December 2020 Sponsored by Kraken Yachts A bolt-on keel creates an unacceptable increased risk when the yacht is outside the range of helicopter rescue and the CE must (and in time, I wager will) recognise that. Whether they call it Cat A * or downgrade From the category for yachts that have bolt-on December 2020 The Pulpit keels, matters not, but it’s negligent of the CE authority to blithely ignore what World Sailing now recognises is a serious safety By Dick Beaumont - Chairman of Kraken Yachts issue. This issue Determined to make Ocean Sailor an Effective 1 January 2021: Structural Inspection international magazine, covering all - Consult the owner’s manual for any aspects of Blue Water cruising, and not just instructions for keel bolt checking and re- the mouthpiece of rhetoric concerning the tightening. The following inspection to be insanity of bolt-on keels and spade rudders, conducted by a qualified person externally with Ocean Sailor I had packed my soapbox away. the boat out of the water. Check that there are Readers Questions no visible stress cracks particularly around the However, before it even had time to gather keel, hull/keel attachment, hull appendages Page two dust, word reached me that not only had and other stress points, inside the hull, backing a Vendee Globe boat’s rudder been torn plates, bolting arrangements and keel floors. Feature off, but the authority which governs such (See Appendix L – Model Keel and Rudder events, World Sailing, had ordered bolt-on Inspection Procedure) A weather eye: Part three keels to be examined on a regular basis and Page four even sooner following a grounding! Effective 1 January 2021: Evidence of a structural inspection in accordance with 3.02.2 My editor often comments on my over within 24 months before the start of the race or Sailors' Stories use of exclamation marks, but what other after a grounding whichever is the later Orca Attacks grammatical emoji is open to me in the light of such extraordinary news!!! Effective 1 January 2021: Inspection after Page ten Grounding – an appropriately qualified To cut it short, which the aforementioned person shall conduct an internal and external editor tells me I’m not good at, one of inspection after each unintentional grounding Technical & Equipment the Vendee Globe competitors broke the Understanding Yacht Design: rudder off after hitting an unknown object, As someone who created a yacht to combat resulting in her hull being flooded and the all the madness mentioned above, for the Part three steering compromised. I’m pleased to hear safety of his own family cruising, I am Page fourteen he was able to limp back to port by kanting seriously pleased to announce that I’m the yacht over in the same way Roy Hart, no longer alone as Kraken Yachts with who featured in last months OS Sailors our hard held design and construction K50 In-Build Stories, did. principles for cruising, are gathering Birth of a blue water yacht devotees thick and fast. Now there is light Surprise, surprise! There is all sorts of junk at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel, thanks Page eighteen floating about out there which will damage to the announcements of the vaccines unprotected rudders! from Germany, America and the UK, Knot Of The Month Kraken’s order book is filling up fast. The I understand why, in search of records and next available build slot for a Kraken 50 is Monkey Fist trophies, racing yachts are designed with August 2021, plus we have secured the first Page twenty four the delta-shaped hull forms that generate order for a Kraken 58 to be built in Turkey. maximum form stability, thereby allowing them to carry sail areas so vast they can Another one bites the dust Mariner’s Library plane. What I can’t understand is why Blackfish & Adrift anyone should think such hulls and twin I’m very sorry to report that we have rudder configurations can be appropriate just been told Cruising Helmsman, the Page Twenty five for cruising yachts, let alone blue water Australian hardcopy cruising magazine, cruisers. is due to close down after its next issue. Travel & Discovery Cruising Helmsman and its Editor Phil Ross Dropping Anchor: 10 of the worlds Why oh why is it still not blindingly obvious have been staunch supporters of Kraken that all blue water cruising yachts should Yachts since the very beginning, featuring greatest anchorages have fully protected skeg-hung rudders? Kraken yacht’s on its front cover many Please tell me I'm not going mad? (You’re times. Page twenty six not, Ed) Christmas Special While I’ve got your attention from my, now SAIL ON MYSAILING.COM.AU at SydneyBest DISPLAYyachts Boat Showto see warm, soapbox, hear this: World Sailing 12 Days of Christmas