In the Golden Globe race there there is one boat that has the most in it...

[RichardS]

What is the best boat for ocean sailing?

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Looking at the 33% drop-out rate so far, it's certainly not the Rustler 36. :ambivalence:

Unless you only want to cross oceans in old technology.

Richard

 

[eddystone]

Looking at the 33% drop-out rate so far, it's certainly not the Rustler 36. :ambivalence:

Unless you only want to cross oceans in old technology.

Richard

It seems to me that the retirements in this race, and in so many similar ventures, solo or not, are due to failures of fittings and rig rather than showing up differences in hull design.

I must admit I find it a bit difficult to follow the logic of the GGR as a "retro" event. By all means only have boats and equipment that were available/designed before a certain date but why restrict to long keel. The original GGR had a wider range of designs, e.g the Victress type trimarans, so why not have a cut off date for designs without specifying any particular hull shape. Also, I bet they are using blocks and running rigging, not to say some quite high tech materials here and there, that weren't available in 1968.

 

[pvb]

Also, I bet they are using blocks and running rigging, not to say some quite high tech materials here and there, that weren't available in 1968.

The rules ban high tech materials - "...carbon fibre, Spectra, Kevlar, Vectron, any high-tech materials etc..."

 

[Daydream believer]

The reason I mentioned the Rustler is there are often threads about what is the best boat for ocean sailingg.

The Rustler was not necessarily chosen because it was the best boat for ocean sailing. It was chosen because in the view of a number of competitors it best suited within the rules. It does not mean that they would have chosen that boat, or any other within the Rustler range, given a free choice of craft without a rule restriction.

 

[macd]

Also, I bet they are using blocks and running rigging, not to say some quite high tech materials here and there, that weren't available in 1968.

I suspect there's a bit time compression going on here. Both Kevlar and carbon fibre date from the mid-60s. Commercial use of UHMWPE, the base material of Kevlar, dates from the 50s, although fibre forms came a couple of decades later.

If that makes you feel "classic", I hope it's in a good way

P.S. Sorry to rub it in, but next Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the first 747 rolling off the Boeing production line.