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From: scylla34208 (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 22 2004 - 13:37:38 EST
--- In , Bryan Genez
<capella at c dot dot dot > wrote: ...comfortable...a sea-kindly motion...
So many people have pointed out that a well-found boat can take
more than the crew. For a while I cruised in a vee-bottom (aka
"hard-chine") boat which as a result had a quick motion. Even
boats passing at no-wake harbor speeds nearly rolled me out of
bed.
Later I had a Giles-designed Vertue whose motion was very
gentle. I made no changes to the standard deck set-up:
halliards remained cleated at the mast, no furling headsail, I
even removed the jiffy reefing lines to reduce chafe to the
mainsail. I did get a new main with no battens as I'd had trouble
from them in the other boat. (An existing sail could be re-cut.)
In tropical waters some means of shade is important when
under way. Since I had a steering vane, I sat under the dodger or
went below. I was single-handing in the '60s when ships were
less on automatic pilot, and I wouldn't recommend single any
more, not to mention it can be lonely.
Fred
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