More Offshore Sailing New Year’s Resolutions

I fear that many of you may be think that Phyllis and I bought the McCurdy and Rhodes 56 back and disappeared over the horizon.

Not so, but four factors, two good and two not good, are taking up a lot of our time:

1. I have spent much of the last month installing a much improved email system. More on that in a recent email to members.
2. I spent much of the holidays sweating over a hot spreadsheet building a model to calculate the tether drag tension on a person who falls overboard still attached to the boat.
   • The good news is the results, while sobering, are not as bad as I feared.
   • First we will publish it so you members can check I have not screwed up anywhere.
   • And then, assuming it passes peer review, I will update and improve our Person Overboard Prevention and Recovery Online Book, and particularly take a look at the Backtow™ feature of the Team0 lifejackets.
3. Poor Phyllis, my partner in life, business, and sailing, also known as “The Editor Who Must Be Obeyed”, has a nasty tummy bug. She is on the mend, but it will be a few days before much content gets edited.
4. And now that I, Phyllis, am starting to come right, John is down with it. It’s a bad bad bug!

So given all that, the relative silence will continue for a few more days.

In the meantime, here are two list Articles that follow on well from The Big 6.

John and Phyllis’s 36 Immutable Rules of Seamanship

63 Cruising Boat Maintenance Tips