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In Response To: Great advice, I'll be rigging something like that in the future. Thanks. 
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() But I'm not too worried about breaking a 5" diameter solid piece of laminated clear spruce or the equally stout through bolted SS rail fittings. Then again we're rarely out in conditions that you and MJ encountered.
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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
- Great read Tom.......! Thanks.
- 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.
- MJ recovered enough to row her mother out to Christmas the next day!
- I got queasy a few weeks ago
- 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,
- Steve has it right, run your preventer from the end of the boom...
- You have it, Steve. I do have a strap as Paul shows,
- Tom has roller furling on the boom
- I'm surprised you don't have one of these
- In this case, preventer is a misnomer.
- CCA describes a preventer system that works very well for me
- Really good tale Tom!