Monday, November 9th, 2009
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this Week in Wayfarers: 
* a vaccine scare to counter the swine flu scare
* welcome to new Idaho Wayfarer, Jim Doty (W3505)
* more from our beloved W-friend, Ken Jensen (W1348)
* a video clip worth seeing even if it's not sailing related
* you heard it here first: another of Nick Seraphinoff's (mis-)adventures
* Midwinters promises from Tony Krauss and Uncle Al
* a lovely chunk of hilarity shared with us by Anna Wharton (W600)
* sailboat racing without rules???
* Nick Seraphinoff mobilizes another tiny business opportunity!!
* old news from Cyprus and a new take on sailing with much water in the boat
* Tim France's Wayfarer Guelph give-away now given
* Robert Mosher recommends videos and asks about joining the UKWA web site and W kits
* new art gallery opened by daughter of the late Geoff Edwards (W9483)
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Subject: a vaccine scare to counter the swine flu scare

Guys, I’m emailing you because I’m bloody scared about something. I’m a qualified pharmacist. I've been researching the swine flu vaccine that our government has bought for us (using our money, by the way) and it’s DANGEROUS. It’s easy a hundred times more dangerous than the swine flu itself.

Something that freaked me out is that several swine flu vaccine manufacturers have asked governments to give them an exemption from lawsuits, in case the vaccine caused harm in people. If you made a vaccine that you knew worked, then why would you need a legal exemption  in case it hurt people? Massive warning sign. They don't believe it’s safe.

The swine flu itself has killed about 2/3000 people total. The regular flu kills 40 000 plus per year - so why are we freaking out about swine  flu, and not normal flu? Does that make sense? No. If the regular flu kills 40 000 plus per year, and the swine flu only killed 2/3 000 - then why are governments buying it in advance, giving it to us for free, and giving drug manufacturers immunity to legal cases against them? Does that make sense? No.

The swine flu vaccine contains 2 horribly dangerous compounds - one is called thimerosol. It is made 50% of mercury. It binds to receptors in your brain, and basically causes brain damage. Is it smart to be injected with thimerosol, and get brain damage, dropping 10 IQ points and going dumb, in order to avoid getting a flu that kills 95% less people than regular flu? no.

The other horrible in gredient is called squalene. Squalene accidentally tricks your immune system into killing your own cells, which creates autoimmune diseases like asthma, multiple scelerosis, diabetes, and a bunch of diseases that we don’t have a name for yet (because squalene hasn’t been used for that long, and we have little data on its effects) - is smart to inject yourself with that stuff, in order to avoid a relatively mild flu, like the swine flu? No.

If you're a pregnant mother about to take Panvax, ask yourself this - why would you take Panvax, when it contains Neomycin and Polymyxin B  Sulphate - both of which exhibit positive risk to unborn children - so as to avoid what? A mild flu, that kills 95% fewer people than the regular flu?

I'm a qualified pharmacist. I scored in the top 0.1% of my state in school. I’m expert at critical analysis of drugs and their effects on humans. And let me be blunt – if someone came up to me with a syringe full of swine flu vaccine, or came near my family with one - I would take the needle off them and poke them with it myself - followed by several very hard punches.

This stuff is poison. Don't take it.

Don’t let your friends take it. Don't let your family take it. If some  idiot in a lab coat asks you if you want it, ask them about thimerosol,  squalene, and why the company making it wants legal exemption from being sued, and watch their face go into "omg im being asked serious questions that I don’t have the answer to" mode.

Anyway that’s all I have to say.

Sincerely,

George Mamouzellos
Bachelor of Pharmacy
University of South Australia
... and on a lighter note, from Ed Tait (W825):
----- Original Message -----
From: edward tait  W825
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:31 PM
Subject: Side effects of the h1n1 flu shot

I'm sure glad I haven't had my flu shot yet!

