So you're saying the autopilot handled it just fine,

no, I said the autopilot did not handle it fine at all.

but you thought there
was
too much rudder action.

no, I did not say that at all. I did say the autoilot was late with its
corrections, because the boat needed continuous corrections in steering,
predictable as the waves passed over the quarter.

And it was too difficult for a novice like you to
hand
steer?

No, I did say we hand steered because the autopilot couldn't keep up.

Now we understand, you want a heavy displacement, full keel boat
that
will plod along at three knots even if you're dead drunk.

no, actually I prefer a boat that doesn't wallow around in light quartering
seas so badly that the autopilot can't keep up. I have made that same run in a
mono hull (at 8 knots, the same same speed to slightly greater than the cat) in
a bit heavier conditions and the autopilot did a yeoman's job.

let me review it for you, jeffies. catamaran = all of the place in quartering
seas; mono hull = equals straight tracking in similar seas.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
You're the one who said you couldn't steer the boat.

you live in a strange universe, jeffies. that is not what I said. I did
say
the boat wallowed around in quartering seas and was hard to keep going in a
straight line without continuous steering.

I understand this is common for cats, and cat owner sooner begin to think
of
this as "normal".

Subject: DR practice
From: (JAXAshby)
Date: 08/08/2004 20:06 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

shen says "uncle", as witness his post below.

damn. and just after he learned that the sun is reference point in
navigation,
too. I was hoping he *might* have learned of the term "celestial
navigation",
but it seems no.

oh, well

ROFLMAO You are one weird piece of work!!!

So, what your saying is that Bowditch doesn't know what it's talking about or
anything about navigation. Dutton's doesn't know what it's talking about or
anything about navigation and that Marine Pilots don't know the meaning of the
words "piloting" or "pilotage" and how they should be used.
Don't know how you associated me with learning something about celestial, but
we do know your mind rattles around in strange ways.
Bysy wysy doodles.

Shen

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
let me review it for you, jeffies. catamaran = all of the place in quartering
seas; mono hull = equals straight tracking in similar seas.

Anyone who would make such a generality is proving to the world he is totally
ignorant about boats. Be we all know that.

denial is a river in Egypt, right jeffies?

let me review it for you, jeffies. catamaran = all of the place in
quartering
seas; mono hull = equals straight tracking in similar seas.

Anyone who would make such a generality is proving to the world he is totally
ignorant about boats. Be we all know that.

nice post, shen. a little above your normal standards, for that you should be
congratulated.

Bysy wysy doodles.

Shen