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    There's a 1D35 at South Beach Yacht Club. The owner is (was?) a dentist. That's all I remember about him except that he was a crazy mo-fo who scared the snot out of his 8 all-newbie crew during a SBYC Friday Night race about 4 years ago. The number of new crew is now my #1 big red flag when deciding to race with some unknown skipper. I think if you called up SBYC they'd know who you were talking about with the above description...
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    I am not familiar with this design, the J-39. SA/D = 23. Guessing, singlehanded, about same all around speed as SC-40 and O-40, a bit quicker than an E-37
    Price is right. Asking $40K

    https://sailinganarchy.com/advert/j3...ale-new-price/

    30 knots of wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLsHuKhgtg

    Bob Perry likes them: https://www.boats.com/reviews/perry-design-review-j39/

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleddog View Post
    I am not familiar with this design, the J-39. SA/D = 23. Guessing, singlehanded, about same all around speed as SC-40 and O-40, a bit quicker than an E-37
    https://sailinganarchy.com/advert/j3...ale-new-price/

    Good find :-) Should I be concerned about the "re-coring" of the deck and hull? Delamination does seem to happen fairly frequently for boats racing hard for miles on non stop.

    I ordered 7 passage planning charts from https://frugalnavigator.com/. It is quite exciting to lay these down and think that maybe, just maybe, I will plot a line across them. Sometimes I visualize Earth and think that it would be quite awesome to be sailing around. I also did some research using Navionics' web app:https://webapp.navionics.com/. I was mostly focused on the Torres strait. Not a straight line through that strait ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamottep View Post
    Meanwhile Alex Alley is continuing his attempt to break Guo's record, despite having lost his primary auto-pilot, and having only two.
    https://my.yb.tl/alexalley
    Alex is out with damaged cars for his mainsail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamottep View Post
    Alex is out with damaged cars for his mainsail.
    Being unable to get one's main up or down, and the torn jib (Solent) down to patch, is not a good recipe for continuing RTW. I'm surprised he did not have a jib halyard, a simple rigging exercise. The jib was lashed to the top of the headstay, WTF? " Common practice," Alex calls it. Two trips aloft only served to injure Alex's arm.

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    Seems like the (obvious?) lesson is: first you need to finish. Doesn’t do any good to choose the “perfect boat” if it doesn’t get you to the finish. Just sayin...

    Tom

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleddog View Post
    Being unable to get one's main up or down, and the torn jib (Solent) down to patch, is not a good recipe for continuing RTW. I'm surprised he did not have a jib halyard, a simple rigging exercise. The jib was lashed to the top of the headstay, WTF? " Common practice," Alex calls it. Two trips aloft only served to injure Alex's arm.
    My understanding is that it is common practice in the Class 40/IMOCA world. Eliminates halyard chafe, halyard stretch, and of course reduces weight aloft. A bit risky in a RTW effort. In addition to batten or other sail problems, your furler better not crap out either. Sparrow's staysail has a boring halyard and hanks.

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    It would be nice to hear from Ragnar about the million decisions he has to make to prepare his boat, decide his course, prepare himself/team, etc ...

    On a separate topic I'm going to put a website out there and was wondering which of these domain names had your preference (all are available as of my posting this):

    roundtheglobe.com
    sail4oceans.com
    sailaroundearth.com
    sailsf2sf.com
    pjsails.com

    Thoughts?
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    I vote roundtheglobe.com. Says it all, and gives you flexibility - for example, if you end up doing something that isn't exactly sf2sf (e.g. HI-HI, a la Webb Chiles).
    And you can re-use it when you break another record by re-tracing your route in a hot air balloon, or use your newfound fame to start a sat-com company, or a snow globe company. The possibilities are endless, as long as they involve a globe!

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