"Capt. NealŪ" wrote in message
It's a good thing you're never in a rush because that crab-crusher
of yours is incapable of anything close to respectable speeds.
Your yellow excuse for a poor performing, coastal cruising, tender, fin
keeled, jury rigged, dory of a small boat couldn't hope to catch my fine
vessel on the best day.
If you ever got a chance to sail a nice, fast and manageable boat
such as my fine, blue water Coronado 27 that has an excellent
turn of speed as well as supperb maneuverability and seakeeping,
you would change your tune in a New York minute.
If you keep to within sight of shore and a protected bay in light
airs....maybe!
Sometimes it pays to have a fast boat such as running out to deep
water when that front or storm blows up or in. In your case you
would be attempting to slowly motorsail to safe harbor but you would
not make it and suffer a beating from wind and its effects on
shallow water working on old-fashioned hull.
No.. it pays to have a Powerful boat with good pointing abilities and sturdy
enough that you needn't run for cover like the fin keelers..... when ever
the wind pipes over 30kts!!
I will be out, well-off soundings, hove-to and enjoying cooking
a hot meal to be washed down with a couple of ice-cold beers.
No... you'd be at your mooring.... don't even talk to me about the ocean and
it's moods you impertinant, shallow flats, coastal sailor!! I've been in
seas that would crush your little fin keeled excuse for a vessel! Cuba??
Hah! they do that in rafts... Bahamas???... they do it on jetskis!!
You will be hanging over the rail puking while hollering Maday
on the VHF hoping to have some rescue vessel heading your way.
Not only am I not susceptable to mal de mere... but even in 45kts and 20
foot seas I wouldn't spill a drink in the cockpit nor take on green water!
Even use of the galley, swing stove oven and head is comfortable on a vessel
that carries the momentum mine does!
CN
---educating the lurkers as to who is the real sailor around here.
....and that is not the coastal flats, fair weather sailing Captain from
Florida!!
Capt. Mooron
S.V.Overproof
"Spawned in the African Jungles.... Forged in the Rugged North Atlantic....
and Tempered by the Cold Arctic Ice!"
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