Romeo
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Hahaha, all the plastic fantastics have been lifted out of our wee harbour for the winter, just before the best sailing conditions of the year come along on November 4th.
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Winter Sailing
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maby
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I'm not sure that you can blame that on them being plastic! Ours is 100% plastic and stays in all the year round - we are now hoping for some settled weather between Christmas and New Year so that we can get some sailing in.
Robert Wilson
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My "classic 'glassy" is out for four to six months. I haven't noticed any good sailing weather today, 4th November - it's been going demented since yesterday!
And I don't expect I'll miss more than a dozen good sails until April - judging from the previous eight years.
But I do miss not seeing her on the mooring when I open the curtains each morning
And I don't expect I'll miss more than a dozen good sails until April - judging from the previous eight years.
But I do miss not seeing her on the mooring when I open the curtains each morning
Birdseye
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Winter is the time to go racing. Summer is cruising time with SWMBO on board and the mast as vertical as a church steeple ( by order).
I long ago came to the conclusion that taking the boat out through the winter generated more work than it saved. Take all the rubbish off , strip the mast and boom etc, write out a long list of jobs then in the spring with half the jobs not done you have to return the rubbish on board. What work you have done has been cold and mostly in the dark.
So my grp boat comes out early summer for a short period. Most of the wooden ones are out for much longer periods since the real hobby of the owners is woodwork not sailing .
I long ago came to the conclusion that taking the boat out through the winter generated more work than it saved. Take all the rubbish off , strip the mast and boom etc, write out a long list of jobs then in the spring with half the jobs not done you have to return the rubbish on board. What work you have done has been cold and mostly in the dark.
So my grp boat comes out early summer for a short period. Most of the wooden ones are out for much longer periods since the real hobby of the owners is woodwork not sailing .
AntarcticPilot
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Greenheart
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I was thinking today, how often I've read this, and wondered why. Why do ladies object to yachts heeling? Specifically, yachts.
If a dinghy heels, her passengers may have reason to feel alarm...if the cause isn't overcome or avoided, they may go swimming.
But a yacht has ballast, and her heeling is in no way indicative of any trouble or an imminent wetting...
...the further a ballasted boat heels, the harder the keel will work to bring her upright again.
How is it possible that so many sailing men's partners have not understood this elementary, reassuring design factor?
If a dinghy heels, her passengers may have reason to feel alarm...if the cause isn't overcome or avoided, they may go swimming.
But a yacht has ballast, and her heeling is in no way indicative of any trouble or an imminent wetting...
...the further a ballasted boat heels, the harder the keel will work to bring her upright again.
How is it possible that so many sailing men's partners have not understood this elementary, reassuring design factor?
Robert Wilson
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Good point and question.
My SWMBO got scared stiff the first time she went out on my boat (as a previous non-sailor) and no amount of theoretical explaining has changed her mind.
It probably didn't help when I included knock-downs and pitch-poling in the conversation
My SWMBO got scared stiff the first time she went out on my boat (as a previous non-sailor) and no amount of theoretical explaining has changed her mind.
It probably didn't help when I included knock-downs and pitch-poling in the conversation
Topcat47
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Speak for yourself! I had a lovely weekend on my plastic fantastic. Saturday was a bit wet but had a super sail home to Gosport yesterday. Mind you it was a bit chilly overnight. Snark doesn't have a space heater.
Romeo
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Another lovely wee November sail today. Sunshine but not quite so mild with the wind having gone round to the east. Bowsprite rising to the next wave and a creaking of the leathered jaws on the wooden mast as she shakes off the last wave to build up for the next one. And finally the joy of being able to round up into the harbour under full sail, now that the plastic is out the water and our our way........... just grand.
I am glad that you are out enjoying your sailing too.
rotrax
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First Mate and I do our Winter sailing in Wellington NZ. We arrived on the 15th November, leave for the UK 14th March.
We do our Winter sailing down here because its actually Summer...……………………...
We do our Winter sailing down here because its actually Summer...……………………...