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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/YetiPal on 2025-01-26 05:04:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/sailingerie on 2025-01-25 21:52:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/Mental-Intention4661 on 2025-01-25 13:04:02+00:00.

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My best guess is Island Packet 36 or 38, but don't think that's spot on... Any ideas?

Makes me sad to see her like that!

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/gomets1969 on 2025-01-25 11:28:48+00:00.

Wife and I watched "True Spirit" last night. Very inspirational story, but my God man, some of the technical details in the sailing scenes made us apoplectic. Being crushed by waves, but her hatch and companionway are completely open the entire time?! No reef in with winds and waves already ripping around her?! Three storms converging and the skies already dark, but she's gonna stay down below looking at well-wisher's videos on her vlog, then make a long phone call?! And don't get us started on the condition of the galley with dirty pots, pans, cups and plates strewn about and filling the sink while she was stuck in the doldrums. We enjoyed it overall, but man did they need a detail person to clean up some things. (I refuse to believe someone sailing around the globe would have allowed those things to actually occur.)

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/Sailsherpa on 2025-01-25 10:39:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/pitoriceshard on 2025-01-25 05:20:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/Past-Desk1513 on 2025-01-23 15:22:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/RauschkugeI on 2025-01-22 18:35:32+00:00.

Hello dear community,

I have been looking for a solution for some time now to wake me up if my crew goes overboard while I am asleep and there are only two of us.

My current "solution" is to equip the lifejackets with AIS MOB transmitters and connect e.g. the "AIS Life Guard MOB/SART Alarm" from Digital Yachts or the "AIS Alarm Box" from Ocean Signal to my NMEA 2000 network using an NMEA 0183 translator. 

Unfortunately, I have not found any modern solutions that can be directly integrated into NMEA 2000 and the alarm on my plotter will not wake me up. Raymarine does offer external alarm transmitters for this, but they seem to alert with every insignificant message and are probably more for solo sailing. I already have two PLB3s and, in case the crew gets bigger, some MOB 1 from Ocean Signal, so I would not need to spend more money on them.

Do you think my plan will work and how have you solved it?

EDIT: Many thanks for the answers and helpful suggestions so far :)

I would also like to add that I´m aware that the first priority is to prevent going overboard. I have taken the safety precautions and measures to do this and this question serves as a precautionary measure. Even in professional sport, MOB situations occur, due to human or technical error, so I would like to have such an alarm for a little extra safety and peace of mind.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/SVAuspicious on 2025-01-22 22:09:04+00:00.

Reddit now has a community funds program. I just attended a webinar from Reddit on this.

There are no guarantees here at all.

I'm looking for expressions of interest. What I'm thinking is speakers fees and infrastructure support (WebEx et al) for someone like Nigel Calder or Jimmy Cornell. There are 720,000 of us and that's an audience.

I'm just a guy who happens to know people (Nigel, Jimmy, Beth, Carolyn, people at OPC, Chris, ...). If

This won't be fast. This year.

My questions are whether you're interested in a free online opportunity to hear from sailing luminaries, limited interaction if you're live, recordings, all brought to you by r/sailing? If so, who would you most like to hear from? Doesn't have to be from my list - could be anyone who is alive (sorry Brion Toss has passed). It would help to know what time zone you're in.

If you are interested I'm going to swing for the fences and go for a series but I'm not going to spend a lot of time on applications for Reddit funding if there isn't interest.

sail fast and eat well, dave

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/earth_star_ on 2025-01-21 22:02:37+00:00.

Recently went on a family vacation to the BVI where we chartered a cat for the week and sailed island hopped. Had an awesome time, it was once of the greatest vacations I’ve ever been on. Happy to answer questions if people have any about that.

My one complaint is the attitude and seeming acceptance of waste dumping. When we got the overview of the boat from the charter’s skipper, he briefly mentioned there are two waste (black water) tanks on the boat but implied we should just leave them open the whole trip and that everybody does that. I had to ask him where the valve was to open and close them, he wasn’t going to show us. We ended up setting sail and realized that the pvc ball valves had not been closed in so long that they were stuck up and we needed a tool to close it, which we did not have. So, the whole trip we had to either find a place to go #2 on land, or try to wait until we were sailing so we weren’t in a mooring. Otherwise we would be crapping in the shallow mooring bays where other people were swimming and we wanted to swim too. I was in awe of the aquatic life there and am probably more conscious of environmental impacts then the average tourist in the BVI. But you’d think the charter company would be motivated tell their clients to not to pollute since their whole business relies on these places staying beautiful and feeling pristine. I know there are laws about waste dumping 3NM off shore not I don’t think that was even brought up, I had to look it up. There was also not mention of using biodegradable soaps or reef friendly sunscreen. When you showered, the water immediately gets pumped out into the ocean, no holding tanks. Idk, it kinda left a gross feeling that all these cats are just dumping crap and chemicals into the waters, specially in the shallow and protected mooring bays.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/Natasha_567 on 2025-01-21 20:00:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/Jzmancor on 2025-01-21 11:39:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/Cyclegeezer on 2025-01-20 18:04:11+00:00.

I am a member of a San Francisco Bay Area yacht club that is interested in both improving our member experience, as well as growing our membership. To do that we would like to get feedback on your thoughts on yacht clubs, in terms of what you are looking for and the value you receive.

Survey Link:

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/VioletVoyages on 2025-01-21 01:30:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/ImpressiveSoft8800 on 2025-01-20 16:56:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/Marinemoody83 on 2025-01-19 13:23:47+00:00.

So I’ve noticed that a lot of boats (mostly cats) down in the Bahamas put their sails up when they are clearly just motoring. I’m not talking about motor sailing where they are still generating lift, I’m looking at 4 right now in the area going the same direction as us so I know the wind is 20-25 apparent to them. So they are generating no lift whatsoever, seems like just unnecessary wear on the sails