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Old 07-06-2009, 07:20 AM   #17
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Talking Sailboats Are "Bad News"?

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Originally Posted by DaveR
"...Would be fun to watch from my "stinkpot" though...". ..."
Careful there, your boat is only a few feet short of being a "Gin Palace" AND a "stinkpot".

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"...Those things sound pretty like pretty bad news, 1.5 boatlengths to stop even at no wake speeds, sudden jibes catching the crew unprepared, untrained operators, conflicting and confusing operation, damaging the natural shoreline flora and fauna with their masts, endangering rafts, swimmers, floats, dogs, moored boats and dredging the shallows with their rudders..."
I think DaveR knows that a jibe is a normal sailing practice.

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There should be a law against them
Maybe you're right: I was viewing the "Yoga" thread and thinking...

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"Yoga exercises are a lot like sailing's exercises, but Yoga doesn't have sailing's adrenaline, terror, cursing and Band-Aids!"
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