Dyneema guard 'wires'

Chiara’s slave said:
Of course we don’t have guard rails. A pulpit and pushpit, yes. The latter gives you something to lean on while steering. Our safety lines go tight before you fall off the sides. But that's quite hard to do anyway, you never have to go out there. I’ve sailed on quite a few other boats that don’t have them, classic 8Ms for instance. I don’t miss them.
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I don't have them on my trimaran either. Not really fair comparison to monos or cats IMO.
 
Chiara’s slave said:
I guess not. As I say, I’ve sailed a few m9nos without them, you adapt.
That’s me on the rail, in earshot of the cockpit.
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Land looks pretty close and there were other boats nearby. Offshore, in a storm, at night would be very different. Just sayin'.

That's basically dinghy sailing. They don't have lifelines either.
 
Chiara’s slave said:
She was built for Queen Vic’a granddaughter, who’d married into the Spanish royal family, hence the España registration. That Photo is just off Osborne bay. The boat is ‘Osborne of Wight’, an original spec classic 8M
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I recognise the land bit ... seen it a few times over the many years I sailed Solent ! I've also broached a couple of times about there - when the wind divides and then bangs into you because of the land spit ..
 
Also, sometimes people seem to forget that common guardrails made of wire + stanchions work in an asymmetrical way: they are mainly designed to prevent objects/bodies to go from inside the boat to the outside, a well tensioned wire and the stress on the stanchions would be very limited, the only damage would be on the human body hitting the wire; they do not work well at all the other way around: even a relatively small push from the outside towards the inside of the boat and all the strain is taken by the stanchions, typical case bent stanchions when people outside the boat try and push it away grabbing the wire or the stanchions tops. It s a lot harder to bend stanchions if one pulls from outside, the wire will bear most of the load. If moving on the boat, it is a lot better to avoid all situations when the wire is pulled inside, like grabbing the windward wire while moving forward on a heeled boat.
Solid guardrails say made of tubing are a lot better if people like to watch the panorama on a rolling boat while standing and holding themselves on the tubing :)
 
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