Seajet
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Dan,
I think you have the right idea, when going to sea it's nice to have the confidence she won't break in half, flood or blow up !
As for stability I found the Osprey MkII remarkable for such a fast boat; I once pressganged a rather tubby young lad to crew - my trusty normal crew had wandered off, long story - but it turned out in a F5 in Falmouth he had been sightly overstating his trapezing experience...
When we dipped to windward in the wind shadow of the houses, he shot out metres away from the boat, pulling her over; it turned out he thought the elastics were removable for use, so unclipped them and had neither them nor a hold on the jibsheets to pull back into the boat.
I watched with interest as we went along parallel to the shore at high speed, heeled at maybe 45 degrees to windward with this chum dangling kicking up spray - the rudder hard over prevented a capsize to windward, but there was no more authority left to flip her the over way to leeward and swing him in -as he was dragged firstly head up then briefly completely submerged along Falmouth front,I was very concerned and considered crashing the boat, but in happy retrospect I'd love a photo of that little exercise!
I managed to put the hard-over tiller under my knee then stumble about gathering the mainsheet end and throwing it to him, which he grabbed and I pulled him in.
It all worked out well in the end, but he was a bit quiet afterwards; 10/10 for the Osprey, 1/10 for me - another step on the learning curve to being a skipper.
I think you have the right idea, when going to sea it's nice to have the confidence she won't break in half, flood or blow up !
As for stability I found the Osprey MkII remarkable for such a fast boat; I once pressganged a rather tubby young lad to crew - my trusty normal crew had wandered off, long story - but it turned out in a F5 in Falmouth he had been sightly overstating his trapezing experience...
When we dipped to windward in the wind shadow of the houses, he shot out metres away from the boat, pulling her over; it turned out he thought the elastics were removable for use, so unclipped them and had neither them nor a hold on the jibsheets to pull back into the boat.
I watched with interest as we went along parallel to the shore at high speed, heeled at maybe 45 degrees to windward with this chum dangling kicking up spray - the rudder hard over prevented a capsize to windward, but there was no more authority left to flip her the over way to leeward and swing him in -as he was dragged firstly head up then briefly completely submerged along Falmouth front,I was very concerned and considered crashing the boat, but in happy retrospect I'd love a photo of that little exercise!
I managed to put the hard-over tiller under my knee then stumble about gathering the mainsheet end and throwing it to him, which he grabbed and I pulled him in.
It all worked out well in the end, but he was a bit quiet afterwards; 10/10 for the Osprey, 1/10 for me - another step on the learning curve to being a skipper.
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