
Solo sailors beating 2 handed
#1
Posted 14 February 2018 - 10:31 AM
https://interestings...ml?spref=fb&m=1
Also apparently a 15 year old plywood boat beating newer more high tech ones...
#2
Posted 14 February 2018 - 03:33 PM
Short handed does change the game a fair bit from pure boat speed to boat management. So a slower boat with a good manager is often a quicker package than a boofhead on the latest and greatest.
A bit sad after seeing 9 something metre boast doing a Transat when NZ is actively going the opposite route.
But an interesting read all the same, nice link there fella.
#3
Posted 14 February 2018 - 03:48 PM
A couple of us have often wondered about the trans atlantic,I use to own an old spencer box 30,sabre,we could hold our own running reaching and seeing how the t/a is down wind,we often thought new foil designs and you might have a winner
#4
Posted 14 February 2018 - 04:56 PM
Yeah that was one of my thoughts as I was reading it. I guess the only argument for NZ to behave differentlyA bit sad after seeing 9 something metre boast doing a Transat when NZ is actively going the opposite route.
is it's harder here to get tradewind type sailing that they're aiming for with that race. Leaving here for oz/the islands l on a fixed date for a race, who knows what conditions you'll get...
#5
Posted 15 February 2018 - 03:47 PM
15 years old isn't old.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
#6
Posted 15 February 2018 - 04:01 PM
Ply and glass = good
#7
Posted 15 February 2018 - 04:12 PM
#8
Posted 15 February 2018 - 04:52 PM
Of course Spencer put a new keel and rudder on his and she did very well
Unless you were an engineer boat tinkerer, the cost of a new keel and rudder certified for offshore would quickly be close to the cost of a more modern boat.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
#9
Posted 15 February 2018 - 05:17 PM
15 years old isn't old.
Not saying it is. In fact I don't consider my boat particularly old and it's closing in on double that.
#10
Posted 15 February 2018 - 05:19 PM
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