DucksnakeNZ

Tom Farseer, thank you, very informative post! I guess when they get up to that scale it does become easier to hoise the sail up into the top corner like that. Maybe it's a US thing also? given both those boats had US flags, but my guess would be it's a tall ship thing.. I didn't get to spend much time with the tall ships around the coast in NZ, not enough to notice little details like that at least. I also leanred a new sailing word, spanker! Hah. had to look it up, one guess on the etymology of that one! And DeRuyter, she's a 1904 baileys. Was built for racing. At the turn of the century two families dominated the racing cutter building in Auckland, the Logans, and the Baileys. Logan still exsist to this day, as a clothing brand now funny enough. Ngatira was built by Charles Bailey Jr, and is a B class, though i wonder if the class rules may change between countries. The two were prolific, pumping out a new boat every couple years, and there's still many on the water in Auckland. There is a few Herreshoff's that have made their way over here too! We bought it in 1998, it had been butchered in the 70's, they converted it to a bermudan, and put a plywood doghouse on it, so in 2000 my dad took it out of the water and did a deck-off restoration, going back to the original plans. We thought it'd take about 4 years, so naturally it was relaunched around 2008... I do miss going out on her, but my dad does still own it, so every now and then we get to go out sailing when I go back home and visit. I took these pics a couple years ago, this was shot in the Hauraki golf, off a little island called Moturekareka

Having grown up around classic yachts, and sailed with my dad for many years on Ngatira, which we converted back to a gaff rig in the early 2000's, when I see gaff's come down in game I cringe every time In game, the sail is pulled up to the top inner corner... huh? I understand this may be a limitation of animation, but surely it's not a whole lot harder to animate it properly. Perhaps it was simply a mistake, since you don't get see many gaff rigs around the place!!! Here's a vid of how gaff's are stowed: And out of interest, if anyone wants to know, this is Ngatira, the boat I spent much of my childhood on! Oh, and when on a reach/close hauled (sailing more into wind), the gaff can be pulled in far more than is animated in the game currently. As shown in this generic diagram: