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• We sailed exactly 80nm out of Port Clyde in 10 hours. Then the GPS flashed 12.1 kts, down a wave, the fun was over.
  • Quite a start to your vacation
    • It is a nice harbor, well protected.
  • Great read Tom.......! Thanks.
    • Tom...
      • I've been gone a couple weeks.
        • By this time of year Jewell...
  • Great read. Thanks. Hope there will be more from the trip
  • Whew! As regards seasickness, it is not that you think you will die, it is the fear you won't....been there.
    • Me to
      • On my trip from Hawaii to Columbia in the way back time.....
    • I've never been seasick but I've taken
    • Turning green is not a fallacy; I've seen it
    • Sea Sickness - Stage 1 and Stage 2
  • MJ recovered enough to row her mother out to Christmas the next day!
  • I got queasy a few weeks ago
    • Why didn't you sail?
      • Because we were destination-oriented
        • Here's another video clip
          • That kind of weather & sea sucks.
        • I would have sailed, regardless.
          • I rarely motorsail
            • We motorsailed a lot.
              • Yup - sometimes the decision is all about VMG
  • Sounds like you had an adventure.
  • Heaving to is a great tactic.
  • Get Christmas a Dutchman boom brake.
  • Thanks Tom
  • Preventer?
    • In this case, preventer is a misnomer.
      • I'm surprised you don't have one of these
        • Tom has roller furling on the boom
          • You have it, Steve. I do have a strap as Paul shows,
            • IF you use a loose footed main, it would be easier for you
          • Steve has it right, run your preventer from the end of the boom...
            • Great advice, I'll be rigging something like that in the future. Thanks.
              • Probably the best
            • End certainly gives the best mechanical advantage, but..
              • Perhaps I didn't explain that very well...
                • This may be a good solution for long legs, but ...
                  • Hey, whatever works... (grin)
                  • In the end, what I have is probably best all around.
                    • I agree, Tom.
            • My preventer set up, which I love,...
  • CCA describes a preventer system that works very well for me
    • Max...
      • Hi Brian
    • Have used this idea successfully for years
  • Really good tale Tom!