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Subject: welcome to new Idaho Wayfarer, Jim Doty (W3505)
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Hirsch W1321
Cc: Jim Doty W3505
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:50 PM
Subject: West Coast Contacts

Uncle Al,

I have been in contact with a new Wayfarer owner that lives in Idaho.  I have referred him to your website - Jim Doty just bought #3505.  cc: to Jim

I was hoping to forward some info on the West Coast events.  I remember one by the BC folks that was held on some inland lake that might be a stone's throw from Idaho.  Can you help with this?  The Weekly Whiffle archives are not accessible.  I tried that.

Gary


----- Original Message -----
To: Gary
Cc: Tim Koontz W2253 ; Nick Parker (W982) ; Jim Doty
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:14 PM

Hi, Gary and Jim:
 
Welcome to Wayfarers, Jim. I have copied our CWA West Coast Fleet Captain, Nick Parker, and the USWA Pacific NW Rep, Tim Koontz, who will doubtless eagerly welcome you! Nick will be planning for 2010 and let you know what the status of the Okanagan Rally is for next year. I have not yet received any coverage of this year's Rally, except to hear it went very well. To see coverage of the 2008 Western Wayfarer Rally go to my Whiffle Web site at http://www.wayfarer-canada.org/. Go down the left-side index to Cruising and get to http://www.wayfarer-canada.org/Rally.reports/North_American_Rallies_index.html by clicking N.A. Rallies 00-09. There the second-last entry is the WWR.
 
Gary, by Whiffle archives do you mean Weekly Whiffles???  It is in that case true that each year's archived versions go onto that year's Yearbook CD/DVD and only the current year's WWs remain on line - unless you count the Hughes Nughes.
 
Best regards,
 
Uncle Al  (W3854)


----- Original Message -----
From: Gary
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:02 AM

Uncle Al,

I was trying to look at earlier versions of the 2009 Weekly Whiffle (prior to the summer break) and was unable to open the pages.

Gary


----- Original Message -----
To: Gary
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:13 PM

Thanks for letting me know, Gary. I had somehow deleted those files - silly me! They are now back up and - I hope - working?


Original Message -----
From: Jim Doty
To: Gary
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:36 PM

Gary,

She (W3505) is in remarkably good condition,  having always been trailer sailed, stored indoors, and not used since 1991.  On close examination, there are a few little gelcoat nicks and scratches, but nothing significant. 



She was in Palouse, Washington, just a short distance north of Pullman WA and Moscow ID... a little town off the beaten path.  The guy that owned it passed away several years ago, and the widow finally decided to part with it.  She advertised on Craigslist a few months ago and I happened to see it and saved the ad.  She emailed detailed photos to me, then we talked on the phone.  Her price $4000 seemed too high so I didn't act for a couple of months and didn't want to insult her with what I thought the price should be.  I finally told her the maximum I would pay ($3000), she said she would accept that and I headed up there yesterday.  It is still a little higher priced than others advertised now, but I thought the condition warranted it.



Driving through Boise last week, I found another one decaying in a back yard (photo above).  Ends up that it was a CL 16 and not a genuine Wayfarer.  It has been sitting out for years and would need all woodwork replaced but I think the hull would clean up, spars look OK, and it is sitting on a good trailer.  As a project to work on with my son and stepsons, I might offer a couple hundred bucks for it.  The owner is out of the country, but I talked to the son and he said he would ask his dad if he wanted to part with it.  Actually, in the condition it is in, I would probably be doing them a favor just hauling it away.  Looks OK outside from a distance, but inside it is half full of old junk that is rotting away.

