sailing yachts

List of Sailing Yachts up to 27'
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by agwag

Please can you help I am trying to do a porject on boat sizes (Mono hull up to 27').
Do you know where i can find an electronic copy of the Good Yacht
Guide or some other manual that lists yachts and their dimensions. Any information would be benefical.

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17th Century Admiralty Navigational charts!
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by Casca

[b:3975b8976e][color=brown:3975b8976e]Ahoy Sailing Talks!



It came to mind that boating enthusiasts might be interested in our gallery? Although I'm an old retired Professor in my early days, I decided to travel the world using whatever method I could! So I worked on passenger cruise ships, some old rust buckets and a few motor sailing yachts. One my greatest experiences was sailing around

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canoe stern
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by FlamencoLassie

can anyone tell me what make of boats have canoe stern`s. looking around the only two I can predominantly find are the fisher and the Victoria. is a canoe stern a bad idea? I have spoke to a couple of people who said that it`s a very good desuign (they say it wont take a sea over the back) so why don`t more people use it? Bobby

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hybrid power system
In category Gear
Written by terpslax4

Has there been any discussion of using a hybrid (diesel and electric) power systems on sailing yachts as are starting to be used in cars? Seems to me that it could be arranged to use the diesel to run electric "things" when it is not needed for propulsion. Electric motors are easy to control with solid state control electronics and (possibly) could be used without transmissions.
Any enligh

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