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Sailboat thread! Fuck Trains, planes, and bicycles! (Planes are cool though! Especially seaplanes!)

Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 00:08:54 No.1023320 View View Reply Original Report

Let's have a sailing boat thread!

Sailors, cruisers, liveaboards, racers, whatever! Anyone who likes to do shit on water propelled by wind!

It's the environmental thing to do!

I'll start with some Wharrams cause they're sexy!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 00:10:16 No.1023321 Report

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Just look at that sexy sunset behind that sexy boat!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 00:11:31 No.1023322 Report

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So comfy!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 00:13:20 No.1023323 Report

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Not a Wharram, but come on look at that sexy tri!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 00:15:03 No.1023324 Report

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Pros are awesome too! Thank you Dierking!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 00:16:19 No.1023325 Report

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Another sexy Dierking proa! Dude lived on that thing (and the beach) for like years! The madman!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 00:20:52 No.1023326 Report

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Forget who this dude is but I believe he built this crazy cat in Africa! And he lives on it and cruises all over!

Image name reminded me! Hans Klaar!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 00:22:28 No.1023328 Report

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Another sexy Wharram! Tiki 38 Pilgrim!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 06:47:02 No.1023414 Report

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So beautiful: I really want to be on a sailboat again some day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 09:19:39 No.1023440 Report

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What's the performance of that kayacat + scubajet combo?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 10:08:02 No.1023446 Report

Quoted By: >>1023496 >>1023526

I teach matchracing for beginners in DS37 (pic) and Match28.

Both are incredibly fun boats. The 28, however, has a tendency to capsize when the mix of high winds and current-waves are just right.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 16:40:18 No.1023486 Report

Quoted By: >>1023526

>>1023320
We love you, too, boat guys.

I'm eventually going to get into seaplanes, or at least I keep telling myself that

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 17:20:42 No.1023496 Report

Quoted By: >>1023526 >>1030952 >>1032976

>>1023446
Neat. I've only been in a FJ.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 19:43:01 No.1023526 Report

Quoted By: >>1023574 >>1023975 >>1025570 >>1030952 >>1032976

>>1023446
Capsizing is good practice for.. capsizing... Right? lol

>>1023496
I used to race FJs fuck those little pieces of shit. 420 > FJ all day erry day

>>1023486
Seaplanes and flying boats are fucking awesome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Nov 2016 23:15:25 No.1023574 Report

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>>1023526
>420
I sail the Club 420 (North American version).
They're heavy ass things (400 pounds), but I love 'em

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Nov 2016 15:49:24 No.1023767 Report

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Wharrams are lovely, yes, but... in the words of an old friend who spent ten years building one, after 3 years sailing it...

"has the handling characteristics of an island".

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Nov 2016 14:20:39 No.1023975 Report

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>>1023526
Mostly happens in competition. But i guess i means you were really pushing it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Nov 2016 17:10:52 No.1024002 Report

Quoted By: >>1024042 >>1024076

Would one be able to live on a sailboat that doesnt have an engine and no money to buy food and pay for anchor fees?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Nov 2016 19:22:28 No.1024042 Report

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>>1024002
Old-time fishermen do this but there were no anchor fees nor fishing regulations nor overfishing

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 05 Nov 2016 21:33:35 No.1024076 Report

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>>1024002
Get good at fishing and learn to love crossing oceans. Nothing to spend money on out at sea!
Engines are useful of course, but people sailed for a few thousand years without them. I don't know what to do about food other than fish though... Buy cheap stuff the locals do, like potatoes or yuca or whatever in South America or Africa or something? Farther from """civilization""" you go probably free-er you are and easier, cheaper to live on nothing.

Pic: Benford Badger is started to grow on me. So ugly, yet so practical.

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Anonymous Sat 05 Nov 2016 21:36:25 No.1024079 Report

Quoted By: >>1036462

Lerouge designs some sexy boats...

Why are French boats always more fun colored than boring American dark navy/dark burgundy or white?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 05 Nov 2016 22:43:48 No.1024094 Report

Quoted By: >>1024122 >>1024136 >>1027315

Currently building.
30ft skiff.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 06 Nov 2016 00:25:29 No.1024122 Report

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>>1024094

Is that a jig/formwork to build the shape onto? What material are you using for the hull? Please keep posting on here as you progress.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 06 Nov 2016 00:56:12 No.1024136 Report

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>>1024094
Damn, nice job! I like the looks of your boat so far.

