eye candy
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She's the one that turned my head. Early sixties, beautiful summer evening, my uncle's Luhrs pulling into his slip...and there was this beautiful little FIBERGLASS sailboat at the end of the dock....I fell in love and never looked back....
pearson triton
Back when everyone had to have North Sails....me too...
Q class. you learn quickly to hold on with your butt
Story of my childhood. When I was at the helm, 65 foot catamaran fishing boats doing 20 knots, 56 foot schooner doing 8 or my eight foot pram doing 3 knots, there was always a lot more water to sail through than our plotted course.Just loved the s-shaped wake (not)!
-Will (Dragonfly)
I see that Rustler differently. Given that it is 33' with a displacement less than 6000lbs, 8' beam, fin w/ bulb it looks like the driver is driving by feel to the boat. He is not even really looking at the course and is driving just by what he feels in his seat. That is not the type of boat that will track in a straight line. It looks "traditional" but at its heart, it is all high-strung race horse.
For sailors: Five minutes of sailing and the emotions it conjures. Click the Vimeo link at the bottom left.
Abeking & Rasmussen 63 ft 125 sq m Seefahrtkreuzer Racer Cruiser Yawl 1936
Abeking & Rasmussen 63 ft 125 sq m Seefahrtkreuzer Racer Cruiser Yawl 1936
A boat that elicits stories about the sea and passages to interesting places.
Wholly Cow. That is absolutely gorgeous. No centerline queen in the owner's suite but I'd take that foc'sle with pipe berths any day. The galley forward may be interesting in a seaway but there is enough displacement to keep the motion kind under most conditions. And that chart house!!! I'd be happy to live there. The teak and holly sole in the engine room is a nice touch too
Interesting how much of an angle to starboard the engine is.
loved the video. very sexy.
the ladies seem quite content in the cockpit.
the ladies seem quite content in the cockpit.
skinny boats ride through the waves some much different then wide boats. less up and over and more of the Moses effect.
bacchante sailed the great lakes for many years. owner died. boat went back to sweden. he had an old swan 65' on the med. two concordias on the chesapeake and another vessel somewhere. when i first met him i was tying up to a dock at chicago yc and this voice is heard saying, ' you probably think you have the most varnish on lake michigan, but your number two'.
his brother put the old ford ship on Put-in-bay in lake erie. (knew him too)
The next step in sailboat technology will be a means of redirecting air from the sails through ducting in the hull to make a hovercraft and eliminate the drag caused by the foils.
They’re not that far off. As it is the shape of the hull is driven less by hydrodynamics and is more about using the water as an “end plate” to keep air from the high pressure side from escaping to the low side. If they could “duct” the air like you say without giving up much drive power they probably would try it.