David Simon gets it so right, a little ray of hope, and a bit of happy dancing...
Scotch Bright Board Art - Surf Sufficient from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.
Listening to a whole lot of Red Rhodes
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Just plain barbaric, how clean air is not as important as profits, and, if you happen to need some wedding photography, you might want to check out these folks...
Till someone came up with a nautical version of Jam in the Van...
Boating with Clyde Episode #1: Peanut Buzzers and Jammin with Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets from Do it for the girls on Vimeo.
Listening to the guy in the boat
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Just the sort of political discourse we should be hearing more of (but seldom do) these days, a film you really should check out, and the only halfway-sane Republican candidate leaves the clown car...
So, as the much missed John Lennon once sang, this is Christmas, and, if it happens to be your particular Holidaze festivity of choice, heres hoping its a good one for you and yours.
Me, Im looking forward to the traditional fare of my people for this hallowed night by making Chinese (heavy on the ginger) food and just generally kicking back, not reading any news, and reading a good (Foolish Voyage) book.
All the best.
Listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Im reading about this sort of shit thing way the frell too often, organize-fight-win, and a cruising perspective I share...
The recent loss of Carly Hill from "Oryx" has had me reevaluating my entire thought process where MOB situations and two-person crews are concerned. My old thoughts on the subject being mostly centered around the DFOTFB (dont fall off the fucking boat) plan.
Back when we sailed Loose Moose and Loose Moose 2 we were often criticized because neither boat had lifelines (Phil Bolger not being a fan of such things) and I felt that lifelines enabled a false sense of security... Just for the record I still think that lifelines are problematic in this regard but they do make a good place to hang up clothes to dry which they are quite handy for.
On the other hand, I do put a lot (perhaps too much) faith in jacklines and a somewhat obsessive use of harness when the the conditions indicate needful.
The thing is that when Carly Hill went overboard the conditions were reportedly benign...
Accidents happen and just yesterday walking to the store I nearly went ass over teakettle on a sidewalk avoiding a bit of nastiness left over by some errant dog and, as I regained my balance thought to myself how easily accidents happen as a school bus nearly clipped me as it roared past. To be honest, the thought of "It was a dog turd/schoolbus that got him" on my headstone being somewhat tacky also came to mind...
Anyway, Ive been thinking quite a bit on the subject and starting to do some serious research in such things as AIS/DSC Personal Locators like this one which seems to make a lot of sense in that it gives the person left behind a proactive means of finding you in the event shit happens.
Listening to Hunter and the Bear
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Dengue a serious problem in Hawaii, the sound of silver spoon babies crying in the night, and I cant say Im surprised anymore at heinous Republican hijinks but I do still wonder just how low can you go and sleep at night...
Yowza, finally someone has come up with a good use for inflatable technology!
Too bad it does not have anything to do with boats...
Listening to Shred Kelly
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Vismara and the NA Mark Mills have done it again, what a beauty!!! After the much more sportive V65 : http://interestingsailboats.blogspot.pt/2014/09/vismara-v47-vismara-mills-62.html a smaller performance cruising one. It is a pleasure to see Mark Mills, after having designed some of the fastest IRC racers around, designing big cruising yachts :-)
The boat is relatively beamy (5m), has a dingy garage, integrated solar panels, a moderated draft (2.5m) and it can have the boom control on an arch , that is also a permanent "bimini" or having a traditional cockpit system. It is made of carbon/epoxy sandwich and it is light (14 000kg) and will be certainly very fast.
The design program, for a owner that is a very experienced sailor, was for a blue water cruiser able to sail in very light winds built with tested solutions and made with the best materials : My kind of program ;-)
The winches are near the wheels allowing for solo sailing and it comes with a cutter configuration for easier control. No drawings yet from the interior (Lucio Micheletti) but if a very sportive boat like the V65 has a very nice cruising interior I am really curious to see this one.
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Metastasized global economy pretty much says it all, just about the profit, and in the "poisonous corrosive man" department...
A reader sent me a link this morning to this...
...wanting to know if it was a good deal.
Now, I could easily insert a whole lot of snark here, go off on a rant of epic proportions, or simply acknowledge that, in point of fact, that the quote most often attributed to Mr Barnum (that he most likely never said) would be spot on.
Instead Ill just answer the question...
West Marine sells it for $299.99 and Defender sells it for $235.99 so the one youre inquiring about is not really a good deal and, if youre going to spend your money foolishly, youre better off giving it to the folks at Defender.
