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Gilligan wrote:
A knockdown that lead to a sinking.

Gilligan

Please describe!


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Gilligan wrote:
A knockdown that lead to a sinking.

Cool! Did you spill your beer?

DSK

Boom touched the water once....that's as far down as we've been knocked (Not
counting the Butterfly....)
"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
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Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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Just wondering... the worst I've been in was having the main touch the
water when we got hit with small whirlywind coming from a marsh.
Popped right back up, and it didn't even disturb the beer in my hand.


Was that the bottom of the main or the top of the main? (Or, the good
news was I was only in up to my ankles, the bad news was I was head
first.)

katysails wrote:
Doug,
As much as I hate qualifying anything BB sats, Mr Sails' Flying Dutchman
that he owned in the mid-70's was molded plywood.

Mr. Sails is a man of perspicacity & resource. I bet his also has
Elvstrom bailers.

Anyway there also were molded wood 470s which were quite high-dollar
racing machines in their day... if well taken care of they stay lighter
& stiffer than fiberglass ones.

If Boobsie-Bill has said 'molded plywood' I might have asked for
clarification instead of just busting "him."

Bluejays, Comets, Snipes, Windmills, and a bunch of other hard-chine
boats were built of plywood. Round-bilge boats have to be molded, and
many classes from Rebels to Thistles have been. Oddly enough Lightnings,
which are hard chine but have an arc bottom instead of flat or V'd, were
never built in plywood (at least not mass produced). They were planked a
variety of ways including double-diagonal with glue saturated cloth in
between.

But I digress. Sorry.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

"DSK" wrote in message
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If solid water didn't pour into the hatch, or at least over the
coaming,
then it wasn't a REAL knockdown.

Does flipping a beach cat count?

Scotty

Scott Vernon wrote:
Does flipping a beach cat count?

Only if you didn't spill the beer.

DSK

No, it's where the fact that
1- you are a sock puppet


Poor Doug! He's still certain Jax was also a sockpuppet.

RB

While sailing our Catalina 27 under the Throgsneck Bridge we were blasted by a
gust of air that put Yoda on her side. Water came over the coamings and
partially filled the cockpit. My buddy said the spreader hit water, but I
didn't see it.

RB