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I did a skippered charter for a company I work with in the SF bay on
Saturday. I was hired to run a fairly new (estimating '05) 36' Hunter for a couple of out-of-towners for a few hours. Talk about windage! Whew. I know it was blowing about 30kts, but we had the furling main (in mast, which I hate) down to a napkin, and the jib furled down as well, and it was, to put it mildly, a pig (no offense to Skip's intended). The people were total novices, so I was basically on my own. We barely made it to the slot (the line between the SF GG and Bezerkeley) when I decided not to go further than the entrance to Raccoon Straight. We still had white caps, but the wind was under 25kts. Not a bad day, except for the boat. (Did I mention I hate Hunters?) Anyway, when the couple of hours were nearly up, we headed back. The people were from Texas and we got into a great discussion about politics. (They were stridently independent... thinking people, which was refreshing!) We were in such deep discussion that I missed turning into the slip (upwind slip). We were dead slow with just enough to maneuver, so I backed a bit, and port prop walk brought the stern to windward slightly, with the bow obviously pointed away. I geared forward, then turned hard over toward starboard, then reversed gear and did a very nice back and fill to bring her all the way around. Then, we headed back down the slip area to place I could do another back and fill, and we came in again... beautiful landing, but man did that thing want to fall off the wind when I made the turn. The funny thing was that nobody noticed I missed the slip until I was going back down the fairway. The older guy asked me if we were going out again. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:59:16 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote: when I decided not to go further than the entrance to Raccoon Straight. I think you meant " strait ". I don't often point out spelling errors, but I will make an exception for straight/strait. Strait means constricted and the garment is a straitjacket. A strait can be crooked as cat ****. Casady |
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"Richard Casady" wrote in message
... On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:59:16 -0700, "Capt. JG" wrote: when I decided not to go further than the entrance to Raccoon Straight. I think you meant " strait ". I don't often point out spelling errors, but I will make an exception for straight/strait. Strait means constricted and the garment is a straitjacket. A strait can be crooked as cat ****. Casady Wow, a typo. I'll be sure and let all my friends know I'm no longer perfect. LOL -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:27:42 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote: "Richard Casady" wrote in message . .. On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:59:16 -0700, "Capt. JG" wrote: when I decided not to go further than the entrance to Raccoon Straight. I think you meant " strait ". I don't often point out spelling errors, but I will make an exception for straight/strait. Strait means constricted and the garment is a straitjacket. A strait can be crooked as cat ****. Casady Wow, a typo. I'll be sure and let all my friends know I'm no longer perfect. LOL I'm so disappointed in you! Hopefully this lesson will put you back on the strait and narrow! LOL |
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"Dave" wrote in message
... On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:27:42 -0700, "Capt. JG" said: when I decided not to go further than the entrance to Raccoon Straight. I think you meant " strait ". I don't often point out spelling errors, but I will make an exception for straight/strait. Strait means constricted and the garment is a straitjacket. A strait can be crooked as cat ****. Casady Wow, a typo. Um...to most of us a typo is hitting a key when we intended to hit another key. Adding a couple of extra letters to make a different word is not a typo. I sometimes make similar mistakes, but my excuse is that I use voice recognition, and straight sounds just like strait. Rite on Dave, thanks for the clarification! -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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On 2 Sep 2008 14:34:02 -0500, Dave wrote:
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:27:42 -0700, "Capt. JG" said: when I decided not to go further than the entrance to Raccoon Straight. I think you meant " strait ". I don't often point out spelling errors, but I will make an exception for straight/strait. Strait means constricted and the garment is a straitjacket. A strait can be crooked as cat ****. Casady Wow, a typo. Um...to most of us a typo is hitting a key when we intended to hit another key. Adding a couple of extra letters to make a different word is not a typo. I disagree. A typo is when you type something other than what you meant to type. If I type "their" when I meant to type "there", it is a typo. Typo is the shortened form of "Typographical Error". It simply means you didn't type what you were supposed to type. |
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wrote in message
... On 2 Sep 2008 14:34:02 -0500, Dave wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:27:42 -0700, "Capt. JG" said: when I decided not to go further than the entrance to Raccoon Straight. I think you meant " strait ". I don't often point out spelling errors, but I will make an exception for straight/strait. Strait means constricted and the garment is a straitjacket. A strait can be crooked as cat ****. Casady Wow, a typo. Um...to most of us a typo is hitting a key when we intended to hit another key. Adding a couple of extra letters to make a different word is not a typo. I disagree. A typo is when you type something other than what you meant to type. If I type "their" when I meant to type "there", it is a typo. Typo is the shortened form of "Typographical Error". It simply means you didn't type what you were supposed to type. I agree also. I was going to type "f*ck off" but instead I typed "rite on," which is clearly better. LOL * - just kidding Dave... I would never type * LOL -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 07:06:44 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote: In article , says... On 2 Sep 2008 14:34:02 -0500, Dave wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:27:42 -0700, "Capt. JG" said: when I decided not to go further than the entrance to Raccoon Straight. I think you meant " strait ". I don't often point out spelling errors, but I will make an exception for straight/strait. Strait means constricted and the garment is a straitjacket. A strait can be crooked as cat ****. Casady Wow, a typo. Um...to most of us a typo is hitting a key when we intended to hit another key. Adding a couple of extra letters to make a different word is not a typo. I disagree. A typo is when you type something other than what you meant to type. If I type "their" when I meant to type "there", it is a typo. Typo is the shortened form of "Typographical Error". It simply means you didn't type what you were supposed to type. typographical error n. A mistake in printing, typesetting, or typing, especially one caused by striking an incorrect key on a keyboard. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. :-) A typographical error (aka typo) is when one of the punchers (that's a typist, to a layman) in composing inadvertently types a complete 'graph from one story into the middle of another when typesetting. The puncher may have to hit a couple hundred wrong keys to accomplish that, but it's still a typo. Even if it contains no misspelled words, it's still a typo. |
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