Re: Rigging failure!


"Bruce in Bangkok" <brucepaige@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:msdjh39kno20gnd54ss880pf4hnc2mfsc9@xxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:53:39 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
<wilburhubbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Much deleted.

Since you are continually too dense to get it I guess I shall have to
say it in no uncertain terms: Swans are not in evidence at your docks
because Swans are actually out on the high seas doing the voyaging and
circumnavigation. Swans have no fear of some stinking Monsoon season.
They plan their voyages so as to avoid tropical storms at sea. They
aren't some lumbering slowcoach like an Amel Super Marshmallowmaru Swans
take the proper routes at the proper time of year and they sail they can
beat to weather for weeks at a time if necessary because they are strong
and weatherly. Swans don't sit around at docks wasting away waiting and
waiting. Swans do while lesser boats sit.

I hope this helps.

Wilbur Hubbard

Willie-boy that is just about the most stupid post that you have ever
made. You display your ignorance of cruising wonderfully well.

The Indian Ocean is 3,000 plus miles across. Nobody whether they are
sailing a Swan or a bathtub plans a voyage up wind for 3,000 miles. On
top of this most of the bad weather in the Indian Ocean is during the
S.W. Monsoons, so for two very valid reasons rational people do not
start off across the Indian Ocean during the S.W. Monsoon.

But you are correct in saying that "Swans take the proper routes at
the proper time of the year..." Exactly what I've been telling you and
you've been arguing about it.

The proper time of the year to sail from Australia to
Malaysia/Thailand is at the beginning of the S.W. Monsoons when you
have the wind behind you. You sail up through the Indonesian
Archipelago so you don't get typhoons and you arrive in
Malaysia/Thailand during the early to mid S.W. Monsoon. You then park
and wait until the N.E. monsoon starts at the end of the year to make
the next jump.

That's ONE way to do it, yes. But I maintain it's the lazy man with a marginal boat who does it that way. May I suggest you get yourself a copy of "World Cruising Routes" by Jimmy Cornell. You will undoubtedly note alternatives to the sit-at-the-dock-for-half-a-year method you seem so enamored of. Check out the pages 16-24. Look at the wind arrows. There's only a small part of the ocean where the arrows indicate a beat. So what? Beating is part of voyaging. And, besides, those wind arrows aren't cast in cement. They represent an average only.

But, one needs a stout vessel and one that can hammer her way to weather when necessary. So, you got NW monsoon winds the course you wish to make is west. I guess your crummy boat won't go west in a NW wind but my Swan 68 can and does. Forget about any Amel Maramus doing it. Those boats are little more than condo barges. Without motoring, they go to weather little better than a haystack.

Wilbur Hubbard

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