On Jun 14, 12:17 pm, Bob wrote:
Don't believe any thing you read here including my warped ideas of
boating.
Well said :{))
Here is a good exercise. Read Skip & Lydia's Great Adventure they
posted here. They took a 45' +/- a foot or so, boat and the wife drove
it on a FL reef. Why? They said they had experienced heavy seas that
caused all the problems that led to the grounding. Now look at the
weather reported both by Skip and NOAA. I think it was something like
12-15' seas and 20K wind.
Those numbers may be a bit off but the moral of their story was, they
were terrified and incapacitated by what we call around here a good
day for sailing. Just think Chicken Little.
LOL :{))
ROFL!
Sorry - I'm not really part of this discussion - but this caught my
eye.
If you're really interested, do, indeed, read of our adventures.
However, I doubt - aside from, perhaps, from some stone-casters who
seem to know more than others who were in the area - that you'll find
much resembling the above.
We were definitely in the wrong place at the wrong time. Quite
comfortably sailing along in nasty, but not life-threatening,
conditions, nasty enough to cause departures of parts of the boat
which would otherwise remained in place if it weren't rather more than
20k. Hell, we sailed the boat for the first time, over 500 miles, in
wind that never went that (20k) low, with full 135 and main. 20k is
where she starts to come alive...
That we hit the rocks could have been avoided. Going into the weather
that NOAA neglected to mention didn't have to be any other than wet -
but it was definitely a mess, including that the Coast Guard helo
tried three different places before they could set down in it,
finally, and had put enough time on that they couldn't fly it home
before some service - and aside from that we took in the genny and
triple reefed the main, of no moment. Terror and Chicken Little were
in scant presence. It was just an adventure.
Woulda, coulda, and shoulda are of no use after the fact - so,
instead, we just went about rebuilding, and are about finished and
ready to shove off again. Are we likely to make the same mistakes
again? I don't think so. Stay tuned as to whether you agree...
Meanwhile, have fun deciding on your boat. It's a great time. We
took over two years to finalize on our type, after which we owned one
in very short order.
L8R
Skip
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