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12-02-2012, 19:20
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always in motion is the future
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
Boat: Sundeer 64
Posts: 18,956
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Reckless Behavior of CF Member !
This is a warning to all who are currently in the West Caribbean: use extreme caution when a multihull approaches you. The reason is that Mark (colemj on CF) has just left Colon, Panama with a completely new set of electronics which includes a fully integrated autopilot!!
I just received an email from Mark in which he states that he actually set a waypoint and let the AP steer to that... the horror!
Study the following image carefully as this is one of the few pictures known to exist of this dangerous boat, where complacency is sure to make the Siren's song be heard!
ciao!
Nick.
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12-02-2012, 20:08
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
Boat: Ketch, Hardin 45
Posts: 440
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
Thanks for the warning: I will immediately build a potato cannon to protect myself from him
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12-02-2012, 20:27
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Oregon
Boat: 57' Laurent Giles Yawl
Posts: 755
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
Do you have his Iridium number? Can we at least text him if he is about to run us down?
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12-02-2012, 21:09
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,306
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
Since I am 80 miles inland I think I'm safe. But will put out some fenders just in case.
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The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.
Sometimes it's necessary to state the obvious for the benefit of the oblivious.
Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
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12-02-2012, 21:48
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Picton, ON
Boat: Grampian 26
Posts: 227
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
Is this an in between the lines way of saying due to (Viagra/Cialis) I was forced to upgrade my electronics and auto pilot.
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12-02-2012, 22:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 9,398
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
I'm not worried. Going by the picture, he's moving away from us!
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12-02-2012, 22:40
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 6,185
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
It will break in a few thousand miles; nothing to worry about.
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12-02-2012, 22:47
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Northern and Southern California
Boat: too many
Posts: 3,731
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
I think we will be safer if it doesn't die after a few thousand miles as he might be hand steering. lol
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12-02-2012, 22:57
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 6,185
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
Quote:
Originally Posted by deckofficer
I think we will be safer if it doesn't die after a few thousand miles as he might be hand steering. lol
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What man, you don't like hand steering for days on end? I can still picture the funny symbols the compass makes that I was so sleep deprived I couldn't determine the numbers for what they were. Just a series of white on black shapes.
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13-02-2012, 00:05
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Malvernshire, on the sunny side of the hill.
Boat: 50' steel canal and river cruiser
Posts: 1,905
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
How much Grog did he take aboard for the voyage? I see shes listing to sbd a little, could be a sign.
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13-02-2012, 00:18
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Northern and Southern California
Boat: too many
Posts: 3,731
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
Quote:
Originally Posted by rebel heart
What man, you don't like hand steering for days on end? I can still picture the funny symbols the compass makes that I was so sleep deprived I couldn't determine the numbers for what they were. Just a series of white on black shapes.
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I do believe this scenario is a reason wind vanes are such a popular back up option.
Instead of "been there, done that", haven't done it and don't want to.
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13-02-2012, 00:21
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 6,185
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
Quote:
Originally Posted by deckofficer
I do believe this scenario is a reason wind vanes are such a popular back up option.
Instead of "been there, done that", haven't done it and don't want to.
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Honestly I won't leave the harbor without an autopilot. Unless I'm fleeing from a civil war, I'm not moving without self steering.
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13-02-2012, 00:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Northern and Southern California
Boat: too many
Posts: 3,731
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
Well there is self steering in regards to apparent wind, which with the vane keeps you in a trimmed state but doesn't always follow a given course, but once your off shore the winds tend to stay at a given direction so in fact could hold the course. Simple, doesn't require power and unlike an auto pilot, keeps the boat from gybing or backing its sails, which an autopilot could do in a wind change.
But of course I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but your reply sounded like you would take an auto pilot over a vane. I prefer both, but if budget (electrical or coin) precluded both, then it is the vane for me.
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13-02-2012, 00:55
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Brisbane Australia
Boat: Multihulls - cats and Tris
Posts: 4,859
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
Quote:
Originally Posted by deckofficer
Well there is self steering in regards to apparent wind, which with the vane keeps you in a trimmed state but doesn't always follow a given course, but once your off shore the winds tend to stay at a given direction so in fact could hold the course. Simple, doesn't require power and unlike an auto pilot, keeps the boat from gybing or backing its sails, which an autopilot could do in a wind change.
But of course I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but your reply sounded like you would take an auto pilot over a vane. I prefer both, but if budget (electrical or coin) precluded both, then it is the vane for me.
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My pilot can steer to wind. I suspect almost all can.
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13-02-2012, 02:05
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Boat: 31' Cape George Cutter
Posts: 3,280
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Re: Reckless behavior of CF member !
Factor-
I doubt it. Autopilots steer to a compass. When in "wind" mode the autopilot slowly changes the desired heading to follow the change in the average wind. Thus it does not respond to short term changes in wind direction. Nor can it "parry puffs" (i.e. respond to short-term change in apparent wind angle due to changes in wind strength). I've had a wind sensor on my autopilot - next to useless and certainly nothing like a wind vane.
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