"Marc" wrote in message
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i can confirm that sailing conditions were awsome July 31st.
Lower Bay, NYC winds S/E at 20+ kn steady. Stupidly single handing an
unreefed Freedom 36. Got beat to hell, but lord it was geat.


Sounds like you had some great sailing.

Are you saying that you believe that Bob did 9 kts downwind, with 11-12 kts
of apparent wind?



Regards

Donal
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"Scott Vernon" wrote in news:bge30b$mf736$1@ID-
154502.news.uni-berlin.de:

amateurish forgery. you forgot the extra '' in the header.

Oh did i?

Bwawhahwhahwhahwhahhwhahw!

You really aren't all that bright, are you?

Bertie

Scotty


"horvath" wrote in message
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"Scott Vernon" wrote in
:

Well! I think he finally gets it. That is a more accurate description
than I originally wrote.

Pretty much everthing is more accurate than you ever wrote

Bertie

I heard that that can be really painful if you try to swallow
it whole like bob usually does.

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
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"Bobsprit" wrote

My boat was
so crowded with lots of bloody meat. I sailed into Manhasset bay to
get a bitof protection so I could safely eat a watermelon.

RB

Re-installed the boom vang just in time as we ran downwind at 9 knots!

****, what was wrong? You did 11kts before in light air.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
Trains are a winter sport

No, Donal, I said what I said. My top speeds that day were 7.5 kn
dead down wind, in the lee of Sandy Hook, wing and wing in a calm sea
in 18kn apparent.
8.2 kn close reaching in 4 to 6' beam seas, 26 kn apparent. Way
over canvassed. Could probably have done the same reefed w/o the
rudder drag.



On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:31:25 +0100, "Donal"
wrote:

"Marc" wrote in message
.. .
i can confirm that sailing conditions were awsome July 31st.
Lower Bay, NYC winds S/E at 20+ kn steady. Stupidly single handing an
unreefed Freedom 36. Got beat to hell, but lord it was geat.


Sounds like you had some great sailing.

Are you saying that you believe that Bob did 9 kts downwind, with 11-12 kts
of apparent wind?



Regards

Donal

On 01 Aug 2003 17:17:30 GMT, (SAIL LOCO) wrote:

Re-installed the boom vang just in time as we ran downwind at 9 knots!

****, what was wrong? You did 11kts before in light air.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
Trains are a winter sport

He probably had at least one of those ten people skiing behind his
boat and it slowed him down a bit

No, Donal, I said what I said. My top speeds that day were 7.5 kn
dead down wind, in the lee of Sandy Hook, wing and wing in a calm sea
in 18kn apparent.
8.2 kn close reaching in 4 to 6' beam seas, 26 kn apparent.

Well, Marc...hope for some good wind Sunday and maybe we'll see 9 knots...or
at least 7!
Miserable and rainy here today with plenty of thunder. We're heading out anyway
at 6:00 to get some work done on the plumbing...something's funky with the main
pump for the sink/shower.
Donal's doing the best he can. He's a Beneteau owner.


RB

8.2 kn close reaching in 4 to 6' beam seas, 26 kn apparent.

We actually had higher wind funneling out of Manhasset bay's entrance. Calmed
down after we sailed in a bit.
Knotmeter read 8.5 a few times on a reach. The GPS was at 9 once, around 7.5
the rest of the time. Great ride, but too many people on board. By the time we
left the bay it had dropped off and we were just a bit under hull speed. Great
little daysail!

RB

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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8.2 kn close reaching in 4 to 6' beam seas, 26 kn apparent.

We actually had higher wind funneling out of Manhasset bay's entrance.
Calmed
down after we sailed in a bit.
Knotmeter read 8.5 a few times on a reach. The GPS was at 9 once,


Ahhhhh! Now it's the GPS that read 9. Honestly, I could get 13 knots
through the Alderny Race if the boat was only doing 4 kts.


It didn't take much to expose that particular lie!


Regards


Donal
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Knotmeter read 8.5 a few times on a reach. The GPS was at 9 once,


Ahhhhh! Now it's the GPS that read 9. Honestly, I could get 13 knots
through the Alderny Race if the boat was only doing 4 kts.

That must be the new math. Knotmeter says 8.5 and GPS says 9 = 4 knots!

Golly, Donal!

RB