Not on this boat, when I purchased her she had a beautiful ABI bronze windlass and 200 of 5/6 chain

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I receive lettters from my journal in many forms and while I do my best to answer them all in a timely manor there are over a hundred in my inbox right now yet to be opened.  lack of internet, lack of time, or just lack of answers  Someday I hope to catch up but its almost like having a full-time job.  Below is a copy and paste from a very standard set of questions I receive almost weekly.  I figured sharing it online would be a good way to go.  The responses below are just my 2 cents and thats all their worth.  I can no more tell another person what they seek in a boat anymore than I could choose a life partner for them.  That being said I have been living aboard and sailing pocket crusiers all over the world for almost 30 years so my perspective can at least give a small peek into the world of pocket cruising.  I sail small boats by choice and while I love all manner of boats my heart is taken by the romance of small cozy interiors, well designed and beautifully built yachts that were designed fist and foremost as sailing craft.
Like many sailors I am incredibly superstitious.  There was very significant meaning behind The but in the end dozens habbo hotel cheats of setbacks and failures started to make me weary.  We were literally the local entertainment at the dock attempting to maneuver a 22 8,000 full keel into the dock when either the motor would die, blow up, or simply give up or my many different prototype sculling oar mounts would literally crack and fall off the back of the boat.  The second to my last attempt to sail away was hilarious returning to the dock less than 24 hours after leaving with hopes of never returning. My blood stained sails and decks were a sight to see.  I created an elaborate denaming and renaming ceremony which was published in Latts and Atts .  As soon as I changed the name everything fell into place including cutting the bow line and leaving the remnants as my farewell note to all.
I have no heat on Sookie, I use a brass lantern and two candles which give me about ten degrees.  I pulled my oven three years ago with hopes of adding a wood stove but have yet to find the perfect system.
No I wouldn t get a diesel habbo hotel cheats engine ever on a small boat.  The beauty of the Falmouth Cutter is how wonderful she sails.  Engine-less on the other hand is something that very few including myself are capable of long term.  I was engineless for two years and while I never had any real issues There were quite a few frighting moments.  Once I had to jump overboard and fend the boat off a rock jetty.  Another time I turned into the fairway to meet a guy in a 9000lb full keeler coming head on at full hull speed, that was a close one.  I also spent a beautiful night less than a mile from the jetty watching the snow collect on my deck on a breathless evening.  I was wearing every single habbo hotel cheats piece of clothing I owned and still cold.  A bottle of scotch helped pass the time but having some small form of propulsion is a good thing,lets face it, I m no Larry Pardey.  I am seriously considering a small electric outboard as I almost never use my engine.
I do still use a bucket and have for over 10 years, see How To Shit In A Bucket .  I also carry WAG bags for when the bucket is not appropriate.  I could write an entire book on this subject but being how this is such a personal choice I m not tuching it with a ten foot pole.  As an interesting aside I have sold 100% of articles habbo hotel cheats I have submitted for publication with the single exception of how to shit in a bucket.  I knew it wouldn t get published but I submitted it anyways as a test.  If you are relying on any magazine for truth you will be sorely disappointed, they write for their advertisers, not you. :)
My primary anchor is permanitally hooked onto my dolphins striker.  I wrote a letter to Lin Pardey asking her about the preferred method of anchor storage on Serrafyn.  She told me she kept her anchor on the bobstay for over 45,000 miles with no issues so I hung it there and have never looked back.  I use a Rocna and if you want mine you will have to pry it out of my cold dead hands.  My first night hanging on my Rocna was in a gale, that night I coined the term Rocna d to sleep .
I actually have a total of 274 , I still use 30 of chain and it is enough.  My reason for wanting 100 of chain is that it is much less likely to have growth when you pull it after several weeks in the same anchorage. habbo hotel cheats  1/4 high test is strong habbo hotel cheats enough but its harder to pull by hand due to its smaller size and doesn t shed mud as easily as 5/16.  I used a Delta anchor for a dozen years without any complaint but the Rocna is definitely superior in every way.  You will read a lot about oversized anchors.  There is absolutely no reason to use an oversized anchor habbo hotel cheats as a bower. habbo hotel cheats  The reason so many people habbo hotel cheats use oversized anchors is that they have absolutely no idea what they are doing, you know the old saying; if you don t know what type of knot to tie , tie lots of them .  I have heard every argument in the world, we carry secondary anchors for the rare times our bower might not be enough, they are stored down low in the bigle where the weight does not affect the sailing quality of the boat.
