Sailboat thread! Fuck Trains, planes, and bicycles! (Planes are

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Just look at that sexy sunset behind that sexy boat!

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So comfy!

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Not a Wharram, but come on look at that sexy tri!

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Pros are awesome too! Thank you Dierking!

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Another sexy Dierking proa! Dude lived on that thing (and the beach) for like years! The madman!

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Forget who this dude is but I believe he built this crazy cat in Africa! And he lives on it and cruises all over!

Image name reminded me! Hans Klaar!

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Another sexy Wharram! Tiki 38 Pilgrim!

So beautiful: I really want to be on a sailboat again some day.

What's the performance of that kayacat + scubajet combo?

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I teach matchracing for beginners in DS37 (pic) and Match28.

Both are incredibly fun boats. The 28, however, has a tendency to capsize when the mix of high winds and current-waves are just right.

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>>1023320
We love you, too, boat guys.

I'm eventually going to get into seaplanes, or at least I keep telling myself that

>>1023446
Neat. I've only been in a FJ.

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>>1023446
Capsizing is good practice for.. capsizing... Right? lol

>>1023496
I used to race FJs fuck those little pieces of shit. 420 > FJ all day erry day

>>1023486
Seaplanes and flying boats are fucking awesome.

>>1023526
>420
I sail the Club 420 (North American version).
They're heavy ass things (400 pounds), but I love 'em

Wharrams are lovely, yes, but... in the words of an old friend who spent ten years building one, after 3 years sailing it...

"has the handling characteristics of an island".

>>1023526
Mostly happens in competition. But i guess i means you were really pushing it

Would one be able to live on a sailboat that doesnt have an engine and no money to buy food and pay for anchor fees?

>>1024002
Old-time fishermen do this but there were no anchor fees nor fishing regulations nor overfishing

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>>1024002
Get good at fishing and learn to love crossing oceans. Nothing to spend money on out at sea!
Engines are useful of course, but people sailed for a few thousand years without them. I don't know what to do about food other than fish though... Buy cheap stuff the locals do, like potatoes or yuca or whatever in South America or Africa or something? Farther from """civilization""" you go probably free-er you are and easier, cheaper to live on nothing.

Pic: Benford Badger is started to grow on me. So ugly, yet so practical.

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Lerouge designs some sexy boats...

Why are French boats always more fun colored than boring American dark navy/dark burgundy or white?

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Currently building.
30ft skiff.

>>1024094

Is that a jig/formwork to build the shape onto? What material are you using for the hull? Please keep posting on here as you progress.

>>1024094
Damn, nice job! I like the looks of your boat so far.

Thinking about bidding on this shitty run down warehouse in tax lien so I have a boat building space lol.

does anyone else here race? Just curious

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>>1024122
>>1024136
Fanqqsss
Built her upside down. Bulkheads first, sides then bottom. I'll try to find pics of the building jig.
Fiberglass sheathed Okume ply, Douglas fir framing.

I don't like competitions but I would like to get myself a race boat.
Considering a Laser Radial.
I'm about 30yo and 175cm and 65ish kg.
I did optimists for a couple of years in my youth.

Should I pick something else?

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>>1024209

I do a little casual DS37 matchracing now and then (im the matchracing instructor from a few posts up).

I started out in the Optimist. When I got too big for that, i changed to racing in keel boats, as that was the only way of keeping sailing without having rich parents.
I eventually became part of a good Yngling-crew (pic), with him i won a lot of danish youth titles and eventually qualified for the european championships.

I kinda miss fleet racing.

Anyone here love watching big yachts? You might ask why I enjoy watching yachts that I'll never own or even sail on. I would ask in return why you enjoy watching football when you'll never own a football team or even play on one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x_VD78VeAI

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>>1024364
Of course. Some of the massive yachts are absolutely beautiful, and watching them sail can be exciting too.

Sure I'll never own one or sail on one, but nonetheless seeing something beautiful propelled solely by the forces of nature is cool as fuck.