Thinking about bidding on this shitty run down warehouse in tax lien so I have a boat building space lol.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 06 Nov 2016 04:54:48 No.1024209 Report

Quoted By: >>1024295

does anyone else here race? Just curious

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Anonymous Sun 06 Nov 2016 08:45:21 No.1024238 Report

Quoted By: >>1027315

>>1024122
>>1024136
Fanqqsss
Built her upside down. Bulkheads first, sides then bottom. I'll try to find pics of the building jig.
Fiberglass sheathed Okume ply, Douglas fir framing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 06 Nov 2016 12:05:05 No.1024261 Report

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I don't like competitions but I would like to get myself a race boat.
Considering a Laser Radial.
I'm about 30yo and 175cm and 65ish kg.
I did optimists for a couple of years in my youth.

Should I pick something else?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 06 Nov 2016 14:52:08 No.1024295 Report

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>>1024209

I do a little casual DS37 matchracing now and then (im the matchracing instructor from a few posts up).

I started out in the Optimist. When I got too big for that, i changed to racing in keel boats, as that was the only way of keeping sailing without having rich parents.
I eventually became part of a good Yngling-crew (pic), with him i won a lot of danish youth titles and eventually qualified for the european championships.

I kinda miss fleet racing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 06 Nov 2016 18:57:41 No.1024364 Report

Quoted By: >>1024397

Anyone here love watching big yachts? You might ask why I enjoy watching yachts that I'll never own or even sail on. I would ask in return why you enjoy watching football when you'll never own a football team or even play on one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x_VD78VeAI

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Anonymous Sun 06 Nov 2016 21:10:36 No.1024397 Report

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>>1024364
Of course. Some of the massive yachts are absolutely beautiful, and watching them sail can be exciting too.

Sure I'll never own one or sail on one, but nonetheless seeing something beautiful propelled solely by the forces of nature is cool as fuck.

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Anonymous Thu 10 Nov 2016 03:51:30 No.1025432 Report

Quoted By: >>1025433 >>1030761

Any other interesting sailing adventures?
pic related

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Nov 2016 03:52:34 No.1025433 Report

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>>1025432
upside down , every time

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Nov 2016 16:07:59 No.1025541 Report

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>>1023320
this needs to be a video game

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Anonymous Thu 10 Nov 2016 18:13:41 No.1025570 Report

Quoted By: >>1025590 >>1025636

>>1023526
I really want to go get a seaplane rating, grab something like this, and just live out of it

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Anonymous Thu 10 Nov 2016 19:47:54 No.1025590 Report

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>>1025570

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Nov 2016 23:52:04 No.1025636 Report

Quoted By: >>1025656

>>1025570
Uncertified anything here.

Now I don't know jack. So Of course I'll give my opinion. At least I can blame Messrs. Dunning and Kruger.

AFAIK, the biggest "problem" in daily use of these beautiful machines is the maintenance (periodically thorough) and fuel/lubricants. I suppose you could self-finance one if you had the investment capital to buy and finance one for a year, and the capital/connections to start a small transport business in some island state or something.

I would live to see this happen. Vanbro (ffcossag@yt) has already made some progress in logging his journey, and I'd eat it straight up to get actual travelogues from an "I live in my fucking seaplane bitches" anon.

Godspeed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Nov 2016 00:49:23 No.1025656 Report

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>>1025636
No one said it was realistic, and even if I did do it I'd be an old fart with retirement money to spare when I did

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 17 Nov 2016 04:15:01 No.1027315 Report

Quoted By: >>1027729

>>1024094
>>1024238
Looks like it's coming along nicely, although I've got to ask, did you paint or or gelcoat the glass on the bottom?