I sold myself on a Wayfarer after reading the Dye books and the Lee Hughes book.  I'm retired and want a boat that I can easily set up myself for single-handing any day of the week at the local lakes.  I have a Catalina 22 that I like a lot but it takes me 30-45 minutes to set it up and launch it.  I used to own a Lightning, but that was a handful for one man... really needs at least two and preferably three to handle sheets and serve as rail ballast.  I'm hoping the Wayfarer will be a bit more tame.  I also have a bigger boat berthed in Bellingham, WA... a long way from here.  We take it out 3 or 4 weeks each year and the rest of the time it is in a charter fleet.  It is a Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34.  I plan to take an extended trip in it a year from now, probably down to Baja, then back via Hawaii.

Regards,

Jim Doty
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Subject: more from our beloved W-friend, Ken Jensen (W1348)
Original Message -----
From: KEN-Krist. H. Jensen
Cc: Frank Dye
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 4:27 PM

Thanks to You, Al, I enjoyed the 02 NOV 2009 'Whiffle' !
 
And today again I learned about the potential deadly danger - right here over my fishing seascape by CPH Airport - of geese in collision with an A/C.  A couple of them jammed into one engine of a twin-engine SAS plane on take off.   The engine exploded, and the still wildly rotating remains of it was shaking the plane so violently that the pilots could not read the instruments and were given a very hard time figuring out if one OR both engines were damaged! Also the nose-radar-dome was pushed way in. Had the other engine also suffered, there would have been another 'Hudson River' incident down into the Sound here.  Indeed, happy and proud we are that our boys handled it safely with no casualties.  An engine failure on take off is 'no small piece of cake', luckily only experienced by me once, but then on a four-engined plane and no serious vibrations.

On an F-80 back 1951 over Arizona there was a 'BANG' and the tail unit felt like it was shaking off. The cause being a little, fingernail-size piece lost from the corner of a turbine blade (you brought the picture OCT 2008 where I looked up the tailpipe of an F-80). 
 
Thanks for your corrections, I have not yet found the box with my dictionary!  And I forgot, Quote: *--which is moved forward from the aft-end roller-reefing link on the boom-end and re-hooked onto the boom in order to have less/no interference with the engine for the main sheet - especially gybing. Unquote.
 
All the best with kind regards. Ken t.o.
----- Original Message -----
To: KEN-Krist. H. Jensen
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:26 PM

Hi, Ken:
 
Just putting this into the 09 Nov 09 issue - found the tailpipe pic, I think:
 
 
All in all, sailing a W sounds a lot simpler than flying one of those big, fast planes!!
 
Have made the correction to last week's issue, the one about keeping the mainsheet clear of the motor.
 
Best regards,
 
Uncle Al  (W3854)
Original Message -----
From: KEN-Krist. H. Jensen
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 4:58 AM

Hi, Al!
 
Thanks a lot for your very good 'follow up', but really to sail the Wayfarer has more components of 'end results' than flying, which when airborne has only one element! For the finish-line - with all the tuning/trimming possibilities - there is always a faster track/way than the one you have chosen to sail - although you got there first!

The 'capsize' with an A/C is often fatal, and the one shown killed about 3-5 (out of 6 - 800) each month being sophisticated new jet age without the solid background of enough, good, human knowledge and experience in that field. The Korean War was on and actually the F-80/"Shooting Star" shot down the first MIG in that war. Impossible for me to figure out how that happened! The F-86"Sabre" luckily came in and was the answer to getting the MIGs!
Not too many know that an Airline Pilot has two qualification tests and two health tests each year, and should have good nerves when things go wrong, because the right 'split-second decisions' may save the day, the passengers' and the guy's own life ! Unlike doctors the pilots are buried with there mistakes. I can witness that SAS has rules and training that goes quite beyond what is demanded by CAA (Civil Aviation Authority). After my last landing breathing out: "A-ah, you made PORT in a fairly proper manner and no casualties!" 
 
Yesterday had my last W1348 sail here and looked skeptically at some fly-by migrating geese. Flying out as PAX myself in a few days for BKK, and the warm waters of the Gulf of Siam. Sometimes I ponder 'how can I be so privileged + lucky'! Well, re. tomorrow, 'those alive shall see!'.
 
