Gravity wins
- Thread starter Jackdaw
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I totally get that... I oversimplified to make a point. You are right; you get close to the edge doing anything and it takes skill to not fall off.
The 260 is a very honest boat in that breeze. There are a lot of boats at WYC that the CREW is not happy crewing in 16kts of breeze, let alone handing over the controls to newbies in it.I don't know why everyone doesn't find that more thrilling and fun than a speed boat. You guys are having a great time.
nice video too.
- Will (Dragonfly)
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Oh yes. Funny deal, they for years have sponsored on of the biggest freshwater races in the world. Sailors love the beer. But for years only in bottles, which racers hate on board. So as soon as cans came, very happy sailors!
It is crazy. No bikinis, no people or boats flying though the air, Just guys drinking beer while sitting on the rail.
I just could not stop the video. It was entrancing. Guess I'm just an addicted sailboat junkie. I think I need a 12 step program.
A Wednesday beer can group could be as few as 4 marks, so you’d be getting off easy.
NO! NO I DON'T! I AM NOT AN ADDICT. I ONLY SAIL ON SOCIAL OCCASIONS, or when I'm under a lot of stress or just to relax, or when I have nothing else to do, or just to keep my wife company, or just before breakfast, or to get across to the restaurant for lunch, or for exercise, or after dinner, or it's a weekend, or on Wednesdays, or occasionally mid-week just to break the routine, but NEVER at dusk. No I would never do that.
"... in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening – or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . . But never at dusk."
Steve Martin
See? I CAN HANDLE IT!
- Will (Dragonfly)
Yeah right.... mmmm hmmmm... oh tell me more... Oh I see... sure... cough cough... Lah de dah...
Waiter! We need another round for @Will Gilmore here.
Jim...
PS: Drunks tell the truth!
PSS: Tall Tales told by an SBO contributor who KNOWS a lot about sailing.
Huh? You must be talking about @Ralph Johnstone He knows stuff.PSS: Tall Tales told by an SBO contributor who KNOWS a lot about sailing.
When people who have never sailed tell me sailing looks boring because you go slow, I tell them you don't know how fast 7MPH is until you've sailed.
Some "sailors" bring their own excitement, others actually know how to sail.
- Will (Dragonfly)
We had no spring here. A week after cold water and air, it’s 93+ degrees all weekend and the water is over 75 degrees. Weekends on the water!
What kind of trickey is that silly looking blue thing @Jackdaw ? And what about that rolled up thing on the forestay? tsk tsk.
We sailed out and anchored. Breeze died so powered back. Path of least resistance!What kind of trickey is that silly looking blue thing @Jackdaw ? And what about that rolled up thing on the forestay? tsk tsk.
Going from jackets to bare skin in less than a week. Can anybody say crispy skin? .... where's the aloe vera gel?
As a ex-towhead it's going to be bad. My skin is going to be like a chicken wing on the grill. I'll lather on the sun block but it's not going to do it. I usually schedule my Dermatology check up in winter or early spring. She's not going to be fooled as she sails too. I'll promise to only sail at night.
An issue for most for sure. I’m 1/3 Native American, so I’m naturally dark and tan as soon as the sun come back out. I wear screen but to not avail. I look native already. Jodi has her own strategy. That works great, so I leave that alone.