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Who hasn't drug anchor? Last time for me was in Hilo Inner Harbor (Radio Bay) in 10 feet of water, silty bottom. My 22 pound CQR plow pulled through the soft mud like the ploughshare it was. The solution was to stop pulling.

More dramatic was the grounding of the bulk carrier M/V OCEAN BREEZE off the coast of Chile after the anchor dragged.

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To my eye, it appears only one anchor was set....and doesn't the port anchor look a bit odd?

The first salvage attempt failed. Then the big boys showed up, a 50 man crew from TITAN Salvage. 10 months after the grounding, the cargo of wet grain had been ingeniously removed using aerial means. 6 giant anchors attached to 5,000 meters of 3" chain were safely afixed to the ship through dangerous surf and the pull began.

With 1,000 tons of pulling force, OCEAN BREEZE came off the beach, pretty as you please. What do you do with a ship that has been declared a "total loss?" because of "severe structural deficiencies?" After international marine ecosystem legalities were covered, TITAN towed OCEAN BREEZE 46 miles to sea and sank it. TITAN's next job? Get the wrecked cruise ship COSTA CONCORDIA off the Italian island.
 
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Gosh, I knew it gets windy in Drakes Bay, but CA CONDOR rail down with just the blade up and no main sets a new standard. :p Thanks for the photo!
 
I'm on Hat Island Washington for the weekend.
waiting for my friend to pick me up on the dock in Everett I noticed this steel dreadnought for sale.
Apart from being the Yang to Mouton Noir's Yin, the ground tackle was what initially caught my eye.. mostly because I nearly took my head out walking past it
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Then I went and looked at the listing... this really is a spiritual [smaller] sister to M.N., in white. I've never seen a stainless steel mast, but it makes sense on a steel hull I suppose...
 
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"Commissioned in 2000 with one meticulous owner for the past 16 years, Kobella was built in British Columbia of 3/16" plate steel, using the origami construction technique. Her stainless steel mast and ultra-tough systems will support voyaging to any destination."

Electronics
VHF - Standard Horizon Eclipse
Compass - Ritchie Helmsman HB-740
Depthsounder
GPS - Garmin Handheld, with NW Charts

Sails
Genoa - 9.2 oz. Dacron, Near-new
Battened mainsail

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/list...broker&&hosturl=portgardner&&ywo=portgardner&
 
hodgmo said:
"Commissioned in 2000 with one meticulous owner for the past 16 years, Kobella was built in British Columbia of 3/16" plate steel, using the origami construction technique. Her stainless steel mast and ultra-tough systems will support voyaging to any destination."

Electronics
VHF - Standard Horizon Eclipse
Compass - Ritchie Helmsman HB-740
Depthsounder
GPS - Garmin Handheld, with NW Charts

Sails
Genoa - 9.2 oz. Dacron, Near-new
Battened mainsail

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/list...broker&&hosturl=portgardner&&ywo=portgardner&
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Oh dear lord don't write that on Sailing Anarchy or there'll be a riot for the next decade.

Actually, the boat looks pretty good to me.
 
Albert Strange, (1855-1917) was a renowned English artist, single and double-handed sailor, and designer of over 150 classic small sailing ships, many of them of light displacement and shoal draft to take the ground of England's East Coast. His designs are still sought after, and retain a classic beauty.

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Strange's life and designs are celebrated among connoisseurs here: http://www.albertstrange.org/

Albert Strange's largest design, now 107 years old, is the cutter TALLY HO at 48 feet LOD. TALLY HO achieved great fame by winning the third Fastnet Race in 1927 in appalling conditions that caused the retirement of 13 of 15 entries including JOLIE BRISE. http://www.yachttallyho.com/index.php/about-tally-ho/fastnet-race-1927

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notice the foreguy on the flexible 30 foot spinnaker pole is a pair of legs!......

In 1967, TALLY HO sailed for New Zealand, chartering in the Caribbean en route. In the South Pacific TALLY HO was wrecked on a reef, but pulled off and repaired. A new owner sailed her to Hawaii where she was sold to a fisherman from Oregon. She fished out of Brookings, Oregon from 1978 into the 1990s, repeatedly sailing to the South Pacific, before being abandoned in Brookings when her owner moved to Hawaii.

Until recently it looked like the abandoned TALLY HO would be broken up in Brookings when she fortuitously came under the ownership of Leo Sampson Goolden, an experienced and motivated young English sailor and ship wright.

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Goolden had TALLY HO moved to Sequim, WA, put under cover of a well equipped work shop, and is now commencing on the ambitious rebuild, from keel up, of this historical yacht. Goolden, a talented writer, is documenting his story is here, and I hope to visit TALLY HO in the near future.
http://sampsonboat.co.uk/
 
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Great, Sleddog! I think that you will enjoy the talented, low-key Leo. Thanks for giving his story a push.
Craig
 
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For anyone needing sail repair, sail modification, dodger repair, etc. a good source of quality craftsmanship is sailmaker to the SSS, our friend Synthia:

Synthia Petroka
Beats Mowing The Lawn
~ Let Me Cover Your Assets ~
www.beatsmowingthelawn.com
[email protected]
+1 510-205-9412
Skype: synpetroka
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Synthia did a beautiful job replacing the UV strip on my jib. Thanks, Synthia!
 

