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Subject: Re: [worldcruising] Re: Dig #622 Foam Core
From: Perry Jones (pjones@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Dec 30 2000 - 12:11:56 EST
Take this advice with a grain of salt, folks, as it comes from one of those
"Wetsnailers" who couldn't possible outrun a storm.......
Now, personally, I'm not interested in a seagoing boat that has a D/L of
less than 400. My Prairie 32 comes to a sharper point at the front than
Rick's boat but is otherwise at least as heavy. And Rick's comments about
sea state conditions have been echoed by the Pardeys who have said that
heavy little old slow boats will often get there faster because of the
variety of wind/sea conditions that affect the lighter boats. Plus, I don't
think that even the Santa Cruz 52, Deerfoot 60-something and the MacGregor
65 boats can outrun storms at sea. You need something that can handle what
hits you.
Heavy stays afloat.
Perry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Kennerly" <nh2f@XXX.XXX>
To: <worldcruising@XXX.XXX>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: RE: [worldcruising] Re: Dig #622 Foam Core
> =
> =Is there any real-life data on the "get-away" side? Can one
> =actually out-sail a hurricane which is on an unpredictable path?
> =
>
> Like everything else, it depends. Faster at sea means shorter transit
times
> between ports and therefore less exposure, so in that regard lighter and
> faster is safer. But that doesn't mean you can defy the use of good
> judgment.
>
> When we were in the SoPac a lot of lighter, faster boats--mostly tris and
> cats--used that excuse for staying too long in typhoon areas during peak
> season. What they discovered is that once a storm began brewing the wave
> trains and storm waves that precede a major typhoon quickly caught up with
> them long before the winds arrived and that the high sea state reduced
their
> speed advantage considerably. In fact, many found themselves nearly
> becalmed in rough seas before the arrival of a storm. In those
conditions,
> light, fast boats were at a considerable disadvantage over heavier more
> weatherly boats when it came to ride and handling (not to mention
> propulsion, as many had transom mounted OBs that were out of the water as
> much as they were in it). I think sailing out of harms way is only an
> option if you're on the very fringes of a storm and guess correctly about
> which way to go.
>
> I think, too, that you have to look only at the experiences of mom & pop
> cruisers, not at the megawealthy deerfoot crowd (load up that $4.5 mil 100
> ft racehorse and meet me in Pago Pago for the weekend) or at the
experiences
> of well-crewed professionally sailed multihulls and ULDB. I've seem a lot
> of cruising couples in multi's who overloaded the boat with cruising
stores
> to the point where they killed most of their speed advantage while
inducing
> trim and handling problems. That seems to be the worst of all worlds--low
> capacity, light build, squirrelly handling, and only moderate speed
> advantages.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Rick the Mouseherder - nh2f
> Westsail 32 Xapic, Hull #438
> Annapolis, MD
>
> A small boat and a suitcase full of money
> beats a 40 footer tied to the Bank.
>
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