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SOLD: Used Vanguard 15 – $3,600

Sold beautiful used vanguard 15 available from shoreline sailboats., complete boat and trailer for $3,600.

Vanguard 15, designed by naval architect Bob Ames, the V15 incorporates a light, fast hull shape for racers while remaining stable and comfortable for day sailing. The revolutionary hull design allows the boat to plane in moderate breeze. Built by Laser Performance, the V15 is constructed of a lightweight, yet durable fiberglass and features molded gunwales that fit the curve of the sailor’s legs.

The Vanguard 15 boasts one of the strongest class associations of any one-design fleet, running hundreds of events each year. With fleets located across the country, there are opportunities to get involved from the club level to championship regattas. The V15 is a popular club level fleet racer as well as team racer.

Local regattas at: Canandaigua Yacht Club Youngstown Yacht Club

Dubbed by many as the ideal post-grad boat, the V15 has enjoyed continued success as a double-handed, one-design racing platform at both the club, national and international levels. The new standard for international team racing, the V15 is light, fast and easy to transport and sail.

Class Association: facebook.com/Vanguard-15-Class-Association

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Vanguard Nomad Sailboat

The Vanguard Nomad is a 17' dinghy from the desk of designer Bob Ames, who also designed the Vanguard 15, and Vector. It is a beamy boat at 8', and carries 185 sq ft of sail. The boat was first built in 2003, and fewer than 300 hulls were built. The last were sold in 2009. Dave Reed in Sailing World Magazine described the Nomad as follows: " The Nomad was designed by Bob Ames, with input from Vanguard chairman Steve Clark. Both of them have speed on the brain, which is obvious in the Nomad. In his designer’s comments, Clark says, “Day sailing should equal pleasure sailing, and that demands an even better boat than a racing boat.” We wholeheartedly agree.

Ames’ answer was a hull and rig combination that’s “all about performance”—a boat with a fine entry, long waterline, super-wide beam (8-feet max at the deck), high-aspect rudder and centerboard, tapered mast, asymmetric spinnaker, and a 175-square-foot North 3DLrm sail inventory with roller-furling jib. Ironically, each of these raceboat attributes also make a great day sailing boat as well—the fine entry cuts through chop, the wide beam provides stability at the dock and when sailing, the deep blades enhance control, the tapered mast is easier to step and de-power, and rolling a jib is much quicker and easier than reefing a main."

The Nomad is supplied with a trailer, allowing easy transportation to your favourite launching area, but it can also be tied at a marina dock or left on a mooring. It takes about 20 minutes once you arrive at the boat ramp to set up the Nomad, and while it can be done yourself, having a second person speeds setup and launching. The self-bailing cockpit allows for worry-free mooring, even during a rainy period.

The Nomad can be single-handed, or five friends can comfortably join you. Solo sailor 'Nomad Tom' states: "I don't want complications as I'm usually sailing solo. I was out today in 10-15 kts of wind under main alone as I didn't want to be overpowered. While beating north the boat handled very well. It tracks beautifully with little to no weather helm. It slaps some of the waves, depending on the frequency and steepness of the boat that made them. It doesn't appear to be slowed down by them. It's a very dry boat with only occasional bow spray.

After twenty minutes of main only, I unfurled the jib and noticed an immediate increase in boat speed. The wind was strong enough that I had to luff the main to keep from burying the rail. I don't want to go over in this boat as I would not be able to right it. It will turtle fast, however, there are sail floats available to keep it from turtling.

Sailing solo is quite easy, though your hands are full, one hand on the main sheet, one on the tiller. Being able to douse/furl the jib with the pull of a line is worth the price of admission. I usually sail into and out of the launch area under just the jib. If I had crew with me, I'd probably raise the main at the launch dock and sail out with both sails flying. But single handling this boat, and hauling the main up the mast is a little bit of work."

Another anonymous owner stated: " I bought my Nomad new in 2005 but just sold her. Someone once referred to this boat as "The Lexus of Daysailers" and that's pretty appropriate. I had my boat out in 25mph winds several times in Tampa Bay and was never afraid. She's an incredibly stable boat as long as you don't fly the spinnaker in winds over 15 - 20mph. I've sailed this boat with 6 adults aboard and it was tight but comfortable.

If anyone is looking for a great family daysailer that's easy to rig and sail? You can't go wrong with a used Nomad."

The Vanguard has since been orphaned by its manufacturer, and, as the only other resource about this boat at YachtPals.com has been overrun by spammers, I felt it time to build a resource here. Over the next few months, I'll add a variety of resources and information about this boat.

See more Q & A in the blog .

Nomad specifications

Links and information

Bob Ames website

      Designer's notes

Sailing World Article

Video 

- by Bob Ames  

- San Francisco Owner

- Everglades Challenge (in 7 parts)

Kinder Industries , makers of Nomad tents & covers, sail floats, and sail covers.

Selden Masts , Mast, Boom and Gnav

North Sails should still have the patterns for both the 3DR and the Dacron sails.

Glenmore Sailboats acquired all the NOS parts when Laser Performance ceased production of the Nomad.

Rigging Guide  - electronic copy of the original paper manual.

Sailing Anarchy - A tale of righting a Nomad

Sail Tuning Notes

Here is some info on rigging the Nomad from Seve Clark who co-developed the boat along with Bob Ames. He basically said to rake the spreaders a bit aft of straight out board. I'm not sure exactly what holes things were happiest in, but the boat is pretty tolerant. Things that are "standard" work pretty well.

That is to say, you want plenty of rig tension as the breeze builds. This keeps the luff of the jib from sagging, which is how you keep the jib flat. The mast should be set up with a bit of pre bend. That is to say when the rig is pulled on snug there is a little fore and aft bend induced by the spreaders. You do not want the mid panel of the mast to sag to leeward, so if that is happening, you will want to shorten the spreaders. Try 3 holes showing  If the mast looks like it is bowing too far to windward, then you will want to move the tip s out a hole or two. This is usually something that you can judge as you are sailing, and if things look abnormal, you can almost always sheet it soft and get home.

Try putting the shrouds someplace in the middle of the range on the hole adjusters. You should be able to pull pretty hard on the jib halyard and still have the mast raked aft by a fair bit. The lowers should be put such that they not really slack, but no where near as tight as the uppers when there is no vang on. In a breeze, you want to flatten the mainsail. You do this by pulling hard on the out haul, hard on the down haul and by setting the vang pretty hard as well. Mast bend flattens the sail so you want to let it bend. One way is to let the lowers off a hole or two and by pulling harder on the vang tackle. The strut pushes the mast forward and thus induces a bunch of bend. You can, as a result ease the mainsheet quite a bit and still have a flat sail.

