On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:49:04 GMT, New Conservative
wrote:


Yes, thanks, I've certainly taken on board (get the pun?) the advice
so far and am grateful for it.
So far as the troll/suicide accusation is concerned, I think that's
just sour grapes over the politics of the New Conservative website
rather than the nature of the (admittedly dumb) questions I've posed.
If Mr. Temple Fry and his admirers don't want to assist me, then
they're not obliged to! Unlike them, we in the New Conservatives (no
connect with the US 'Neocons') believe in completely free speech among
many other important democratic freedoms that I'll be only to happy to
tell him all about at great length if I have to put up with any more
of his silly nonsense about trolling/suicide (which is a bloody
ignorant, stupid and offensive remark to make anyway in a public forum
where any participant could have suffered such a loss to which Mr. T-F
and his pals seem haughtily indifferent.)
To everyone else, however, thanks again.

Seriously though, crew on a 30 footer off the English coast as one of
three people, or rent a dinghy in the Solent and flop around in light
air until you feel you've got the basics. There is no substitute for
doing, and you are asking questions that can be answered by any of
several hundred web sites.

No offence meant, but you will have better questions having tipped a
boat over several times without serious incident.
R.