Good Answer Urchin!

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"Brian McAloon" wrote in message
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| Adversity builds character! Boy oh boy that sounds like fun Katy. Hankons
it
| is!
| "katysails" wrote in message
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| I'd like to hear about hankon advantages. Remember I'm still learning
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| He loves standing out on the foredeck grabbing down yards of sail in 9
foot
| seas with the wind blowing the snot out of your head while you stuff the
| sail down the hole before it goes in the water and then when you finally
| have that one taken care of for the moment, you have to unbag the next as
a
| wave catches you smack across the gullet and your wool cap drips down into
| your eyes. By this time, even though you have on Gortex gloves, your
hands
| are stiff and cold and you're fumbling with the hanks as you bounce around
| because your boat needs the jib for balance and right now its' bobbing
along
| on main alone. You have the halyard in your left hand while you hank on
| with your right and you run up a few feet at a time because if you try to
| hank them all on first and then raise the sail you'll drown from the water
| coming over the bow. You finally get the sail raisaed and then you have
to
| get back to the mast with the halyard to tie it off. By this time you're
| soaked through and are really relieved that you have to go below to bag up
| the other jib, except you realize that you stuffed that wet sail down the
| v-berth on top of your dry bedding...which isn't dry any longer. So you
bag
| up the jib and by this time, the guy on the tiller is getting a bit worn
and
| wants some relief so he yells at you to get your butt up topside and steer
| for a bit. The only consolation is that he might make better coffee than
| you do. Oh, and did I mention about how lovely it is to straddle the bow
in
| big waves, bouncing around, and hitting a cleat or pad eye every other
wave?
| Great advantage says I.
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| katysails
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| "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
| and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein
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