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[Zen]

There is yellow, and there is YELLOW  :o

And just what's wrong with a yellow multihull??

My self built Cross 35 off Norfolk in the Elizabeth River



And on launch day. That's me circled, with hair then ;D



Laura and I seriously looked at one of Woods boats- the 30 foot Sagitta but then we just got involved in too many other things and now I don't want to spend the time building.

[CharlieJ]

 ;D My kid used to sing-

"we all live in a yellow trimaran, a yellow trimaran, a yellow trimaran"

;D

[AdriftAtSea]

Charlie-


That's just wrong... very wrong...

[Godot]

This one could become interesting...

http://www.solo-sailor.com/

A gal is getting ready to start her circumnavigation in a Flicka on New Years day, 2008.

[s/v Faith]

I heard about this a couple days ago....

  ... while talking to Bruce Bingham!  He has been helping her get the boat ready.

This should be a link to watch.  ;D

This one could become interesting...

http://www.solo-sailor.com/

A gal is getting ready to start her circumnavigation in a Flicka on New Years day, 2008.

[s/v Faith]

Here is another one;

We have something very exciting happening on our website this month. Best-selling author Tania Aebi, who in 1985 became the youngest woman to sail around the world alone, is taking her two sons cruising, and she's writing an intimate blog about it for BoatUS.

This is quite a story. When Tania was 18, she cast off from South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan, alone and frightened, on her 26-foot sloop, Varuna. For the next two and a half years, with only a cat for company, she sailed 27,000 miles around the world, stopping in 23 countries along the way. In November 1987, just barely 21, she stepped back onto the cement shores of New York City a solo-circumnavigator. Her book about this adventure, Maiden Voyage, became an inspirational best-seller, published in eight countries.

Fast forward 20 years. Now living in Vermont, she's a writer, and mother to Nicholas, 16, and Sam, 13. Her ex-husband lives two miles up the road. Watching her boys grow up too fast, she decided it was now or never to give them a taste of adventure, and herself the gift of some uninterrupted time with them, before busy lives take them in their own directions. She bought a 36-foot sailboat named Shangri-La, and the family of three has set off cruising to the South Pacific for a year. There, she'll turn the boat and the two boys over to their dad, who'll sail with them to Australia. An unorthodox arrangement? You bet it is!

Log on right now, and see how the whole plan is playing out on www.BoatUS.com/cruising/shangrila, where Tania is writing a twice-monthly log about the voyage.

[Godot]

Robin Johnson is a young guy (31) planning on taking his Eastwind Paceship to Bermuda this November:

http://www.paceship.org/my_log.asp?imageField.x=33&imageField.y=17&LogOwnerID=1249

or

http://www.myspace.com/hardknots

A few years ago he attempted to take a Newport 20 from California to Hawaii (didn't get too far, unfortunately):

http://members.cox.net/newport20centre/html/hard_knots_news.html

[CharlieJ]

Yeah- Robin posts on the Cruising Sailor BB out of Australia also. He got a lot of flack over his failed attempt at Hawaii on Hard Knots, but at least he was out there trying. He had overloaded the boat drastically. Maybe he'll have better luck this time.

[Godot]

Yeah- Robin posts on the Cruising Sailor BB out of Australia also. He got a lot of flack over his failed attempt at Hawaii on Hard Knots, but at least he was out there trying. He had overloaded the boat drastically. Maybe he'll have better luck this time.

You know, I remember reading the Hard Knots voyage story and it never seemed right to me that the problems he was having was because of being overloaded.  Instead, I would have bet that he ran across unintended consequences from DOUBLING the size of his standing rigging.  I'm sure lots of new stresses where introduced as a result.

In any case, I admire his spirit.

[Zen]

anyone see this:

http://folk.ntnu.no/siriholm/valkyrien/indexe.htm

[AdriftAtSea]

I believe that was posted previously on this forum... but always good to see it again.

[s/v Faith]

Here is one that has been helpful on our trip.

http://abacomessageboard.com/

[skylark]

http://www.archive.org/details/sailing_alone_around_librivox_1

[AdriftAtSea]

Thanks for that link. :D

[Zen]

A sailfar mind from Down Under:
http://www.bigoceans.com/

[Antioch]

I wish you'd e-mailed me, I'd always thought I was making the boat's rig stronger.. I never dreamed that it would cause fresh water leaks from where the chainplates came through the deck.  The initial reason for my detour to Catalina turned out to be a seal in one of the thru-hole fittings for the cockpit drains. Either the starboard or the port is underwater, depending on which way we're heeled over, and I tacked it down to the starboard drain.

Robin

Yeah- Robin posts on the Cruising Sailor BB out of Australia also. He got a lot of flack over his failed attempt at Hawaii on Hard Knots, but at least he was out there trying. He had overloaded the boat drastically. Maybe he'll have better luck this time.

You know, I remember reading the Hard Knots voyage story and it never seemed right to me that the problems he was having was because of being overloaded.  Instead, I would have bet that he ran across unintended consequences from DOUBLING the size of his standing rigging.  I'm sure lots of new stresses where introduced as a result.

In any case, I admire his spirit.

[Godot]

I wish you'd e-mailed me, I'd always thought I was making the boat's rig stronger.. I never dreamed that it would cause fresh water leaks from where the chainplates came through the deck.  The initial reason for my detour to Catalina turned out to be a seal in one of the thru-hole fittings for the cockpit drains. Either the starboard or the port is underwater, depending on which way we're heeled over, and I tacked it down to the starboard drain.

I read your log well after you had finished the attempt so there didn't  seem to be much point in bringing it up.  And I don't know that this was a problem.  However, after building a couple of small boats, I learned that every "improvement" made to a design affects something else, which when adjusted affects something else, which when adjusted affects something else, etc, etc, etc in a never ending cascade of changes. 

Bigger shrouds and stays are stronger than smaller stays and shrouds; but they also have less stretch, have higher windage, and when tightened to the point where the tension feels the same I believe are probably adding significant additional stress (I'm not an engineer; but this is my understanding of the system).  It's conceivable that the hull sides could have actually been pulled in a couple of inches which may have stressed the hull to deck joint.  The downward pull on the mast could have also added significant additional stress to the cabin top which could have caused who knows what kind of unforeseen events.

Of course, I could also just as easily be completely wrong.

[Antioch]

The Hard Knots is pretty much retired to lake service, although I may sail her back to Catalina with some friends this year at some point.  I've considered getting rid of her many times in the past, but every time I climb aboard and sit in the cabin, I remember all of the fun times I had on that boat, which kept me alive and well for four months at sea (which includes the time I was based in Avalon Harbiour)... so I've held onto her, although the Arizona sun has been harsh on her. Faded paint, disintegrated halyards, and a very creeky deck.

[skylark]

I enjoyed this video of a small boat on the English Channel.  Looks like it was a great day!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yfWfMBeAJ3Q

[nick]

The insanity continues

http://www.wildvikings.com

I love these guys. I can't wait to see their new film. I've seen about 2/3rds of Berserk... It's sheer madness.