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Captain Ballast
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Response Posted - 03/11/2008 :  08:40:07  Show Profile  Visit Captain Ballast's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Dave Bristle</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Captain Ballast</i>
<br />...but this rig seems to take a lot of the sailing out of sailing.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I guess you could say the same thing about auxiliary engines, roller furlers, 2-speed self-tailing winches, self-tacking jibs, GPSs, autopilots,...
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laughed so hard my gut hurts...

I use a bearing compass, charts, rulers, dividers, binoculars, and no auto pilot... If there is more than one jib, self-tacking is 1st step up. I am not a fan of roller furlers. I have done reenacting and like classic sail and old method. I love my Capri 25 and there is a lot of sailing going on on her

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ilnadi
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Response Posted - 03/11/2008 :  11:29:21  Show Profile
I think the trick is to combine the two. If you truly understand an old contraption, you can separate out its "technology" from the things they were forced to do due to the materials they had in hand. THEN you can build something that frees it self from the parts of our current contraptions that are due to the "excitement with new technology".

Sailing is outside the norm, if not unique, in that 5000-year old technology is still is use somewhere; so these throwback designs are even more obvious.

I wish I was remotely qualified to pass judgement on this contraption. So I'll stay quiet.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Steve Blackburn</i>
<br />I think the romantic idea of sailing combined with a generally traditionally conservative attitude tends to keep our sport from evolving from a technological perspective.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
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