"CaveLamb" wrote in message
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Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
I had my fine, blue water sailing yacht hauled last week and applied
three gallons on Trinidad Pro bottom paint. It amounts to six coats on
the high-wear areas along the LWL, rudder and keel and four coats
everywhere else.


Here are a few photos that show the very clean and ultra-fast underwater
design.


http://www.badongo.com/pic/11238469

http://www.badongo.com/pic/11238471

http://www.badongo.com/pic/11238475


After viewing the photos, even you Brit ******s will understand how no
boat with a similar LWL (23-feet) can expect to keep up with 'Cut the
Mustard'. You lazy sailors with your big diesels and big props dragging
through the water lack a knot or two compared to my real sailboat
configuration. I sailed back to my mooring in the company of a 1975,
Dufour 30 - the one with the five-foot draft and racy bulb keel - and I
put her hull down in an hour under working sail in 12-15 knots of wind on
a reach. And the Dufour is supposed to be a fast boat.



So you ran five miles ahead of the Dufor - in an hour?

Sounds like the Dufor was anchored.


In all honesty, he did come out of the harbor about a half hour later than I
did. So he was halfway hull down to begin with.


Wilbur Hubbard