Sucks for the A-cat that the big fat fiberglass barge of an F18 can hang with them uphill. And did you say "expensive" when describing an F18 next to an A?
Hobie 16... yes, we see them at A-pin all the time - they always have the start before ours.
Not at the Alter Area A Qualifiers when it’s blowing 18+. Don’t ask me how I know, but Bob was there too.
Mike- You have got to show up for it to count... most of us don't have memories that go back far enough to remember a regatta you were sailing in! (luv ya man, but you have got to get back on the water!)
No doubt Chris!!! I have great pics of my boat decorated with Christmas lights in my front yard. Sadly, no great pics of it racing. Altough, we did get out sailing with Hunter a few times this year, which in some ways is better than racing.
But, fuzzy memories are no excuse for a wall of I-20s and assorted other Nacras being parked and in the way of two H16s coming in on suicide port to A mark at the last Lipton Cup we attended (circa 2001?). Just because you can't remember doesn't mean it didn't happen!
There's some non marsupial recognizing SOBs on this board.It's a pouch thing.I might look like I've got something in a pouch but that's just my Roosteresque physique.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
Yea Tawd it was kind of a bummer sellin the A cat, but it was either that or be homeless. On the other hand it is only soft water sailing. Its not like I am giving up iceboats.
This weekend I thought my nuts were never coming back. It was about 6 deg sailing Saturday. Sunday was a balmy 15 degrees. This is a video of John Harper which gives a feel for what Iceboating is like
Of course when this was taken it was only blowing about 10 mph so they were not going that fast, mayby 40 down wind. On a windy day a 1 mile windward leeward takes about 2 1/2 min upwind and 70-90 seconds downwind. Upwind -downwind closing speeds ~100 mph. Nothing like it.
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I wanna try that so bad.Looks like making a trip and the conditions panning out would be almost impossible. You need to get another A cat. I know you can swim. For anyone who doesn't know, Eric penned the Tawd moniker and he's a little light in his loafers with too much sugar in his blood. Tawd
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
Playtpi are not marsupials either. That Opossum looks scary.
well i had to learn more... wow pretty crazy
The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
The bizarre appearance of this egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal baffled European naturalists when they first encountered it, with some considering it an elaborate fraud. It is one of the few venomous mammals; the male Platypus has a spur on the hind foot that delivers a venom capable of causing severe pain to humans.
Well Tawd, Ifin they let you above the mason Dixon line, you just get in your caaar and start driving up. Couple of dogtown coffee's later you be up here in the great white north. One good day iceboating and you will be looking for a used doublewide up in Maine
Not many people could pull it off, but I reckon JW would look quite fetching wearing a platypus as a hat. It would even be water proof.
But everybody already bought opossum hats.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
Well Tawd, Ifin they let you above the mason Dixon line, you just get in your caaar and start driving up. Couple of dogtown coffee's later you be up here in the great white north. One good day iceboating and you will be looking for a used doublewide up in Maine
You don't do Southern any better than JW's tofu buddy. Shoot me a PM ,I might take you up on that. I want the heated iceboat, though.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
Sadly, we have officially reached an all new low, right down to SA's level. Not to mention WAY TMI about Karl...
Mike
Agreed!!! TMI
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
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