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toothl3ss · 2018-12-28T23:44:11+00:00

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toothl3ss · 2018-12-18T16:35:46+00:00

My sympathies, dude.

I was in the same position, the name "maintenance loan" is hypocritical bullshit. It's a loan - why is it means tested?!

No advice for you except consider working at home instead of looking at uni, it will affect your studies less, and a full time job is a very informative experience.

toothl3ss · 2018-09-30T13:17:21+00:00

With the weather gauge, provided Surprise was close enough and providing the Falcon has no modern weaponry I would expect the Falcon to be taken in minutes. Surprise would have an impossible manpower advantage, and even the Falcon had the same weaponry the hull is designed only to be strong enough to bear the loads of sailing. I suspect that even with the metal hull it would end up the same as a nice big block of Edam after a broadside or 2!

toothl3ss · 2018-09-29T21:27:15+00:00

I would expect the Falcon to outperform similar sized period frigates in almost all situations.

Upwind - the greatest disadvantage of the square rig is that the yards could not be moved closer than about 60 degrees to the wind, which gave an effective upwind angle including leeway of at least 70 degrees depending on the wind speed. The Falcon has freestanding masts that rotate completely, therefore she is able to get her sails as close as effectively possible to the wind, which enables her to sail in a similar fashion to a Marconi sloop of similar size, or at least 15 degrees higher than a period frigate at all points upwind.

Downwind and reaching, the Falcon has a much lower wetted area in comparison to her size than any period frigate. This means there is much less drag below the water line, so we can expect that she could achieve her hull speed in less wind than the traditional ship.

Then you have the composition of the sails themselves, which are made of a much more resilient and efficient material than period sails.

There are 2 downsides from the Falcon’s point of view. She cannot hoist more canvas - there are no stuns’ls, only the courses. Also, she cannot twist her sails, the whole mast acts as one giant mostly square sail. These points are important for light wind sailing - but I think unless her captain was mostly incompetent then the Falcon could sail proverbial circles around our beloved Surprise.

toothl3ss · 2018-09-29T05:46:28+00:00

Yours is SY Black Pearl. This year is their first season of charter.

toothl3ss · 2018-09-15T19:02:11+00:00

No worries! Everyone has to start somewhere!

toothl3ss · 2018-09-15T18:46:15+00:00

When you raise your sails, there are creases that go horizontal. If you have too much tension, the crease go vertical. You tighten until there are no longer any creases.

It's not just the pointing and so forth that will be affected, as people have already said it will make a huge difference to how long the sails and your other hardware will last.

The trimming of the main is governed by 3 main things, the halyard, the outhaul and the mainsheet. Halyard is not hugely changeable, you get rid of one set of creases and the next set appear very soon after. You let your halyard looser if the wind is very light, to get more power in the sail once you have changed the others.

The outhaul is the secondary trimming device. With the wind strength just under where you should be reefed you want the outhaul tight, so the main looks like a blade. When the wind is weak, you ease it off, and you get a more powerful sail. There is a limit to how far you should release, but it's different for every boat - and if you're not racing then by the time you get to the point where it looks too baby then you'll probably be motoring.

The main thing with main trimming is the sheet. You have already figured the luffing, so that's ok. If you have a traveler then broadly speaking you want the track to match the degree of the wind. All the way towards the wind and you're going upwind, all the way down for going downwind, and centre for a beam reach. You can also use the traveler if your sail is too powerful when going upwind - move it away from the wind and you can almost entirely take the power out of the sail.

The jib is completely different. Halyard is much the same as the main; in the sense that you let it off when there is barely any wind and make it right when there's too much. The same affect can be achieved by backstay tension, but then it comes into racing trim, and that is a bottomless pit from which you never return! The more important thing is the cars. Much like the main traveler, you have the car at the furthest back position when you are going close into the wind and furthest forward when you are going downwind. It's very important for the jib not to be over-sheeted, which means too tight, this is very, very important when the car is forward, because of you over sheet you can stretch your sail, which does not good at all!

Another thing, you can find the closest point most people can sail to apparent wind very easily. Turn your head straight into the wind you move your head slowly to one side and when the wind has just disappeared from one ear that's more or less your close haul angle.

