Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: rescue

I didn't see on his website that he removed ballast, he did remove the bilge keels. Unless you live somewhere where everytime the tide goes out the boat takes the ground, I would think that the speed hit with bilge keels would be unacceptable. Being steel they do add to the stability, but as they were 800 pounds, even if the the ballast ratio was only 30% on a 50,000 pound boat, that's 5% reduction in ballast, which is a 1.5% reduction in the ballast ratio. I would have picked a different boat if I thought that that small of a change would make the difference between being suitable and unsuitable offshore. John Courter Cal 40 Strider From: Sail Away <Sv… [at] optonline.net> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 5, 2007 6:11:57 PM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: rescue I have not heard a bit on the news....But maybe he should not have removed the additional ballast from the keel...... Greg From: mtkennedy1 To: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:02 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] Re: rescue --- In Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com, "Downing, Thomas" <Thomas.Downing@ ...> wrote: > > Another reply to this message looked at this from the tradition of the sea. > I agree with that. On the other hand, Chris makes valid points. > > The idea I like is just continuing the trend of charging for rescue. There was > a time when the Coast Guard would tow disabled boats here in Long Island > Sound, now they won't - the change was driven by economics. > One present result of this trend is the fact that masts cannot be insured while racing. Thirty years ago, they could be. I think Transpac insurance is much more expensive, too, although Transpac has a tradition of self reliance.When I went, one of the boats was dismasted. They were about 500 miles out and not yet in the Trades so jury-rig sailing to Hawaii was out. He got his insurance company to hire a tug to take them several hundred gallons of diesel so they could power home. The only Transpac rescues I know of were injuries and illness, not whole crews. Mike Kenendy Conquest Cal 40 # 96 Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com