"Jere Lull" wrote in message
news:2008111121584027544-jerelull@maccom...
On 2008-11-11 19:56:21 -0500, Wayne.B
said:

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:19:54 -0700, slide
wrote:

"Battling" 10 foot seas and 20 kt winds? Battling? Good grief. It makes
it sound like he was beset with a typhoon and 150 kt winds. If he were
to finish, he'd have accomplished nothing.

Have you ever sailed a 36 ft boat in 10 ft seas and 20 knot winds for any
length of time? It gets old pretty quickly.

I have. (actually was 31' through 50' at various times; winds and waves
exceeded those values) Piece of cake compared to a few hours of 15-20 and
3+ waves on the Chesapeake.

I've done 8 hours against 30+ and 6+ feet on the Bay with 28' and loved it
as a "done that" thing, but would much rather face what was reported for
Zac.

20 knots is a welcome occurrence to most of the world-travellers I've
followed. That such caused equipment failure points to other problems in
the equation of equipment and crew.

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I sailed for two days (pretty much) into 30 kts. No idea of the wave
height.. at least 10'. I don't really want to ever do that again. That was
on a 48' CT, which is a damn heavy boat.


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