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15-09-2009, 14:45
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#31
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Miami
Boat: Irwin Citation 34'
Posts: 7
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Never buy a boat that draws more than you are tall.
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15-09-2009, 15:01
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#32
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 2,844
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I learnt early on to remember "there is no port left in the bottle"
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15-09-2009, 15:54
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#33
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,822
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the boat that can survive the collison with the least damage wins
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15-09-2009, 16:50
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#34
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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never hit anything bigger than you ....LOL--same as with driving......
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15-09-2009, 17:09
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#35
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Boat in Panama
Boat: Vandestadt ketch 42
Posts: 357
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Its okay to make mistakes....Its not okay to repeat them!!!!!
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15-09-2009, 17:52
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#36
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Silver Creek, WA, US
Boat: searching
Posts: 215
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Release the sheets!
Taught during our 3 1hr lessons, if you heel too much, either point up or let the sheets out.
Day one, hit with a rare squall line on the Puget Sound, pointed up and knocked down, the mighty Catalina 22 brought herself upright, and bam, knocked down again from the other side, as she slowly self righted I'm pointing up like no one has ever pointed in the history of sail, and one more time 'cause I just can't seem to remember my second option, KNOCK DOWN NUMBER 3.
Oh yeah now I remember, RELEASE THE SHEETS!
side note, if you tell your 5 crew to put on their lifejackets after 3 knockdowns, no one questions your "orders".
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"When the world was flat as a pancake, Mona Lisa was happy as a clam" J. Prine
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15-09-2009, 17:58
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#37
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Prince Edward Island, Canada
Boat: Westsail 32
Posts: 319
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Learned to sail in a 12' wooden gaff-rigged boat. The first lesson was to accept the fact that when you're 4 miles out and the wind vanishes, it's OK to slip over the side into the water for a pee if you have a girl with you. It's OK for the girl to do the same thing... LOL
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15-09-2009, 18:06
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#38
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,820
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Look Aloft!
Thats where things screw up. Keep your eyes in the rigging
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15-09-2009, 19:01
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#39
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Annapolis, MD
Boat: Mason 43
Posts: 107
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Red Sky In Morning, SAILORS WARNING; Red Sky at Night, SAILORS DELIGHT - The former is a good one for newbies to know on early morning watch - especially in the mid latitudes.
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"What am I seeking, out on the sea,
somewhere to go, or someone to be?"
- "Orion", Eileen Quinn
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15-09-2009, 19:22
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#40
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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i also learned boom was not merely a part of the boat at age 7......saw stars and black--wow---DUCK isnt food LOL......spruce is heavy and hits hard......learned on a 36 ft gaff rigged 1903 built sloop....
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15-09-2009, 21:01
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#41
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: North of Baltimore
Boat: Ericson 27 & 18' Herrmann Catboat
Posts: 3,798
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To new people I take out on my boat who are hesitant I tell them.
The Pointy end goes first,
Wind is free,
and sailboats WANT to stay upright.
then
tiller towards trouble
and....If you feel more comforatble,,,,here is an inflatable PFD try it on
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15-09-2009, 22:12
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#42
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Cormorant Island, BC, Canada
Boat: Lancer 44 Motorsailer
Posts: 1,878
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Keep the stick in the air and the water on the outside.
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15-09-2009, 22:28
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#43
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Plimmerton, New Zealand
Boat: Samsara, a Ross 930
Posts: 380
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"He who would have much to do, let him take a boat or a woman."
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17-09-2009, 14:12
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#44
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Bahamas, US Gulf Coast, and East Coast
Boat: 38' 1983 Pearson 385 - "Zydeco"
Posts: 154
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Port wine is red.
And never let a dog guard your sandwich.
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14-01-2010, 11:25
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#45
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Belgrade, Maine
Boat: J/40 Watermusic
Posts: 10
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My father and I learned to sail together on an old wooden Lightning when I was 15, using the Glenan's manual. In regard to sail trim, we soon learned, "When in doubt, let it out." That was good advice for a pair of novices.
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