has now updated its rules for monohulls, Page Thirty two requiring all yachts to undergo a survey inspection of the keel bolts and the surrounding infrastructure, at least every Yacht Clubs & Institutions 24 months or after any grounding!!! How to The Royal Cruising Club Mute your wheel pilot Navigate using wi-fi Page Thirty seven Again, although undesirable, it’s understandable for racers to take risks to SPECIAL FEATURE win races but when the authority governing Selling your boat From The Galley World Sailing introduces draconian rules Get the Hull Truth #2 mandating that a professional survey must Recipe: Bean & Pulse Stew Multihull overload be carried out to check bolt-on keels, isn't it Le Grande Motte Page Forty time ALL sailors should realise there has to Who is John be a better solution for offshore yachts and Kretschmar? that this should be reflected by the CE in it’s highest Category A rating? AUGUST 2019 $8.95 (inc. GST) PRINT POST APPROVED 100005332 08 1 9 770812 408004 Readers Q&A Please ask any questions or comments you have about any element of blue water cruising or ocean sailor magazine to [email protected] and one of the OS team will answer you in this section. Dear Ingo, Minimising the risk of infection; Ingo Potsch of Germany Closure provides a barrier to prevent Thank you for your comments on the bacteria from entering the wound. RE: Ocean Sailor article section on wound management in Part Medical Emergencies at Sea III of our series of articles on Managing Promoting healing; Medical Emergencies at Sea. You raise an Bringing the edges of the wound together interesting and important point. Closing allows granulation tissue to form across the " I would like to mention that I a dirty or infected wound will often make two sides of the wound and helps to speed was told repeatedly by medical the infection worse as it provides a perfect up the healing process. environment for bacteria to multiply in. In doctors that wounds should the setting of a dirty, infected or heavily best heal from the inside out. In contaminated wound, the advice you have I hope that clarifies our thoughts for you? the article, closing the wound received is spot on. Please don't hesitate to get back to us if you wish to comment further. is recommended clearly, which Less serious superficial wounds can be seems like a contradiction to me?" safely "closed" (edges brought together Best wishes after cleaning), but the difference between that and leaving alone is largely cosmetic. Henry and Chris Chandler I referred Ingo’s question back In a large gaping wound, we would Editor's note: to Chris and Henry Chandler, recommend attempting some form of the authors of the series closure if, after thorough irrigation, the Dr Henry Chandler: MRCS,DMCC,RAMC wound appears to be clean. This has the Dr Chris Chandler: FRCOG, Fellow of the Medical Emergencies at Sea. following benefits; Royal Institute of Gynecologist Haemostasis; Using deep (if necessary) and superficial sutures applies some pressure to the tissues and helps prevent oozing from small blood vessels. 2 Readers Questions of Switzerland The second issue, regardless of what and seas built up hugely, as it often does. Markus Hofer anyone tells you, is that, other than racing Moonshadow was going nicely on autopilot, catamarans, they don't go well upwind. beam reaching across the wind and waves Dear Mr Beaumont, Their motion and the slamming of waves in 35-40 kts of wind, when David came up " impacting on the underside of the hull to the cockpit to join me on watch. I was I love your sailor’s magazine and bridge can be very worrying when you force sitting to leeward so David sat with his I am a keen reader of the really them to windward. It isn't harmonious to back to the wind and waves. I simply said the well being of the crew, especially if you ‘How do you think your Outrimmer will get valuable insights and tips. need to go upwind for a long period. on with that then’? David replied, ‘what’? Personally, I am still undecided I told him to turn round and as he did he Thirdly, in very heavy seas most stared at the face of an eight metre sea! As for my own choice (planning to go experienced sailors will want to run off Moonshadow let the wave glide gracefully cruising in 2 years). I am swinging downwind at a 45 degree to the waves, and harmlessly below her, David uttered a back and forth between a solid rather than run directly downwind. This word I certainly can’t print here! avoids taking off and surfing down the bluewater cruising monohull waves, thereby avoiding the dangerous He signed the contract for the first K50 two (of which the Kraken 50 seems potential of digging the bow into the days after we tied up in Hong Kong.