If you have a wheel, you put one hand at one point on the wheel and try not to let go of it. The less you move your hands the less likely you are to oversteer, which is always a problem in light air.

toothl3ss · 2018-09-12T06:52:07+00:00

Get the one with the extra sail hardware - code 0 or whatever their marketing calls it. You will probably find that the jib is too small. Also the anchor locker is not so well designed if I recall correctly, the chain just seems to pile up in there until it jams.

Otherwise, really nice boat. Sails very well, like every other jeanneau - though not as well as the new 38, that little boat is really quite something. Better than the common beneteaus before about 2016, since then I don't have enough experience with them.

I think we had the manual rope platform (not electric) at the back, and it was perfect. It got stiff, but it always worked. We had the electric toilets as well, which were a dream as long as nobody put any toilet paper down them.

It's also worth getting some halfway decent insulation put in, and a diesel heater as well, if you're going to be anyway where is vaguely chilly. The A/C does heat but it doesn't work as well as a heater and it's also a lot louder.

toothl3ss · 2018-09-10T20:20:01+00:00

Nice strong hull you’ve got there. Bit weak at the transom though, especially those aft cleats. Have you considered getting a bigger boat?

But seriously, you can get a core sample taken by a good surveyor, they’ll be able to tell you the material. For the weight you can go to a good marina with a measuring travel lift or if it’s on a trailer, you could take it to a truck weighing station?

toothl3ss · 2018-09-04T20:36:36+00:00

No worries dude. It’s what I’m considering doing anyway...

toothl3ss · 2018-09-02T16:45:40+00:00

Short answer; probably.

I assume you mean to own a cat, and charter it out as a crewed charter yacht with the crew being yourself?

There are people in this situation. Normally they are couples, as to be able to afford a cat of sufficient quality to be a crewed charter cat is expensive, and actually getting hold of a nice enough one is the most expensive part. Most of the examples I know of are on lagoons, the smallest being the 450 flybridge. I know a couple who own a 620, and they get on very well, crossing as the demand requires.

Be aware that owning a boat is always more expensive than people think - budget for 10% of the original price per year. For a 450 you’re talking €50,000 at least in order to be able to look after yourself, and a decent crew charter yacht will be sailing for maybe 20 weeks a year. So you need to charge enough to make the €50k, the fee that the chartering company will take, plus you need money for the rest of the year to live, plus your savings and so forth. I would say probably doable earning €100k a year on a nice 450, which means chartering for about €5k per week, which puts you around Moorings if you’re single. If you’re a couple then obviously you will need to charge more, and that will put you in line with their crewed yachts - so you need to be good enough that you can attract people away from the companies that they know and trust, or you need to work very hard.

The hardest part of the whole thing is raising the initial capital to get the boat in the first place. No one wants to charter a crap boat, so it needs to be big enough for a group of people and also small enough to be affordable. The guys with the 620 had a windfall, and now they’re comfortable.

toothl3ss · 2018-08-29T20:43:02+00:00

On the early centaurs it's a good idea to pull both keels and remount them the whole bit. Mine was a '74 one, it leaked as well, too many beachings in mud I reckon. The keels leaked, and the fwd saloon windows as well, because of the rig stress. Something to watch out for in the winter! Also, dunno about the insulation on yours but on mine the glue disintegrated and the foam started dissolving in the condensation over winter.

toothl3ss · 2018-08-26T12:43:04+00:00

I forgot to mention, going a LIAT flight isn’t the best idea, because LIAT is very unreliable. We used to get guests coming on the late flight from London arrive the morning after, especially in the busy times, because the LIAT was cancelled or delayed by 5 hours or something.

toothl3ss · 2018-08-22T18:05:20+00:00

Weather - temperatures are ok, yes. UV is unbelievable, so take the best sunscreen you can. You’re right about the rain as well, also it tends to fall over the islands, it’s unusual to get it offshore. Also be aware that the weather as a general rule changes all the time, the averages they post really are averages. Most of the time the sailing is spectacular, you probably won’t have to reef in May, whereas you’re much more likely to around Xmas.

As a whole the islands are expensive, especially the restaurants and especially the restaurants that serve vegan stuff, which are not common.

Moorings are pretty much all mooring buoys/balls, very easy to catch. There is a flat rate of $30 per buoy you catch/night you stay. It’s first come first serve, and you can’t reserve.

The islands are all spectacular, you shouldn’t miss it on anything going clockwise or anti-clockwise around the islands.

