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

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.

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

I still get a new suprise every now and then.

Joe

"Joe" wrote ...

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


Joe, you'll NEVER get 110% out of her. It's impossible.


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.

A.D.D.



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

Just started.

Scotty

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. Even without long passages, I must do 600 miles a year just putzing around.

I'd say my knowledge of boats peaked when I was about 28. At that age I knew everything there was
to know about anything. Now I find there's more and more that I don't understand.

I'm often reminded of a minor revelation I had about 8 years ago. I took out a friend on my old
Nonsuch. He was a near-Olympic level Star sailor (I think he was first or second alternate for
Barcelona), and had raced for many years in Boston Harbor where we were cruising around. He started
playing with my rig and in about 15 minutes had us pointing 30 degrees higher and going twice as
fast (so it seemed).

Then I mentioned to him that we were heading right for the only rock in the middle of the harbor
(Lower Middle) and since it was low tide we should honor the buoy. He said "no, its on the other
side of the buoy" and I had to show him on the chart where the channel ran. He said "Damn, you
mean all theses years I thought it was over there?" He may have been the best racer in the city,
but he didn't know how to read a chart and didn't know about a channel that was a few hundred yards
from his race course.

The moral is that as much as you know about one aspect of the sport, its impossible to know
everything.


--
-jeff

"Joe" wrote in message
om...
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.
Thats been the best thing about having a sailboat is learning how to
get 110% out of her. 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.

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.

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

I still get a new suprise every now and then.

Joe

"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

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
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"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
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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
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"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

"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

Thats on Red Cloud, most of the local sailing we do on our La Brisa.
Add another 3000 miles for it, and a couple of 1000 on other boats.
Been spending to much time working for a living. And before I bought
RedCloud,I had a few 100 thousand miles under various keels working as
a Captain. Ill get back in the grove someday, I plan on sailing to
Palmyra for my first long trip.



I've had my cat.


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


I try to stay out of the ditch, to many headaches. After pushing fuel
barges in the ditch for years not much new to see.

However I might jump in and out of the ditch heading to Cape Coral at
the end of the year.

Joe



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

When I bought Redcloud I had no
ideal what half the rigging was for.

Wow. That must have been an imformed purchase! Do you know at least 3/4 now?

Bwahahahahaha!

RB

The day you stop learning what your boat can do or will do, will be the day it
sinks, you die, or sell it.

Shen

The day you stop learning what your boat can do or will do, will be the day it
sinks, you die, or sell it.

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