Kind regards, Ken  W1348"Maitken"

(in Dragør S.C. they want me to show Frank Dye's Summer Cruise in the spring, as I did in 1968, and talk long dist. W cruising! 'Cool' - so I plan to be around)
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Subject: a video clip worth seeing even if it's not sailing related
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Share
To: undisclosed-recipients
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:03 PM
Subject: PLEASE adopt Pinky

So long, Pinky!!!

Al's note: I think you have to download to see this clip. Right-click on the link to the left here, and select "Save Target as ..." - I usually save these things to the Desktop so that I'll be able to find them!! Enjoy!!
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Subject: you heard it here first: another of Nick Seraphinoff's (mis-)adventures

Yet another way to capsize a Flying Dutchman

Well, today I yet again found another way to capsize a Flying Dutchman. Since I seem to manage to capsize the FD just about every time I sail it, I have in my short career, experienced quite a variety of capsizes. I have capsized to leeward [That's a dawdle]. I have capsized to windward [That's quick]. I have capsized during gybes with the Spinnaker up [That's messy]. You would think I should be getting better at righting the boat and rescuing myself. Guess again. Anyway, let's get to today's story.


Nick sailing his FD at the 2006 Wayfarer Midwinters on Lake Eustis

There was a nice light eight mile an hour breeze on Traverse Bay today and it was a perfect day to take my son-in-law, Nikos, out for his first FD ride on the wire. We have been out practicing on the Wayfarer a few times with the intent that he begin crewing on Wayfarers but riding the wire on the FD was going to be a new experience. By the way, I couldn't get him on the boat again the next day. He was complaining about the possibility of a cracked rib or something. The malingerer!

Off we went, upwind with Nikos on the wire after a couple of tries. Things were going so well that I was engrossed with the prospect of our journey back home with my new FD guy flying the spinny. Right in the middle of one of my Walter Middy fantasies, a little gust hit us and I threw myself back to hike. Wham! The hiking strap broke and over I went. As everyone who has broken a hiking strap knows, when this happens you flip over backward into the water and right away begin pulling yourself back in the boat with the mainsheet.

For some reason I didn't have the mainsheet in my hand, which left me with nothing but the hiking stick in my left hand. I of course wasn't going to be able to pull myself back into the boat with that flimsy stick but at a time like that, you don't think those things through and I just began pulling like the dickens on my one feeble connection to the boat.

But wait! The boat was not leaving me. It seemed to be taking me along. GOOD NEWS. It was taking me along because my right foot was still up at the rail and it was there because the spinnaker halyard was wrapped around it. Just as I realized what was happening, God decided that due to my behavior here on Earth, the boat should drag me under water for a while. BAD NEWS. As I was trying to develop a plan for getting my head above water, the Lord must have looked down and said, " He's had enough" and I was miraculously lifted out of the water. GOOD NEWS.

But wait! I was lifted out of the water because the boat was capsizing and very shortly I found myself hanging upside down from one foot. The good news was that the boat is as wide as I am tall and I was able to keep my head out of the water. The bad news was that I figured it would very shortly turn turtle and I was not looking forward to being flipped over and probably under water with the halyard still wrapped around my foot.

By now Nikos had been thrown into the boat still attached to the wire and I really didn't know what state of mind he was in or if he would be inclined to come back and rescue the guy that got him into this mess, even if even if he was not in a panic. I very calmly said, "Niko, I am in a lot of trouble back here and am afraid I may drown. You need to come back here and untangle me. He was my only hope since in my infinite wisdom, I had taken my knife out of my pocket back on shore. Luck was with me. Nikos did have a surprising amount of calm and grit and wended his way very quickly through the mess of sails, cables and lines back to where I hung.

