Dinghy Boat Plans | Good news bad news

Dinghy Boat Plans

L,G, & M with a bit of RCN Dazzle, a comic strip worth reading, and about the bad side of desalination watermaking...

Some bad news regarding our French friend Yann and SKROWL.

The good news is that Yann is OK and already thinking of the next boat...

Listening to Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad

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Small Boat Plans And Kits | and in the How paying a lot of money does not always get you a good boat department

Small Boat Plans And Kits

Webb Chiles points out the one great advantage of the Southern Hemisphere,
twisted beyond repair, and we really should be better than this...

You really should read this article by Charles Doane.

Really!

Listening to Glen Hansard

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Boat Plans Aluminium Australia | A good read

Boat Plans Aluminium Australia

Zika virus news, something interesting from Frank Capra in 1958, and in the "Would I ever vote for someone who considers Henry Kissinger a friend?" department...

A book you may really want to read.

Listening to Brother Nothing

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Plywood Boat Plans | NEW AZUREE 41

Plywood Boat Plans

The much awaited new Azuree 40, that will be a 41. What I dont like? Very little, the winches could be more close to the wheelsman and I really dont like at all that odd front cabin (maybe they change it). I love many features of this Humphreys design, that is very different from the previous Azuree 40, that was also a good but very different cruising boat.

The previous boat was a bit like a bourgeois Pogo, with more weight, less stability and a very good cruising interior; this one is nothing of that and it is on a completely different register. The previous boat had 4.22m of beam, this one only 3.90. The previous boat looked a lot lighter with 7300kg versus 8360kg on the new one BUT if we consider that the 40 had only 1762kg of ballast versus 3211 on the new one we can see that the hull is not heavier but lighter.

In fact I did not like the reserve stability and AVS of the Azuree 40 (that is a very fast boat) but I will certainly like that particular on this one since besides the huge difference in ballast the new boat has more draft as standard (2.40m versus 2.16). A huge stability and a very stiff boat for sure. In what regards length, if the overall length of this boat is bigger, the water line length is smaller on the 41 and the sail area only 3 m2 bigger on the new boat.

Probably the old 40 is slightly faster (except upwind) but this one will be a better and more seaworthy cruising boat...and fast by all accounts. The price is interesting too for a quality boat: about 190 000 euros vat excluded....but what is a great deal now is the old Azuree 40, a good boat that they are selling really cheap.

The "old" Azuree 40, a Ceccarelli design:

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Plywood Boat Plans Australia | RM 1070 A GOOD SURPRISE

Plywood Boat Plans Australia

I had already posted about the new RM 1070. At the time little was known about the boat and looked to me a 1060 MKII with a new bow and a swing keel to join to the other keel options. After all the 1060 is only 4 years old:

http://interestingsailboats.blogspot.pt/2014/09/rm1070.html

And the good surprise is that incredibly this is a brand new boat. Not only the bow is different but all the hull, including a very different transom...and I like it a lot more than the 1060 :-) The interior is different too with a true cabin at the bow. I hope it will be in Dusseldorf. I want very much to see this one. It looks absolutely gorgeous and I bet it will sail better than the 1060 and the 1060 sailed  very well.

The difference at the bow is easy to spot, being inverted and all but the transom one, even if evident requires a look at the two. As you can see very different, being the new one very near the one of an Open 60 in design. This boat will have a huge form stability and will be very easy to sail fast downwind, being even more powerful than the 1060.

 About the light wind performance and upwind sailing I have some doubts that it will be better. Time and the first tests will tell.

There is just one thing I dont like: Why have they maintained, on the two wheel version, the winches on a position that only makes sense on the rudder version? On the two wheel version at least one of those winches (on each side) should be moved near the wheel, at reach of the Welshman.

Regarding the previous boat the beam is practically the same (4.00m), the hull is slightly bigger (10.69/10.57m) and the LWL bigger( 10.50/10.30), the boat will be a bit heavier (4900/4600kg) probably on the swing keel configuration. The new Swing keel will have 1.15/2.92m. The boat will be more powerful and will carry more sail (72.50/71.6m2).

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Boat Plans Aluminum | A very good issue

Boat Plans Aluminum

David Bowie 1947-2016, an important reminder about shrimp, and another installment in the "well and truly screwed" department...

The current issue of Yachting Monthly is a great example of how to do a good sailing/cruising oriented magazine.

Kinda makes me wonder why I even still subscribe to Sail & Cruising World...

Listening to David Bowie



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Small Boat Plans And Kits | OLD WAYS TO BUILD A BOAT

Small Boat Plans And Kits

Yes, this one is about Nostalgia. I saw on the net an old movie about boat building in England 70 years ago, a movie that contrary to the usual had a good image. I found it interesting and it made me remember the times where that type of boat building was one of the main activities on the fishing town of Peniche (Portugal), the port near my house. Here on the 70s the traditional wood boat building was still a florescent business and almost all fishing boats were made locally.
On the 80s I bought my first sailboat, an old and traditional Canoa do Tejo and with the help of naval carpenters I modified it for coastal cruising, closing the boat with a full deck and increasing the size of the keel with a steel structure with 200kg of lead inside. It worked, the stability was increased and I sailed the west coast of Portugal with it. Great memories. I hope you enjoy the movie and if not, forgive this sentimental journey :-)

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Boat Plans For A Chesapeake Deadrise | A good deal

Boat Plans For A Chesapeake Deadrise

Wow, I just realized that I live in a country where a credible presidential candidate wants to reinstate slavery, more about slavery, and in the "a picture is worth a thousand words" department...

I was planning to paint today but instead of the clear dry day I needed, I got a whole lot of rain so painting will have to wait another day or so.

With some enforced leisure time to kill, I popped over to eBay and checked out the boat auctions only to find this Dufour Arpege auction just about to finish...

