On the value of maintenance, in sailing and elsewhere

[Otter74]

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.

[javadog]

Very cool, thanks.

[Bill Verburg]

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


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



and some visitors we greatly enjoyed their company

[HobieMarty]

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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