Bavaria comparison

cruisers/index.md.html

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 ## Exterior
 
-You can judge for yourself. Hover over or click on the 
-images to zoom in. As much as possible, I selected photographs of the boats under sail, 
-from the perspective of another nearby boat on the beam, and 
-with cruising dodgers, biminis, and solar panels.
-That gives a fairly accurate comparison
-of what what the boat actually looks like on the water for coastal cruising. 
-In contrast, every sailboat looks best charging 
-at the camera and from above, while heeling with a rigged spinnaker and stripped of the exterior fittings that make them
-livable.
+You can judge for yourself. Hover over or click on the images to zoom
+in. As much as possible, I selected photographs of the boats under
+sail, from the perspective of another nearby boat on the beam, and
+with cruising dodgers, biminis, and solar panels.  That gives a fairly
+accurate comparison of what what the boat actually looks like on the
+water for coastal cruising.  In contrast, every sailboat looks best
+charging at the camera and from above, while flying a spinnaker or
+racing sails and heeled over, stripped of the ungainly exterior fittings
+necessary for cruising.
+
+<table>
+<tr valign="top"><td width=48%>![](bavariac38black.jpg)</td>
+<td></td>
+<td width=48%>![](exterior/bavariac38.jpg)</td></tr>
+<tr><td><i>A Bavaria C38 catalog shot: stripped down, heeling under carbon sails in 18 kts of breeze.</i></td><td></td>
+<td><i>Compare to the same model actually cruising in charter, with dodger, bimini, solar, and tender motor sailing in 5 kts.</i></td></tr>
+</table>
 
 Sometimes form follows function, and sometimes
 not for boats. What looks high performance or sturdy may not actually be so in boats,

physics/index.md.html

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 ![](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T94ABWUWAw width=600)
 
 This is a brief, gentle introduction to the physics principles that
-enable boats to move under sail power. This is valuable knowledge for
-intermediate sailors. Beginners sail on intuition and mimicry, or (in
-the worst case) rules they have memorized. Once that intuition is
-built, an understanding of some of the physics creates the opportunity
-to sail from insight and something closer to first principles.
+enable boats to move under sail power. 
+
+This is valuable knowledge for sailors who have reached intermediate
+levels of expertise. Beginners should sail on intuition and mimicry,
+and in the worst case on rules they have memorized for specific
+situations. Once they've built intuition, they graduate to an
+intermediate level. At that point, an understanding of some of the
+physics creates the opportunity to sail from _insight_ and something
+closer to first principles.
 
 Understanding the principles furthermore informs a sailor's choice of
 boat, foils, rig, and sails. This enables the sailor to adapt to new