Obviously a fixer upper but still thats a nice boat going for very cheap!

A couple of minutes later it was a done deal...

Doing some quick math that is less than $0.18 a pound.

Sure you would have to spend two or three thousand dollars intelligently/carefully to make make it a proper cruiser but that at most would raise the cost to just north of $0.51 a pound...

Seriously what can you buy anymore for half a buck a pound these days?

Listening to The Sam Chase and the Untraditional

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Canoe Boat Plans | FLYING ON LITTLE MONOHULL AT 40K

Canoe Boat Plans

No that has not happen yet but it is the project of Hannah white on this beauty, a kind of overgrowth Moth with 6 meters:

The boat sails beautifully (or flies) and Hannah thinks she can make 40k on a real sailbboat, (well of a kind ;-) and beat the feminine sail speed record that belongs to Zara Davis on a windsurf with 34.74K. Hannah is no beginer with three transats solo and a Mancha Channel record, she may well fly that "thing" to 40k. A dangerous stunt since falling at 40k should be quite traumatic for her and the " Speedbird" that only weights 8kg.

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Wooden Boat Plans And Kits | SIRIUS 40DS

Wooden Boat Plans And Kits

Finally and after 5 years of  development, the new Sirius 40DS on the water. Unfortunately it does not look as nice as on the above design. A bit fat for my taste...but to have that interior, one that makes you feel you are on a 44ft boat, some elegance has to be lost. The boat was tested by Yacht. de and you can see it sailing and the interior on their movie:

http://www.yacht.de/yacht_tv/test_technik/sirius-40-ds-exklusives-flaggschiff/a94385.html

So what is this boat worth as a sailing boat? I would say that it is a lot better than what it looks. The Sirius 40 has a weight similar to an Halberg Rassy 412 (11.6T to 11.1T) it has just about the same beam(4.0 8m to 4.10m) and is just a bit smaller (11.99m to 12.61) it has standard more draft (2.10m to 1.99m) a similar keel and a similar D/B ratio (0.37 to 0.36). 

The bigger draft will make the ratio more efficient on the Sirius. Two boats with a similar overall stability and that should be reflected on the sail areas that are not very different (88.5m2 to 90m2). The hull and rig were designed by Marc-Oliver v. Ahlen and that means it is a fast and well designed one.

The Sirius we see on the test comes with an interesting sail set up, not really a cutter  but with three different sails on furlers, a jib, a big Genoa and a removable light furler with a geenaker. The advantage of the system is that it will not need to have additional back stays since both stays go to the top of the mast and it can have a bigger jib. The disadvantage would be the need to furl the big Genoa for taking, but I would say that it would be a small inconvenience regarding the advantages. The boat can have a lot of different keels including a modern swing keel.

It seems to me a much better boat than the old 38 and certainly a much faster one, it will give a great live-aboard boat and also a boat that could be sailed pretty much anywhere. If I would live permanently on a boat I would be looking for something like that....well, less fatter and faster, but certainly a true deck saloon boat to be able to enjoy sailing on the cold weather and to be anchored in nice places, being inside, warm and with a great view. 

Unfortunately the Sirius 40 (made in Germany) is  a very expensive yacht and with all that money I dont know if I could not have a better solution...a faster and more elegant boat. I guess I would prefer the "old" Luffe 43DS that probably would not be very far away in price...and that one is not only way faster but much more elegant...but that is just me, I really find the interior of the Sirius 40 gorgeous and even nicer than the one on the Luffe 43 and probably with more space, almost a condo...and that is a good thing, not a bad one :- )

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Boat Trailer Plans Australia | Something about composting toilets and a good cause

Boat Trailer Plans Australia

Maybe the best thing written yet on the Americas Cup fuckery/idiocy, some very needful reading, and a source of energy that makes all kinds of sense...



More information and some ways to help at the Give Love website.

Listening to some newish Nashville talent

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Boat Plans At Mystic Seaport | Some seriously good news

Boat Plans At Mystic Seaport

There be bigots assholes in Dent County Missouri, just some welfare for rich folks, and Im not quite sure the military and I share the same definition of the word humane...

Ive never been a big fan of carrying around a lot of pyrotechnics as things designed to explode/burn on a boat just make me nervous. A feeling underlined over the years by a too large number of incidents where flares became part of the problem rather than the solution.

Truth be told, flares scare me.

Then theres the ongoing need to replace your flares every couple of years... Yeah, I know flares have a three year lifespan but, try as I may, whenever I find myself needing to buy flares I only seem to be able to find flares with eighteen months or so validity.

Have I mentioned that flares are silly expensive?

So, in the "its about frelling time" department...

... Finally an electric flare that is USCG approved (and yes I know it looks like a man-overboard light).

The good news is from here on this is the only night signal you need to carry and combined with a distress flag as your day signal (which comes with the Sirius flare) its all you need to be 100% street legal with the USCG and other powers that be.

But wait... It gets better!

The Sirius electric flare is not "dated" with an expiry date which means the only thing you need to replace is the c-cell batteries when needful. That said, if you lose or screw it up you can order a replacement and get it shipped to you by the US Mail or something similar.

Of course I saved the best for last... It only costs $99!

Doing the happy dance...

Listening to Chuck Johnson

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Boat Plans Butler | A good cause

Boat Plans Butler

Some scary reading, so much for convictions where reality is concerned, and seriously, why would we want some of these folks in office...

Taking a play from the Waves for Water playbook...



Sail for Water is looking for donations so they can distribute water filters where theyre needed. Its a good cause and they deserve your support.

That said, if youre a cruising sailor reading this, why not carry a dozen water filters yourself and join in the fun?

Listening to Victor Wainwright & the WildRoots

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