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crossoverman
Posts: 28
Joined: Oct. 31 2010
From: Switzerland
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RE: Any body like Boats (in reply to edgar884)
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Hello I love boats very much. And I prefer sailing a boat much more than going with engines. Its too loud, stinking and of course....boring.... The Albin Vega is a fine boat! It could be a permanent home for travelling wherever you want to go. Different people did with this fine boats... I come from the north sea and I sailed a lot when I was young. Took my boat with me to switzerland. It was a Waarschip 725. I sold it maybe 2 years ago. She is back on the north sea now. Better for her. In my shelf are some plans from different other boats, but I dont know if I really will build one for me. Maybe a small one like a Belhaven 19... Things come and things go. Its the same run in every part of life, or better in life....? @Anders It seems that we have different things that we share. Guitars, music, boats, dogs and maybe looking for to be on the right place at the right time, wherever it is. When you see my signatur, so you know who I am, because we just mailed together...
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Date Jan. 28 2014 13:18:47
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Richard Jernigan
Posts: 3433
Joined: Jan. 20 2004
From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: Any body like Boats (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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Beautiful work, Anders. Really a lovely boat. Well designed and well built boats are objects of great beauty. One of the most beautiful man made things I have ever seen is the Gokstad Ship in the Viking Ship Museum at Oslo. It is absolutely utilitarian in every respect. There is no extraneous decoration whatsoever, yet it is profoundly beautiful. I enjoyed my Wylie 34 (10 meters) while I lived in the Marshall Islands, but I'm not that nostalgic for it now. In the tropics maintenance is a constant chore. The ocean is always trying to destroy your boat. While in San Francisco before I bought the Wylie I went shopping. The yacht broker bragged about the rod rigging on a bigger boat he showed me. I later found out he was the biggest selling broker in the Bay Area. I told him I wanted wire rigging so it would show me when it was beginning to corrode, by sprouting whiskers. The broker said, "But this is Nitronic steel. It won't corrode." I replied, "Where I live the question is not whether something will corrode, it is when? Crevice corrosion in rod rigging is almost impossible to detect. Sailing from Honolulu to Kwajalein in a big boat a friend of mine lost an upper shroud on a broad reach in a 60 knot gale. Fortunately he was able to come about before the mast came down. Before he left Honolulu, he had the boat surveyed by the leading rigger in Hawaii. My friend showed me the souvenir piece of Nitronic rod. It was an intact outer shell filled with white powder." A couple of friends with bigger boats, 40-50 feet (12-15 meters), spent far more time working on their boats than they did sailing them. Big boats are supposed to be faster, but my boat held the speed record from Hawaii to Kwajalein, 2100 nautical miles in 13 days on twin headsails and a Monitor self-steering windvane. It got a little bumpy at times, though. RNJ
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Date Jan. 28 2014 19:01:23
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