Jonathan Ganz wrote:

I've never heard anyone on a multihull say this. I have heard it from
mono sailors. From multihullers I hear, "I was going along, flying the
port hull, and we a gust hit and we capsized."

I see.
Are you saying multihull sailors can't speak properly?
Do they all just capsaize in gusts - s'funny the only problem I can
really remember on Hobies was a nasty tendency to pitchpole when really
flying -but then again that might faulty memory.

Cheers

Don't they have a command of the english language

"Nav" wrote in message
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Donal wrote:


"Nav" wrote in message
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Heeled only means tilted and would include listing. The catamaran _is_
heeled -it may even lift a hull out if heeled far enough! Live with it
-he's right (or look it up yourself in the OED).


I know that the dictionary says that it is heeled when it is sailing on

one

hull. However, I dispute the fact that a real sailor would ever use

the

term "heeled" to describe the excitement that accompanies the act of

sailing

a Hobie 15 on a single hull.

No? How about "She heeled over so far that I almost lost control and
capsized". Sailors who have been there would immediately empathize.


"Heeled" is dull. "A hull" is exciting! They are two completely
different things - to any sailor who has actually experienced them.


The inability to use language precisely is not something to be
cherished. Why not reduce it to a gutteral " It was WOW man and I mean
WOW!" and then we will all know what you are talking about...


Cheers