On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:50:54 -0700, slide wrote:

On 1/19/2014 6:17 AM, Bruce in Bangkok wrote:


And thus speaks the Pseudo Sailor. Who knows all about sailing. Why,
he once sailed, single handed too, all the way down the bay to anchor
for the night on a mud bank.


I skimmed the article but it seemed to me that the boat was poorly made.
A wave against a 'window' was all it took for the window to leak, lose
trim and other wave / ocean action put the boat out of commission. It
also seems that the rudders were attached to the stock by small set
screws. That on a vessel meant to voyage across oceans?

I was greatly impressed by one guy going for a swim under the boat. I
did sail in this area at around that time and the water is COLD.

Overall, though, it's not the behavior of the crew which I thought
deficient but the construction of the boat.

I suppose it is a "How big was the wave" sort of thing. We had a wave
over here that knocked down buildings and I've seen a number of boats
that had "shutters" bolted over the cabin windows when expecting bad
weather.

But "deficient construction" is practically a byword in boat
construction these days. One of my favorite bitches is the fiberglass
stern tube with the cutlass bearing glued in with 5200....
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Cheers,

Bruce in Bangkok