"Shrimpy" (Shane Acton) - PDF download of Book

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\"Shrimpy\" (Shane Acton) - PDF download of Book

This is meant to be a PDF download of the the Book "Shrimpy" - Shane Acton RTW on an 18' Caprice.

Shrimpy PDF file

I beleive that the book is now out of print and v.hard to find 2nd hand. No idea on any copyright issues..........I read it years ago, good stuff.
 
Re: \"Shrimpy\" (Shane Acton) - PDF download of Book

Thanks for the link.
I'll wait until I'm back at work and print it out there.
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Storm Tactics

I've just finished reading Shane Acton's account and thoroughly enjoyed it - thanks for the link.

I was struck by Shane's storm tactics. Obviousy he encountered several storms (an example is on Page 79) and he seems to have taken all sail off, battened down the hatches, and retired below for the duration. I should have thought that the breaking waves would have overwhelmed such a small boat, probably rolling her right over, but obviously not. I wonder if this was because the shallow-drafted bilge-keeled hull was able to skid sideways away from the breaking crests? The late Maurice Griffiths used to say that his shoal-draft designs were very seaworthy for this reason and this seems to be borne out by the many epic voyages done in Eventides and Golden Hinds.

If there is anything in this argument it could give food for thought to those forumites who seem a bit sniffy about bilge keelers.
 
now, now

don't gir stirring things up that way

the depth challenged deep keelers who are forced to hang around in deep anchorages are feeling bad about things already

actually I suspect that the deep keelers could sail out a storm better than a bilge keeler

But that book has been a great inspiration

Dylan

http://www.youtube.com/user/dylanwinter1#p/c/DCCD9E425AB79637/0/Zq2PEuUFzGo



"I was struck by Shane's storm tactics. Obviousy he encountered several storms (an example is on Page 79) and he seems to have taken all sail off, battened down the hatches, and retired below for the duration. I should have thought that the breaking waves would have overwhelmed such a small boat, probably rolling her right over, but obviously not. I wonder if this was because the shallow-drafted bilge-keeled hull was able to skid sideways away from the breaking crests? The late Maurice Griffiths used to say that his shoal-draft designs were very seaworthy for this reason and this seems to be borne out by the many epic voyages done in Eventides and Golden Hinds.

If there is anything in this argument it could give food for thought to those forumites who seem a bit sniffy about bilge keelers.[/QUOTE]
 
One has been known to "Do Shallow Water" :p:p
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Great read. Met Shane many years ago, he and his girlfriend signed a copy of the book for me. Her name has escaped me.
sadly I lent the book to someoneand it came back with a couple of pages missing which I did not discover until I leant it to another friend and they told me. Have not read the second book though.
 
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