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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:39:57 -0500, "Simple Simon"
wrote:

I'm a cruising sailor who has little need for
hi-tech racing crap and even less use for
comments such as yours from the Peanut Gallery.

Actually, you are no sailor at all. That's why you know so little
about sailing.


How the hell does a cruising sailor store a Mylar sail
on the boom without causing damage?

See if you can figure out a solution to this intractable problem! LOL!


Go ahead and laugh you sorry PUTZ! You only demonstrate
how completely ignorant you are about cruising. It is clear
to me that you have never had the guts to go cruising. You
are just another wannabe, landlocked daysailor like most
of the others around here.

A cruising sailor needs to have his sails at the ready
when he's anchored for the night, for example, in
case a storm comes up and he has to get underway
in a hurry so as not to be exposed on a lee shore.

With a stupid Mylar sail stored rolled around the boom
the cruising sailor would have to spend valuable time
struggling to get the damned thing back into or onto
the track which means feeding slugs or slides and
hoping things don't jam in the process. This is not
anything a smart cruiser would volunteer for.

It is only daysailors and racers who can abide this
type of dangerous system just so they can claim
a few tenths of a knot more speed around the
buoys. Pathetic and lubberly the whole way round.

S.Simon