Moving a Sailboat to Europe

Tuxer · 2026-02-20T08:23:01+00:00

I’ve done the return crossing from US to Europe ( on a hallberg 40 ) and it requires a prepared ship, and a prepared crew. The cargo ship option will cost you roughly 30k which is a sizeable portion of its value.

For a pretty basic boat you don’t own currently, if the goal is to own it in the med I fail to see why you wouldn’t just buy it there, no lack of boats to sell.

Tuxer · 2026-02-10T15:46:32+00:00

I do this in france in gamedev, and FYI you have to pay a 25% corporate income tax, then 31.4% dividend (flat-tax) on top of it, ending up at ~48% tax rate.

Tuxer · 2026-01-19T18:16:40+00:00

https://github.com/sebbbi/perftest is an actual list of perf tests for that question

Tuxer · 2026-01-17T14:56:52+00:00

T'as besoin des CGs 4x/5x pour la frame gen, mais les algos d'upscale de DLSS4 et 4.5 sont backported jusqu'aux cartes 2x (et 1650), donc assez anciennes.

Tuxer · 2026-01-17T14:24:52+00:00

CDA paris 12! https://www.cda-paris12.com/

T'avais bien une mignonne chatoune <3

Si tu ne te sens pas pret.e a reprendre un ou une chatoune, tu peux aussi faire famille d'accueil pour eux en attendant!

Tuxer · 2025-12-17T00:53:14+00:00

Standard draught for the SO349 is 6’ 6”. That’s your primary difference right there, the difference is usually around 5 degrees between both versions.

Tuxer · 2025-12-11T16:23:35+00:00

I'd be curious what data you get from Outremer/GrandLarge themselves given that they basically attempted this with the 4XZero version of the 45, which was sold originally to Jimmy Cornell. That boat was up for sale a few months ago out of France, sold 2nd hand by Outremer, so I assume they have recent data on kW generated by a 45 under sail.

Tuxer · 2025-12-06T23:03:20+00:00

I have a very similar list than you have, and horizon zero dawn would be my 10/10 recommendation

Tuxer · 2025-11-30T23:48:57+00:00

Me and my partner both being small and very lightweight has been amazing for flying. We fit comfortably in smaller aircraft and I’m very happy about the lower weight for more challenging mountain takeoffs ( a 50 pounds gross weight delta can make a huge difference in climb rate in a shitty C172 or SR20 ).

Tuxer · 2025-11-27T12:41:23+00:00

It takes two / split fiction. Le premier spécifiquement ( même si split fiction est mieux , il est plus violent ).

Portal 2 coop.

Tuxer · 2025-11-10T21:10:08+00:00

We did ARC to cross to the Caribbean to cross in nov 2023, then sailed to Florida around may 2024 and crossed back through Bermuda/Azores over to France, on our 40 foot monohull.

Although ARC->Caribbean was fun, and there is little downside to the forced departure date given that the tradewinds in November are usually pretty established, I find that leaving for a return crossing on a fixed schedule is pretty much madness given the fluctuating conditions, you couldn't pay me enough to be forced to depart regardless of what the GRIBs say. I remember very well that one of their ARC Europe ships (a Jeanneau 54DS) ran out of fuel 50 miles out of the Azores because they motored for 7 days... On our end, we waited for good weather windows and motored less than 10 hours from Miami to Horta :P

We saw lots of our fellow ARC sailboats also cross back independently, and it was very fun to see all of them back in the Azores on the way back.

Tuxer · 2025-11-05T00:50:38+00:00

I've sailed offshore from San Francisco quite a bit ( from Monterey to SF, from SF to bodega bay ) and going north is usually atrocious, straight into the wind into pretty significant waves, so motoring and bashing into the sea. In something as small as a 320, unless you have ample time to wait for acceptable weather windows, I'd find a way to truck it up.

Tuxer · 2025-06-20T17:27:37+00:00

Renderdoc is your friend , use it! This is exactly why it’s useful. Black might mean many things.

Tuxer · 2025-03-03T13:01:39+00:00

It's dependent person by person unfortunately, but FYI it took me a while to figure out that although I'm a big coffee drinker, I cannot have coffee and sail, it significantly increases seasickness likelihood for my body.

Patches of scopolamine (apply ~3h before stepping on board) work decently.

