[PUP] PPM, Convergence, narrow boats, etc.

[Mark]

--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Georgs Kolesnikovs 
> By the by, Idlewild is still for sale -- 
> http://idlewildexpedition.ca/toppage1.htm -- underscoring
> how few takers there are in the real word for long, skinny boats
> that are minimally equipped.

Having never been on the boat, I can't hazard a guess as to why she hasn't sold.  I would caution about making conclusions about particular design elements from one boat.  In addition to the long skinny attribute, and the basic systems attribute, the design for portage forced some trade offs, from the photos it also appears to have few creature comforts, and perhaps a bit high priced for what it is.

Re stablization, I love the roll tank I idea.  I believe someone on this list has one.  It seems a bit to good to be true, otherwise we'd see them all over the place.  Simple is good.

Re John Marshall's note about The Flanders on N46 Egret
> 1) Only 3% of the time (86 days) have they been more than a day's run from a safe port.
> 2) Only 9 partial days of really nasty seas (.003%) when they couldn't take shelter. Four of those days were by choice (working to a schedule and ignoring the forecast) and five days not by choice.
> 3) None of those nasty days even approached survival conditions.

Does this say to anyone else that we overweight the actual risk of some of these occurrences and the time and $ spent on on hardware solutions to these risks could be better spent?