oscar
Guru
- Joined
- Oct 22, 2015
- Messages
- 1,098
- Location
- United States
- Vessel Name
- Lady Kay V
- Vessel Make
- 1978 Hatteras 53MY
BS? Tough to argue the experience of Steve Dashew who has logged 250k nms aboard both sail and power and includes several circumnavigation aboard both beginning with a Columbia 50 in 1980 or so. He's a detail guy who seems to keep records. If he says a sail is ready to be replaced at 2200 hours (call it 12k-14k nms, or one-third to halfway around the world) , I'm guessing he's got the data to back it up and is roughly right at the least - far from BS zone unless your idea of a useless sail is when it when the threads are rotted and its totally blown out. He had no comment on standing /running rigging but I assume ever second or third sail swap is probably about right, but just a guess.
OK I missed that it was his number and yes he is credible. So what I should have said is that HE gets 2200 hours out of them, but others may or probably may not, just like the engines. I know of commercial fishermen that get 15-20 or more thousand hours out of their engines. I know tons of people that rebuilt their yachtie diesels at 5, 4, 3000 or less hours.
Longevity for any component is dependent on (ab)use and care. There are more people that don't care than people that care. Putting a hard number on it for most is, well, BS.
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