A stray bullet that goes through a sail tube can make 9 holes through a dacron sail.

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I believe we have a winner.

I concur.

What has he won, Don Pardo?

I hope he won a new mainsail.

Damn thats harsh!

OOOH! Got this one second hand:

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

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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.

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Never play chicken with a 31 foot twin screw cabin cruiser.

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Were you on port or starbord?

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.

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).

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Crashing on ski's at 70+mph hurts

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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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When "there's something stuck to the rudder", chances are that it's holding the tiller extension.

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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.

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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!!!

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

That explains alot!

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.

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I knew all that. But don't ask me how I know.

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Your catamaran's sailplan works best when the shrouds remain attached to the deck.

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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...

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