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Anonymous Fri 18 Nov 2016 23:33:24 No.1027729 Report

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>>1027315
She sure is good buddy.
Old pic from before the sides went on.
Plywood superstructure with fir framing. 300gsm biaxial fiberglass. Painted with Jotun 2k topcoat (don't ever use a roller for this, it was fucking awful trying to get a decent finish!) and coppercoat bottom, don't like the idea of antifouling leeching out into the harbour or ocean or the prospect of having to re paint it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 19 Nov 2016 04:16:16 No.1027832 Report

Quoted By: >>1033241

Shouldn't racing go in /asp/?
Anyone here done any long-distance sailing, though? What are your waterways like?

BaconRider !yuA7eZE8l2

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BaconRider !yuA7eZE8l2 Mon 28 Nov 2016 06:36:35 No.1030347 Report

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Anonymous Wed 30 Nov 2016 09:33:55 No.1030761 Report

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>>1025432
I've got one from Key West 2008. Was only 13 at the time but was able to crew on a J105. Had an absolute blast.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Nov 2016 23:45:35 No.1030948 Report

Quoted By: >>1030949

University of Maryland sailing team on the XP44 "Warrior Won" during the 2016 Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta this past October

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Anonymous Wed 30 Nov 2016 23:50:43 No.1030949 Report

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>>1030948

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Anonymous Wed 30 Nov 2016 23:56:20 No.1030950 Report

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>>1030949
Spent the weekend jumping spin and jib halyards (I'm in the red life vest). The boat was an absolute dream to sail, and the owner was super cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Nov 2016 23:58:24 No.1030952 Report

Quoted By: >>1032976 >>1035657

>>1023496
>>1023526
FJ's are the main boats we race (I'm in college in the US). As a crew, I miss the cleats the 420's have for the jib sheets, and death rolling downwind is never fun.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Dec 2016 20:34:23 No.1032962 Report

Quoted By: >>1032988

Posting picture of my junk on /n/.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Dec 2016 21:38:17 No.1032976 Report

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>>1023496
>>1023526
>>1030952
I crewed FJs in high school, and honestly I liked them better (at least as crew) than either the 420 or V15. FJ may be slower, but it always seemed way comfier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Dec 2016 22:59:35 No.1032988 Report

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>>1032962
I love junk rigged boats, something about them is super-comfy

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Dec 2016 00:05:47 No.1033241 Report

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>>1027832
/asp/ is dominated by wrestlefags.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Dec 2016 04:52:06 No.1035657 Report

Quoted By: >>1035676

>>1030952
bumpin for sailing questions. Hopefully a very soon to be sailor here, is death rolling a problem on most boats or just the ones made for speed?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Dec 2016 08:43:38 No.1035676 Report

Quoted By: >>1035848

>>1035657
usually only in dinghy's is this a problem because they are able to sail extreme downwind angles compared to keel boats.. It happens when you are sailing too far by the lee and not pressing the boat flat enough. It is easy to avoid if you sheet in or drive the boat up... Just got to learn the feeling and react before it happens to you...

Keel boats can do it too but they wont roll. Just chinese gybe and fuck ur shit up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Dec 2016 04:57:37 No.1035848 Report

Quoted By: >>1035857

>>1035676
I'll keep that in mind then

Another question for anybody, would it be difficult to sail a small (15ft) boat with main and jib single-handed?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Dec 2016 05:55:31 No.1035857 Report

Quoted By: >>1035871

>>1035848
nah its fine just cleat your jib in the right position and adjust when necessary

are you sailing a 420 or laser 2 or something like that?

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Anonymous Fri 23 Dec 2016 07:54:12 No.1035871 Report

Quoted By: >>1035873

>>1035857
Alrighty, the gist of it that I got from the books I've read is to trim the jib first, then the main, so that makes sense

Nothing yet, but what I'll be getting soon is an older boat, gulf coast 15. It's from a family friend, in good condition, and cheap, so I figure it's a decent start.

Here's the best pic I could find of a similar one

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Dec 2016 08:10:15 No.1035873 Report

Quoted By: >>1035917

>>1035871
The way I learned to sail was by capsizing a lot, the books only teach you theory, come spring or if you're down south get as much time on the water as possible and you'll become competent in no time

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Dec 2016 16:54:01 No.1035917 Report

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>>1035873
Cool. Luckily I'm in central Texas so there will be plenty of time to go out on the water

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2016 22:13:31 No.1036462 Report

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>>1024079
blame the puritans

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