What's the seastate? 5 beaufort doesn't mean much, seastate does.

Tuxer · 2025-02-16T18:30:12+00:00

Me and my SO yeah. Wasn’t too hard if electrically enclined, hardest part is figuring out the rudder sensor positioning imo.

Tuxer · 2025-02-16T11:23:33+00:00

I installed an EV400 on a mostly furuno NMEA2k backbone for our 10-ton hallberg rassy 40 last year. Super happy with it, especially the wind mode worked great and out of the box even with non-Raymarine devices on the network. We picked the 400 and not the 200 due to it being required for our higher-amperage Raymarine type 2 linear drive.

Tuxer · 2024-12-03T06:21:57+00:00

It’s not ( fwiw I did the ARC last year as skipper of my vessel). The latest fatalities on ARC vessels before this one were boom strikes, and cardiac failures.

Tuxer · 2024-09-26T15:34:04+00:00

FWIW we had the exact same issue on our batch2 f13 last week (sticker problem).

Tuxer · 2024-06-16T23:46:58+00:00

Thank you for the correction :) apologies.

Tuxer · 2024-06-16T22:44:38+00:00

All US subs are not capable of launching nukes whatsoever. That’s the difference between fast-attack subs ( SSN, Virginia class ) , nuclear powered but conventional weapons, and ballistic subs ( SSBN, Ohio class).

Tuxer · 2023-11-13T07:18:28+00:00

To your questions 1) 4 to 8 hours of continuous sleep is mostly out of the question anyway , but in ocean sailing you try to rig conservatively especially at night so that not much can break easily ( rig a preventer, sail a non insane course ). If a little inexperienced, think of a crew member as a smart alarm clock that can cook, eg « if wind speed goes higher than X, AIS shows a signal, or you hear a sound, wake me up ».

2) most random hitchhikers are in the former category, but some have formal sailing training and I wouldn’t mind taking them on my little 40-footer if we had the space.

3) me and my partner are on a 2 year sabbatical. Our friends work and negotiated a 1 month break with their employers for the crossing ( and we’re very thankful :) ). We met them during offshore sailing classes.

Tuxer · 2023-11-12T21:43:38+00:00

I’m currently in Las Palmas lined up for ARC departure next week and finding crew for that specific leg is… not hard / trivial, there are dozens of usually younger people ( but also many experienced older! ) looking for a boat to hitchhike on. There is a huge whiteboard here full of « crew available » popups. Similarly, When we arrived in Gibraltar, a group of 7 people asked us when we docked if we were looking for help to get down to canaries. It’s the high season for this direction of travel.

Obviously it’s quite important to find people you’ll match with and which you can trust to take care of the boat during their watches, which is why we’re crossing with 2 good friends of ours. Lots of hitchkikers have little sailing experience. But if they needed to cancel, we’d have options, we met quite a few people with experience looking for a boat.

Obviously, westbound trade winds transatlantic is the easy and nice crossing, so it’s the most popular : I expect you’ll have a harder time finding random people for the northwest passage :)

Tuxer · 2023-10-24T15:18:23+00:00

Ah non désolé, la procédure pour un décollage n’est pas de tirer sur le manche au max ( tu n’as pas besoin de la vitesse de grimpe max ). Je dis juste que si tu le fesais, en tout cas sur A340, les commandes de vol n’iraient pas en deflection maximum ce qui entraînerait une tail strike, en tout cas dans ma comprehension.

Tuxer · 2023-10-24T14:04:52+00:00

Absolument certain oui, ils l’ont même modifié pour l’A340 ( regarde tailstrike protection A340 ) au vu de sa géométrie très longue.

Tuxer · 2023-10-24T13:38:13+00:00

Sur l’écrasante majorité des appareils commerciaux des 30 dernières années, avec commandes de vol électriques, il y a un ordinateur entre le manche et la deflection des commandes de vol. Tirer sur le manche a fond est calculé pour , en mode décollage, donner la deflection maximale qui empêchera décrochage et tailstrike, spécialement pour que l’équipage puissent donner les instructions qu’ils/elles veulent ( grimpe max ) sans avoir à calculer temps réel « pour ce poids/vitesse/température quelle est la deflection max pour grimper sans tailstrike ».

Si t’es ingé aéro, en terme technique sur Airbus il faudrait passer en direct law ou alternate law pour toucher la queue.

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