The Nomad is a pretty stable boat, but it is a center boarder and we wanted it to be pretty responsive. So you should expect to have to trim and ease the sails and to feather in puffs. This isn't a big heavy keel boat, so some agility and dexterity is necessary in response to changing conditions. If you stick with it,  you will become more confident and comfortable with the capacities of the design. The thing to do is to take your time, recognize that it is a challenge and work your way forward.

TIP - tie a knot in the jib halyard once the mast is raised to prevent the mast falling should the halyard slip in the clam cleat.

See information on mast stepping below as well.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many people can sail in a Vanguard Nomad? You can comfortably sail single-handed or with up to 6 adults. There is also plenty of room to have up to 3 adults and 4 children. 

Can one person rig and launch a Vanguard Nomad? One person can rig and launch a Nomad. You may wish for one other person to assist with putting the boat in the water either via a launch ramp or hoist.

How long does it take to rig and launch a Vanguard Nomad, from parking lot to water? You can be sailing in 20 minutes.

How can the Vanguard Nomad sailboat be stored? The Nomad can be stored on a mooring or on the trailer.

What size car is needed to pull the Vanguard Nomad sailboat? The combined weight of the boat and trailer is about 1000 lbs which most cars have the capacity to tow. You should always check your car manual prior to towing.

How many storage compartments are there on the Vanguard Nomad sailboat and how big are they? There are four lockers in all. Under the seats in the cockpit are two 9 foot long lockers accessed by tipping up the seats.

What size engine can it have?  2-horse power. 

Is the Vanguard Nomad a dry boat? The Nomad is an extremely dry boat and comfortable. 

Is the Vanguard Nomad sailboat self-bailing? Yes.

Does the Vanguard Nomad sailboat capsize? Is it self-rescuing? Any boat can capsize, but Nomad with its generous beam, innovative deck, and lightweight rig is harder to tip over than most boats her size. The Nomad is unsinkable, and can be re righted after capsize.

Can you reef the Vanguard Nomad's main sail? No. To shorten sail, furl the jib. The Nomad sails well under main alone.

Can you trapeze from it? The Vanguard Nomad does not include a trapeze. 

Information contributed by Nomad sailors

Many thanks to those who contribute bits and pieces of useful information about our boat.

One of the challenges many Nomad sailors have faced is getting back aboard having capsized.  Ron Dejesus from Northern California shared some photos of the installation of a Garelick Compact EEz-in II Transom Ladder , and it looks to be a slick ladder and a very neat installation. Here are his comments:

Other options

Here is another option I found thanks to Ron's encouragement. A rope ladder stowed in a similar transom-mounted tube,  manufactured by Osculati  in Italy. It will fit in a vertical transom, and was a straightforward installation. As it appears only to be sold in Europe, I purchased it from a chandler in England.

As you can see from the photos below, it was a fairly simple installation. Care was necessary to determine the position of the hole, and filling the annular space between the liner and the hull took a few batches of 'kitty hair' fibreglass mix, and a little sanding.

Now I just need to wait for warm weather next summer to give it a test drive.

One of the frequent challenges faced by owners of the Nomad is tangled jib halyards. The jib halyard on the Nomad is a two-part unit; there is a 2:1 wire halyard largely outside the mast, and a 3:1 rope halyard inside the mast, connected by a block. This combination causes the rope inside the mast to twist upon itself, making it impossible, over time, to lower the mast. Bob Ames described the issue:  " The halyard problem has a number of sources. First, laid wire and braided line are not the best combo, as the wire will untwist under load. Braided line is balanced so the wire causes the rope to twist. It can grab other lines and rivets along the way. If you coil the rope improperly it adds to the problem. If you keep the wire, you should replace the braided line with 3-strand pre-stretch. Seldon is shipping masts with this combo but I think the 4mm line is a bit small. A better solution (I may be trying this myself) is to replace the wire with rope and leave the purchase as is (braided line)."

Some tried simply  replacing the jib halyard with a single line, and found that although the mast could be raised, the lack of purchase prevented sufficient tightening of the jib when underway, so it is necessary to keep both segments of the halyard as designed, even if replacing parts. Having tried numerous ways to disentangle the halyard in my mast I finally totally disassembled it, disentangled the rope, and reassembled it. Here are the steps I took:

Gather tools and parts needed:  Large and regular Phillips head screwdrivers, pliers, butcher twine, a 4' length of wire and possibly a small cotter pin, hammer and a drill and drill bits, pop rivet tool. 

Disassembly:

- Near the top of the mast is a sheave  (e.g. SLD 50507101)  held by  pop rivets  or  screws . Remove this sheave, either by carefully drilling out the pop rivets or removing the screws. If pop rivets, carefully tap the remainder into the mast without enlarging the hole. 

- Pull the wire halyard out of the mast, including the small block  (e.g. Harken H405)  attached to the end. Detach the wire from the block, and tie the twine to the block for later retrieval. Place the block back into the mast.

- Remove the mast heel plug from the base of the mast, pulling the entire rope halyard with it. You will need to ensure the bitter end also is withdrawn from the exit point on the mast. Either tie another length of twine to this so you can later recover it, or you can use the piece of wire at assembly. If necessary, dump the rivet ends by raising the mast until they fall out.

Disentanglement

- Disentangle the rope, and, remove any twists in it, then re-thread it through the blocks and sheaves remembering it should run from the becket of the block through the back of the sheave in the foot, then over the front of the upper block and down to the exit sheave on the rear of the mast. A length of wire inserted through the lower exit sheave pair, to the base of the mast will allow the easiest retrieval of the halyard through the sheaves; alternately, use the string you initially attached to the bitter end of the halyard.

- Having a second person holding the mast heel will help with reassembly. Draw the upper block up the length of the mast, pulling it out through the exit sheave opening. Reattach the Jib halyard wire (or a Spectra line of appropriate length if you wish) to the block. Put the block back in the mast and replace the sheave and carrier. Draw the halyard out through the lower exit sheave, and knot it. Replace the mast heel, while keeping the halyard snug, and you are done!

- If replacing the wire portion of the halyard with Spectra, a T-ball bail makes an easy connection for the end of the line to the mast.

- If replacing the rope portion of the halyard, it is recommended to lengthen it a bit to ease completing this task in the future.

