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Looks like one of the fatalities not a boom, but caught on a mainsheet, then whacked head on a winch. Horrific.

Yeah agree, and I am not saying stop sailing in boats with booms lower to the deck - but there has been a spate of these type of accidents, and just wondering if any design rule or something re the boom height - could be implemented.....

Absolute tragedy, and my deepest sympathies to the unfortunate sailor's families. Are we able to design rigs with booms higher than the average persons height standing in the cockpit - maybe 1.90M+ ?

You know, I have been thinking about your post LBD - and it did give me a chuckle. However.... I have been lucky enough to be born in a western nation, I have worked my butt off for 40 years, I have no children (none that I know of 😆 ), no dependents (though I do help look after my elderly parents), no wifey (not through trying but sailing dreams and landlubber Kiwi gals not a good mix!) and a couple months back I went to a funeral for a lady boss of mine for many years, who retired some years ago now. During the funeral, her husband died of a heart attack during the funeral service - he

Yes I know both boats. 'Fantail' is the Raven, and 'Shantung' is your wife's uncle and aunt boat. To be clear - there is no issue with the junk rig, it is just assessing the best method to reattach bulkheads or at least peruse options to perhaps slightly open up the interior without compromising the integity of the hull. Cheers

I was also thinking Richard Edlin.... he is up North too, which is where my boat is

Thanks fellas. Understood

Possible round NZ, possible Offshore to the Islands and beyond, yes.

Okay, I have basically stripped out the interior of my GRP 28 footer. The guy I have hired to do the donkey work, while not a qualified boat builder, has worked on boats for decades, but he admits a bit of guidance required now. If you look at the photo, which is looking for'ard from aft, he is proposing an idea to replace the four main bulkheads with crescent moon shaped bulkheads to open up the interior, plus a series of evenly spaced ring-frames in the main cabin. They would all be tabbed, filleted and glassed in of course. Those four current original main bulkheads are not inserte

Tablet / iPhone - via their app. https://mytimezero.com/tz-iboat

I quite like the look of Time Zero, got their NZ charts for $30 0r $40 and the app seems easy to use with a good display. Unlike some Nav Apps these days, the charts are for life once downloaded, but if you want the chart corrections it's a further payment every twelve months

I am going to suggest go to an outboard. Extra long shaft Tohatsu sailpro hi thrust, or a 9.9hp hi thrust from Yamaha, and other makes. I'd go the 6hp, as I see the Raven displacement is only 5,000lbs, and at only 26kg, you can store the outboard on the railing when on a long coastal passage, or just tilt up and leave on the bracket. You can also look forward to half a knot boat speed gained by getting rid of that anchor under the water, called a propellor. Just my opinion, but I also live it as both my previous two yachts, and my current one (will be when launched) were outboard

I still don't understand what f*cking idiot in this world would be travelling at 20 f*cking knots in confined waters like that.

Good to hear. Btw, Deep Purple one of my favourite bands as a youngster.

Maybe it's time to bring back sailing, as in real sailing, as part of Navy basic training, including basic navigation.

More watertight companionway work. The cat is ambivalent to the whole project despite my enthusiasm

New Platino video. The channel has turned off embedding but the link will take you to it. Seems to go quite in depth on how Platino was set up with steering and rigging mechanisms, drawing his own conclusions on the tragedy. I have no comment myself as I do not feel qualified, wasn't there, and always feel a double-edged sense of sorrow for the families who lost loved ones - versus what can be learned to help mitigate a similar situation in the future, so I just provide the link for those that may be interested. https://youtu.be/NJibyLfN0u0

Now that you have joined the CCC (Cat Condo Club), albeit fleetingly, you need to start a YouBoobs channel, with appropriately dressed attractive crew.

But isn't that life? Lots of sporting contests that are built up to high expectations turn out duds. But, that makes the humdingers even better, especially when they are unexpected, when there is a great comeback etc. I am getting a bit philosophical now, but I find this a real concern in modern life is that unless every event, sporting or otherwise is some surreal exciting experience, then it is labelled a dud. And that is what I was getting at in my earlier T20 v Test Cricket analogy. T20 tries so so so hard to be an awesome super duper crackerjack experience - but now that the novelty

They are making the same mistake with AC as they are with T20. Old AC in the relatively slow monohulls was like watching test cricket, and the frantic tacking and sail changes as you round the mark were the burst of energy like someone hitting a six and taking a wicket in a Cricket Test used to be. It grew on you, and judging by the amount of non boat people right up to the early 2000's that would watch it, was very popular. However, much like T20 cricket, AC is now just extreme commercialised fast food crap that I wouldn't give a rats backside if I never saw it again, ever.

It appears so...

I subscribe to NYT, and came across this interesting article this morning, and thought it may be of interest. PDF attached because of course the article in the online paper proper is hidden behind a paywall. Off Spain’s Coast, Orcas Ram a Sailboat - The New York Times.pdf

Just a little

New companionway treads coming together...