Spoken by the only guy on this NG who is known not to own a boat.

Exactly. You don't own a boat. We do. Why not take some pics and show us "your
boat?"
No chance, right, Skitchy????

Bwahahahahaaha!!

Capt RB
C&C 32 Alien
NY

"CANDChelp" wrote in message
...
And I will never leave a helm
unattended and unlashed.

I only said "I can walk away." I lock it off or hit the autopilot button.


Wow! We're so impressed! You can trim the sails so well that you can use an autopilot!
Can you teach us how to do that?

On my first keel boat, a full keel design, the boat could be trimmed to sail without
lashing the tiller at all, if it was on a beam to close reach. On several occasions I
went about 20 miles like that - Marblehead to Boston in a NW breeze.


-jeff
If you can't say something nice, say something surrealistic. -Zippy

"CANDChelp" wrote in message
...

He found the 31 tough to steer?

What makes you think that?


Idiot!!



Regards


Donal
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Spoken by the only guy on this NG who is known not to own a boat.

Exactly. You don't own a boat. We do. Why not take some pics and show us
"your
boat?"
No chance, right, Skitchy????

Bwahahahahaaha!!

Capt RB
C&C 32 Alien
NY

Hilarious. Bob, your trolling efforts are all such hard work for you, tedious
for the target, with little art and no finish. Now, you must be given credit
for persistence and your work ethic, but take note that a true successful
person employs a combination of hard work and skill. I think I speak for the
group when I say we would all like to see a little more rapid development from
you.

CANDChelp wrote:

Again: I don't "wrestle with the helm" on Lady Kate because the
small rudder makes it unproductive: one wrestles with the sheets,
traveller, snotter instead.

So you agree that Donal needed to trim.
Thanks.

RB
I do not now wrestle with the Lady Kate helm because the small
rudder makes it unproductive. Finding out that that was the
case, was part of learning the boat. It was not an instantaneous
response.

I would still wrestle with the helm on Flying Tadpole from time
to time were I still campaigning her actively, in the
circumstances I have described.

I would expect others to also take a while to come to grips
thoroughly with a boat foreign to them in only a few hours
sailing, where there is a significant change in boat shape, or
sail layout, or size, or relative power of the rudder, among
sundry other things.
--
Flying Tadpole

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Jeff Morris wrote:

On my first keel boat, a full keel design, the boat could be trimmed to sail without
lashing the tiller at all, if it was on a beam to close reach. On several occasions I
went about 20 miles like that - Marblehead to Boston in a NW breeze.

But that's p[art of having a full keeler. I would suggest that
on a fin keeler, not locking or lashing is asking for trouble.
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Tad,

A good explanation of rudder action but I'm afraid wasted on the target

I'm not sure Nutsy has a full understanding of rudder use as applied to
a sailing vessel. He has a steering mentality of driving a car. I'm
afraid he started learning somewhere in the middle of the learning
curve. He still needs to be educated both up and down. Helming is a art
that inexperienced sailor my never truly learn.

Ole Thom

He found the 31 tough to steer?

What makes you think that?

YOUR WORDS:

The last time that I helmed an Oceanis, I thought that there was a serious
problem with the wheel steering. It turned out that I just wasn't used to
the small rudder.

bwahahahaha!

RB

Helming is a art
that inexperienced sailor my never truly learn.

Did you read Donal's post??? Bwahahaha! There's more to the helm than just
steering, dopey!
A sailboats helm works ICW the sails.

The best part is that I'm repeating what you all wrote some time ago, except
now you're afraid to direct it at silly Donal!!!

Bwahahahahaha!

RB

And after that, we can steer up wind under bare poles.

And now that you bring that up, there was a mention of that capability by
Dennis Connor on ESPN 2 a few weeks ago.

RB