Re: March 7th - Making Bail, Equipment Failure and other fish stories

"Wayne.B" <waynebatrecdotboats@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 4 May 2008 17:32:30 -0700 (PDT), Skip Gundlach
> <SkipGundlach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>So, it was a dark and stormy night, as the saying goes, and Lydia
>>wasn't feeling all that well, what with the rock and roll,
>>pitching and the like.
>
> OK, so why were you out there?  What was your bailout exit if
> conditions deteriorated?  Why didn't you use it?
>
> You guys are retired.  Learn to take your time and wait for favorable
> weather conditions.  Learn to avoid running dead down wind in lumpy
> conditions.  It's a miserable point of sail. Reach up enough that you
> can sail effectively with no risk of an accidental jibe.  You'll go
> faster, with more comfort, using less fuel, and with much less chance
> of breaking things.
>

Skippy has ten thousand dollars worth of extraneous electronic systems yet

he has not bothered to spend a few bucks rigging a preventer? Just shows
how 
he's just a clueless noob blundering along until disaster strikes.

Wilbur Hubbard