leisure wrote:
Have you ever been cruising or do you just like ****ing away money or
stupid over-engineered designs ?? Just curious.

About twice a year for the past eight years I crew on deliveries of new
boats to the Caribbean charter operations and bring old burned out ones
back. I am asked along because I am fairly mechanically minded and
don't get seasick with my head in the bilge. (Also I work for food.)

I know just about everything that can go wrong mechanically with new and
old boats and what I don't want to go wrong with mine. Carefull
engineering, redundancies and manual overrides are the best way to avoid
teaching the rest of the crew a few new four letter words.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
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