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    Rudder "breaks loose" at high speed

    Well , I respect your skills in the high winds - to all folks in the thread . A stalling foil though - it would seem some things ought to be put on the table... 1. Is the rudder deforming under high speed pressure? 2. What about a more robust high speed rudder? I'm currently designing a...
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    What are your sailing goals for 2013?

    Ok Ill give it another thirty years and try it then. Pete
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    What are your sailing goals for 2013?

    Hi Clyde, Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your first hand accounts. I've been following LI Sound weather patterns for the last couple years with Predict Wind which forecasts wind (darned accurately) and I've seen a trend . In the cooler months the prevailing winds blow rather one...
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    What are your sailing goals for 2013?

    This is kind of an offshoot of Winter Thoughts post but Ill throw it out there anyway... Prior years I've done coastal sailing within a mile or so of shore. This upcoming season I want to do some 15-20 mile crossings from Connecticut across LI SOUND. To Long Island - camp overnight and sail...
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    Winter thoughts

    Reminds me of Chesapeake Lightcrafts Millcreek series. Nice craft simple or not. Sometimes respite demands simplicity other tes you jus gotta tinker with the machine! Pete
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    Winter thoughts

    Your avatar- is that a Millcreek 13? Pete
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    Winter thoughts

    It's a KOKOTAT Dura. About ten years old almost. Goretex all that with booties attached like Jammie's. no p-fly but its not needed. Much better for sailing than kayaking where sweating is problematic if u go aerobic. Sailing is much more dry suit friendly. I think its excellent. Prices have come...
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    Winter thoughts

    It's a long winter in CT. If you love sailing. I'm essentially spiffing up my boat, repaint, some mods worked out and this nifty online program called Predict Wind that routes my intended day sails and overnighters with weather tide etc taken into account. It's a wild thing actually. Other than...
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    What to wear for winter sailing?

    It doesnt ensure that you dont get hypothermia, even heavy wetsuits used for ice diving are time rated and will eventually, sooner than later, allow the individual to get hypothermic. When you talk winter sailing, Im not think of Florida but the northeast where evenn the salt water starts to get...
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    What to wear for winter sailing?

    I wear a Kokatat drysuit [Dura] that ... wow, 7 years ago was $800+. I know a lot of other manufacturers make them for less now and they are a little more common too. I love mine. Just make sure its never torn and and size your neck and wrist gaskets so they arent too restrictive...
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    First time out alone

    Sure it was. Fact is you did fine and some folks actually got bloody on their first outting. One fella in a proa had it capsize with the outrigger splitting him across the forehead with a bloody mess as youd imagine. He was towed to sure by a good samaritan. He learned and moved on and sails...

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