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Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 12-12-2011, 16:39
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Re: OMG ! Clawing Off a Lee Shore in a Gale !

Actually, I've been keeping track. So far you've only been wrong six times on this forum.

But they've been doozies.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 12-12-2011, 13:55
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Re: OMG ! Clawing Off a Lee Shore in a Gale !

We're going to call this "Hogan math."

It's suddenly possible to see where all the wind reported on your video came from.

I've never stepped foot on a Flicka, but on other boats the apparent...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 09-12-2011, 08:53
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Re: OMG ! Clawing Off a Lee Shore in a Gale !

yes, it would be nice if registered users could discuss cruising without having to chronicle their sexual exploits, or the diseases that have resulted thereof.

Sometimes it takes a while for new...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 09-12-2011, 08:08
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Re: OMG ! Clawing Off a Lee Shore in a Gale !

I used to teach my scuba students that they should never dive a beach where surfers were surfing. Maybe the same rule should apply to sailboats: never transiting a bar that's being actively surfed.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 08-12-2011, 07:55
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Re: OMG ! Clawing Off a Lee Shore in a Gale !

Not me. My beam is only 14', which means the Flicka would stick out 3' on each side.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 02-12-2011, 16:44
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Ahem.

Ahem.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 28-11-2011, 18:08
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Re: OMG ! Clawing Off a Lee Shore in a Gale !

It's not the Flicka taking the heat. It's just the rhetoric.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 28-11-2011, 16:51
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Re: OMG ! Clawing Off a Lee Shore in a Gale !

Slow and wet.

Footing off in such conditions, I doubt I could come close to getting the rail down even with the main full out and the traveler full on.

Nice music, however. When I sail in...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 28-11-2011, 07:34
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Re: OMG ! Clawing Off a Lee Shore in a Gale !

Sounds like a boat with a Napoleon Complex.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 16-11-2011, 08:10
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Re: OMG ! Clawing Off a Lee Shore in a Gale !

This may be because you're sailing the wrong side of the continent.

In my home waters on the windward side of North America, if you're in the ocean, you're off a lee shore 19 days out of 20.
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 15-11-2011, 13:22
Replies: 432
Views: 64,358
Posted By Bash
Re: OMG!!! CLAWING OFF A LEE SHORE IN A GALE!

Cliche or not, sailboats are vulnerable to lee shores. A reliable auxiliary engine decreases that vulnerability significantly. Your decision to replace a gasoline-powered outboard with a electric...
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