  Bob Ames - Nomad Designer

Re-rigging the Jib Halyard

2018-07-16 - Today I completed the replacement of the original Jib Halyard. It was as simple a process as disentangling the existing halyard, but should prevent a recurrence of the problem.  To begin, I ordered the following from Annapolis Performance Sailing , who completed all the necessary work to prepare the lines:

- Yale Vectrus 12 line (3mm) finished with a 'Luggage Tag' eye splice at each end; 15 feet in length - FSE Robline Dinghy Control Line  (5mm) whipped at each end; 60 feet in length (consider having a loop spliced at one end of this line) - T-Ball bail 1/16 - 1/8 rope-only fitting I reused the existing block which attached the original wire to the rest of the halyard.

It was handy having a second person available help with the final alignment of the line in the mast - I wanted to be sure there were no twists, and carefully threaded it to match the sketch above. The extra length of Dinghy Control line was added, as it does not get drawn into the mast on disassembly. In addition, the distal end of the Vectrus line can easily have a length of twine attached instead of the T-Ball bail, and drawn into the mast without removing the upper sheave.

Once installed, the mast raised and lowered with greater ease than ever, and the upper halyard above the top of the Jib remained parallel, rather than twisting as in the past.

Now that I have an assurance that the mast can be easily raised and lowered, I can happily start to play with the shrouds.  

Mission accomplished! A well spent $100.

A further advantage of using the Vectrus 12 line and T-Ball bail is the ease of removing the loop of line over the T-Ball bail. This allows the Luggage Tag loop to be threaded through the sheave at the top of the jib, rather than needing to remove the pin and sheave to insert the wire. Given this was a finicky task, with the possible loss of parts I'm really happy to slip the loop off the bail, thread it through the sheave, and re-attach the loop to the bail!

There has been some discussion on Sailing Anarchy , and in the comments on this site, about the placement of the pin for the mast heel and mast step. One discussion suggesting the forward hole is for the mast heel, and the rear one for the lifting bridle, while others described having broken mast heels or bent pins in their possession, claiming the forward hole placement puts great stress on the pin and heel. Given that there were two schools of thought  - use the forward pin position or the aft pin position, it was time for some research! Reviewing the Vanguard Nomad Rigging Guide is confusing, as it speaks about placing the mast BOLT in the second hole back, which differs from the position shown in Figure 15 (left image). Additionally, the photo in the guide shows pin, not a bolt.  It appears there are at least two different mast steps and mast heels used by the manufacturer during the few years the Nomad was produced. Even the guide shows two different mast steps in figure 15 of the rigging instructions. In the photo to the left, one of the mast steps has rounded corners, and the other is a parallelogram in profile. The mast heels appear to differ as well, with the one pictured being smooth-sided, while others have some amount of relief in the moulding, and an oval pin hole. My hull #356 has the mast step with the rounded upper corners. Today I finally moved the boat from winter storage, and had the chance to raise the mast. With the pin placed in the aft position, the mast heel does not touch the step, and all pressure is on the pin. Placing the pin in the forward hole allows the mast heel to make contact with the step.  My conclusion is that for the mast step on my boat the forward pin placement is the one to create less stress on the mast heel and step, and allowing tension on the shrouds. 

Edit May 4, 2018: Thanks to Chris H. for sharing the photo of the alternate, parallelogram-shaped step. In the notes accompanying the photo below he states: " Meant to send you a pic of my mast step earlier.  I think it might be interesting to post pictures of yours and mine.  There are two styles out there.  On mine I can see someone tried using both holes but it seems clear to me that the forward hole is the right way to set up the rig."   

This is the mast step from my boat - Hull #356. It differs from that shared by Chris in the lack of an oval opening for the pin, and possibly an overall height difference. This step also uses a clevis pin and hair pin clip, rather than the bolt described in the rigging manual.

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Chris H. shared a photo of the mast step on his boat. I note a number of differences including the slotted bolt hole, and indications of a wrench being used to tighten a nut, rather than a hair pin clip being placed through a clevis pin as on my boat.

June 20, 2018. Garth sent an email with the following comments:

"I popped in a new mast heel pin, and went sailing a few weekends ago. I am convinced the forward hole is correct, as the helm was perfectly balanced upwind.  We sailed in 8-12 knots, so the boat was pretty lively, especially in the puffs. Here are a few photos of the mainsail while sailing upwind. My only complaint is my full length battens are a bit loose. As you can see from the fuzzy fleece, it was a little on the cool side. The downwind was pretty sweet.  My upper shroud pins were ~1/2 way down the pin box. I was pretty aggressive on my lower shrouds, they were near the bottom of the box. This was lowest I've gone on both sets of pin boxes, but it felt really good in the puffy breeze we had. Reason for this is that I didn't want any side-bend in the mast in the "breezy-with-my-two-little-kids" conditions...If anyone is interested, and can look and see exactly which holes I was set up in. "

Just a quick platform to allow the storage of a small outboard motor, and a plastic tote containing life jackets and other bits and pieces needed for a day on the lake. It consists of two 2x6 cut to about 5 inches. and a series of thin strips attached across them to raise the platform above the boom and rudder. 

Coming soon.

Photos of Nomads from all over.....

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Pearson Vanguard

The ravages of time notwithstanding, the vanguard represents a lot of boat for the money..

Pearson Yachts, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, was founded in 1956 by cousins Clinton and Everett Pearson, and fellow Brown University graduate Fred Heald. For the first few years it produced dinghies and runabouts in fiberglass, a boatbuilding material pioneered in the early days of post-war America by Ray Greene, Taylor Winner and a handful of other erstwhile inventors. Then in 1959 Pearson exhibited its prototype Carl Alberg-Designed Triton at the New York Boat Show, wrote enough orders to pay its hotel bill, and sold public stock to raise the necessary capital to expand facilities. The Triton, while not the first auxiliary sailboat built of fiberglass, was the first boat to enjoy a long production run (over 700), and keep its builders in the black.

The Vanguard, designed by Philip Rhodes, followed in 1962 and remained in production until 1967, totalling 404 hulls. It was preceded by the Invicta, Alberg 35, Bounty II, Ariel, Rhodes 41, and of course the Triton. This line of fiberglass cruisers and sometime racers gave Pearson a strong position in the market. The pedigree of the designers was odorless, and construction quality was good for that particular moment in the timetable of plastic boatbuilding technology.

Sailing Performance

The early Pearsons were club raced with moderate success under the now-defunct CCA Rule, and in some offshore events. Indeed, the 37′ Invicta yawl Burgoo won the 1964 Bermuda Race. It was the first time a fiberglass boat had won the event and prompted a lot of advertising ballyhoo from the company. While the Vanguard never acquired as memorable a victory as the Invicta, it performed decently.

