Re: transoceanic micros

--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Hallman" <bruce@...> wrote:

>
> >
> > are there any published accounts of micros or long micros crossing

an

> > ocean?
>
>
> PB&F would definitely say that the Micro is not for crossing oceans,
> mostly due to the limitiation of the theoretical maximum hull speed of
> a 15'4 hull versus the capacity to carry food and water.
>
> Some help me remember please. About fifteen years ago, there was an
> artist that built three gorgeous Micros, with their self tending cat
> yawl rigs, and let them go sailing away empty...crossing the Atlantic.
>

Cripes! Wish I could find one of them washed up somewhere!


I read somewhere that a Martha Jane had crossed Bass Straight to
Tasmania. not sure about any Micro adventures of this kind though.

Cheers,

paul.

>
> are there any published accounts of micros or long micros crossing an
> ocean?

PB&F would definitely say that the Micro is not for crossing oceans,
mostly due to the limitiation of the theoretical maximum hull speed of
a 15'4 hull versus the capacity to carry food and water.

Some help me remember please. About fifteen years ago, there was an
artist that built three gorgeous Micros, with their self tending cat
yawl rigs, and let them go sailing away empty...crossing the Atlantic.

Do you mean Bolger Micros? Or the boat "class" known as micros in
general? For Bolger Micros there's only a crossing of the Tasman Sea
that I know of, but nothing longer than that.

Cheers
Thomas

Kenneth schrieb:

> are there any published accounts of micros or long micros crossing an
> ocean?

are there any published accounts of micros or long micros crossing an
ocean?