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"cruisin" wrote
| Ours was dead for awhile, almost left it that way. Barb
calls it the
| "scare-o-meter". Best not to know what it's blowing
sometimes... ;0)



When the wind goes "wuuoouuooo" past the mast and
rigging it's time to reef.
When the wind goes "weeuueeuuu" it's time to anchor. When
the wind goes
"rrrrrrroarrrrrroarrrrrrrrroarrrrroarrrrrrr" it's time to
say your prayers.....
If you have ears you know when it's blowing. You
don't need an instrument to do
it for you. I think somebody should make a beaufort wind
scale for sound. It'd be
just as good as sea state and better for sheltered water.


It always *sounds* windier in the marina with all the masts
and rigging whistling.


--
Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_