Jim, My thought is this: the EC is not a simple sailing or sailing/rowing race. It is an endurance contest that passes through several different Southern...
Jim, Patrick, et al, I've not formed an opinion. But an EC boat needs to be physically hauled down from above the high water mark, and anything deployed for...
... Preparation. Very critical word. I appreciate the candid responses. Entering the EC is not to be done lightly. If I did it in my baidarka with a sail and...
Based on the kinds of boats participating in previous years, I think a Melonseed could totally do it. I wouldn't expect it to win (without a whole lot of luck)...
A question asked by DL: can the Melonseed handle 20 knots? That'll be a yes. Waterline length, then, or the lack, is the only obvious disadvantage that cannot...
... Trevor, The question about wind speed cannot be answered in isolation from water conditions. I frequently sail in winds above 20 knots. I was out this...
Patrick, I wholly concur. I suspect though that the Melonseed would not be the only boat with low freeboard. Or the only boat bailing. Relying solely (and...
I've been reading this thread with a lot of interest. Part of what hooked me on the MS is a big "Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..." when thinking about the EC. My thinking is...
Okay, crew, let's liven it up a bit. There's plenty of new blood on this forum and we should have a complete fund of funny (because it happened to the other...
OK - I will share a few: When I was 14, my school had a fleet of Lightnings, and I had just qualified to be a skipper. On my very first outing as a skipper, I...
-I put our 15 ft. Percision into a death roll and dumped the entire family out. -I dumped my husband off the windward side of our Butterfly. In slightly...
No one is immune to foolishness, or even occasional stupidity, and while the title "Boat Builder" might imply that one is perhaps a little more all-knowing...
While reading the embarassing posts I remembered something that I hadn't thought of in years. My freshman year at the University of Cincinnati, where they...
My wife and I both played hookie from work on a warm spring day in houston. We kept our 23' cruiser on a trailer at the marina. After hooking the trailer up...
YIKES! Glad no one was hurt! Launch ramps are fertile ground for things going awry. The most notable one I've seen was a jon-boat strapped down on the...
Folks, Roger is too kind. My recollections about that weekend, and that evening sail in particular was that I lead the group to a landing spot which ws some...
Folks, Foolish and stupid. That's me. Mind you, I'm brilliant in hindsight. Sailing my Niagara 26 on a beautiful summer day with my wife and a friend. We'd...
Okay, here's mine... We were on a cruise in our 26' Thunderbird sloop in August 1978. We went ashore at the harbor at the north end of the Annisquam River to...
Trevor I did a similer thing in my C&C 41 ( draws 8 feet ) we were well outside the marker marking the reef. I noticed ruffled water went down and checked...
Back in the late 1970's, Bonnie and I were coming in from one of our first sails in our first sailboat, a Boston Whaler Harpoon 5.2. We were at Hardy Lake, in...
You're always rusty the first launch of the season. Mentally you're still trying to remember the all-important order of a dozen things. You're especially rusty...
George's story reminded me of another Laser story, this one involving the launch ramp. We had just bought a older Laser that spring, and Sheila and I were...
Come one, come all! Start making plans NOW! Join us for a weekend of sailing and socializing JUNE 19 -21. Stay tuned for details, but save the dates. This...
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