Greece makes a choice, a pivotal sailing design by Harle, and while the world is going to hell in a turbocharged wicker basket there is a silver lining amidst the gloom...
To steal a quote from one of my favorite Southside Johnny songs, where scows are concerned, "I got the fever"...
Not made any easier by the fact that a scow (designed and helmed by David Raison) just kicked ass in the Mini easily winning leg 2, a 3120 miles passage between Madeira and Salvador de Bahia. Raison set a new course record and easily beat his nearest competitor by 130 miles while leaving the rest of the pack over 300 miles behind.
Like I said, KICK ASS!
Of course, for those with a sense of history, scows and speed are often entwined. For instance, did you know that the very first planing sailboat which spawned a lot of the modern design thinking we take for granted in go-fast boats was a scow designed back in 1928 by Uffa Fox?
Or that the A-Scow held the sail speed record for ages...
Yeah, an evolved scow schooner cruising boat would be just the thing!
Listening to Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
So it goes...
Plans Change, Martinique version
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