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Originally Posted by smj
Yes, but I had to walk to school in the snow with bare feet and just my draws on.......
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And I am sure it was up hill both coming and going.
I have to say some of the posts I have seen in this thread have me wondering if I should laugh or cry.
I looked long and hard at several fboats before I bought SMJ's old
Seawind. I also have probably fifty years of
monohull sailing. Maybe more to the point I crewed on a
monohull in the last
Baja Ha-Ha; something like 400 NM down
wind. It was a
Catalina 34 and it was one of the most uncomfortable
boats I have ever been on. I was stuck in the aft
cabin, not the best place for a comfortable ride. This run is historically all down
wind with a following sea. The problem with the
Catalina is that I would guess the boat probably jibed a hundred times on the run and maybe five them were intentional. No way the auto pilot could have handled that. There was a shifty wind and a couple of times thunderstorms altered the wave direction for a while which resulted in someone at the
helm almost all the time.
There was an F9RX that raced and they were blasting along with a small hank on
jib and nothing else running away from much bigger monohulls with huge spinnakers. I talked to the guys on it at
Bahia Tortugas and they reported it was a very comfortable ride. The only
boats that had any luck with auto pilot were the big sixty foot cats.
So I am not
buying that a 27 foot monohull is somehow magically able to easily sail in conditions that would be impossible for an fboat a little bigger to sail in.
As an aside I have known SMJ for not quite ten years and know how many miles/hours he and his lady have cruised. I doubt most of the posters in this thread can come close to matching his numbers.
Just so we are all on the same page here is a vid I made of what happened at
Bahia Tortugas. No
music to prevent
copyright violation.