OzOne wrote in message

Yp, Clockwise in the southern and anticlock in the northern

You are, of course, referring to which way our toilets flush, right?

We have an anti-Coriolus toilet, which flushes straight down, no spin. No
damn good for *swirlies* however, but it does great with dead gerbils.

Max

OzOne wrote in message

Bloody hard to move a house Cappy!

Not really. Andrew did just fine in that regard.

Max

"katysails" wrote in message

Luckyyou...due to dock repair, etc., dunk day isn't until the 1st weekend
of May at MYC....

The way our Springs have been, I doubt if you'll miss much. However I
really enjoy sailing early--few powerboats, no sheriff's patrol, and the
winds generally are steady and 15kts or better, if chilly.

Max

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message

I better call Haggy and tell her to paint my bottom by then.

I've filtered the Ganz Problem, but I'm sure this will evoke a response from
him.

Max

Maxprop wrote:
.... quite
often boats of beauty are great performers as well. Conversely ugly
boats--those that have been optimized for interior volume rather than hull
design integrity--are most often terrible performers. Take the Morgan Out
Island series, as an example of the latter.

Or most (not all) center cockpit boats.

... And the CCA yachts of the 40s
and 50s as an example of the former. The Hinckley Bermuda 40 is still one
of the finest performing, best handling boats in existence. It still wins
handicap races, and it's drop dead gorgeous. So are the 6 Metres and
Etchells 22s. Even the latest America's Cup yachts are beautiful in design
and appearance. Dame Ellen MacArthur's B&Q, while quite modern in design,
is quite attractive.


Any boat that wins is pretty. The more she wins, the prettier she gets!

L.Francis Herreshoff wrote that the sea may be considered to have an eye
for beauty, that hulls which just 'look right,' especially to an
experienced sailor, often are the best.

It's true that computational dynamics have replaced the experienced eye
in naval architecture, and boats have become enormously faster (largely
because of advances in materials IMHO), the experienced sailors eye
still has a feel for what the sea will approve of. Ugly race boats are
usually optimized to some measurement rule rather than for performance.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Well said Doug, Except for that wise crack about center cockpits.

Joe

Joe wrote:
Well said Doug, Except for that wise crack about center cockpits.


It may be that your boat is one of the exceptions... given what you've
said, and the look of it from pictures, I'd be inclined to think so.

However it's one of those design trade-offs... you could take any hull &
rig, and rebuild the deck to a center cockpit configuration, and thus
gain interior accomodation & privacy at the expense of sailing performance.

Please note that very very few racing boats have center cockpits... it
was tried on 12-Meters, for example... IIRC the only real winner of the
bunch was 'Flyer' a custom Swan ketch in the first Whitbread
'Round-The-World' race... it works on very big boats, such as Mari-Cha 4...

DSK

Maxprop wrote:
For her birthday or next Christmas, get her a copy of Rebecca Wittman's book
"Brightwork." A nice coffee table book as well as an anal retentive
brighworker's treatise. She'd love it, if she doesn't already have it.


We already have 2 copies... she keeps one in her office... but thanks
for the recommendation...


I really enjoy properly varnished teak, but my personal experience is that
teak is simply too oily to hold varnish properly in hot summer sunlight.
Mahogany is another story, and our former Mariner 31 ketch had
lovingly-varnished mahogany brightwork.


That depends on the wood and how it's been treated, but for the most
part you're probably right. Using thinners can drive out much of the
near-surface oil but it will always come back... at least for ten years
or so...


I'm probably a bit like your wife in my approach to varnish, but I prefer
Cetol simply because it lasts, and with minimal problems.

That's not the case, from my observations. Given two equally prepped
pieces of wood, the Cetol will outlast varnish by about 10% at most, and
require about 10% less work to maintain.

The new clear stuff doesn't look as bad as the old orange Jell-O Cetol,
but it still doesn't look good up close. If the wood has pretty enough
grain to be worth any type of bright finish, it deserves varnish IMHO.

BTW we had a professional do some of the wood on our boat when we first
bought it, the former owner had slapped on a terrible coating of
polyurethane. He also takes care of a number of boats with Cetol and he
swears the stuff is actually more work than varnish.

... Perhaps when we retire to Oriental,
we'll reconsider varnish for the brightwork.


That part of NC (around New Bern as well) is getting to be worse than
Florida. They're four-laning the highway to Oriental, so that the
blue-hairs will have an easier time. But hey, there's plenty of room for
more!

But if you move the boat down South, you'll be astonished at the
difference in the longevity of any type finish. UV is very destructive.
If you don't have varnish now, you certainly won't want it down here
unless you put the boat under a cover.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

KS wrote: dunk day isn't until the 1st weekend of
May at MYC....

That is mid-season for the REAL great lakes sailor!!!

L



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"katysails" wrote in message
...
Luckyyou...due to dock repair, etc., dunk day isn't until the 1st weekend
of May at MYC....

"Maxprop" wrote in message
nk.net...

"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message

I got excited yesterday, sent in my launch request. Asked for 2nd week
in April.

Brave or looking forward to very little improvements....

Nah. We're going in either the first or second Saturday in April. Cold,
yeah, but that's when the season begins, dammit.

Max

"Maxprop" wrote

but it does great with dead gerbils.


UH oh, TMI