One of the most dangerous things about sailboats...
As a volunteer instructor who occasionally helps out with New Mexico boating safety basics classes, I am well briefed on many nautical hazards, and have had enough experience to know how quickly things can go wrong and become menacing out on the water. Cold shock immersion, hypothermia, heat exhaustion and sunstroke, fire and burns, collision with a boom, falling, falling overboard are just some of the hazards.
But one of the most dangerous aspects of sailboats, especially for people who realize that there is no one perfect boat,
...is the way they sometimes follow you home.
And now I get to figure out just how a light keelboat wants to be sailed. It should be interesting.
posted by Pat @ 6/25/2011 07:50:00 PM
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The boat is WDSP04750678; a 1978 Santana 20 hull no. 475, blue-hulled boat with a 500 lb. keel. The boat has been recently known as the "Cougar of the Lake" and before that as "Jenileigh Too".
The danger of letting another sailboat follow you home may depend somewhat on a sailor's relationship status and whether one has the good fortune to be married to a sailing spouse.
It's the Santana 20 Class Championship in Oklahoma this week. I assume you bought the boat so you can race in that. Good luck!
I remember S-20's some what from Newport Beach days. I recall they heeled a little more than my SR/Max-21, making me think they do not have bulbs on their keels?
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