In seconds he had me loose, and I dropped into the water as the boat began to invert. By now, as a result of his crash course in capsizing, Nikos didn't have any trouble scrambling out from under the boat as it turned turtle. Our next step was to pull the centerboard out full and begin the slow pull to get the boat back on its side. Once the boat was on its side we then both stood on the centerboard to pop the boat upright. This was all fine except that the main and genoa were both cleated.  Over we went again.

I then swam under the boat and released the sails, as I should have before. With the sails uncleated, it was simple to climb over the side and lo and behold, since it is a self-draining cockpit, all we had to do was sheet in and sail away. The lessons learned:

1. Always have a knife with you. A knife on a lanyard tied to you. It could save your life.

2. Before trying to right the boat always get down there and make sure the sails are not cleated.

3. The part I didn't mention was: BE PROPERLY DRESSED, even at the risk of being over-dressed. It was such a beautiful day and with the light wind I didn't see a need for wet suits. Well, there we were in the water for maybe a half hour. Fortunately the water was pretty warm and I didn't feel any hypothermia but Traverse Bay is part of Lake Michigan a wind shift can bring cold water in pretty fast. Remember, we were out there alone and even though there was occasional boat traffic, we could have been in serious trouble if the water had been colder than we realized. I will never again be on Traverse Bay in my FD without a wet suit on.
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Subject: Midwinters promises from Tony Krauss and Uncle Al
----- Original Message -----
From: tmk-W4105
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:45 PM
Subject: Midwinters

Al,

i realize that i've had to turn in my card for my complete woosification last year, but i'll be damned if i don't make the Mid-Winters this year.
 
-tmk


----- Original Message -----
To: tmk-W4105
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:53 PM

I know what you mean, Tony, after missing the Chesapeake Cruise and Rock Hall this past year. I, too, will be at the Midwinters this year, come hell or high water!!
 
Best regards,
 
Uncle Al  (W3854)
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Subject: a lovely chunk of hilarity shared with us by Anna Wharton (W600)
----- Original Message -----
From: WHARTON
To: al
Cc: Kit Wallace
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 7:11 PM
Subject: good one

A group of children were trying very hard to become accustomed to Nursery School. The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on no baby talk! "You need to use 'Big People' words," she was always reminding them. One day she asked John what he had done over the weekend? "I went to visit my Nana." "No, you went to visit your grandmother. Use 'Big People' words!" She then asked Mitchell what he had done. "I took a ride on a choo-choo."  Miss Smith said, "No, you took a ride on a train. You must remember to use 'Big People' words." She then asked little Alex what he had done? "I read a book," he replied. "That's wonderful," the teacher said. "What book did you read?" Alex thought real hard, then puffed out his chest with great pride, and said,
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"Winnie the SH*T."

Al's note: This takes me back to my childhood on Toronto Island where I heard this story: That same Miss Smith had a grade 1 class another year at a different school. In this class she was especially fond of  Jimmy and Johnny who were inseparable pals. Every day they would walk to and from school together, have lunch together, and so on. One morning, Jimmy comes rushing into class just before the bell. "Jimmy," says Miss Smith, "where's Johnny?" "Oh, Miss Smith. It was awful. Johnny and I were walking along the railway tracks when a train came along. I jumped off the tracks just in time, but Johnny didn't make it. The train hit 'im right in the ass!" "Jimmy!" admonished the always proper Miss Smith, "Rectum!!!" "Wrecked 'im??!! It darned near killed 'im!!"
 
And as luck would have it, the week we heard this joke, our minister at Anglican Young People's led a discussion on the pros and cons of becoming a minister or rector in the church. When he said "rector", I thought and may even have said, "Rector??!! Damned near killed 'er!!" Ah, those good old childhood memories!!
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Subject: sailboat racing without rules???
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 11:36 PM
Subject: RACING RULES OF SAILING - LOOK TO WINDWARD

NO RULES!

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 10:55 PM CDT


Krantz will arrange race without rules

Gurra Krantz will simplify the sailing sport, he wants to arrange a race without rules!

