<Mark wrote in part: Re stabilization, I love the roll tank I idea. I believe someone on this list has one. It seems a bit to good to be true, otherwise we'd see them all over the place. Simple is good.> That would be us. Last night we had another demonstration of why the stabilization tank is good. Bonaire doesn't allow any anchoring at anytime or place and they have but 40 moorings which are on a first come bases. Make cruising there a bit of a crap shoot. Yesterday we arrived there at 1330 after a 50 mile passage from the Aves ( the last group of Venezuelan Islands before the ABC's) only to find one mooring left and it was in too close to the seawall for our 60' length. Curacao is another 45 miles west but has no harbor that can be entered at night in a small boat. So we motored 15 miles towards Curacao and shut down for the night in 4000 ft of water. The sea was 3-5' on the beam 4-5sec period with a wind of 10 to 14 kts. Swan Song rides very well beam to and makes about .5 kts leeway and .1 to .2 forward. We drifted from 1600 to 0700 and made 10 miles north. A very comfortable evening at sea and a good nights sleep. AIS and Radar alarms were set along with our full perimeter lighting. So little chance of being run down. The stabilization tank made this stop possible. Without it we would have been rolling out insides out. Simple IS good :-) Cheers Dave & Nancy Swan Song Roughwater 58 Hawaii Passage '08/09

A flopper-stopper or two would have helped as well... not sure how to compare those to a tank for at-anchor roll reduction. On Nov 9, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Dave Cooper wrote: > <Mark wrote in part: Re stabilization, I love the roll tank I idea. I > believe someone on this list has one. It seems a bit to good to be > true, > otherwise we'd see them all over the place. Simple is good.> > > That would be us. Last night we had another demonstration of why the > stabilization tank is good. > > Bonaire doesn't allow any anchoring at anytime or place and they > have but 40 > moorings which are on a first come bases. Make cruising there a bit > of a > crap shoot. Yesterday we arrived there at 1330 after a 50 mile > passage from > the Aves ( the last group of Venezuelan Islands before the ABC's) > only to > find one mooring left and it was in too close to the seawall for our > 60' > length. Curacao is another 45 miles west but has no harbor that can be > entered at night in a small boat. > > So we motored 15 miles towards Curacao and shut down for the night > in 4000 > ft of water. The sea was 3-5' on the beam 4-5sec period with a wind > of 10 to > 14 kts. Swan Song rides very well beam to and makes about .5 kts > leeway and > .1 to .2 forward. We drifted from 1600 to 0700 and made 10 miles > north. A > very comfortable evening at sea and a good nights sleep. > > AIS and Radar alarms were set along with our full perimeter > lighting. So > little chance of being run down. > > The stabilization tank made this stop possible. Without it we would > have > been rolling out insides out. > > Simple IS good :-) > > Cheers > > Dave & Nancy > Swan Song > Roughwater 58 > Hawaii Passage '08/09 > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power > > To unsubscribe send email to > passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World > Productions, formerly known as Trawler World Productions.