diego Yacht Club failed to get a...

Bull.

For must of its history, the race was held in boats suitable to the conditions they encountered. Sure, Reliance couldn't race in strong winds, but Newport didn't provide many days with...

Cotton sails were pretty standard on American workboats at the time. We didn't grow all that much flax.

This is a nice surprise. Gary Baigent's book, Light Brigade: The New Zealand School of Yacht Design is available on Scribd. He's convinced that the Thames Raters and inland scows preceded the...

When did the Maka Maili appear?

Edited to add: It looks to me from what post #29 on your link says, that picture is not the 18' patiki class, but a Logan half-rater patiki, which it strikes me...

Maybe next year>

Thank you, Chris, that's very helpful.

From post #273:



So, I think we can say the earliest boats to be deliberately designed to exploit planing under sail that we've confirmed are the...

The thing I love about this thread is finding out about thriving racing scenes with huge advances that I'd never heard of before.

By the way, Rudder published plans for an L.D. Huntington designed...

Now, this is interesting. In the August 1896 issue of Outing magazine, an article on raters by R. B. Burchard that starts on page 350:...

Clockwise, one of the funniest films I've ever seen. Same writers as Noises Off, if memory serves.

The festival is the weekend of the 4th, which I believe means July 4-7 this year. If memory serves, the cordless challenge will by on the 6th.