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Forum: General Sailing Forum 29-11-2023, 08:00
Replies: 7
Views: 984
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Applying Bottom Paint?

When I was running tourist boats on the Oz Great Barrier Reef we established a hard stand about half was along our jetty. This would dry at about half tide on our 16Ft tides.


With wooden boats...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-11-2023, 03:44
Replies: 12
Views: 985
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Bird Spikes?

I ran a fleet of tourist boats on the Oz Great Barrier Reef. One of our cruises was a very dangerous outer reef cruise with coral viewing snorkeling & walking on the drying reef occasionally when the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 09-11-2023, 20:37
Replies: 73
Views: 7,078
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: How much time do you spend waiting for weather windows?

I once sailed to Rabaul to be north of the southern hemisphere cyclone season to sit it out. I planned on sitting it out for 4 months. I enjoyed the area so much I stayed 16 months. Is that a record?
Forum: Powered Boats 20-10-2023, 10:21
Replies: 31
Views: 5,671
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Best boat for cruising

I spent 3 winters cruising the reef, then 11 years living there. Some times living on the yacht, others ashore with the boat on a mooring.


In that time I had 4 times hiding from cyclones up...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 16-10-2023, 17:34
Replies: 63
Views: 7,542
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: solo anchoring technique

In the great barrier reef waters we have things called tides. The tidal flow in many places can reach over 3 knots. In most anchorages your anchor will have to reset every 6 hours or so. Best make...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-09-2023, 18:53
Replies: 67
Views: 7,814
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Best keel type for offshore trip

I once owned a beautiful "cruising" boat, 36Ft LOA. Long bow spit, clipper bow graceful shear, shallow draft, long straight keel,& a large buoyant counter stern. It was the picture of the perfect...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 23-09-2023, 19:46
Replies: 25
Views: 1,997
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Jib bag vs Furler comparsion

I did a lot of sailing with my 40Ft Morgan Giles racing design Alyth with in 600 nautical miles of the equator, often single handed. In these light airs areas I used a 500Sq Ft 180% no 2 genoa, or a ...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 14-09-2023, 21:01
Replies: 57
Views: 5,794
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: 100 Footer or Not.. That is the question

In my experience the bigger the boat the easier it is to handle.


I don't have any modern experience with thrusters & the like, but I have run single & twin screw tourist boats in the Oz Great...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 03-08-2023, 07:47
Replies: 634
Views: 74,451
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Changes in Tropical Cyclone Intensity & Track

Until they get a handle on the effect of clouds, & include this in any models the whole thing is more scam than science. Not one prediction from these models has been correct, or even close.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 10-07-2023, 07:27
Replies: 61
Views: 4,827
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: "Knots"?

I had a paddle wheel speedo & on a few occasions towed a walker log. I have crossed the Coral sea 6 times, & sailed well over 30,000 nautical miles around the pacific islands.


In tropical waters...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 06-07-2023, 23:23
Replies: 30
Views: 5,747
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Advice about boat size

I lived on my 40 footer for 14 of the 19 years I owned her. I cruised for most of that, including years around the Pacific islands, much of it single handed. My only wish was that she was about 5 or...
Forum: Auxiliary Equipment & Dinghy 30-06-2023, 09:26
Replies: 42
Views: 5,942
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Anticipated life-span of submerged outboard

I ran a bear boat charter company for a couple of years. Our outboards went under salt water regularly. Some times it could be 48 hours before we got them back.


Standard treatment was to...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-06-2023, 21:34
Replies: 110
Views: 15,110
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Sailing on jib alone

Thanks for the clear explanation Don CL, I see some still don't get it, so I'll give an example.


45 years ago we had difficulty getting yachts into Lake Macquarie on the NSW coast north of...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-06-2023, 08:20
Replies: 110
Views: 15,110
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Sailing on jib alone

Garbage, it is hull form that makes a boat gripe up to wind when healed. The sail plan will have only a minor effect on this.


It is boats with fine entries & big buoyant sterns, designed to...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 22-06-2023, 20:26
Replies: 110
Views: 15,110
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Sailing on jib alone

I once sailed from Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, to Cairns Oz a bit over 1100 nautical miles under 146 Sq ft jib after the first 40 miles in 6 days, averaged 7.6 knots for the passage, with...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 17-05-2023, 05:25
Replies: 78
Views: 18,551
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Heaving to- Fore reaching- Lying Ahull

I was skippering one of a number of boats involved in rescuing 3 multi hulls which capsized in heavy weather just east of the Whitsunday Islands one night. This was not open water, but inside the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 04-05-2023, 23:21
Replies: 24
Views: 2,349
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: How much...?

A mate built himself a complete fiberglass 38 footer to lock up with ballast fitted, at a yard that specalised in assisting owner builders. At that stage he found someone with a complete sailing same...
Forum: Africa 14-04-2023, 07:56
Replies: 37
Views: 5,809
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: What if This Happened On Your Boat?

I was running a fleet of bare boats in the Whitsunday Islands. One of our charters had a bar-b-que ashore on an isolated island one night, carrying all their cooking gear food etc ashore in a sail...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 13-04-2023, 07:26
Replies: 34
Views: 4,966
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: The most beautiful patch of water

There is nothing quite like an atoll a hundred miles or more from anywhere for clarity of water. However I have anchored in dozens of Great Barrier Reef reefs where you could check your anchor 80 ft...
Forum: Our Community 03-04-2023, 09:38
Replies: 27
Views: 3,129
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: touching sand in a slip ?

I ran a 120Ft tourist boat from an allocated berth at a public jetty in a Great Barrier Reef tourist town. The solid bottom depth at the berth was adequate, but it used to silt up over time.


We...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 27-03-2023, 07:12
Replies: 75
Views: 10,527
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: How long is it safe to leave fresh water in tank?

For 5 years the only water that went into my water tanks was caught off my foredeck awning. I never treated it, never filtered it & never had any problem.


They were fabricated in place...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 13-03-2023, 22:22
Replies: 33
Views: 3,204
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Electric or Hydraulic for Backup autopilot?

I had a simple windvane system on my boat, with a very effective vane driving a separate rudder hung in a stainless bumpkin. The rudder was a close to fully balanced foil similar in shape to an...
Forum: Powered Boats 02-03-2023, 22:58
Replies: 8
Views: 1,242
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: Help identifying yacht

The rust could be from sacrificial wooden sponsons rusting their attachment points. We used them on a couple of boats our steel boats, with doubling plates where they were bolted on. Did not look too...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 12-02-2023, 23:47
Replies: 8
Views: 1,158
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: And WE feel bad when we get rescued from sinking boats??

I planned to visit my parents, retired to a small coastal village on an estuary with a shallow entrance. Drawing 7Ft I set off on a 60 mile passage aiming to arrive at about an hour before high tide....
Forum: General Sailing Forum 30-01-2023, 22:47
Replies: 40
Views: 9,058
Posted By Hasbeen
Re: pre-rigged boom preventer

I did a fair bit of running so rigged a serious system. I had a line, part of an aging spinnaker brace rigged from the end of the boom to near the front. I had a small winch at the front to keep this...
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