On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:21:25 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Flying Pig" wrote in message
...
Look what I miss while I'm in the woods...

"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
anews.com...

Things I don't like a


3) no mast steps (it shouldn't take a committee to ascent to the
masthead)


Wilbur Hubbard


I thought you were one of the ones complaining about how nasty mast steps
were for tangling lines...

L8R

Skip, still looking for that one Pace-Edwards mast step

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"Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half
so
much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about
in
boats-or *with* boats.

In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter,
that's
the charm of it.

Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your
destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get
anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in
particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do,
and
you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."





I'm against the kind that you were planning to install. They snag halyards.
The kind I have installed are the folding type that can't snag a line if
they tried. No REAL sailor adds anything to his boat that will cause more
trouble than it's worth. That's why I tried to talk you out of your folly
but you wouldn't listen because you have a stubborn streak.

You can just barely see my folding mast steps. They are that unobtrusive.

http://captainneal.wordpress.com/

this particular photo shows them the most:

http://captainneal.files.wordpress.c...dsc00294ps.jpg

Please don't be envious of how my boat shines and Flying Pig is sort of all
dull and chalky looking.


Wilbur Hubbard


Willie-boy, I keep telling you and telling you, keep your mouth shut.
You just keep talking and talking and proving over and over how little
you know.

If you haul up a sail the halyard is tight, or in the case of many
boats nearly entirely inside the mast. In these cases it does not
tangle in the mast steps, no matter what kind they are.

It is only at anchor when the sails are down and the halyards dangling
there beside the mast that they get all snarled up in the steps.

What an ego. You just have to insist on talking and showing the world
how uninformed you are.

Cheers,

Bruce