One does not, however, buy a vintage Pearson for scintillating performance. A PHRF rating of 216 indicates the Vanguard will spend a lot of time watching the transom of even a Pearson 32, a 1979 design with a divided keel and rudder underbody whose rating is 174. The reasons include greater displacement and shorter waterline. The theoretical hull speed of the Vanguard’s 22′ 4″ waterline is just 6.3 knots. As the boat heels, however, the waterline’s sailing length quickly increases, as will speed. Therefore, the Vanguard was intended to sail at about 15° of heel for maximum efficiency. Once its “shoulder” is immersed, the boat is fairly stiff.

Maneuverability is good. Comments from our reader surveys say, “Turns on a dime.” Despite bearing the “full keel” appellation, the Vanguard’s generous overhangs, cutaway forefoot and raked rudderpost mean there’s not as much lateral surface area as one might suppose. Backing down is dreadful, but that’s to be expected with a keel-hung rudder and propeller in the aperture. One learns to aim in the direction of the prop; to attempt otherwise is to thumb your nose at physics and invite the maledictions of watchful owners on nearby boats.

Like many CCA-inspired designs with large mainsails and small foretriangles, the Vanguard likes to carry a large headsail longer than is customary on more contemporary designs. Instead of switching down from, say, a 150% or 165% genoa when the wind approaches 18 knots, the wiser practice is to reef the main. The consequence of any other strategy is a wicked weather helm that makes tiller steering seem like a two-handed wrassle with an alligator.

Owners have dealt with the weather helm problem in various ways. Because raking the mast forward (to move the center of effort forward) is an insufficient measure, some have installed double-duty bow platforms to relocate the headstay farther forward, and as a permanent home for their main anchor. Others have tried roachless mainsails. The easiest solution is simply to adjust your thinking about sail combinations. As one reader wrote, “It took me three years to learn to shorten the main (before reducing headsail size).”

A small number of Vanguards were delivered with yawl rigs, and though none of the readers in our survey were owners of split rigs, they presumably would be easier to balance than the sloop.

Despite these idiosyncracies, the Vanguard is well behaved in deteriorating weather. It is never skittish while tacking or during sail-changing maneuvers, and in fact, by luffing the mainsail it is possible to carry sail longer than is prudent. Switching down, of course, is inevitable. “In 50 knots with a storm jib and trysail,” said one reader, “she can make three knots to windward.”

The ubiquitous Atomic 4 gasoline engine was the standard auxiliary for the Vanguard. Many are still in operation though it is more and more common to find thrifty replacement diesels, a certain improvement in resale value. If the Atomic 4 hasn’t been replaced yet, one should factor in the cost of repowering in the not-so-distant future.

Accessibility varies dramatically between the standard aft galley layout and the dinette arrangement with quarter berths aft. In the first, the engine is located under the sink; access is from the front via a cupboard door and from the side by removing the offset companionway counter steps. Needless to say, this is not a convenient setup for even routine oil changing, let alone major repair work. In the second, the engine is covered by a box directly under the bridgedeck; removable panels, fastened by knurled thumbscrews, expose the engine on all sides except the aft transmission end, which is under the bridge deck. While ease of engine maintenance is certainly an important factor in choosing a boat, in the case of the Vanguard the two general arrangement plans also have significant impact on livability at anchor and at sea, giving prospective buyers pause to contemplate the many implications of the two different layouts. More on this later.

Construction

Owners’ faith in the integrity of older Pearsons borders on the religious. “They don’t make ’em like they used to!” is a frequent call in the hallelujah chorus of these proselytes, usually followed by some refrain of boatyard wisdom such as, “Back then they didn’t know how thick fiberglass had to be.” Or they say, “My hull is …this thick!” as the space between their thumb and finger grows like Pinocchio’s nose. There is probably some truth to these beliefs—that scan’tlings for fiberglass boats were for a time loosely derived from the builder’s knowledge of wooden boats—but a thick skin doesn’t necessarily result in a well made boat, nor does the hull layup tell the whole construction story. Amen.

The Vanguard’s single skin hull was indeed the beneficiary of generous laminations of 1 1/2-ounce mat and 24-ounce woven roving, but probably not as many as some owners would like to believe. One indication of panel stiffness is whether the hull changes shape in its cradle; a door that suddenly won’t open is a telling clue, and with the Vanguard, this is seldom the case. It is also true that most Vanguards weigh about 1,500 pounds more than the designed displacement.

Perhaps the most dramatic difference between old and new Pearsons (and most older boats for that matter) is the use today of many more fiberglass molds: furniture foundations, iceboxes, shower stalls, etc. In some instances this practice may represent an improvement, in others not. The Vanguard’s interior was constructed of plywood taped to the hull. Correct building procedures were generally followed, such as peeling the plastic laminate where bulkheads are taped to the hull for better adhesion. Neatness, however, sometimes was lacking; examples might include wrinkles in the cloth and frayed, untrimmed edges.

The all-wood interior, properly taped to the hull, nevertheless creates a strong internal support structure and is amenable to do-it-yourself modification. Where it becomes unsatisfactory is in some structures such as the icebox, which in the Vanguard was built in situ from plywood and sheets of Styrofoam; the result is too many thermal leaks, not enough insulation, and more weight than necessary. Owners wishing to upgrade the icebox have the dubious choice of adding insulation on the inside (resulting in an unacceptably small box) or ripping out the entire box and building a new one from scratch, which is a devil of a job.

The deck is balsa cored and the hull-to-deck joint is a simple flange that is sealed and through-bolted. The balsa is terminated several inches from the rail so that deck hardware such as lifeline stanchions and cleats are mounted on solid glass. As with most older boats, bedding compound tends to deteriorate over time, and severe gelcoat cracking allows the ingress of water. This is of particular concern where coring is involved. Extreme remedies for punky decks—grinding away one skin of the deck sandwich, removing watersoaked wood and reglassing—is a major and costly project.

The one real problem with the Vanguard’s basic structure is the keel (it’s not a problem as long as you don’t hit anything, but groundings, for the curious cruiser, are as predictable as the tide). The lead ballast castings were set in a bed of resin inside the hollow keel, which is part of the hull mold, then glassed over so that water entering the keel cavity will not enter the cabin. Without fiberglass reinforcement, the resin bed is brittle and provides little added protection from a grounding. Voids between the ballast and keel sides were filled with various types of material over the years, including sheets of balsa, which can soak up water like sponges if the keel is holed.