Then again, if you want something that does the same job just as well for a non-stupid price like this one...
Just $13
Really, just how stupid do they think we are?
Listening to some interesting versions of Sloop John B
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Nervous making, a quick history lesson that may surprise, and some needful words from the folk at Surly...
Yesterday morning, when coming back to the dinghy dock, I noticed a boat that had its outboard leg up prop chewing away at the boat next to it which, as most of you know, is high up in the things polite folk dont do at dinghy docks.
As it happens, later in the day when I was rowing over to a friends boat to chat, I noticed the same dinghy tethered behind another boat with its leg down. It got me thinking...
Folks at dinghy docks who tend to exhibit anti-social behaviour always have a reason for what they do and where outboard-props-of-death-to-inflatables are concerned its always the "I dont want my leg to get fouled" gambit. Yet, as in the example from yesterday, I noticed that the leg was still down this morning...
So, logic would indicate that an hour at the dinghy dock has greater fouling potential than being tied to your boat for a whole day.
Though on the other hand, it might illustrate, whether conscious or unconscious, just someone pissing out his territory markers and general assholery in play.
Listening to Midnight Pilot
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Henry Rollins on Trump, a little scary reading on bats, and yet another reason to simply avoid the idiocy that is Florida...
R2AK 2016
Yeah.
Listening to Scary Little Friends
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Something you really need to watch, a little needful reading for anyone considering cruising Hispaniola, and Dick Dorworth on walls...
Well, I can understand getting rescued once or even twice but the mind boggles on how someone needs to be rescued seven times within a six-month period.
And nope, Im not buying the bad luck scenario...
Listening to some pre-Eagles Glenn Frey
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An interview worth reading, nice jeans, and this is some kind of depressing news...
A project that deserves your support.
... and, just maybe, a cure for those NMEA blues/
Listening to Rare Monk
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About that Columbus dude, a handy primer on political correctness, and some needful reading about that Paul Theroux editorial...
Webb Chiles making a fair amount of sense over on his blog!
"I have sailed more engineless miles than some who have built their reputations and made a religion of it. I had EGREGIOUS built without an engine. CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE did not have one. The diesel on RESURGAM died on the Caribbean side of Panama and we sailed all the way to Australia before we replaced it. I’ve never powered more than an hour here and there at sea, and then usually only to stabilize a boat being thrown about in leftover seas with no wind. That you have to power through the doldrums is simply not true. I’ve crossed the Equator now, I think, thirteen times without motoring. If you are a sailor and have a boat that sails well, you only need an engine for the last hundred yards/meters in harbors that are set up with the expectation that all boats are powered."
Listening to the Silversun Pickups
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Normally I post here about new boats, this one has already 5 years and that means that a new re-make, if not a new boat, should be on the way to substitute it, except I dont think it is going to happen, or even that it is needed and since this boat is not on this blog (the blog started in 2014) it is time to post about it because I find it one of the most interesting around.
JPK stands for Jean-Pierre Kelbert, the initials of the builder. JPK is a great guy, I knew him personally some years ago while I was looking for my next boat and made a tour of the shipyards that had boats that interested me.
I meat at that time some very interesting guys but none as interesting as JPK. He was a racer that started building boats and still races occasionally, crewing on his clients boats and he certainly has some top racers as clients. They buy mostly two of his cruiser racers, the JPK 10.10 and the JPK 10.80.
Both boats have already won the Fastnet and the Transaquadra. The 10.80 won the last Transquadra and its division on the Sydney-Hobart. On both, on the Transquadra (duo Transat) and on the Sydney-Hobart, JPK was part of the crew. So I can tell you that, with a vast experience of crew racing and solo racing, building winning boats, he knows exactly what he is talking about when you discuss with you your particular requirements. He can offer very positive and meaningful suggestions regarding the sailing and cruising needs of any sailor and make them happen on the boats.
That was what I felt when I talked with him regarding having a JPK 110 more adapted to cruising and solo sailing. But in the end I felt that the 110 was just a bit smaller than what I needed, specially regarding storage space and even if impressed with the boat and boat building quality I moved on. If he had already the 38FC probably I would have that boat.
FC stands for fast cruising and the boat seems to respond to all I want on a sailboat. It was not designed with racing on mind but for the ones whose principal enjoyment is cruising on a rewarding and fast boat, including offshore cruising. Compared with the 110 the 38 is bigger, more stable, easier to sail (due to a a bigger transom and more beam), has an option for a swing keel (with all the ballast on the keel), has a much bigger galley and much more storage space.
