Electronic Extras from Yachting Monthly July 09

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This month we have four videos for your viewing pleasure to accompany the July issue of Yachting Monthly.

Safety first, the video of our life jacket test, and the optional extras that shouldn't have to be an option, see the difference a spray hood and crotch straps make to a life jacket in use. There is also a Lifejacket Gallery with extra photographs taken during our testing

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We also have Tom Cunliffe with his introduction to a sextant

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Then Tom shows how to take a sun sight using his sextant

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Finally we have a page about the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 30i with 360º interiors, a gallery with extra photographs, and of course the video of her sailing

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Don't watch them all at once, the music might make your head melt /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Re: A bumper month for YM videos...

Dunno why nobody's replied /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I found them all interesting, so let me be the first to say thanks.

Andy
 
Re: A bumper month for YM videos...

Thanks Snooks, watched them all.

I especially liked Mr Cunliffe's comment about the mermaids on his sextant box being 'modestly rigged'.

P.S. can you tell Beeson to smile sometimes /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
What a terrible boat!

Thanks for the videos.
What impressed me whas how much rudder you need to keep the Jeanneau from turning into the wind.It's acting like a brake.It would be a nigtmare with a tiller.
I'm sure it's as big as an apartment inside but it's not one.Or a decent boat for that matter.
 
Re: What a terrible boat!

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Thanks for the videos.
What impressed me was how much rudder you need to keep the Jeanneau from turning into the wind.It's acting like a brake.It would be a nigtmare with a tiller.
I'm sure it's as big as an apartment inside but it's not one.Or a decent boat for that matter.

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A rudder does two things, slow the boat and steer her, it can't do one without the other /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

As for her being a "decent boat" or "terrible boat" as you suggest, sorry I'll disagree with you there.

It all depends on what you want to do with her. It's true to say she's not a Najad or Hallberg Rassy, but she costs 1/3 the price of one and is aimed at a different market, she's not a RTW blue water cruiser.

If I was after a new boat (which I'm not) and I was coastal cruising with a family (which I don't) and I was after a small new boat, that doesn't need work doing to her (a dream maybe) a boat to have some fun on the water, and turn up and sail, I think the Jeanneau would tick the boxes.

Just because you don't like her it doesn't mean she sub standard or terrible. I have sailed on much worse, but you're right the aft accommodation comes at a price, but it's very much the fashion today.

Every boat has it's trade offs, what the Jeanneau looses upwind with her buoyance aft, she'll gain going off the wind with speed and stability. But if you're rarely going to sail up wind, what's the problem?
 
Re: What a terrible boat!

It's not a matter of personal taste.Build quality is not ,to me at least,an issue.Jeanneau make no false claims about their building standards and the boats do last.I have a problem with the very unbalanced shape of this boat wich can make it almost unsailable in gusty conditions.It could even become dangerous.I've seen blobby boats like these broaching out of control in front of me and turning 90 degrees into the wind at the slightest squall while I only have to pull on the tiller to stay on course.If this thing is meant to be a boat then it should meet minimum standards of efficiency under sail wich it clearly doesn't.On the video the boat is being sailed in flat water and very light winds and the rudder is already having a hard time controlling it.
Even if these boats are meant for marina parties at one point or another they will be caught out in windy conditions and it won't be a pleaseant experience.There must be better alternatives out there,and I'm talking of new boats not classics wich can indeed be too much trouble in maintenance.
 
Re: What a terrible boat!

I would suggest that you are describing a boat where the sail balance is wrong - too much genny. Jeanneaux are generally light to medium displacement boats where the hulls of cruising models have been developed from successful racing models. These may require more frequent sail changes but o what a pleasure when the boat is well balanced. To suggest that they are not sea-worthy would not explain why so many have been ocean crossers.
 
Re: What a terrible boat!

I'm only talking of the one on the video.Smaller boats tend to suffer more because people can't be scaled down and still want double aft cabins.
 
Snooks

Thanks for your posts the last couple days, all very entertaining......even if the readers boats thread now crashes on my at anchor wifi signal.

(In North Carolina and heading to New York)
 
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Opps...Sorry /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

I've just added the Reader's Boats gallery which should load up on a slower connection, or at least be a bit easier to load up

I hope that helps /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Thats great, runs fine on wifi now. Ta.
 
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