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A lot of production sailboats and probably most of the traditional full keel type, have props that are too small to put the full horsepower of the engine into the water. That upsets a lot of what...

That's most naval architects when there is a marketing department involved. 80% at normal cruise is a better target for a diesel engine.

You are local. Have you any comment on these?

http://www.mvgazette.com/news/2009/02/12/schooner-high-and-dry-repairs-again
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I think Florida has a history of trying to get away with things the constitution prohibits. IIRC the attempt to outlaw the use of anchors in the state went all the way the way to the Supreme Court...

Who knew? Better read this if you are from one of the several states like Maine that do not have a separate state registration process for documented vessels:

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If anyone knows why I shouldn't get the tee shirt, please let me know.

http://forums.sbo.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=148748&#post991044

I forgot to mention, since I write a regular column on another forum, that I am headed the other way. I'm backtracking north and will be in this area for a while. By the time I head south, that...

Specific boat and crew, I mean. I'd like to know the story and whether it came all the way down on its own bottom.

Running through Skull Creek in South Carolina this morning, I saw a cruiser with even simpler taste in boats than myself.
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If you want to go strictly traditional, I have a very detailed set of pen and ink drawings for this one that I built years ago. It's the Boston Ship Chandlers boat from "American Small Sailing...

Well, I know that but this was still a surprise.

After I got my Puffin fiberglass dinghy at the beginning of the summer before last, I printed up a label on plain paper with my contact...

One of the handful of people on the planet who I believe most qualified to speak on the matter.

I'll never forget coming into Bermuda in the schooner in this story http://www.pointseast.com/template.shtml?id=EEuApppyplMkENKsEG&style=story on a different trip with another captain. He realized...

Yes, but they were not intentionally heading into conditions in which every damn little thing had to function perfectly if they were to even have the deck stacked slightly in their favor for...

That's why I posted it. Few sailors have seen six foot seas but most think they have. If the forecast is for 6 footers, they could find themselves in conditions they don't expect and may not able...

And some discussion of them here:

http://forums.sbo.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=147211

MainSail, who posted the pictures of her reconstruction is ABYC certified and knows more about...

I've been told, and had it confirmed by my experience, that Chesapeake Bay trollers all believe the urban legend that fishing vessels have the right of way under all circumstances so that everyone...

More photos:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/602444_3371471786028_1757677345_n.jpg

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/302745_3371472746052_183082091_n.jpg
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For not presenting a hazard to visitors while tied to a dock. No more than that as far as I know.

I would really like to see those pictures.

I think would take a modern crew, of modern size and expectations about safety, about a week. A good crew of the period might have done it in an afternoon.

Waves are officially reported and forecast by "Significant Wave Height" which is the mean of the largest 1/3 of waves. This graph shows the distribution:
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Yes, but the largest only come along once or twice a day and your chances of being in the exact spot decreases the probability of encounter significantly.

To say you are in "70 foot waves"...

I've put a short discussion of this on my SBO column/blog:

http://forums.sbo.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=147144&#post973854

No, I saw it and read it. I thought it was so important that it deserved to be bumped up out of a thread that was getting very long so not to be missed. Not everyone agrees that was the right...

Sounds like you are observing carefully and confirming the 50% rule. I don't divide by two when I have looked carefully as you describe. I ask myself what it appears to be and then divide by two.

"Accurate" isn't the word I should have used. After all, waves are highly variable. By wave height you could mean the average height, the significant height, the mean height, the greatest height,...

I still like the Origo. It is non-pressurized and I've found it plenty hot enough. I've used it almost daily for years and nothing like this has happened before. I had just filled it and I'm not...

I looked into wave height perceptions quite a bit to validate reports during the research into sailing vessel stability years ago. Even very experienced seaman consistently overestimate wave height...

What's six inches among friends? I put it as close to my face in normal sleeping position as I could. In view of the new seriousness with which I'm thinking about the issue, I may move it lower for...

Yikes! You could have been reading my obituary in a couple of days.

http://forums.sbo.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=147098&#post973496

Aside from being current, this says so much so well about someone's relationship to ships and the sea that I expect it to become timeless. As someone who enjoys writing the way many here like to see...

One of the crew members was a ham radio operator and his story has surfaced on this site:

http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2012-11-01#toc03

It's down in the list of articles so I will...

Except that it seems to be pretty much exactly what he did. I probably would have dismissed it as careless talk if I had seen the video before the tragic events. If I were the owner of the vessel...

That's what I meant.



All right. I personally don't care for long and unwieldy threads and skip around on the Internet so much that it doesn't seem an issue to me. That doesn't seem to be the...

I want to make it clear that I have no indication that the external ballast was not attached in a way to mitigate the strains on plank seams and backbone. It's simply the first thing I would want to...

This Youtube video has been commented on in the original Bounty thread but I think it deserves to be bumped up into a thread of its own as the most significant fact to come to light. If you missed...

I had occasion to sit at tables many times in my with well informed experts saying exactly opposite things and asked myself that same question. The time I was put in the position of choosing I was...

An opinion can be valid but also horsepucky :)

It wasn't meant to be rude. "much" would have been a better word choice that "more" but I dash these things off quickly, like everyone else. I was just trying to point out a type of thinking that...

I too am a leery of speculation about specifics in a case with a cause as basic as this. However, I think some general comments about keel shoes are in order.

Attaching a lot of outside ballast...

I'd like to offer this SBO post:

http://forums.sbo.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=147024&#post972933

Oops. The forum won't link to an individual post, only the first in the thread, so I...

Speaking as one who has been involved in investigations and post accident analysis:

There is always something to learn but I question whether the lessons would justify the effort in this case. ...

The “Bounty” thread has quickly evolved into being more about the individual reactions of forum members to such an event than a discussion of the nature of ships, the sea, and the people who sail...

Well said, all of it.

Even if not, the smaller tall ship that left New London about the same time made it all the way to Portland, Maine where she was hauled out. There are plenty of places in Portland or Boston where...

Joe, that nails it.

I just read that one of the missing is Claudene Christian whose words to her parents about departing in such conditions were widely reported. Heartbreaking. The report also said that the other was...

Very interesting. Impressively rapid response by the shore staff. It sounds like he is no longer Captain but he is still the Master until everyone is safe.

What's two or three among friends?

Seriously though, I find that statement on their FB page a bit troubling. I would have saved the "!!!" for when everyone was aboard, except maybe the master.
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I think you can forgive the know-nothing on Raw Faith a bit more easily. It would be interesting to know what kind of financial incentives were involved in the ship's next port call.