The Vanguard’s mast step is a welded steel box bolted to the deck. Twenty years seems to be about the maximum useful life of these steps, eventually succumbing to rust and requiring the custom fabrication of a new one. Entrance to the forward cabin is offset to starboard so that a solid teak compression post could be fitted to the head side of the bulkhead.

Fuel (21 gals) and water (45 gals) tanks are Monel, the former mounted under the cockpit footwell and the latter under the main cabin sole on centerline. The fuel tank should be removable, but replacing the water tank would require dismantling the sole, which unfortunately is not an unusual situation in many boats. On the plus side, Monel is an excellent tank material and will probably survive the boat itself. Plumbing is straightforward with bronze, barreltype seacocks on through-hull fittings.

Most owners have strong opinions about the two arrangement plans—standard and dinette. Neither is without problems. The forward cabin is the same in both plans, as is the head. In the main cabin, the standard arrangement features a settee/berth to starboard with a pipe berth over; to port is an extension settee that pulls out to form a full-width single berth and a pilot berth outboard, totaling four decent sea berths. The aft galley is divided by the offset companionway with icebox to starboard and sink and stove to port. There is no provision for an oven in this plan, which may be a drawback for live-aboards and some cruisers. The fold-down bulkhead-mounted table makes for more open space but is something of a contraption.

The dinette plan has a more useful table, which is handy for chartwork and lowers to form a double berth. But because of the Vanguard’s comparatively narrow beam, the dinette is small. The galley is a sideboard affair with adequate plate and food stowage.

Its chief advantage is a three-burner stove/oven, and its greatest liability is a sink that won’t drain with the rail down on port tack. In fact, in such conditions the sink overflows into the stowage bins behind and ultimately into the bilge. This requires closing the sink drain seacock in blustery weather. Two quarter-berths are secure at sea though adults might find them a bit claustrophobic on a regular basis. But at least they won’t have to be stripped of bedding each morning, as do settee berths in the main cabin.

The stepped coachroof provides unusual headroom in the main cabin (about 6′ 5″), and marginal headroom in the head and forward cabin (6′ 0″ plus). Berth lengths are all just over 6’. The head is small, though there is adequate stowage space, and an aluminum fold-down sink at least makes shaving a semi-civilized possibility.

The Vanguard’s interior is virtually all plywood, with bulkheads and furniture foundations taped to the hull. The imitation teak-grain plastic laminate is hardly the fashion today, and contributes to a drab, dark feeling inside. The cabins could be given a real breath of life by painting over the laminate (good sanding required for adhesion, though results may still be marginal) or applying a new veneer on top.

A molded fiberglass inner liner was used for the overhead, and the hull sides are covered with vinyl, the latter being a popular target of home renovation projects. The installation of a wood ceiling or cementing some durable fabric or other foam-backed material is a relatively easy and quick way to spruce up the interior. Fiddles, moldings, handholds and other trim are teak. The cabin sole is teak over plywood, and the floors are wood fiberglassed to the hull.

Conclusions

A reasonable shoal draft of 4′ 6″ makes the Vanguard suitable for cruising the Bahamas and Florida Keys, yet also gives it enough stability for offshore sailing. Perhaps the boat’s major drawback for living aboard or extended cruising is its size; a short waterline and narrow beam condemn owners to stowing on deck surplus drinking water and fuels, sail bags, ground tackle and the like.

Prospective buyers cannot ignore age either; at more than 25 years old, wiring, bedding compound, wood, plastic and metal parts experience a steady rate of failure when a boat gets this old. If the boat hasn’t been the beneficiary of a major upgrading effort, it soon will.

The Pearson Vanguard is a traditionally styled boat, and therein lies her appeal. Rhodes could draw a mean sheerline and this boat is no exception. Like most of the early Pearsons, the Vanguard offers a lot of boat for the money. Its value peaked in the early 1980s between the high $20s and low $30s, more than twice it’s original cost. In recent years, age and the glut of used boats on the market has brought prices down well below $30,000, often into the teens. Much depends on the amount of upgrading performed by past owners, the most important being engine, topside reconditioning, interior customization, condition of teak and non-skid, and sail inventory.

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/dev: Vanguard x LoL Retrospective

Greetings Travelers,

It’s now been almost eight megaseconds since we released Vanguard for League of Legends, and in that unfathomable amount of time, there have been several highlights, a few lowlights, and at least one Vanguard cosplayer (haute couture). We’re gonna share the first two things with you now, in a continuation of our steadfast attempts to become both the loudest and the most transparent anti-cheat team in PC gaming, but before we do that, please consider also reading the article we published prior to Vanguard’s release as a palette-cleansing, 14-course appetizer .

One philosophical amuse-bouche that we should get out of the way early is that, while we’ll keep working on bettering the Vanguard x LoL integration (and cheaters will keep working on their cheats), we’re not going to relitigate the decision to utilize this technology. All anti-cheat methods trade friction for effectiveness, and where we position ourselves on that curve demonstrates how seriously Riot takes its competitive experiences. The F2P model encounters too many unwinnable problems when the bans can’t stick to the bad actors, including for behaviors like feeding, toxicity, and boosting. It’s okay if kernel anti-cheat just isn’t your bag, but we’re not going to wait around for the PC platform to offer security features sufficient to support the games we want to make. Until that day, we genuinely believe that an effective anti-cheat is the best way to keep League thriving.

Alright, onto the rest of the meal. Once again, my name is “mirageofpenguins,” and I’ll be your maitre d’ this evening. My culinary credentials thus far include being fired from a Subway franchise after nine months of employment, but I’ve been cooking oven-fresh anti-cheat at Riot for over a decade since then.

How It’s Going

Like any decent sandwich, here at Vanguard’s we put the bread on top. In that regard, updating LoL’s anti-cheat has achieved a great many of our initial goals, some to the degree that several people have even considered releasing Vanguard 2. Okay, no one thought that (and anti-cheat updates are about as fun as putting gloves on a cat), but there have been several immediate wins from bringing LoL’s anti-cheat system into this century that probably aren’t too large a surprise.

Fewer Scripters

The percentage of Ranked games with at least one scripter in them, and bans issued explicitly for “scripting” in competitive play. Legends has it that I love this graph so much I’ve had it tattooed onto both my forearms, and I go back to the parlor every three weeks to have them both excruciatingly updated. Sure hope we run out of scripters before I run out of flesh.

