"Bob" wrote in message
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Either way, a dead give-a-way is the constant helm corrections.
somthing aint right.
Bob


What ain't right is your absurd assumptions about the constant helm
corrections. There is no modern, high performance sailboat with fin
keel/spade rudder combo that doesn't need constant helm corrections when
running with the seas on or abaft the quarter. It's the nature of the beast.
Duh!

If there is anything physically wrong with that boat it's the gear ratio of
the wheel and the wheel itself. It needs to be rotated way too far to effect
any sort of meaningful course change. That broach would not have happened
with a tiller-steered vessel. A helmsman sitting sideways in the boat
doesn't have his back to weather like that fool has and a tiller moves the
rudder a significant amount instantaneously with great feedback.

Now, this brings up the even greater folly of a pilot house where the
helmsman is even more isolated from the elements.

Get back to basics for safe and successful sailing. Haven't any of you
learned anything from the unnecessary loss of the "Red Cloud?"


Wilbur Hubbard