Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:30:40 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:


Those are streaks on the water surface. He's talking about the tops blowing
off and keeping right on going. It really gets your attention the first
time you see it.


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Oh yes. It also gets your attention when it hits you or flys
horizontally through your companionway.


Also known as a flying fish, or big gob of freezing Neptune snot.
Catch one in your face, lose your glasses while falling down, gybe,
get conked, gybe again, get hanged at boom's end, catch your oil
slickers sleeve end in a winch knot to windward with the storm jib
aback going aground, etc, and later, in the yacht club bar, all
bandaged up and seeking solace in Bacchus, you hear yourself
described by the power "captain" you almost rammed in 7 feet of
charted water after he snuck up close under your sail at 28 knots
talking about drunken sailors and obstructions and rights of way to
navigate unrestricted, blah blah, blah.

Never actually saw one get launched, but know they exist.

Terry K