The first and most obvious victory is that there are far fewer cheaters in the game now. Above is LoL’s Ranked scripting rate, graphed alongside daily anti-cheat ban volume and bucketed based on the system in which the ban originated (“Packman” is the old anti-cheat, and “Vanguard” is the new one). A significant portion of the immediate reduction in scripters is due to Vanguard’s preventative features, but as might be evident from the manifestation of the “hardware ban” category, further reductions have been accomplished through detecting cheaters that heroically still tried to cheat post-Vanguard, bravely sacrificing all of their accounts to see if the anti-cheat had a ban limit (it didn’t).

Since the release of Vanguard, we have banned over 175,000 accounts for cheating, but more importantly, our Ranked scripting rate fell below 1% for the first time in nearly four years . As of the time of this writing, only 1 in every 200 Ranked games is played with a scripter, and I figure it’s finally safe for me to complete my placement games. I’ll for sure still land in Iron II with a crisp 10% win rate, but at least now, I’ll only have Zed’s entire existence as a champion to blame.

The most recent spike in ban throughput (on July 8th) was the direct result of a little something Riot likes to call “ summer break ,” and our returning from it was accompanied by a sudden burst in raw anti-cheat energy, nuking 35,000 scripters in just under 48 hours. While many were stunned to find that anti-cheaters even needed to sleep, please be assured that most of us are nearly 100% detectably human. We too love simple pleasures like looking at trees and ingesting nutrients, so a good week of respite only served to strengthen our resolve.

The raw number of botting hours, broken down by queue in which the game occurred. You’d be correct to assume that I used “hours” here so that executives could more immediately feel the impact in the deepest fold of their wallet (server costs).

Our second graph is a look at how many game hours bots have wasted this year. Botting and scripting software is similar, so we deconflict the two offenses primarily through the performance of the player and the game client. i.e. Bots die to towers and play at a high-powered maximum of 9 FPS. In the native data tongue, it would sound a little something like this:

select date, game_mode, sum(minutes_in_game) * 60

from anticheat.detections 

where client.resolution_x + client.resolution_y < 1000

   and client.avg_fps < 15 fps

group by 1, 2

Anyways, Vanguard’s anti-virtual machine techniques put a pretty hefty dent in the average programmable coffeemaker’s ability to brew a League of Legends session, dropping total hours spent botting from north of 1 million a day to less than 5 thousand . Many botting farms were struck with lasting emotional turmoil, and if you played co-op vs AI, you may’ve actually seen them standing in your fountain having deep, introspective thoughts. This rapid onset of bot-paralysis was the simple result of their not running Vanguard—no Vanguard session, no connection to the server. Some bots have tried to trickle back in on old OSX VMs, but that’s something we’re saving for dessert (keep reading).

Shortly after releasing Vanguard, we also cleaned up 3.5 million bot accounts that hadn’t yet been sold, and the idea there is to slowly dehydrate the market for secondary accounts. Bots are a big part of the engine that powers competitive LoL abuse, both for supplying boosters with new smurfs on which to queue alongside their customers and also for supplying scripters with new accounts on which to “play.” I’m actually not sure you can call either of these things “playing” League of Legends, so we’ll want to stay extremely vigilant on smart toasters to maximize the misery per second of our other punishments.

Faster Bans

You may’ve experienced a fleeting moment of relief at the prospect that I’d abandoned the insufferable sandwich metaphor, but like all struggling writers, I wrestle with my artistic commitment to the literary and nutritional mediums. So, these next graphs can be considered the mayonnaise, and a lot like actual mayonnaise, they’re the entire point of the sandwich.

“Time to Action” (left) is measured in games, and “Time to Detection” (right) is measured in days. The former is more a measure of how swiftly we’re removing bad actors, and the latter examines the speed at which we’re able to ship detections for known cheats. It’s important to note that detecting something does not immediately indicate we are banning for it.

Above on the left is our primary anti-cheat KPI, called “Time-to-Action,” and it can be interpreted simply as the number of games a cheater is able to play before their account is merged with a reality in which it never existed, a spacetime-compression algorithm that most three-dimensional beings perceive as a ban. Due in part to our no longer needing to rely on LoL’s update cadence, Vanguard has significantly expedited the process of removing scripters from League of Legends. Our time-to-action has fallen from 45+ games to less than 10 , and even that small delay is mostly deliberate to slow “realizations” from developers that we have them surrounded.

To that effect, the graph on the right is a glance at the other side of this coin.“Time-to-Detection” is a measurement of how long a cheat (or an update to one) is able to hide in the LoL ecosystem before a detection for it is written on a scroll and burned in tribute to the sentient Vanguard Cloud. We can estimate this by looking at the oldest age (in days) of all the account + hardware combinations identified for the first time when a new detection is committed (when it likely “first appeared”). We’re extremely fast right now, but as cheats move underground or become more advanced, it will take us longer to find and create detections for them. This is the delicate balancing act of anti-cheat: we cannot over-prioritize “actions” without also expediting cheater updates and slowing our “detections.”

A cheater willing to cheat in a post-vanguard universe is usually not committed to the idea of account ownership or to the idea of a fair game. Their community is often one of other cheaters, the way they interface with the game is by cheating, and nothing but time or puberty can change that. Until then, all we can do is iterate with them, and the speed at which they are re-identified is a reflection of how effective we are at forcing them to start over.

Other “Interesting” Changes

That Zeri delta might look juicy, but as a reminder, cheating is a one way ticket to Ban City, where the tax rate is 100% of your yearly accounts.

The above dashboard is monitoring the 9 most popular scripting champions for any changes that may’ve resulted from Vanguard’s deployment, and because a veritable buffet of mouse clicks is something scripts can serve faster than a human, the majority of them are ADCs. The timeline on the left is how much more a champion wins when they’re cheating than when they’re not (as the delta in ranked win rate between scripters and normal players), and the graph on the right is that same champion’s total win rate, measured 60 days before and 60 days after Vanguard. To ensure a competitive sample, all games included here are ones in which the player on the identified champion was then-rated Platinum or above.

A joyous thing can be observed from allowing photons to bounce off the graphs and into your retinas: Cheaters are getting slightly worse . There’s a wide variety of factors at play here, but the MVP is Vanguard making it extremely annoying to use “internal” cheats without opting directly into a detectable pattern, resulting in many cheaters pivoting to either, (1) playing manually or (2) settling for cheats of the “external” variety. As that title implies, these cheats don’t have the luxury of reading game memory, so they get all their data by reading the screen and attempting to submit input on the cheater’s behalf. To make a long story short, they’re just.. not very good.

Additionally, the reduction in scripters (and the reduction in scripting efficacy) appear to be affecting even overall win rates for the scripting poster-children. It’s hard to control for things like balance changes, seasonal resets, and counterpicks falling into favor, but some percentage of these decreases are due to cheaters having difficulty keeping accounts in Diamond. Puts a real spring in my step when I think about it.

