On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:53:00 +0000, Parallax wrote:

Although I like to sail, sailboat racing strikes me as fairly silly,
dunno why, it just does. However, my son has gotten interested in
paintball so maybe we can combine the two....... We invent a game
called "Blockade Runner". One boat is the Blockade Runner evading the
hated yankees to get into Savannah and the rest are the Union navy
tryin to catch him. They all have paint ball guns. Just as in real
naval battles, raking fire would be deadly. Blockade runner tries to
get into the channel and gets points for how close he gets.

Been there, done that.

There's a "race" here called the North Shore News Race. It's only a race
due to the fact that there is a starting line and a finish line. One year,
we were the "Fine Young Cannabals", dressed in grass skirts and painted
face, fake grass on the cabin, skulls on poles surrounding the cockpit,
etc. And we had a blowgun that shot grapes. One of the crew got pretty
good at hitting The Enemy at as much as 50ft away. (we finished 16th out
of 100).

Then there's the Vikings "sailpast" - which is basically a 2-hr long
waterfight while a dozen or so dinghies manoever to try to get champagne
from the flagship. Amazingly, we've never had a major mishap.

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36