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Forum: Our Community 28-11-2013, 18:19
Replies: 263
Views: 27,613
Posted By Adelie
Re: A "Simple" Boat

Comfort is not an essential.

The level of comfort needed to make cruising a worthwhile lifestyle is another question altogether and only you can answer that. How much you enjoy camping is...
Forum: Our Community 17-11-2013, 21:42
Replies: 263
Views: 27,613
Posted By Adelie
Re: A "Simple" Boat

You would think my chosen profession would make me more cynical, but no I continue to think the best of people. A failing I constantly fight to overcome.:devil:
Forum: Our Community 17-11-2013, 18:13
Replies: 263
Views: 27,613
Posted By Adelie
Re: A "Simple" Boat

It seems like you are mocking me for paying attention to what myself and others have said and for even having said what we did.
Forum: Our Community 17-11-2013, 16:21
Replies: 263
Views: 27,613
Posted By Adelie
Re: A "Simple" Boat

Post #33 indicated what a complex boat would include and #79 point blank indicated what would be simple. How much more of a definition are you looking for?
Forum: Our Community 17-11-2013, 10:44
Replies: 263
Views: 27,613
Posted By Adelie
Re: A "Simple" Boat

Funny that's not what I think was established, I think that what was established is that when you tell someone to keep the boat simple, explain what YOU mean by simple and why you would make those...
Forum: Our Community 14-11-2013, 12:59
Replies: 263
Views: 27,613
Posted By Adelie
Re: A "Simple" Boat

Ashore, almost half of that list would be required by code in most jurisdictions so simple doesn't enter into it.

Overall circumstances ashore are different so the frame of reference should be...
Forum: Our Community 14-11-2013, 07:08
Replies: 263
Views: 27,613
Posted By Adelie
Re: A "Simple" Boat

I waffled a bit about the laptop, and I should have said with raster charts. In a different world I would have said paper charts, but since NOAA is phasing out paper, it is going to become harder to...
Forum: Our Community 13-11-2013, 21:44
Replies: 263
Views: 27,613
Posted By Adelie
Re: A "Simple" Boat

Simple boat

1) Tiller
2) Windvane plus small tiller autopilot
3) Manual windlass, or none at all, just a chain pawl.
4) Hanked on sails
5) Drifter for light air, no CodeZero.
6) No...
Forum: Our Community 12-11-2013, 06:53
Replies: 263
Views: 27,613
Posted By Adelie
Re: A "Simple" Boat

In the six years you've had your boat what period of that have you lived aboard or been underway?

My observation has been that that advice is primarily aimed at people intending to go offshore for...
Forum: Our Community 11-11-2013, 17:06
Replies: 263
Views: 27,613
Posted By Adelie
I would say that as long as there were workable...

I would say that as long as there were workable manual backups for the major systems (water light navigation anchoring sail setting and dousing) then complexity becomes a matter of deciding when the...
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