And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The pointy bow gets a longer reach for that huge spinnaker to make it into a go-fast hull for downwind legs. Not sure if it complicates tacking. Been on small (6 meter) hulls a few times that were hardly racing setups. I learned to duck when coming about.
I went to a wooden boat show up in Port Townsend Wa, there was a sailboat built by the Germans there, looked just like this, such a thing of beauty, unbelievable.
by chance is that the yacht that recently went down off Sicily?
ReplyDeleteThe pointy bow gets a longer reach for that huge spinnaker to make it into a go-fast hull for downwind legs. Not sure if it complicates tacking. Been on small (6 meter) hulls a few times that were hardly racing setups. I learned to duck when coming about.
ReplyDeleteA J class sailing yacht. Once the class of the America's Cup. Large crew. You have to be a billionaire to sail one.
ReplyDeleteI went to a wooden boat show up in Port Townsend Wa, there was a sailboat built by the Germans there, looked just like this, such a thing of beauty, unbelievable.
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