"Blorgad" wrote ...
Let's pretend that you knew what you were doing.

Sure, I do that all the time.

How would you use your
sails to turn a normal fractional-rig sloop aft to wind while on a
mooring?

I would pay out more line, say 600' or so, then backwind the jib till the
bow starts turning downwind, set the jib and steer downwind. Easy, eh?

SV

So, thanks to my teaching, you have formed your truth from your
deduction skills. At this point the wave function of probability has
collapsed and your reality has formed. This is admirable. Even if I were
to tell you what I believe to be true, that would not help for others
may claim I know nothing about sails. So do you not see that I can only
say that I think your deduction is correct but not say there is an
absolute truth in your words young grasshopper?

Cheers

Blorgad wrote:
Dude, I have done my own analysis and deduction based on thought and logic.
I am looking to have it confirmed or denied. A little swinging back and
forth aside, I do not believe that it is possible for a spinnaker
particularly, but any other combination of sail for that matter, to turn a
boat on a bow mooring aft to wind. I believe that as all forces are
transferred to the boat aft of the bow, that the boat must be swung aft to
lee. Would you please be so kind as to weigh in with a non-arcane opinion?


"Nav" wrote in message
...

The path to enlightenment is paved with the stones of analysis, thought,
logic and deduction. He must pave his own way as we all have done. Only
the true sailor is capable of original thought (This excludes most
people with motorboats).

Cheers




Capt. Mooron wrote:


Aw fer cripes sake... just tell him it can't be done.... and be done

with

it!
It's like you are doin' a Feng Shui Shish Kabob with the poor guy here!

CM

"Nav" wrote in message
...
| Think of a boat sailing on her mooring. Does not the aft end follow

the

| bow? As she sails across the wind -tied to the mooring -does she not
| advance a little way up wind before stalling and tacking off again?
|
| Does that help you think more clearly grasshopper?

Horvath wrote:



I've never seen a ball with lines attached. But the
only balls I've seen are pubic balls.



Cheers

Horvath wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:29:06 +1200, Nav wrote
this crap:



Horvath wrote:



My deck is too high for anyone to grab a mooring ball.

Clean it up then!


Huh? Clean what up?


The deck!

Cheers

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 23:15:55 +1000, OzOne wrote this crap:


Here a ball floats on a light line, makes it easy to retrieve and pull
on deck.

Huh? Here they float on the water, and they're too heavy to pull up
on deck.




Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

On 5 Jul 2004 14:00:27 GMT, "Scott Vernon" wrote
this crap:

"Horvath" wrote


I've never seen a mooring ball with lines already attached. But the
only mooring balls I've seen are public balls.

You've never been to Annapolis, then.

I've been to Annapolis, and I never saw any mooring balls there.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

Scott Vernon wrote:

"Horvath" wrote

You are correct. A boat on a mooring ball always points into the
wind.



YOU are NOT correct.



Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Cheers

Scott,

That is a cop out. Sure if you let out enough line, then your boat will
behave as though not moored. You have just described one of the standard
ways of sailing away from a mooring once you let yourself off of it.
However, the question is could you do any such thing while actually and
practically moored?




"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
...

"Blorgad" wrote ...
Let's pretend that you knew what you were doing.

Sure, I do that all the time.

How would you use your
sails to turn a normal fractional-rig sloop aft to wind while on a
mooring?

I would pay out more line, say 600' or so, then backwind the jib till the
bow starts turning downwind, set the jib and steer downwind. Easy, eh?

SV

"Nav" wrote in message
...


Scott Vernon wrote:

"Horvath" wrote

You are correct. A boat on a mooring ball always points into the
wind.

YOU are NOT correct.


Makes you wonder doesn't it?

No. not at all.

SV

"Horvath" wrote in message
...
On 5 Jul 2004 14:00:27 GMT, "Scott Vernon" wrote
this crap:

"Horvath" wrote


I've never seen a mooring ball with lines already attached. But the
only mooring balls I've seen are public balls.

You've never been to Annapolis, then.

I've been to Annapolis, and I never saw any mooring balls there.

you haven't been there latley.

SV