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No Flame War here
"Jeff Morris" wrote:
You buy paper towels that have a centerfold? "JAXAshby" wrote: ...also a centerfold from Viva (Frank Maier) wrote: Ewwww, gross, Jeff. Now I'll never again be able to buy (or use) Viva paper towels! rhys wrote: I believe Jax finds them more effective than Kleenex when typing one-handed to boating newsgroups. Perhaps that's because he once faced a 'mutiny' on the Bounty. G I believe he's considers himself the "quicker picker upper" in any case ....snip... Snort! Keyboard! Man this is getting to be an expensive thread. First, I need a new keyboard and now there are *two* brands of paper towels I'll never again be able to use. |
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Man this is getting to be an expensive thread. First, I need a new
keyboard and now there are *two* brands of paper towels I'll never again be able to use. you are easily influenced by outside sources. buy another talisman, and put over your head another double layer of aluminum foil. |
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Best 34 foot blue water cruiser
rhys wrote:
...snip... When I SEE a cat-schooner, I'll try to hitch a ride. I think I saw exactly one here in Toronto...at a distance. It seemed to move fine G AFAIK, only the F39 is scoonerish. The F40, F44, and F33 are all cat-ketches; and an occasional other size of Freedom is set up as a cat-ketch. The masts are approximately equal or the forward mast is taller. But for the F39, the forward mast is distinctly shorter. That particular boat also comes in a pilothouse and non-pilothouse version. Another of my prejudices is that I don't wanna have a pilothouse out on the deep blue; so, I'd be looking for a non-pilothouse version. Frank |
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"rhys" wrote in message ... On 26 Mar 2004 11:53:18 -0800, (Frank Maier) wrote: I have a sloop, but one of my favourite points of sail is a beam reach using a No. 3 on a pendant and my barely used, wire luff "genoa staysail", a big light thing the original owner evidently couldn't figure out. I had to reference a brilliant 1975 book called "Sail Power" by Wally Ross to learn how to set the thing. (It involved the toerails!) But in ten knots, that amount of sail will trounce even the biggest No. 1 and mainsail combo. I have waxed poetic about the genoa staysail many times in this forum. I think if people actually discovered how useful these things were the cutter rig would become deriguer again ;=) It really can't be beat on a close reach (except by maybe a code zero), and if you're cruising it's a great sail in light to moderate wind. The GS is hanked on above the heavy staysail, and when the wind increases the GS comes off pretty quickly and the heavy is hoisted. Beats the heck out of firing up the noisemaker (particulalry when it's warm out). I have found in the light stuff that if you give up and fire up the engine, it normally stays on. But, if you have good sails that are easy to change you stay involved in the sailing side and work your way through the variable winds. Matt |
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rhys wrote:
A reasonable fascimile of the JAXAshby family crest is thus achieved: a skipper's cap, argent, with fuzzy dice rampant. "Nemo surdior est quam is qui non audiet" is the motto below, I believe. My mother, good Southern girl that she was (God rest her soul!), always used to say, "You can't hear with your mouth open." |
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 05:24:21 GMT, "Matt/Meribeth Pedersen"
wrote: But, if you have good sails that are easy to change you stay involved in the sailing side and work your way through the variable winds. Amen, brother. I use the engine to get out and in of the basin and if the angle's right, not until I have to turn that first 90 around the docks. Motorsailing's fine when necessary, but a lot of people have a funny idea to my mind of what "necessary" means. Think of it this way. Today, you are sailing. All day, and maybe into the evening. You may or may not have a destination. Turn off the cell phone and engine and just...sail....Better than a session in the hot tub to my mind, although coming back from the boat TO a hot tub would be kingly indeed. R. |
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