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Originally Posted by Secondshift
"AVERAGING .... for ANY sailboat" found in later post.
I'm sure he wanted only to let you know they have been regularly
breaking that barrier for years.
The similarities to the M26 of course being your own contrivance.
Sad though , all the real info seems to get lost in some petty contest.
Just really sad.
Well, back to playing with boats.
Best Regards,
Ed W
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Mea Culpa...
I should have said "any conventional ballasted monohull"... boats like most of us sail. Actually seems to apply to most production catamarans too, if one looks at the
ARC results. So, please, in your mind, change ANY to whatever modifier suits your idea of the discussion. I accept that my original statement was incorrect as posted.
But could anyone really think that a 100 foot highest tech professionally crewed
multihull has much bearing on our discussion? Yes, this one and quite a few others have made fantastic passages and I stand in awe of the boats and their crews. They do indeed average well over 1.34 x sqt LWL, but then they are not bound by the same physical limitations that our cruising boats are
I still do not believe that a Mac 26 can average 8 knots over long distances. That's nearly 200 miles per day... something Ann and I have to
work like hell to get in our much larger
boat whose
hull speed is over 9 knots. Noting that the Mac 26 is listed as having a PHRF rating of 222. That's not indicative of a really fast boat... not bad for a 26 foot
trailer sailor, but hardly a speed demon.
Adding a strong favorable
current to achieve the average really isn't germane to discussing boat performance. Rational folks talk about speed through the
water when comparing performance, not speed over the ground.Hell, we've been in places where a cardboard box can do 8 SOG.
I'm sorry that you have taken such umbrage to my posts, but it is a free world here on CF. You feel that the "real info" seems to get lost. I feel that the 8
knot claim is not real info and deserves to be challenged. I did so by questioning the data. You have mostly been attacking me, not the message I sent. I don't much mind, but I too can feel "really sad" about the way this has played out.
Jim
PS Hoosier Doc, please don't take all this as criticism of your boat or your sailing. I'm really glad that you are enjoying the sport, and that it sounds like you will enjoy doing the
DIY repairs and improvements ahead. A
trailer sailor is a great way to learn to sail, especially when stuck way inland.
Actually, it is a great way no matter where you live... I started with a 15 foot O'Day Osprey
dinghy and then spent 7 years sailing a
Catalina 22, and I lived only 30 miles from
San Francisco bay. That boat taught me a great deal, starting in the local lakes, graduating to the
SF bay and eventually some coastal cruising in the ocean and a month long
cruise in the Canadian Gulf Islands. It was great fun!
Jim