Translated from an article in SEILAS by Mikkel Thommessen
The experienced sailor Gurra Krantz, with a America's Cup and Volvo Ocean Race participation behind them, will renew the sailing sport. He believes there's need for simplification.

The well-known Swedish Sailor, in Alicante as Cicerone for Volvo's guests to the start of the Volvo Ocean Race tomorrow, Krantz, who was Helm of the Swedish America's Cup boat "Sweden" in San Diego in 1992 and has four world races behind him, today is a sought after lecturer in management issues.

He has clear views on how sailing can be developed to be more understandable to the public and more interesting for sailors. " Remove all rules, "said Gurra Krantz, " but if there is contact between the boats, disqualify both ".

Krantz plans to try and arrange such a race in Sweden next year. " Something must be done to lift the sailing sport, " he said, referring to the upswing in interest that hockey has had, since someone dared to change the format. " It is impossible to compare sailing and hockey in all aspects, " he said, but continuing: " from being fairly interesting, hockey is now the most interesting of all TV sports".  " Something must be learned from that, " he claims.

Krantz will make it so that it is allowed to touch marks, he will remove rules on mark roundings and the basic keep clear rules.
" Everything is allowed, except for the collision. Then both will be disqualified, " he said.
" If that doesn't work, we begin at the other end and enter simple rules that we need, "
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Subject: Nick Seraphinoff mobilizes another tiny business opportunity!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Seraphinoff W864
To: Linda Heffernan  W2458, Skimmer editor
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 2:22 PM
Subject: New Business

     I am interested in running an ad for my new little business in a future Skimmer. What will it cost me? Here is the ad. Do you think there is a market?
The Seat Shop
   Please visit our shop for all of your Wayfarer rear seat needs. We have a 600 square foot show room full of Wayfarer rear seats. We have dark Mahogany, medium Mahogany and antique distressed Mahogany. We are the largest supplier of Wayfarer rear seats in North America. We guarantee that we will have just the matched set of Wayfarer rear seats you are looking for.

                             The Seat Shop
                             10069 Kay Road
                             Traverse City, Michigan

Sorry; we do not buy Wayfarer rear seats.
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Subject: old news from Cyprus and a new take on sailing with much water in the boat
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 9:35 PM
Subject: Wayfaring in Cyprus

Hi Uncle Al

I see from WIT that back in 2001 you had some correspondence with someone called Patrick in Cyprus about singlehanding a Wayfarer. Please let Patrick have my email address and ask him to get in touch. I only started sailing about 3 seasons ago and my Wayfarer is the only one I know about in Larnaka [east end of Cyprus], so if there are other Wayfarers on the island I would love to meet them!

Regards

Richard


On 7 Sep 2008, at 06:00, Al Schonborn wrote:

Good to hear from you! In about a month, I'll be re-starting my off-season Weekly Whiffle  on the CWA site and would be very pleased to get a report from you about your W experiences in Cyprus - short or long, whatever you like, with pictures, if possible.
Original Message -----
From: Richard
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: Wayfaring in Cyprus

Hi Uncle Al
I write a blog [usually at least weekly] with pictures and Google Earth images of each trip, grabbed from my Garmin GPS about my escapades. http://wayfarer-cyprus.blogspot.com/ But will contribute appropriate stuff to the Whiffle. There's no entry for this weekend as I had no crew and my wife wanted some stuff done around the house. So I am feeling low and sailing-starved!

Just an aside... there seems to be some discussion [Weekly Whiffle 31 March 2007 - long time ago, but seen this ongoing discussion elsewhere] about 'sloshing' etc. after capsize. My oldest son Daniel [at 20 years old when he did this] was senior waterman on the MV Doulos, which is the oldest passenger going ship on the ocean [two years younger than Titanic]. She is approx. 6000 tonnes. Apart from sorting out the drinking water, he was also responsible for the balance [trim and list] of the ship. This is all done manually, by dropping knotted weighted lines into the tank inspection holes, then doing some rough and ready maths on weight of water/degrees of list and then finally pumping water from tank to tank. One major concern he always had was the 'free surface effect' [which is basic fluid dynamics] and the effect this has on the ship when she is sailing. He was always trying to move water to appropriate sized tanks to reduce the free surface effect. 