Minimal False Positives

All new anti-cheat can run the risk of flagging software assets that “look” like cheats (usually malware or cheats for other games), but luckily Vanguard isn’t all that “new”—it turned four this year. As the final piece of bread on this sandwich (that I now realize is comprised only of two wet ciabatta slices dipped in condiment), we will examine Vanguard’s false positive rates on LoL.

It’s worth mentioning that “my brother’s pet iguana installed scripts on my computer” is not currently accepted as a valid excuse for cheating, but based on the frequency that we receive it, we’re beginning to have concerns that the “Godzilla” franchise could be prophetic.

On the left axis above is the percentage of all Vanguard suspensions reversed (bars), bucketed based on the underlying reason for the unban, and on the right axis is that same breakdown examining the average amount of time those accounts spent suspended (lines). There are three types of ban reversals here, in order of appearance:

An account that was stolen (not deliberately shared) at the time they were detected cheating.

An account that was locked due to borrowing or buying previously banned hardware.

An account that was banned for an asset or behavior that is not explicitly for cheating in League of Legends.

We consider a “real” false positive to be the last condition, and so far, this rate in total is sub 0.01%, or less than 1 in every 10,000 bans . Better still, the average duration any of these innocent accounts were suspended was less than 72 hours. We had to tune a few rules at launch to better accommodate LoL’s atypical patterns of playing other games simultaneously, but it’s been relatively smooth sailing since. We remain extremely committed to the accuracy of our punitive actions, and we continually re-review Vanguard’s rules to minimize collateral damage.

All that said, cheaters still need more accounts to cheat on, so the “stolen account” case remains far-and-away the most common. While player support makes occasional one-time-exceptions for accounts that were obviously compromised, sometimes it’s impossible to tell “who” originally owned an account, especially when it’s deliberately shared over long periods of time. Putting Vanguard on League has alerted many account co-owners to a comrade’s cheating proclivities, but there’s not much we can actually do when two or more players have claim to an account.

Don’t share your account, don’t reuse passwords, and please enable MFA .

The Tougher Topics

Approximately 0.0% of people are thrilled at the idea of installing mandatory anti-cheat, so it probably wouldn’t surprise anyone to discover that the Vanguard team didn’t exactly anticipate a red carpet for LoL. Vanguard is a fairly complex product that operates in near-complete opacity. A lot of this is necessary to be effective on cheaters that would love only to understand a little more of it, but that same obscurity makes Vanguard an extremely visible target that doesn’t always offer an explanation. Some of these next sections are going to get a little technically intense, but stay with me and we’ll plow through it together.

Vulnerable Driver Blocking

Vanguard’s goal is not to become some sort of continually-surveilling police state, but instead to function as a badge of pre-existing security for the system on which it’s being run. By creating a perimeter around the Windows kernel, Vanguard allows us to require less information from systems that haven’t had Windows’ native protections breached and are still in known-secure states.

Our anti-cheat accomplishes this perimeter without network connectivity by having its driver component start when the operating system does, blocking other drivers from being used in a “race” to the kernel—where they could then hide themselves indefinitely from anything that loads after. Often called the “Who Loads First?” problem, Vanguard attests to this not having happened since boot simply by still being there when the game launches.

The things Vanguard blocks are:

Vulnerable drivers with privilege escalation exploits that can be used to get code into the kernel.

Relatively old drivers with certificates in which one of the signatures does not possess a timestamp.

Drivers that are outright used for cheats, signed by cheat developers masquerading as legitimate software companies.

The second case is the most common collision, but the problem with allowing old certificates is that many of them have been stolen by cheaters. In most cases, this can be resolved by simply downloading a newer version of the affected driver, but sometimes, the developers have long since moved on. Even if they could, revoking their old signatures now would prevent every legitimate user from ever running software they’ve signed, so instead, Vanguard blocks drivers with these certificates when it’s active. You can always kill Vanguard to load them anyway, but to play a Vanguarded game, we still need to know nothing had a chance to compromise Windows since boot.

BootLooping

A recent mass-bootlooping event generated world-wide concern over the potential hazards of operating kernel drivers, but while it was certainly spooky, Vanguard is largely not at-risk for this worst-case scenario. Several differentiating factors and direct mitigations are at play here.

Boot Differentiation

Microsoft-certified anti-malware components have the ELAM entitlement, and with it, the privilege of loading their driver on “boot” start, earlier than Vanguard’s “system” start (studious readers might recognize this as a natural progression of the “Who Loads First” arms race). But more importantly, many anti-malware drivers also dynamically pull configuration blobs from a remote server at runtime, without the need to rebuild and recertify the driver. Such designs substantially accelerate threat response, but they also persist data locally for use on each initialization, exposing a vector for irrevocable updates if any config should result in a race condition where new blobs cannot be downloaded before the operating system crashes. A dynamic, driver entry would’ve been a significant risk surface increase, and it’s one the Vanguard team figured we’d sleep better without.

Static Code

Instead, Vanguard’s driver (VGK.sys) does nothing dynamically at launch— it is all static code . We leverage Vanguard’s client component (VGC.exe) to activate features within the driver remotely only when actively playing a game. No configurations are stored, changed, or persisted to the next launch of the driver, and if there ever was to be a critical bug, we would just stop sending the affected config, reverting the driver back to its statically passive state on next reboot. Vanguard’s driver component has no network connectivity itself, and the client must establish a connection with the platform before it ever actively “does” anything beyond blocking vulnerable drivers that are loaded after it.

A Simple Failsafe

Some enterprising young engineers have already detailed this process, but Vanguard’s driver entry has a deadman’s switch mechanism in the form of vgkbootstatus.dat file. When Vanguard first starts, it checks the status of this file, and if it doesn’t say “launched,” the driver exits safely. Otherwise, it sets the status of said file to a “launching” state, and once the preamble successfully completes, it again sets that same status to “launched.” Basically, should a launch of VGK.sys fail to complete successfully, that file would still read “launching,” and the driver would not run again until it was updated (by launching a Riot title or deliberately reinstalling Vanguard), mitigating bootloops in the unlikely event of a launch conflict.

“Vanguard Event” Near You

Vanguard’s integrations with LoL are a little unique, chief of which is that the anti-cheat session is created when the light desktop client starts, instead of when the game client does (like VALORANT). This is quirky from an anti-cheat perspective, and it comes with a deceivingly simple challenge: players often leave their desktop client running. This means that (1) the computer can go to sleep while a LoL session is active and (2) one session usually kicks another (e.g. between a home and work computer).