7. I see you have removed your Windless? I have fond memories of my first bar-bones sailboat (a Newport 27). It too had no windless and I didn t think it a burden at all. Would you go back to a windless if one was provided?
Not on this boat, when I purchased her she had a beautiful ABI bronze windlass and 200 of 5/6 chain for a total of almost 300lbs in her bow.  The FC has a fairly fine entry and it really hampered windward performance.  Now with all the weight removed she sails like a witch to weather, you might be surprised at how many boats I can out perform to weather including the Nor sea and Bristol Channel Cutter.  As far as the argument for getting trapped in a blow at anchor and needing to use the windlass to get out of the anchorage I can assure you its not a problem.  On a larger boat I would definitely use a manual windlass but there is no need on the FC.
Yes, I think about it often.  The one thing that you are guaranteed with roller furling is that 99% of the time you will have the wrong sail up. You will also more often than not have the wrong sail weight habbo hotel cheats for its size and the wrong size sheets.  No single advent to sailing since the diesel engine habbo hotel cheats has ruined the performance of sailboats more than roller furling.  Having said that I still consider an all or nothing headsail on a curler, with the addition of the staysail and a loose luffed habbo hotel cheats 130 this boat will keep sailing in anything from a hurricane to 2 knots of wind.  First and formost Sookie is a sailboat and I love the actual process of sailing, if to ever all becomes too much I ll buy a trawler.
This is a very difficult question to answer, The FC is an amazing sailboat and often passes boats of all shapes and sizes.  If I want to get anywhere fast I will fly.  An old moped from the 70 s will put the fastest cruising sailboats on the planet to shame, no sailboat is fast.  There are on the other hand slow boats and nothing in the world sucks more than sailing a slow boat.  I have never once been disappointed with the performance of this boat, she does everything the way I want her to but yes her waterline is only about the length of most 30 sailboats habbo hotel cheats so it is a handicap of sorts.  The myth that faster boats are safer at sea because the sea time is more limited is a ludicrous one.  A faster boat is just as likely to sail into bad weather as it is to sail out of bad weather, if your boat isn t build to sail blue water it shouldn t be out there period.   One thing you have to remember when it comes to hull speed is that its calculated for a boat in perfect trim with brand new sails a clean bottom and being sailed by a professional sailor in 15 knots of wind and flat water.  How often does that happen? habbo hotel cheats  For all the rest of the sailing conditions which is about 99% of what we get it comes down to brilliant design which unfortunately has been lost to Mc mansion motor sailors, I call them Marconi Trawlers.
The FC is small for sure but I don t know that I would say she has many constraints.  My Allegra 24 had a larger more user friendly interior than both the FC and the Bristol Channel Cutter.  If I ever move to a larger boat it will be 20% for more space and 80% for more cargo carrying capacity.  When you move to a larger boat you won t get much more space unless you literally almost double your displacement.  Because Sookie is so basic she has a tremendous amount of storage for her size.  If I moved to a BCC I would have to add an inboard engine, fuel tank, holding tank, larger water tanks so much of the storage would be negligent.  I really prefer the galley habbo hotel cheats forward and have never been a fan of the BCC standard interior.  I do love her wider decks and weight but I would have to quadruple my budget just to add 20% to what I currently have and my annual maintenance would also quadruple, the BCC by all specs is really closer a 40 sailboat than a 28 er.  One of the things habbo hotel cheats I love most about a small boat is the challage of making her perfect habbo hotel cheats and fitting it all in.  Every single upgrade makes the boat larger, simpler and ultimately more efficient and fun to sail.
I don t have any, I use paper charts, a lead line and compass.  I love navigating, reading guide books and plotting my next adventure.  I have spent countless wonderful habbo hotel cheats nights studying my charts by lantern light.  To say I am in love with the life I lead would be a gross understatement.  I write in my secret journal almost habbo hotel cheats nightly and prefer i