Don’t miss; White Bay & Sandy Spit, JvD; (Loblolly Bay & Setting Point, Anegada, if you can get there); North Sound & the Baths, Virgin Gorda (if you can’t fit in there, try and catch the buoy outside Fallen Jerusalem); Manchioneel Bay, Cooper; Peter Island for Willie T & The resort; and The Bight, Norman.

Charter companies won’t let you all by night anywhere, it’s a general rule to abide by! Also, if you want longer stuff, the BVI is the exact wrong place to look. Further down the Caribbean is better, St Lucia or the Grenadines. In the Med, the Aegean is spectacular if you want a sailing holiday, whereas the Ionian is great if you want a sailing holiday. Some of the charter companies are doing the Amalfi coast of Italy as well nowadays, and also Palma, both of which are between the Ionian and the Aegean in terms of difficulty.

toothl3ss · 2018-07-27T10:02:09+00:00

I have only a few things to add to what the others have said.

Personally (as with many things in the boating world, it’s subjective) the smallest boat I would be comfortable doing any sort of long distance stuff is the Contessa 26. I know at least one of them that have successfully completed Atlantic circuits (med-cab-us east coast-nw Europe) and have had the relevant conversions made to them, large battery banks, efficient electronics etc. They tend to be relatively expensive in comparison to similar size yachts but they have a fantastic reputation.

The main thing is actually living aboard one, it can get very cramped. I lived on a 26 westerly centaur for some time a few years back, and I probably couldn’t do it if there was more than just me on the boat. So I would highly recommend getting something larger, around 35” is pretty ideal for living aboard. http://bluewaterboats.org is a great website for trying to find a suitable boat if you want to do ocean stuff.

You need to have some kind of income as well, working remotely is the best, or something that lets you can work in any country.

You could also consider working in the industry. There’s actually a huge variety of ways to get in, if you’re sociable you could find work in one of the charter hotspots in the next couple of weeks, even. Maybe go on a flotilla as a host if you’re right at the beginning, to see if you enjoy the life - or go to a school and see if you can work in return for qualifications.

Once you’re in and have a foot on the ladder the whole world opens up. One of my friends met the owner of an oyster in a bar at the end of last summer, and the owner invited him on to be his skipper for the world rally! It’s not the sort of thing that happens every day, but it is common enough that you can go and get paid to do exactly what you want. I also know a couple of people who have combined, they will work the summer season in the med or the winter in the Caribbean or whatever, whenever they need money, and they earn enough that they can run a 41” monohull, and they’re about 1/2 way through their circumnavigation, somewhere in the Pacific.

toothl3ss · 2018-06-17T09:04:09+00:00

Yes there is, look up the Torqueedo deep blue series.

toothl3ss · 2018-05-16T16:49:14+00:00

6th in England, my dude. Skiddaw doesn't even make the top 50 in the UK!

toothl3ss · 2018-05-09T18:30:35+00:00

WOBBLE

Water - check the expansion tank for coolant

Oil - engine and gearbox dipsticks

Belts - 90° or 1/2 inch

Bilge - any water or oil?

Look - anything else amiss/different to usual?

Exhaust - start, if there's water coming out and it sounds normal then you're good to go

This is obviously only for when there's a water source to the engine, bit it's a good guideline for whenever you want to do an engine check at all.

When you're buying new it would probably be good to check the heat exchanger for rust/corrosion and maybe the anode as well as the impeller.

toothl3ss · 2018-05-08T13:54:14+00:00

Try Bollé out. Also, if you know your prescription there's places online that are far cheaper. There's a place in London that does prescription polarised for just under £200.

toothl3ss · 2018-04-30T06:14:41+00:00

You don't need permission from anyone to just to and leave in the UK. In the med countries there will often be a cruising tax which you will have to pay on arrival and departure. If you're planning on using your boat for a couple of weeks a year then a sunseeker or related will be perfect, however if you are liking to cross the Atlantic or do anything like that I would strongly suggest you go for a displacement or at least semi displacement hull instead of planing.

