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  1. hahaha, appreciate the effort, Jon, but I'm too tired to bite
  2. I heard liquid luck weighs less than a 6 pack of Heineken. anyone got some specs on that build? Length, beam, dips etc? Pipi, single handed, came in a touch after liquid luck. Second mono over the line. Great effort for single handed!
  3. Nah, no idea what you’re talking about….
  4. Sailing is the most expensive way to go somewhere slowly…
  5. Well I worked out it costs me €1 per NM to sail and about 80c per mile to motor…
  6. Thing I’m most happy about with my electric motor is the removal of the petrol and the stinking outboard from my lazarete I think I will buy the next engine size up when and if this one craps out tho. A bit more oompf would be good.
  7. I wired a gas detector into the fridge circuit, reasoning that if I’m onboard the fridge is on. As soon as I get onboard I turn on the power/fridge so I can have a cold beer after hauling all the sails out of the way etc. The alarm screams bloody murder 5x as it does its start test - which always scares the bejesus outta me, then I remember wtf the noise is. Later I go out to the gas locker and connect the gas bottle to the gas line. The detector sits in the bilge between the keel pump and the back of the fridge in the cabinetry that the saloon table is mounted on. I reasoned that a
  8. I change ours out every 100h, Keeping the old as a spare (and also have a new spare available) We only do about 70-80h a year. Reminds me to do a preseason engine service in the next month or two.
  9. Wow. That thing is getting down to Pogo displacement - could go like a scalded cat if used well. this would be my pick for coastal cruising - fast boats make great coastal cruisers because you can effectively increase your range while still keeping your job, lol.
  10. I suspect those ones have already gone. But there are plenty of others. Most are really just junk. But they could be broken up into their parts and recycled carefully rather than being munched up. And buried as a homogenised mass. Some might have a fair bit of copper or bronze fastenings in them - if you wanted to painstakingly extract each nail etc. ….
  11. Makes sense here. The boom is low and if you douse the sail the whole lot incl yard drop into the boat. No need to ruin a family Sunday afternoon with screaming kids and a trip to the hospital. further, in the early 2000s I was the tallest crew member and in wed night races I did bow on a 727. I kept an old bike helmet on board and used it. More than once it allowed a screwup to be nothing more than cussing out the cockpit. although sometimes that cussing want only coming from the foredeck - I think it’s fair to cuss the skipper out after he clacks the boom into your head while he’
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    SailGP

    Loving that you fixed that
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    Clouds

    Bahaha, we had sleet last weekend. Today it was bright and sunny but I made the mistake of going outside in a t-shirt….
  14. 19y. Don’t miss it a bit. Can’t understand why people still tune in. radio? Haven’t listened to a radio station since probably last century. Inane drivel with advertising. Last station I can consciously remember tuning into was National radio to get the marine weather forecasts at 0530 in the morning sometime around 2000.
  15. Yes record breaking. Ie since records were kept, which was probably after the great storm. “Highest winds ever recorded at pointe du Raz.” That equals exits breaking, or record setting. No doubt there have been more vigorous storms in the earth’s/Europe’s/Brittany’s history but none with recorded wind speeds.
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