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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: blockp] #172963
03/26/09 01:56 PM
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A stray bullet that goes through a sail tube can make 9 holes through a dacron sail.

Don't ask me how I know.


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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: rattlenhum] #172978
03/26/09 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by rattlenhum
If you go to a friends house who does sail repair, and you lay your main out on his lawn for inspection....before you go inside for the customary drink/chat, make damn sure that he doesn't have one of those robotic lawn mowers that automatically starts itself up.

Don't ask my friend Gray how he knows!

I believe we have a winner. shocked


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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: hobie1616] #172985
03/26/09 04:11 PM
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I concur.

What has he won, Don Pardo?


Jay

Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: waterbug_wpb] #172987
03/26/09 04:13 PM
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I hope he won a new mainsail.

Damn thats harsh!


Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: ThunderMuffin] #172990
03/26/09 04:15 PM
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OOOH! Got this one second hand:

MOB packs do not deploy when the boat is on its side.

Don't ask me how I know (because it wasn't me for once!)


Jay

Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: waterbug_wpb] #172996
03/26/09 04:52 PM
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If a small motorboat ties its bow line to a capsized sailboat to right it using the engine in reverse, it will sink very fast.

Don't ask me how I know.


Luiz
Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: Luiz] #173004
03/26/09 05:43 PM
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Never play chicken with a 31 foot twin screw cabin cruiser.



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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: arbo06] #173007
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This is how I know...

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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: arbo06] #173011
03/26/09 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by arbo06
This is how I know...


Were you on port or starbord?


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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: F-18 5150] #173028
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Unfortunatly Port. T-Boned while racing. Blinded by the sail. But I did see the propellers as they passed by my face....

The boat was shipping seas at the moment of impact.


Eric Arbogast
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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: arbo06] #173095
03/27/09 04:54 PM
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If you have always come in off the wire and rounded conservatively at A mark, don't choose the first race at nationals when the wind is on to be the rounding where you stay on the wire and zoom it around the mark (especially when you expect to make up ground downwind).

Don't ask me or John Williams how I know. . .


Kevin Rejda
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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: KevinRejda] #173107
03/27/09 08:36 PM
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Crashing on ski's at 70+mph hurts

Don't ask me how I know.


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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: scooby_simon] #173109
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A looong Zipping sound on a wooden cat can indicate one deck is about to peel off like a banana skin.

car body filler can cover a multitude of sins

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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: Qb2] #173115
03/27/09 11:14 PM
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When "there's something stuck to the rudder", chances are that it's holding the tiller extension.

Don't ask...



A cotter pin, nut or bolt in your tramp may have been put there on purpose. When you get to this conclusion, the race will have started already. It doesn't happen twice.

Don't ask...


Luiz
Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: Luiz] #173128
03/28/09 10:18 AM
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Huge 90 degree gust. Violent and sudden capsize. Hurled off the upper hull, you have only split second to control where you'll land.

Don't land in the mainsail! Don't land on the boom! If you try to land in the water UNDER the boom, remember about the sidestay hiding just under the water.

DO NOT LET YOUR LEGS STRADDLE THAT STAY WHEN YOU GO IN!!!

Don't ask me how I know.

From a rooster to a hen, from a hotdog to a bun.......ouch!

Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: David Parker] #173212
03/30/09 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by David Parker
Huge 90 degree gust. Violent and sudden capsize. Hurled off the upper hull, you have only split second to control where you'll land.

Don't land in the mainsail! Don't land on the boom! If you try to land in the water UNDER the boom, remember about the sidestay hiding just under the water.

DO NOT LET YOUR LEGS STRADDLE THAT STAY WHEN YOU GO IN!!!

Don't ask me how I know.

From a rooster to a hen, from a hotdog to a bun.......ouch!


That explains alot!

Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: ] #173216
03/30/09 10:37 AM
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Never sail your boat to a bar in Mexico and leave the sails up thinking your going to have only one drink and not expect the tide to be comming up. When the boat is gone when you return, don't expect to be able to hire a Meixcan Fisherman to take you out on his boat to find it (after dark). When you return home to your wife (now ex-wife), don't expect her to not say "Why does this not suprise me that you went to Rocky Point for Spring Break with your buddies and lost your boat." And don't expect the fishermen who found it to not pilfer all the good running rigging and still charge you $200 bucks because of the Mexican Salvage Law.

Don't ask me how I know all this.


Lee

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Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: TeamChums] #173333
03/31/09 07:16 AM
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I knew all that. But don't ask me how I know.

http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=18643



Pete Pollard
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'When you have a lot of things to do, it's best to get your nap out of the way first.

Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: pgp] #174089
04/07/09 09:01 AM
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Your catamaran's sailplan works best when the shrouds remain attached to the deck.

Don't ask me how I know that...


Jay

Re: Don't Ask Me How I Know [Re: waterbug_wpb] #174094
04/07/09 09:11 AM
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Double check your shackles (especial the ones on your shroud adjusters) before you leave the beach. If you look over and your stay is flapping in the wind.... you may have some work ahead of you...

Don't ask me how I know ...

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