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Dave Bristle
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Initially Posted - 03/31/2010 :  07:35:52  Show Profile
[url="http://www.soundingsonline.com/news/dispatches/432-march-30/252962-predator-turns-guardian"]Predators for the Coast Guard[/url]. (The article--not the video.)

Video games made real.
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Now on Eastern 27 Sarge (but still sailing) and posting as "Stinkpotter".

Passage, Mystic, and Sarge--click to enlarge.
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 03/31/2010 :  08:27:01  Show Profile
Sounds like good news for small boat sailors who need to be located and rescued, and bad news for the bad guys. Win/win.
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OJ
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Response Posted - 03/31/2010 :  10:00:25  Show Profile
Dave, coincidentally there was a link to another story in the same article. How much fuel do you think you'd save by adding a sail to Sarge?
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/31/2010 :  10:40:33  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Hah! I don't remember who makes that boat, but we thought about purchasing one when we were looking a few years back. It's mostly a trawler, the sail, while functional, is not providing much driving force. The owner was very upfront about it's capabilities. It looked like a nice little boat, just not what we were looking for.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 03/31/2010 :  11:17:02  Show Profile
(Just noticed I put this thread in the wrong forum... )

Many older commercial fishing boats carried sails like that--not for motivation but for steadying themselves in seas. That picture is from an article about building the boat--all wood, stitch-and-glue construction.
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