All the discussion about 'sloshing' is basically about managing 'free surface effect', but I have never read it discussed that way in Wayfarer writings. [Daniel described doing whippings on the Wayfarer like this: 'It's funny doing all this rope work on such tiny little ropes. Kind of like working on a model railway, or something. It's nice though.']

As for the stern drainage tubes to speed up the water leaving the boat. I had been thinking of this myself after an experience with one of the 470s at the club. Somehow water got into the front buoyancy so the dinghy arrived back at the club a few centimetres of freeboard! We used the winch/manhandled/dragged her half way up the slipway and then tipped her so that the drain plugs could work. It did... slowly... very slowly. So my crew and I [not the crew of the 470 that day who shall remain anonymous] went to the store and grabbed a couple of pieces of hose and ran them into the inspection openings of the buoyancy and then sucked/siphoned the water so that it ran out. It wasn't running twice as fast... more like 6-8 times as fast. I'm not sure why it speeded up quite so much, but it made me think about running tubes from below floor boards, through [sealed] the rear buoyancy tank to the outside for quickly removing excess water.

Back to my son on the ship... the water management system was complex with many tanks and many valves, but only one pump. The game was how to move water around. Some movements appeared impossible at first sight, till you think about siphoning... in which case you could siphon a good few tonnes of water from one tank to another to balance the ship. 2 degrees of list was significant for his balancing tricks, trying to maintain less than 1 degree list in general. Since siphoning is using the water pressure/air pressures itself to move the water, this could speed up the egress of water and reduce the free surface affect on a righted Wayfarer... though to what extent would need to be seen.

A couple of months back, with an inexperienced crew, we went about badly and took on board quite a quantity of water - about 4-6 inches above floorboards [the crew - 2 people that day - had fallen over each other landing on the leeward side and took a time to move over each other]. Being aware of the free surface effect, my aim was to manage that by sailing on a point/wave direction that held the mass of water to one side and didn't destabilise the Wayfarer and capsize us. Even though that meant holding her with very, very much more list that I would normally sail but any attempt to bring the boat to level would have only created a significant free surface effect problem and possibly then capsized us. Only when I had the water below the floorboards and the free surface effect minimal did I think at all about what direction I really wanted to sail. The bailers sucked all the water out pretty quickly. [Don't know if I even wrote this up on the blog, its only seeing the Whiffle that I am thinking about it.]

What does amaze me is how stable the Wayfarer is. Two weekends ago in F 5-6 [measured 19 knots wind], the club sailing instructor capsized 6 times, one of the 470 crews capsized a couple of times and... I just bashed and cut my chin on the side deck, but we didn't go over!

Best regards

Richard
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Subject: Tim France's Wayfarer Guelph give-away now given
Original Message -----
From: Tim France
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:34 AM
Subject: give-away status?

Hi Al:
 
Good news this morning - I was able to give away both sets of oars and the brass bands - so please take down the my info on your web site. And thanks very much for your help. Requests for the stuff to be shipped by bus or Fed Ex etc. were hard for handle - then yesterday I was able to drop off all of the stuff at a Guelph address while we were on our way to Cambridge. I like to think that the new owner will use these things for the good of sailing and the Wayfarer class in particular. Like I said before, your web site was a great help - thanks again!

Our move is slated for the first week of December - and as you may imagine our house is scene of many cardboard boxes and much activity. Thirty-eight years in the same house leads to a lot of junk tucked away
because we might need it some day. Watch out, it could happen to you also!

