rhys says:

I have a sky-blue boat. A bright orange anchor would send the
marine squad of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" leaping into their
lavender Zodiacs to do an intervention on my appalling colour sense.

Colour sense is one thing - but think of it as being trend-setting,
iconoclastic, and un-lemminglike. It may catch on....

Steve "do you want a pretty boat, or lots of stolen anchors?..."

On 21 Mar 2004 21:09:06 GMT, ospam (Stephen Baker)
wrote:

Colour sense is one thing - but think of it as being trend-setting,
iconoclastic, and un-lemminglike. It may catch on....

That's what they said about the Freedom rigs, but we're not there yet
G

Steve "do you want a pretty boat, or lots of stolen anchors?..."

Hey, I like the Slocum method of tacks on the deck. That's not pretty
when it works...
R.

rhys says:

That's what they said about the Freedom rigs, but we're not there yet
G

That's because the Freedoms are soooooo boring to sail. "Set and forget" is
great, but what do you do for the other 23.5 hours in the day? ;-)

Hey, I like the Slocum method of tacks on the deck. That's not pretty
when it works...

Good choice, but the legal p[rofession has effectively made that
counter-productive.

Steve

On 22 Mar 2004 15:35:57 GMT, ospam (Stephen Baker)
wrote:

rhys says:

That's what they said about the Freedom rigs, but we're not there yet
G

That's because the Freedoms are soooooo boring to sail. "Set and forget" is
great, but what do you do for the other 23.5 hours in the day? ;-)

Ah, so you've discovered the secret...unnecessarily complex rigging is
designed to make the skipper look as busy as the cook G

Hey, I like the Slocum method of tacks on the deck. That's not pretty
when it works...

Good choice, but the legal p[rofession has effectively made that
counter-productive.

Where I plan to employ it, there won't be much in the way of a legal
profession G

R.