That you buy, dabble and sell shows you're incapable
of loving a sailboat as you love even yourself.

As a TRUE sailor, I love sailboatS, not a sailboat.
Your limited, as I've always known.

RB

"Bobsprit" wrote in message ...
That you buy, dabble and sell shows you're incapable
of loving a sailboat as you love even yourself.

As a TRUE sailor, I love sailboatS, not a sailboat.
Your limited, as I've always known.

Faulty logic. Any whore can claim she loves men.
This makes her a whore - not a woman.

A true woman loves only one man. A true sailor
loves only one boat.

S.Simon

Faulty logic. Any whore can claim she loves men.
This makes her a whore - not a woman.

The very fact that you draw such a comparison, as if any boat can be likened to
a whore or a john, speaks volumes of your true failure as a sailor.

RB

A true woman loves only one man. A true sailor
loves only one boat.

So then we may assume you never had a boat before the 27 and will never own
another.

Good!

RB

Golly! Really? Drop the fortune cookie and back away.
The same can be said for nearly anything...cars, bikes, women....it's a dumb
point.
Move along.

RB


Only to someone, such as you, too dumb to understand a basic principal.

Shen

That isn't always true. Look at Bobby Sue. He can't stop learning
until after he starts.

BB



G Point taken

Shen

ject: How long did it take you !
From: "Simple Simon"
Date: 10/22/2003 09:55 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Bull****! If one lives aboard and sails for ten years one
learns all there is to know about his boat.

It is only people like you who suffer from senile dementia
who constantly forget things so when you have to learn them
again you think you're learning something new.

S.Simon - has complete understanding and mastery of
his fine, blue water sailing yacht

The above is a prime example of another "Boob", too dumb to realize he knows
far less than he thinks he does.

Shen

Joe wrote:

I've had RedCloud for almost 10 years now and have sail her more than
3000 miles, but I feel I still have things to learn about sailing her.

It's likely that you'll *always* have more to learn. One of the things
that I love about sailing is that it is limitless.


Thats been the best thing about having a sailboat is learning how to
get 110% out of her.

That's a joke. Relatively few sailors know how to get even 90% out of
their vessel, in terms of performance. World class racing skippers can get
95% +, but it takes a lot of work. And even Buddy Melges or Paul Elvstrom
can have an off day.

Until you have raced one-design, you don't know as much as you think you
do about how to get a vessel to perform. That's why so many 'cruising
sailors' profess to hate racing... they like to cling to the self delusion
that they are good sailors, and getting left in the dust shatters the
illusion.

Of course, there's more to sailing than just speed. Learning how to sail
the boat comfortably in a seaway, for example, or how to make ground to
windward under unfavorable conditions, or maneuvering in tight spaces, etc
etc. The list is practically endless.


Ol thom has given many tips that helped me learn
how to get more out of the sails. When I bought Redcloud I had no
ideal what half the rigging was for.

I consider it pretty basic to know what *all* the rigging does.


How long did it take you to really understand everything your boat
can do?

Usually a season or two.

How seriously do you appraoch learning about your boat & it's
characteristics? Ever studied a naval architecture textbook? This can be a
great way to learn the background of why boats behave the way they do, and
where your particular boat fits into the huge array of variables affecting
performance. Another thing that people rarely do is to deliberately
practice uncommon maneuvers (or for that matter, even the common ones).
This is a way to take big steps up the learning curve.



I still get a new suprise every now and then.

That's part of what keeps it fun.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

You'd have a point except that I've only done it once in this boat.

300 miles a year isn't much - that would be one trip to the Vineyard for me, or half a
trip to Maine. I'm guessing Joe off in his computations.

The truth is Neal, you may spend more time on your boat than most of us, but you don't
really travel that far. I'll bet RB sailed further than you did this Summer.


"Simple Simon" wrote in message
...



"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
...
3000 miles in 10 years? That doesn't sound like much at all. I've done about 8000 in
the 4 years
I've had my cat.


Big Deal! What's that but three or four trips up and down the
ICW. Bwahahahahhaahahhhaahah!

S.Simon - has some serious ocean time aboard my yacht

I doubt that. My one trip to Key West probably represents
more miles than Booby's little in-sight-of-the-dock excursions.

S.Simon


"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message ...
You'd have a point except that I've only done it once in this boat.

300 miles a year isn't much - that would be one trip to the Vineyard for me, or half a
trip to Maine. I'm guessing Joe off in his computations.

The truth is Neal, you may spend more time on your boat than most of us, but you don't
really travel that far. I'll bet RB sailed further than you did this Summer.


"Simple Simon" wrote in message
...



"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
...
3000 miles in 10 years? That doesn't sound like much at all. I've done about 8000 in
the 4 years
I've had my cat.


Big Deal! What's that but three or four trips up and down the
ICW. Bwahahahahhaahahhhaahah!

S.Simon - has some serious ocean time aboard my yacht