Do you have a copy of Darcy Lever's "Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor?"

Bart Senior wrote:
I have it. I should pull it out and re-read it. As I recall is
was a bit dry reading.

True. I cna't say I have ever sat down and read thru it,
cover-to-cover. But I have read quite a bit of it, studied
some of the details for rigging... for example he talks
about how to rig bowlines and says that they are passing out
of style, but not why. How to mouse a keg for use as a
mooring ball, etc etc. And the maneuvers are great... for
example I believe one of your Seamanship Question series you
asked a while back was the difference between box-hauling
and club-hauling. I didn't know the answer but knew exactly
where to look it up!



.... It is not up to modern standards on
illustration, writing style, and terminology. I found some parts
difficult to understand because I was unfamiliar with some of
the arcane terminology.


Sure. But you can at least get the idea of what they are
trying to accomplish, since the basics of getting a sail to
stand up have not changed. And the drawings are still
interesting.

DSK

DSK wrote:

Scotty wrote:
My Barcolounger is more comfy, and more seaworthy than a
Mac26X, plus there's no rigging to climb.


It's more traditional looking too.


More seaworthy too!

Cheers
Marty

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DSK wrote:

Scotty wrote:
My Barcolounger is more comfy, and more seaworthy than
a
Mac26X, plus there's no rigging to climb.


It's more traditional looking too.


More seaworthy too!


Yes Marty, that is why I wrote ''more seaworthy'' in my
post.

Scotty

I heard that Barcoloungers are more comfortable and more seaworthy than
Mac26s. Is that true?

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"Scotty" wrote in message
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"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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DSK wrote:

Scotty wrote:
My Barcolounger is more comfy, and more seaworthy than
a
Mac26X, plus there's no rigging to climb.


It's more traditional looking too.


More seaworthy too!


Yes Marty, that is why I wrote ''more seaworthy'' in my
post.

Scotty

"Scotty" wrote in message
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"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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DSK wrote:

Scotty wrote:
My Barcolounger is more comfy, and more seaworthy than
a
Mac26X, plus there's no rigging to climb.


It's more traditional looking too.


More seaworthy too!


Yes Marty, that is why I wrote ''more seaworthy'' in my
post.

Redundancy tends to be rather repetitious.

Max

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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"Scotty" wrote in message
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"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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DSK wrote:

Scotty wrote:
My Barcolounger is more comfy, and more seaworthy than
a
Mac26X, plus there's no rigging to climb.


It's more traditional looking too.


More seaworthy too!


Yes Marty, that is why I wrote ''more seaworthy'' in my
post.

I heard that Barcoloungers are more comfortable and more seaworthy than
Mac26s. Is that true?

Not really, but they are more seaworthy.

Max

Redundancy tends to be rather repetitious.

Scotty

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ink.net...

"Scotty" wrote in message
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"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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DSK wrote:

Scotty wrote:
My Barcolounger is more comfy, and more seaworthy
than
a
Mac26X, plus there's no rigging to climb.


It's more traditional looking too.


More seaworthy too!


Yes Marty, that is why I wrote ''more seaworthy'' in my
post.

Redundancy tends to be rather repetitious.

Max

Scotty wrote:

"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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DSK wrote:

Scotty wrote:
My Barcolounger is more comfy, and more seaworthy than
a
Mac26X, plus there's no rigging to climb.


It's more traditional looking too.


More seaworthy too!

Yes Marty, that is why I wrote ''more seaworthy'' in my
post.

Scotty

Sorry Scotty, had some some sort of brain fart, guess I'll have to take
that Jax speed reading course again.

Cheers
Marty

Scotty wrote:
Redundancy tends to be rather repetitious.


Not only that, but it's like saying the same thing over &
over. And it also somewhat like saying the same thing over &
over, too.

DSK

Who's saying the same thing over and over? I mean who is saying the same
thing over and over. Sorry.

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"DSK" wrote in message
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Scotty wrote:
Redundancy tends to be rather repetitious.


Not only that, but it's like saying the same thing over & over. And it
also somewhat like saying the same thing over & over, too.

DSK