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Ok...I normally leave all the forums alone but I keep reading ridiculous but forceful rants about comparing horsepower in engines to electric motors. Horsepower is simply meaningless to actual useful power. 33,000ft-lbs./minute applied to a prop (a single horsepower) would tend to create...

Hello All, My E38 is set up with an electric windlass and all chain rode. The challenge is that when the chain is coming in, it piles up on itself after it drops into the locker and tends to bind up the windlass. So, when weighing anchor we have to open up the v-berth and station someone down...

My friend Mike and his wife, Sheila, on Windchaser, E35, placed second in the Vashon Challenge, double handed no flying sails. While a friend and I placed second in doubled handed flying sails. Fun day no wind at the start but filled in and had a great summer Puget Sound sail, until the rain...

Is anyone sailing from Santa Cruz to Monterey Friday the 15th for the Cruiser Challenge? http://www.blumhorst.com/cruiserchallenge2005/index.htm I'm planning to sail my Ericson 23 down and would like to hook-up with anyone that might be headed down. Mark