Our new home is a condo about halfway between our present home and downtown Guelph. A nice unit all on one floor - easier for Rosemary to get around, i.e. no stairs which she now has difficulty handling.

... The phone number will be the same.

Best wishes,
Tim
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Subject: Robert Mosher recommends videos and asks about joining the UKWA web site and W kits
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Mosher  W3445
To: Al Schonborn
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:13 PM
Subject: Wayfarer/Youtube/UKlog

Dear Al: 

I love going on youtube and looking at sailing videos. Here are some of the best results for “Wayfarer Sail”, “Wayfarer Dinghy”, and some extras by the same. I though others might enjoy looking at what I think are the best new posts and older posts I had not found before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JATSpxlB3uE&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AOgyFAVqqs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJ3FNG-rU0&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2GDIVU5AvY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1DMsVw6NuE&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp9WtzvZ9r4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsyt2oKra90

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u75QF_gPHyg&feature=related

On the UK Wayfarer site I found this log/report of a cruise on the Broads. Now I just need a way of joining this group for next year's outing. You may need to scroll down to find the reports, and click Read More for the full report.  Last year I believe you gave us information on joining the UK web site. Could you repost that as if I can I would like to join.

Good sailing to you all!

Robert Mosher   W3445
Original Message -----
To: Robert Mosher W3445
Cc: webmaster UKWA - Bob Harland ; Al Schonborn W3854 ; Michele Parish (W10139) USWA Membership ; Sarah Burgess ; Kit Wallace W1037
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:29 PM

Hi, Robert:
 
I had hoped to have a look at all your suggestions but still have not found the time, so now I will post them in our videos section and in tonight's WW.
 
Regarding membership in the UKWA web site, I believe webmaster, Bob Harland (copied) and/or UKWA Secretary, Sarah Burgess (copied) has to hear from a credible source (CWA and USWA membership secretaries copied) that the person applying is a member in good standing of one of the Wayfarer National Class Associations. (Have included Kit since I plan to publish this in tonight's Weekly Whiffle and others may want to follow your fine example in both the US and Canada)
 
Thanks again for the Whiffle "fodder".
 
Best regards,

Uncle Al (W3854)
-----Original Message -----
From: Robert M (W3445)
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:32 PM
Subject: W kits

Dear Al:

Thanks.  I have another question that has been rolling around in my head.  Why was production of the wood kits stopped.  Was it due to lack of sales or the fact that mahogany plywood disappeared from the market?  Has anyone thought about trying to bring back the production of a wood kit for owner assembly?

Have a great evening.  Don't stay up too late.

Robert  W3445


----- Original Message -----
To: Robert
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 8:15 PM
Subject: W kits

Hi, Robert:
 
Wood kits were not selling and in at least one case, a kit boat led to a protest because it was thought the builder of the kit boat had taken advantage of the tolerances. Designer, Ian Proctor, ruled the boat legal but decided that kits should be discontinued. That is where it sits now. Given that Hartleys are now the copyright holders, don't hold your breath that wood kits will come back!
 
Best regards,
 
Uncle Al  (W3854)
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Subject: new art gallery opened by daughter of the late Geoff Edwards (W9483)
----- Original Message -----
From: Janet Edwards Dunphy
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:18 PM
Subject: Barbara Edwards Contemporary - Featured on Toronto Living

Dear family and friends,
 
The colossal news in our family is the recent launch of Barbara's new Art Gallery.  Toronto Living (on Rogers Cable) did a four-minute segment on Barbara and the current exhibit. 
 
To view the segment, tune into Cable channel 10. This week, the program will air on Thursday - 4:00 PM and Friday - 8:00 AM, 3:00 PM, 10:30 PM.  See it then or program your PVR or VCR to watch it later.
 
To visit her website, click on www.becontemporary.com.
 
We're very proud of Barbara's accomplishment and early success.
 
Best wishes to all.
 
Janet & Paul