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On the value of maintenance, in sailing and elsewhere

I think many of y'all will find this interesting, on the around-the-world sailing race in 1968:

https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-maintenance-race/

‘Simplicity is a form of beauty.’ That principle governed everything for him. ‘Given a choice between something simple and something complicated’, he wrote, ‘choose what is simple without hesitation; sooner or later, what is complicated will almost always lead to problems’. Only simple things, he noted, can be reliably repaired with what you have on board.

Interesting and reminds me of a current local project

50 yrs a go a buddy of mine bought this Baltic 55, an ex Whitbread boat

Here seen in 2005 in Bermuda where we had to duck in for shelter from 1 of 3 hurricanes that trip
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1658588828.jpg

It was his and his S?O 's home and rec center till his death a few years ago

one lack of maintenance issue was the total failure of the rod rigging during a regatta off Puerto Ricco, we were dismasted and rescued by the USCG

other than that the boat was a very reliable workhorse

It's been in a local warehouse storage since his death and was recently purchased by a group of Aussies and New Zealanders for participating in an upcoming restaging of the Whitbread w/ a vintage fleet class

The are helping here in Albany helping w/ the total and I do mean total reconstructions of this wonderful old whale

not only that but one of them is a physician that helped to rescue a damsel in distress after a fall on a hike in the Adirondack's last weekend

gratuitous pic of me back in the day

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1658589423.jpg

and some visitors we greatly enjoyed their company
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1658589423.jpg

Very nice vessel, I can only imagine that a dismasting situation on a boat like that would be a fairly horrendous ordeal!!! Something the size of that mast coming down could do a lot of damage for sure.

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