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

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

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

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
Makes me wonder why someone would jump boat to boat every year, and
never really fully understand what he has. Its like starting to read a
book and putting it down half way thru.

Nothing wrong with either way. I had the Catalina 27 for 5 seasons.

Very interesting.

The Pearson
30 for 3.

Really interesting! Yawn!


Perhaps we'll sail the C&C 32 for 2 or 3.

Interesting. Yaawwn!


I enjoy owning and trying a
variety of boats.

Do you? That's really interesting! zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I'm also unlikely to keep a car for more than a few years.

Good man!

Some of the best sailors never own a boat. I make a point of trying as
many
different designs as possible.

That's quite interesting. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


Only in that way can I make anything close to an
informed decision about a long term boat down the road.

Oh, Sweet Jesus! How Interesting can this post get???? [Yawwwnnnnn]



Just like the 20's and
30's are time for sex with a variety of women, the same sorta goes for
boats.
I'm 41 (next month) and not ready to "settle" down with any one boat yet.
There's still too much to learn and no single boat can teach it. I plan to
sail
the 34XL for 3-4 years and then I want a Ketch, schooner or Yawl for a
while.


Bobby, are you trying to BORE us to death with your intermnable stories
about your unsatisfied boating requirements?

Why don't you go out and buy a boat that you actually want? .... Just like
the rest of us did?

Regards



Donal
--

Bobby, are you trying to BORE us to death with your intermnable stories
about your unsatisfied boating requirements?

Sounds a bit bitter, don't he??!!

RB

Why don't you go out and buy a boat that you actually want?

Impossible. At last count I want 33 boats.
Sorry you think so small.

Bwahahahahaha! He sets em' up, I knock em down!

RB

"Donal" wrote in message

| Why don't you go out and buy a boat that you actually want? .... Just
like
| the rest of us did?

Now Now Donal...... Bob's been working his way to that goal.

Let's see now.... there was "The Step Up", "The Stepping Stone", "The Side
Step" and now I believe he's talking about the possibility of "The Long
Step".

I'm certain we'll hear about every flat-footed creak of every ponderous
footfall on his way up the Stairway to Heaven.

CM

I'm certain we'll hear about every flat-footed creak of every ponderous
footfall on his way up the Stairway to Heaven.

Makes me wonder....

RB

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