On Tue, 27 May 2008 18:06:07 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

"Goofball_star_dot_etal" wrote

Thanks! I find the videos get much closer to being realistic but it
srill looks calmer than it was... Still fairly uncrowded around here
in a good breeze -

They always do. Photography and video of rough weather are disappointing
tasks.

Think what it really must have been like in those pictures in "Heavy Weather
Sailing"!

Best not to look at such things.

I'm just relieved that we did not get arrested! We were doing 6kts
under bare poles at one time approaching the Swellies so we had it
ahull to slow down for a while,with Rob doing a 'flasher' action on
the bow with his jacket when we wanted to tack out of the way of
passing boats. Could so easily have been misunderstood.. A video of it
could have been useful to the defense.