Recent content by alexwilliamrussell

I put a few layers of emergency reflective mylar blankets between ice in cooler and the interior walls, including the top, seems to DOUBLE the length of ice. And put a blanket over the cooler too. DOUBLE!!!! -- A

My ericson 25 mast got beat up, and the boat is old with patches including big patch from yanked off cleat from last hurricane. But I want to use boat without mast as motor cruiser especially on lower Mississippi area and maybe return up to Minnesota which I did once when I was young in a...

Thanks.... My mast has no hinge at all,...

About what does a Mast weigh? 200?

.. Does mast just lift off from the Deck? No glue, bolts, at base? My Ericson 25 has stuff broke up top, and I rarely sail, so nice to lower mast to deck for Hurricane Season since mast is about half the wind load. I had Macgregor 26d I could with some ropes lower mast myself, when I was...

charts are not exact or precise, here in Texas we are dealing with 6 foot in the channel. Mud is not that risky to be sooooo afraid of grounding is half my point. And after hurricane for year the charts are quarter incorrect due to moved mud.

... To all who suggest just avoid the shallow areas, some of us live in shallow areas. And if can wade adn pull boat out then there is little to fear. Kedging takes 10 minutes to set up and I would bet is less effective since it is unidirectional or at least less energetic wiggling. Pro...

I know it sounds unlikely but in 4 foot of water I can wade to bow and wiggle Ericson 25 2 foot left then 2 foot right and then push and gain 1/2 foot backward, so can wiggle and push to reverse out of a mud bank. I am wondering IF PEOPLE TRIED AND WERE PERSISTENT THEY TOO COULD DO THIS, even...

I thank you for your Answer about near beach sailing. I find it is good to dig and push for knowledge so chatting a longer time is my preference. Sometimes we learn what is accepted is based on false assumptions and one has to fight tradition as incorrect. Motors use to be finicky and fail...

I went from a full keel Ahlberg that is so wide a keel its hard to dig a path in mud once its stuck, to Ericson 25 normal keel which is annoyingly deep like 3 feet but which is so narrow I can wiggle and scoop a bit and dig it out backward when I ground in mudbank. Maybe I can't in 10 years but...

SOME COASTS ARE ROCKY AND SPARSE.. To be fair to sailing race designers California is rocky coast, geologically volcanic past 50my unlike east coast, and current takes away sand, the opposite of gulf of Mexico. And has few ports a sailboat can enter like 20 entire 2000 miles San Diego to...

I am sorta bored with sailing and my mast has some issues, I wonder if I took it off would my boats stability be much better, suddenly not have 300 pounds of mast on a lever 20 feet up, hmmm. Hurricanes are scary and little less wind-catching to bounce the boat also would be nice. ...Hmmm - -...

The videos show the difference between Gulf of Mexico baby waves, and Florida medium waves, and probably Gulf of Mexico bottom is much flatter so one is sliding around more not hitting a solid Florida hill. Mississippi mud makes Gulf flatter I think, it certainly is muddier.... But both boats...

3 days in light light surf and boat survived .... I sorta admit the surfline is packed sand so harder to get off unlike spongey muddy sand in back water, , , ,