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• Sad day for Stanley Paris- abandoning record attempt due to rig damage
  • I'm amazed at problems he's had with that boat...
    • Whouda thunk you'd need to resort to the use of a C-clamp...
      • What's that old saying? Any port in a storm??
    • These "green" boats interest me. They have the supply side down,
      • I'd love to know how much of his energy budget was devoted to 'communication'...
        • 9 knots into the wind has a lot more power generating than running at 9 knots.
          • Paris gave us a good test of the state of the art of marine electrical tech; we're going backwards.
            • Don Street had cold beer on Iolaire
              • But, but, but- we HAVE to have it all!!
        • Gee, that's alot of buttons and switches and things.
      • That's for sure....
    • Seem the electrical system was not
  • Sad to read his report. Maybe this is a good shake down for his PhaseIII
  • Farr design recently announced that the rig was not
    • Farr boats have a tradition of dropping parts into the Southern Ocean.
      • playing the game
        • Why do they have to reinvent the wheel every time?
          • Maybe for him, building the boat was part of the adventure.
  • Here's a level headed press release by Lyman Morse.
    • Still has a quite a journey ahead of him...
      • Then after repairs in, he'll sail to Maine via the Carribean.
    • We had 5-7 "accidental" jibes one afternoon
      • Dunno. KIWI SPIRIT was designed with speed as priority.
        • Who built that boom? That's a pretty poor failure. The call it the main sail for a reason. ;^))))
        • Who built that boom? That's a pretty poor failure. The call it the main sail for a reason. ;^))))
          • I don't know that, either.
            • Offshore Spars take the credit?
              • That is a little disconcerting. We have an Offshore Spars rig