Its small weight (5000kg), allow for the use of relatively small sails, easily manageable, the big form stability and big B/D ratio (38%) on a big draft (1.35/2.70m) gives it a huge stability and a very good reserve or final stability. A powerful easy and very seaworthy boat built with infusion vacuum techniques on a cored (20mm) hull using vinylester resins and as core Balsa light and Airex. In fact the hull is built like the one of a racing 40 class boat (that they built too).
Many times what the builders or designers says about their boats is exaggerated but I dont think it is the case with JPK that "explains" the 38FC better than me.
"The JPK 38 reunites the cumulative experience of offshore racing, the cruising experience and a desire to voyage combining the pleasure of sailing, the quality of life aboard and safety. Many boats are on the market but none of them really combines all these qualities:
There are boats with a good cruising interior but with a hull limited by weight resulting in a diminished sailing pleasure and an offshore seaworthiness not entirely convincing. And also boats very light, with a minimalist interior and a open type of hull but not tolerant about the overload inherent to offshore cruising. They have very flat hull sections that will be very uncomfortable going close to the wind in a seaway.
The JPK 38 FC measure 11.38 meters to 4 meters wide. It is an ideal size in our opinion in what regards simple management of navigation and boat maintenance. The sail areas will generate little effort and are easily to handle. They are complemented with a gennaker or a code 0 on a retractable carbon bowsprit, allowing an uncluttered front deck. Bow thruster and electric winch remain unnecessary comfort options.
We considered having this boat made on the hull mold of JPK Class 40 , it would be easier and less expensive but Jacques Valer (the NA) immediately felt that it was impossible to achieve a true "good cruise sailingboat" by exploiting the mold of a boat designed to weigh 4500 kg ? when in Version cruise we would need 5500 kg.
The JPK 38 FC is a synthesis between an "open" planing boat and a "displacement" boat. A beamy and powerful hull but with the frontal sections deep enough for a good wave passage and a deeper central hull, accepting the overload needed for voyaging. The result is a stable boat capable of sailing at a very high average speed in all sea conditions. The super careful construction in infused sandwich allows a large hull volume for a light displacement of 5 T, despite a substantial ballast of 1900 kg in the deep keel version.
The low weight is the key factor on all the architecture of the boat is based. The objective is to obtain a sufficiently rigid and fast hull to quickly exceed hull speed without dragging water even under load. A boat that will be fast upwind, downwind and in light winds.
For the ones that want the best in what regards sheltered anchorage and dream to voyage to the "end of the world" we have developed our swinging keel that allows to vary the draft from 2.70 m to 1.35 m. The keel foil is made of an infused composite web and the bulbed part is lead. It provides a RM similar to the one of the fixed keel with an estimate overall weight slightly lower. The necessary interior arrangements regarding the lifting mechanism dont interfere with the habitability.
In summary, the JPK 38 FC is a true synthesis of a modern voyage boat: Convivial, easy, seaworthy and very fast."
Regarding to be very fast, even if deigned as a cruising boat and with a rating that will not make competitive in IRC compensated racing, on the last Silverrudder, the most famous Nordic solo race, with 330 competitors, a race that experienced almost all wind conditions, a JPK 38 won with such an easiness that leaved all astonished.
That particular JPK 38FC is used normally for family cruising won not only its category, "keel boat large" but was also the fastest cruiser/racer monohull in all monohull categories including fastest than any of the much bigger "XL keel boat" category. And there were some very fast boats among the beaten ones, like for instance a racing J111 very well sailed (Blur), a Xp44 and a Grand Soleil 43.
In real time the boat was only beaten by a race monohull boat and some very race oriented trimarans, beating most of them, including all Corsair and all Farrier. So I guess we can say that JPK is not exaggerating when he states that the 38FC is "very fast" ;-)
If you want to try one these guys have one for charter: http://www.eridan-naviroise.com/jfk-38-fc.html
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The boat is relatively beamy (5m), has a dingy garage, integrated solar panels, a moderated draft (2.5m) and it can have the boom control on an arch , that is also a permanent "bimini" or having a traditional cockpit system. It is made of carbon/epoxy sandwich and it is light (14 000kg) and will be certainly very fast.
The design program, for a owner that is a very experienced sailor, was for a blue water cruiser able to sail in very light winds built with tested solutions and made with the best materials : My kind of program ;-)