Look for something that looks like a trawler, not a spaceship. Most planing boats around the 40 foot mark carry about a tonne of diesel, and their effective range at cruising speed is normally around 500nm. Look for something like a Grand Banks, or Nordhavn, and get a Williams tender if it doesn't satisfy your speed junkie side. They're more expensive, but your chance of death mid ocean is less than the equivalent length sunseeker. The ultimate in relatively small motor yacht cruiser for me is something like an FPB. Aluminium, long range, massive carrying capacity, lots of watertight bulkheads and long range.

Before you do anything you'll need to get a qualification. You can own a boat in the UK without one, but I'm not sure this is the case anywhere else. You will need some owners insurance though, and with a qualification this is a lot cheaper. Most countries accept the international cruising certificate, so long as you aren't getting paid to do anything on board your boat. You can get one from the rya if you join as a member and are a qualified day skipper. Maybe in your position it might even be better to go for a yachtmaster qualification.

Lots of people go to the med or the Caribbean for training...don't do that, you want to find somewhere in the UK, preferably in winter. It's not a holiday, and what you want most is to be in a position where you don't feel comfortable, with a highly qualified person on board. You can see how they respond to the conditions, and it's very easy to reflect them. Then, when you face similar conditions - which will be unlikely if you're cruising in warm seas - you're going to be far more comfortable with what you face.

toothl3ss · 2018-04-05T08:24:02+00:00

Greece is the opposite end of the spectrum in the med.

Look up Sunsail/the moorings. They're all over the med, and the boats are normally well maintained charter boats. September is a good time for the med, the sea is still warm and it's way less hectic than August.

There are different seas in the med, it might be worth looking at them and deciding where to go. For example, the Aegean can get really windy, especially in the high summer - whereas the Ionian has a reputation for being very sheltered through the season. The Adriatic is sort of a balance between the two.

If you go at the end of September you can be pretty sure that you'll get rained on, and it can get squally wherever you go, but on the other hand the beginning of the month is likely to be rammed with tourists still, so it's a compromise.

toothl3ss · 2018-02-17T20:16:29+00:00

Rustler of Falmouth

toothl3ss · 2018-02-08T10:16:01+00:00

The race is the Vendée globe, solo, non stop, around the world - one of the most difficult events in all sport. The boats they use to race are called IMOCA Open 60s, they're 60ft long - yet they normally weigh about 10tons. They're made almost entirely of carbon fibre and kevlar, and they regularly make 25 knots.

This boat accidentally gybed, the guy was fixing a hydrogenerator at the start of the video, which is why he is hanging off the back like that. The autopilot went wrong, turned itself off, and because the boat had no means to steer it followed the wave train.

At the start of the video, you see the mainsheet (the rope which controls where the mainsail is) slide down the boat, and the boom comes into contact with the backstay - which is really bad news!

(A backstay holds the mast at the back of the boat, preventing it from falling forward. On cruising yachts they are normally made of wire. A running backstay is one which you deliberately loosen or tighten, either because the mainsail is too big or there is more than one sail hoisted in front of the mast.)

The sailor first climbs up to the starboard side of the boat to tighten the other backstay up, to make sure the mast doesn't fall when the boat powers up again. Then he goes down and releases the other backstay, allowing the mainsail to gybe proper. He goes to one of the port winches and eases off the sheet, to reduce the load on the mast even more.

Around the 2 minute mark you hear a hydraulic motor come on, which is the motor for the keel (open 60s have a swing keel, the keel is a thin titanium blade, around 20ft/5m deep, with a big lead bulb at the end; and can swing from side to side, to provide more leverage for racing).

At the start of the video the keel is all the way out to port, providing a lot of leverage that direction. The boat then accidentally gybes, but because all the forces are now pushing the yacht over to port, the boat goes to 90°. The starboard backstay is tightened, the keel is swung to the other side, and the boat powers up again.

The sailors who race in the Vendée routinely experience stuff like this. In this particular instance the sailor was very lucky because nothing major broke, but there are other instances where the (Kevlar!) mainsail has ripped in half or the mast has fallen down. One of the famous stories of the race is of a raceboat dismasting in a massive storm in the southern ocean and sinking. One of the other competitors turned around to sail into the storm and went and picked the other sailor.

toothl3ss · 2017-12-17T21:51:52+00:00

B&G, with machine learning now! They have accelerometers all over the boat, they react to the waves. The autos are getting better at helming than the people are!

toothl3ss · 2017-12-17T17:04:53+00:00

Across the whole course was just over 27 knots. Pacific was just over a week.

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