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Here's TALLEY HO, photographed in the Solent by Beken of Cowes in 1927. That's 90 years ago, showing all the latest in yacht design technology being promoted in modern day glossy ads and boat shows:

1) Vertical stem (Albert Strange's answer to crowded harbors, along with
2) retractable bow sprit
3) loose footed main
4) diagonal sail panels
5) fractional rig, with square topped main
6) not a masthead tri-color, but there's TALLEY HO's Fresnel running lights 8 feet off the water, better visibility than modern nav lights on the pulpit obscured by the asymmetrical spinnaker tacked to the sprit.

I wonder how long it takes TALLEY HO to jibe?:cool:
 
Fun to see design and ingenuity at play, in this case in Los Osos, where Craig and Vicky have modified the steering on their 20 foot Sooty Tern WEE BONNIE. The previous steering system, an extra long tiller extension, bypassed the mizzen mast on the starboard side, but created less than desirable characteristics in the process...

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Craig set his fertile imagination to work, and designed a "Lyre Tiller" that curved around the mizzen mast on both sides, before coming together forward. The aft end of the Lyre Tiller even provides a sheeting point for the mizzen boom.

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Craig writes the new tiller was "fun to build and, at 7’ in length, gives rather fine steering control/feedback."

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photos courtesy of MAGICdreamer
 
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Just for the record, Sir sleddog, I just followed the plans that Iain Oughtred sketched in a corner of one of his plan sheets. And I can see from the photo why you might have thought that the mizzen sheet goes to it...but I built a hollow boomkin - that pole just behind my back - which angles inward aft and the sheet goes through that to a cam cleat on the stern deck - just out of sight.

Now that tiller extension for the lyre is a bit of fun. A scrap of curly maple left over from a furniture-building project had some dramatic grain to it ('chatoyancy", is the term, I think - see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_laRR95IZac ). This was dyed with some aniline dye and varnished for an interesting sort of curiosity. Too much time on my hands, I suspect...)

Cheers,

Craig
 
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I have a push-pull tiller on the skerry and I'm not a fan. On the skerry, I don't have a mizzen to worry about, so I think a new, non-kick-up rudder with a reg'lar tiller is in my future.

I'm also considering the possibility of building one of these. I'm about to send a check off for the design and plank layouts.

https://youtu.be/2RsttZg7iCc
 
Determination. Competency. Both can be found at the old Aeolus Boatworks in Davenport, 15 miles north of Santa Cruz, where Gary Blair has been building his 40 foot cruising cutter for the last 40 years.

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Gary drove a SC transit bus for years while working on his project. The hull is cold-molded mahogany, 3 layers, 1 5/8" thick. Gary never met a piece of fiberglass he didn't hate.

Interesting, the waterline length of Gary's dreadnought design is 3 feet longer than the length on deck.

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Gary's cutter, near completion, features three watertight doors and compartments.

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photos courtesy of Paul Tara
 
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Good sailing friend, VN, left this morning as navigator on the 10 day, Double-Handed, All Women's Off Road Rally, the REBELLE, between Lake Tahoe and San Diego. Traditional navigation methods only: compass, plotting sheets, and topo maps as they cross dirt roads, double tracks, trails, and sand dunes. No GPS or cell phones to find the checkpoints, some of which are nothing more than a blue flag in a sand dune.

Tracking by Yellow Brick, available online to supporters but not to contestants.

37 Teams in this test of driving skill, navigation, and endurance.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkB_ewwStrvi4BimVrYhpyw

It's gonna be a bit dusty out there in the wilds of Nevada. But showers, food, and gas will be waiting at the evening Base Camps. Go Team Broncosaurus!

http://www.rebellerally.com/
 
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Blue Whales visiting Santa Cruz Harbor?

Santa Cruz Harbor's new dredge, TWIN LAKES, has begun dredging the shoaled Upper Harbor, north of the bridge. and south of Arana Gulch. Coincidentally, a whimsical science experiment is occurring offshore Twin Lakes State Beach, just east of the breakwater. If you can figure this one out, you win a weekend at Capitola Boat Club.

Here are the facts: Golf balls, with the logo "Ocean Honda," and the distinctive Wally the Blue Whale emblem, are floating ashore at Twin Lakes Beach. Why? Where are they coming from? Golf balls float. Or do they? This flotation, or lack of, is a significant clue to the science experiment mystery. As is gravity. And no, no one is driving golf balls into the ocean for practice. Or are they?

Chris, the dredge driver, knows the answer....Others may also, but don't visit this journal. Or do they?

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Blue Whales visiting Santa Cruz Harbor?
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You had me going there for a minute! I was ready to jump in the car and drive down. Alas! I don't have a scientific brain. I'll wait for the next easy competition.... will there ever be an easy competition?
 
Golf balls don't float in fresh water, used to make a couple buck collecting them out of ponds as a kid, maybe they do in salt water.

Are they going somewhere with the dredge tailings in order to find out how long and where the the current takes them?

Just a wild guess.
 
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