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wayne, I personally know a guy who believes it is foolish to sail in winds
above 20 knots. the sailor who likes sailing is casual of rough weather and if pressed merely says something about 50 knot winds and building that made it hard to heat up the soup. =========================================== Jax, I think we'd all enjoy hearing about some of the exciting offshore passages that you've made in 50 kt winds on your Bristol 27. What did you use to remove the deck stains? |
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"Wayne.B" wrote: I can tell you from personal experience that going to weather in 20 kts gets real old and tiresome after a few days in any boat I've sailed that was under 50 feet long. Or over 50 feet. Spent nine days this fall beating into 20 knots from the DR to BVI on a 120' schooner. That wore everybody down. Carl |
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(JAXAshby) wrote: wayne, I personally know a guy who believes it is foolish to sail in winds above 20 knots. Some people, sailing in 20 knot winds, ARE foolish -- and dangerous. (nothing personal to anyone, I'm thinking of some in the BVI) -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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Jere Lull wrote:
(JAXAshby) wrote: wayne, I personally know a guy who believes it is foolish to sail in winds above 20 knots. Some people, sailing in 20 knot winds, ARE foolish -- and dangerous. (nothing personal to anyone, I'm thinking of some in the BVI) Oh, yeah! The charter companies all threaten to send a training captain with you if they're unhappy with your skills; but it sure seems like they just hand the keys over to anyone nowadays without ever seeing if they can actually sail the boat. |
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(nothing personal to anyone, I'm thinking of some in the BVI)
my experience in the BVI is that the vast majority of "sailors" motor away with the charter boat and motor back back with the charter boat, a nice steady 20 knots of winds blowing most of the time. |
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