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Submersible Hand held VHF Radios

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Tonight I reluctantly boxed up the half dozen new submersible hand-held VHF radios Ive been testing over the summer to send them back to the editors at Sea Kayaker magazine. It would have been nice if they had just "forgotten" about them, but at least by doing this test I know exactly what Ill be looking for when I get ready to shop for a new hand-held sometime next year.

The models tested are shown below. From left to right: Uniden MHS 550, West Marine VHF 150, Cobra MR HH 425 LI VP, Standard Horizon HX75OS, Humminbird VHF 55 S, and ICOM IC-M34.


These radios are all rated as submersible to one meter for a half hour. I dunked them underwater to find out and compared features, ease of use and ergonomics with the focus on use by sea kayakers. The results will be published soon in an upcoming issue of Sea Kayaker, and Ill also publish the full article here after the print version is released.

Update 1-10-2009: The full article is now available here

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Fishing Boats

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Campion Marine has been building high-performance sport boats and cruisers for 36 years. The company, at its facility in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, builds the Allante line of sport boats and cruisers, the Explorer sport utility water craft, Chase high-performance boats and the Svfara wake/surf towboats. They manufacture more than 37 models and 48 variations of boats ranging from 16 to 30 feet in length and market and sell their boats in more than 30 countries.

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Eaglet Design 29

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Here is a nice looking little shoal draft sloop designed specifically for Duxbury Bay in Massachusetts. For those of you who dont know it, Duxbury is located on the South Shore of Boston, just north of Plymouth. Its a tidal estuary that has a mean low water generally around 2. There is a narrow channel that takes one in to the local mooring field and yacht club.

Although the sailing depth is difficult it has preserved the bay as an absolutely pristine area with shell-fishing, aquaculture, multitudes of eel grass and exceptional fishing. Boats designed specifically for Duxbury through the years are all shallow draft centerboarders or shoal draft vessels and usually a lot smaller than this boat.

I apologize the image above is out of focus but that is the only image we have on file for this boat. Eaglet was built of wood by Hodgdon Brothers of East Boothbay, Maine for the commodore of the Duxbury Yacht Club with the idea that she would be the first of a class of boats. She was launched in 1934.

Heres an article from The Rudder magazine from the period.


Here are the plans.


Although a little long-winded, heres a great letter from what appears to be the brother of the owner of this boat regarding her sailing qualities. Please double click for zoom.


Principal Dimensions
LOA 29-2"
LWL 20-8"
Beam 8-3"
Draft 3-6"
Sail Area 391 sq ft
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How To Make A Boat

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Junk Rigs for Non Thinkers

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Among its many flaws, The Chinese Sailing Rig - Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig by Derek Van Loan suffers from an identity crisis. It appears to be known primarily by its subtitle, and on the front cover, the subtitle is far more prominent than the main title (and on the spine, the main title doesnt appear at all). In fact, "Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig" is a more accurate title than "The Chinese Sailing Rig," but even then, its a stretch, which Ill get to.

Van Loan says virtually nothing about the Chinese sailing rig -- nothing about its history, nothing about its current usage, next to nothing about how to sail it and, most seriously, nothing whatsoever about its pros and cons compared to Western rigs like the Marconi, gaff, etc. He seems to assume that the reader is already persuaded about the superiority of the junk rig and is ready to retrofit an existing non-junk-rigged boat with one -- and that he or she only needs to know how.

Which gets me to the promised criticism of the subtitle. Van Loan gives very little advice about how to design a junk rig, per se. Instead, he tells you how to spec a junk rig following his favorite design. Van Loan evidently has a good amount of experience playing around with the rig, and hes found a formula that works for him...and for the type of boat he likes, and the type of sailing he does, in the location where he uses it. And he expects the reader to follow his system, even if the readers needs may differ. So he gives guidelines without explanation, such as this:
The number of battens is dependent on the sail area. Up to 200 square feet, four or five battens will suffice. Use five or six battens on a sail where the area is from 200 to 700 square feet.

As to why you should use fewer or more battens, he gives no explanation. Following his guidelines, one could use anywhere from four to six battens for a 200 square foot sail, but Van Loan doesnt give any help in deciding what is the right number within a range that contains a full 50 percent spread.

One suspects that the reason for this is that the authors understanding is entirely experiential, and that he is lacking is theoretical knowledge. His instructions for finding the center of lateral resistance consist of making a cardboard cutout of a profile of the boats underbody and balancing it on a pin (perhaps he doesnt know how to do the math?), with this caveat:
If the rudder of the vessel is large or if the vessel has a fin keel, daggerboard, or centerboard, include about one-third its area, from its leading edge, in your underwater profile
Oh great: "about one third". Perhaps if he had explained in the first place how to calculate area, we might be able to make a start. But even so, how precise do we need to be to meet his "about" one-third guideline? Is 30% too little? How about 25%? Dont bother looking, for theres no help to be found.

By eliminating theory and math, Van Loan has attempted to make things as simple as possible, but therein lies the problem: he gives the reader not enough information upon which to make informed decisions. And then he compounds the problem by assuming specialized knowledge that the reader is unlikely to have, especially sailmakers and riggers terminology. The glossary is only occasionally helpful, consisting mainly of the better-known terms, and ignoring some of the more obscure ones.

Van Loans line drawings are clear and good, and his prose is generally easy to follow. If one were to follow the books recommendations, one would probably end up with a workable -- maybe even a very good -- rig. But that rig would be based more or less blindly on someone elses preferences, and the DIYer would have little understanding of why it works the way it does, or how it might be improved. 

"Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig" is full of editing errors, lacking in theory, and inadequate in its discussion of the authors particular preferences. For a book in its third edition, its a notably weak effort. 
 
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