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Any other interesting sailing adventures?
pic related

>>1025432
upside down , every time

>>1023320
this needs to be a video game

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>>1023526
I really want to go get a seaplane rating, grab something like this, and just live out of it

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>>1025570

>>1025570
Uncertified anything here.

Now I don't know jack. So Of course I'll give my opinion. At least I can blame Messrs. Dunning and Kruger.

AFAIK, the biggest "problem" in daily use of these beautiful machines is the maintenance (periodically thorough) and fuel/lubricants. I suppose you could self-finance one if you had the investment capital to buy and finance one for a year, and the capital/connections to start a small transport business in some island state or something.

I would live to see this happen. Vanbro (ffcossag@yt) has already made some progress in logging his journey, and I'd eat it straight up to get actual travelogues from an "I live in my fucking seaplane bitches" anon.

Godspeed.

>>1025636
No one said it was realistic, and even if I did do it I'd be an old fart with retirement money to spare when I did

>>1024094
>>1024238
Looks like it's coming along nicely, although I've got to ask, did you paint or or gelcoat the glass on the bottom?

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>>1027315
She sure is good buddy.
Old pic from before the sides went on.
Plywood superstructure with fir framing. 300gsm biaxial fiberglass. Painted with Jotun 2k topcoat (don't ever use a roller for this, it was fucking awful trying to get a decent finish!) and coppercoat bottom, don't like the idea of antifouling leeching out into the harbour or ocean or the prospect of having to re paint it.

Shouldn't racing go in /asp/?
Anyone here done any long-distance sailing, though? What are your waterways like?

>>1025432
I've got one from Key West 2008. Was only 13 at the time but was able to crew on a J105. Had an absolute blast.

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University of Maryland sailing team on the XP44 "Warrior Won" during the 2016 Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta this past October

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>>1030949
Spent the weekend jumping spin and jib halyards (I'm in the red life vest). The boat was an absolute dream to sail, and the owner was super cool

>>1023496
>>1023526
FJ's are the main boats we race (I'm in college in the US). As a crew, I miss the cleats the 420's have for the jib sheets, and death rolling downwind is never fun.

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Posting picture of my junk on /n/.

>>1023496
>>1023526
>>1030952
I crewed FJs in high school, and honestly I liked them better (at least as crew) than either the 420 or V15. FJ may be slower, but it always seemed way comfier.

>>1032962
I love junk rigged boats, something about them is super-comfy

>>1027832
/asp/ is dominated by wrestlefags.

>>1030952
bumpin for sailing questions. Hopefully a very soon to be sailor here, is death rolling a problem on most boats or just the ones made for speed?

>>1035657
usually only in dinghy's is this a problem because they are able to sail extreme downwind angles compared to keel boats.. It happens when you are sailing too far by the lee and not pressing the boat flat enough. It is easy to avoid if you sheet in or drive the boat up... Just got to learn the feeling and react before it happens to you...

Keel boats can do it too but they wont roll. Just chinese gybe and fuck ur shit up.

>>1035676
I'll keep that in mind then

Another question for anybody, would it be difficult to sail a small (15ft) boat with main and jib single-handed?

>>1035848
nah its fine just cleat your jib in the right position and adjust when necessary

are you sailing a 420 or laser 2 or something like that?

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>>1035857
Alrighty, the gist of it that I got from the books I've read is to trim the jib first, then the main, so that makes sense

Nothing yet, but what I'll be getting soon is an older boat, gulf coast 15. It's from a family friend, in good condition, and cheap, so I figure it's a decent start.

Here's the best pic I could find of a similar one

>>1035871
The way I learned to sail was by capsizing a lot, the books only teach you theory, come spring or if you're down south get as much time on the water as possible and you'll become competent in no time

>>1035873
Cool. Luckily I'm in central Texas so there will be plenty of time to go out on the water

>>1024079
blame the puritans