Fred:
When you're racing, let your crew do the hard work. Get crew members who
are younger than you. All of my crew are twenty or more years younger than
me. I was eighty when I did my last Oregon Offshore race. When you're
cruising, use a smaller jib/genoa.

Alan Bergen
35 Mk III Thirsty
Rose City YC
Portland, OR



On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 4:41 PM Fred Hazzard <fshazz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As I get older, I think more and more of replacing my primaries with
> electric winches.
> With the cost of about $6000 each for my 44,  I wonder if it is possible
> to
> find used winches salvaged from a storm damaged boat. Of course I also
> worry about if doing this would just be asking for trouble.
> I will appreciate your thoughts.
>
> Fred Hazzard
> S/ V Fury
> C&C 44
>
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