What Is The Big Deal About Single Handling?

[stevebein]

Originally Posted by weavis

For the record, I dont like Scotch.

That is fine, you are welcome to come along for a day sail. I also have water, diet soda, some real food, Other alcohols, wine, beer, etc, so those who chose can have something they like, or close to it.

[weavis]

Originally Posted by stevebein

That is fine, you are welcome to come along for a day sail. I also have water, diet soda, some real food, Other alcohols, wine, beer, etc, so those who chose can have something they like, or close to it.

Ooh Diet soda............ Aspartame! noooo!
BUt Ill gladly accept your company and bring enough refreshments for the time and leave you with more than you had to start with.........

That is sailing.

[CarinaPDX]

I'll bring lemonade to share if I can have some of your chocolate

[Rustic Charm]

Originally Posted by Exile

Ha! That sounds just like a couple of Siamese cats I've known. Just can't tell my wanna-be bulldog I've ever had any sort of association . . . .

Quote:
Originally Posted by weavis
I have 2x 11 year old brothers. Both love catching and eating Voles and mice and stuff.

Jerry, for tis he that was sick, does not react well to live meat. He gets vomity and out of sorts. I give him a dose of medicine for his condition and in 2 hours he is fine.......

He probably is curled up on my bed at home not appreciating the love and attention he gets and just expects it. Darned Siamese that he is.



|I read that and thought that's strange, he's got two Siamese 11 year old brothers that curl up on his bed and he feeds them 'live meat' and I thought someone needs to alert the child protection authorities over there.

[brownoarsman]

Originally Posted by stevebein

others love the 18 year old Glen Livet Scotch I keep for friends

You keep 18 year old glen livet for friends? Can I ask if your genetically, societally, and environmentally conditioned to make friends with strangers on obscure Internet forums?


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[hoppy]

My solo sailing/drinking whiskey cellar

I won't even remember the passage

[David_Old_Jersey]

Remember to always wear clean underwear in case you get rushed to hospital.

And take a jumper, just in case.

[weavis]

Originally Posted by Rustic Charm

Quote:
Originally Posted by weavis
I have 2x 11 year old brothers. Both love catching and eating Voles and mice and stuff.

Jerry, for tis he that was sick, does not react well to live meat. He gets vomity and out of sorts. I give him a dose of medicine for his condition and in 2 hours he is fine.......

He probably is curled up on my bed at home not appreciating the love and attention he gets and just expects it. Darned Siamese that he is.



|I read that and thought that's strange, he's got two Siamese 11 year old brothers that curl up on his bed and he feeds them 'live meat' and I thought someone needs to alert the child protection authorities over there.

I dont feed them live meat, they do it all on their own. I think I might need to do a head count of the local kids here as the last thing he brought in was not recognisable............

Sometimes it is as if they are human in cat form.......

[Dockhead]

Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey

Remember to always wear clean underwear in case you get rushed to hospital.

And take a jumper, just in case.

My grandmother, born in the 19th century, used to say that. In all seriousness.

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[weavis]

Originally Posted by Dockhead

My grandmother, born in the 19th century, used to say that. In all seriousness.

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ALL mothers think that............

lol

[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by hoppy

My solo sailing/drinking whiskey cellar

I won't even remember the passage
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What do you do on the second day?

[hoppy]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

What do you do on the second day?

Return to port for a resupply. I don't get anywhere but I also then don't care 😉


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[Jimske]

Originally Posted by FamilyVan

Taking a wee 15 nap with heavily reefed sails way offshore, probably isn't the riskiest thing on your graph.

I've never been far offshore alone over night. My first overnight in Lake Ontario I used an egg timer to take a "wee 15 nap" all night. Thankful I was able to put ashore the next morning because I was shot - those naps didn't help at all.

Next couple of times in Long Island Sound I just stayed up all night if I didn't want to take the time to go in someplace. I now know a few spots in the sound where it is pretty safe to hove-to and not worry about traffic or current and have taken a few hours here and there but I don't see how 15 minute naps can help at all.

I'd like to down to Bahamas this fall but my biggest concern is keeping watch. I had an inexperienced crew out of Bermuda once and had the opportunity to explain how quick we could get run over if on collision course with a freighter. We were on collision course and I was able to show them with math and some vectors just how quick (15 minutes) we would be dead if we kept the same course and speed. I think they got the point. It was a good lesson for me as well!
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Fog? I was crew with a VERY experienced captain in the Sargasso Sea on a 50' sloop in the middle of nowhere - flat water. Early morning just before dawn and another cruiser missed us by not more than a few feet. Neither vessel was sounding fog horn! Subsequent radio contact proved both vessels fully crewed!

People screw up.

J