Unfortunately, LoL’s integration with Vanguard did not handle these events, and because each account can only have one Vanguard session at a time, the end result is players ending up in a Vanguard-less state. So, if you were in-game and a second computer re-authenticated to Vanguard, you’d be booted from the server for no longer having an anti-cheat session. Similarly, if you lost your session while searching for a game, you might not get a notification about it until you got through the loading screen and were kicked, potentially subjecting you to the brutal experience of a match remake plus the resulting LP loss.

Riot royally biffed this one, but the quick fixes have been patches to re-auth logistics. LoL is following up with pre-game Vanguard session checks to be 300% sure it can’t happen again. If you’ve been following my infallible dinner metaphor, this dish would best be described as the spaghetti, and while it’s Riot’s signature platter, we’d like to prevent circumstances where anyone has to eat it.

And another thing…

Finally, I’m gonna steal eyeballs for one moment more to highlight three other issues that we’ve seen making the rounds, on the off chance that google indexes this page sufficiently for anyone to find it helpful. As always, the best way to get assistance is to submit a ticket .

Click Lag or FPS Drops

There are several 3rd party applications (mods, overlays, or passive benchmarking tools) that can sometimes flippantly try to open read handles or set hooks for notifications on certain events within the LoL client, and now that the game is protected by Vanguard, these operations will inevitably fail. We outright don’t want things interfering with the game, so the blocking behavior is 100% intended. However, the way certain apps wrap a Windows operation failing can range from silently ignoring the problem to repeatedly trying to do it again without any delay whatsoever , something that is almost impossible to address on our side. So, if you know what application is to blame, and it doesn’t already have allowlisting mechanisms for adding LoL.exe exceptions, you can prevent its attempts to manipulate LoL.exe yourself by using the following cheat code .

Enabling TPM 2.0

We found that our requiring TPM 2.0 on Windows 11 could generate confusion for some players when they went into BIOS to enable it. BIOS settings can vary wildly based on the manufacturer, and in exactly two known cases, players were also prompted to switch to UEFI mode to enable TPM, even though their existing Windows installation was under a Master Boot Record partition table style (MBR). Unfortunately, to support UEFI mode, Windows would need to be installed on a disk using the GUID partition table format (GPT), otherwise it could become unbootable. While this should’ve been handled when originally installing Windows 11 (as Microsoft also requires ), Vanguard forced the issue for a few players that had bypassed Microsoft’s original TPM 2.0 checks.

If you’re trying to enable TPM 2.0 for any of the anti-cheats that now require it, and you know yourself to be in the MBR scenario with data you don’t want to lose in a straight reformat, microsoft has a tool that can potentially allow you to convert a disk to GPT without deleting any data.

Specific Hardware Interactions

Driver development can be especially tricky when OEMs or vendors accidentally ship or push faulty firmware onto a percentage of devices. We try and stay ahead of this in the compatibility lab, but there are some things that are genuinely out of our control. If you’re still plagued with random blue screens , and you’ve got an intel 13th or 14th generation CPU, it could very likely be the case that you’ve got a device with out-of-date firmware . Intel is working on addressing these wider-reaching issues.

Next for Anti-Cheat on LoL

Anti-cheat is never finished, and while Vanguard has reduced our surface area and increased their barrier to entry, cheaters are always on the hunt for new ways to gain an unfair advantage. Here’s a look at a few things we’re cooking to make sure they stay famished.

Powering UP

While many cheat developers have thrown in the towel, we’re thrilled to report that several did not get the message, and we can hardly wait to turn on more of Vanguard for them to play with. Bans thus far have been only an aperitif, and we are extremely confident in our kitchen’s preparedness for this service. Many cheaters can often get stuck in the “denial” stage of the grief cycle, so we think of each ban as extinguishing a flame on the candelabra of hope. By gradually allowing every cheater to be swallowed by complete darkness, they can finally achieve true enlightenment.

“On Demand” Vanguard

As was foretold, a future will eventually arrive where we can rely on the security features of Windows to protect its own kernel, instead of protecting it from boot with a driver. This will allow us the opportunity to start our anti-cheat services when the game client runs, provided the end-user has opted into all of these features. We’ll have more communication on this topic early next year, but if you’re on Windows 11 and on relatively recent hardware, we wanted to let you know that you won’t have to tolerate the taskbar icon forever (even though we worked very hard on Vanguard’s logo).

Boosting Detection

Boosting refers to the behavior of deliberately playing with (or on) lower rated accounts for the purposes of increasing their Ranked standing. Detection is something the anti-cheat team has not touched since 2018, and we’re extremely excited about now having the fingerprinting technology sufficient to tackle it once more. We plan to focus the majority of our efforts here on detecting boosters queuing with customers on freshly de-ranked smurfs, and we’ll reward those accounts with bans lasting the rest of the season (Layer 1). Players that repeatedly queue with boosters affected by these punishments will also receive a similar vacation (Layer 2). Should any be brave enough to fully share their account with a boosting service, it will similarly be detected as a smurf (under Layer 1), effectively closing the loop.

There’s still a lot of work left on this one, but we plan to have it banging on 8 out of 8 cylinders next summer.

Mac x Vanguard (aka Vanguard 2)

As we were getting at in the “botting” section, some cheaters have begun to pivot to macOS VMs, in an effort to free themselves from the Vanguard requirement. This move was about as unexpected as syrup on pancakes, so we’re pleased to announce that Vanguard’s companion product, Embedded Vanguard (mVG) is coming soon to a Mac build near you. The unique security of the macOS environment allows us to be a little less stringent on defending its kernel, so as the name implies, this won’t require any extra installs—the security is “embedded” right into the game client. Further still, we’re actually already using mVG to great effect on VALORANT console and on Wild Rift.

Once it ships at the end of this year, we hope it will be the final blow to bots and to the two public scripting suite developers that are now grappling with the realization they wasted three months on porting cheats to OSX. Don’t worry too much though, Swift looks great on a resume.

And now my friends, we must return to the dark anti-cheat kitchen to prepare our next meal. But never fret, we'll always be fighting for your right to a competition free from cheaters that refuse to get good. It’s not every decade you get to work on a game through four different iterations of anti-cheat systems, but I’m unfathomably glad LoL’s now ranks amongst the best. It’s been an absolute pleasure playing with, writing for, and banning alongside you. Until next time.

P.S. I’ve since re-read this piece, and I think I may’ve been hungry while I was writing it?

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