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#62917 12/14/05 12:08 PM 12/14/05 12:08 PM |
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Posts: 5 NJ | you're suprised that a skiff capsized period?
I love sailing past them while they are clung to their daggerboards for dear life.
For all the crap that monohuller's give us about how we're "more stable upside down" I see a helluva lot more skiffies going t*ts up than cats :P
That is why this shouldn't be a surprise twice over: microsoft + skiff. A little bit of a tangent, but amusing. | | | Re: microsoft capsize
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#62920 12/14/05 01:19 PM 12/14/05 01:19 PM |
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Posts: 3,114 BANNED | repost from SA, Let me start by saying that I believe Frank and Julian Bethwaite have made considerable contributions to the sailing (particularly dinghy/skiff sailing) world. Having said that if you're having a quiet night at home try the following drinking game.
1. select a series of SA threads related to: Rig design Assymetric Kites Skiffs Skiffs v's cats or pretty much anything else performance related.
2. Read through the threads.
Every time a Bethwaite is mentioned... Drink Every time a Bethwaite is credited with inventing something that existed before they were born... Drink twice. Every time Frank's personal opinion is held up as gosple Drink three times.
3. If you make it to bed or wake up not believing that on the 1st day Frank B said "let there be wind", then you've got a better head for alcohol than me. | | | Re: microsoft capsize
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#62922 12/14/05 01:29 PM 12/14/05 01:29 PM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA David Ingram
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Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA | People you have no idea the dark forces you are messing with! Slowly move away from your keyboard, no sudden moves.
David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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#62923 12/14/05 01:33 PM 12/14/05 01:33 PM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA David Ingram
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Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA | Dude, if you have not been on one of these bad boys don't be so quick to judge. I have a pretty good idea if you got on one they couldn't wipe the grin off your face with a 2x4.
David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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#62925 12/14/05 02:20 PM 12/14/05 02:20 PM |
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Posts: 1,187 38.912, -95.37 | I'm through with dinghies of any nature Ditto that! Spent way too much time looking for that elusive grin and way too much time just like the picture...on our side.
John H16, H14
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#62926 12/14/05 02:39 PM 12/14/05 02:39 PM | Anonymous
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You should see what my unsupported sound card does to performance in XP. | | | Re: microsoft capsize
[Re: Tony_F18]
#62929 12/15/05 09:21 AM 12/15/05 09:21 AM |
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Posts: 3,114 BANNED | no, if there was a penguin involved, you'd not even have pictures of it... why you ask?
Well for starters, the Linux skiff can't be trailered outside its home waters without extensive preparation.
If this is, in fact the first time you've ever tried to sail your linux skiff, then you'd be suprised to know that it comes to your doorstep with in a box. Luckily, the manufacturer has supplied you with some sub-standard quality tools with which you can assemble your linux skiff.
However, you open the box to find out that there is no documentation! Only a little note card that says "There are books available on how to assemble your linux skiff, or you could just ask the millions of other linux skiffers who are happy (yet condescending when you ask a simple question) to help you out with putting together and using your linux skiff.
So you dive in head first into the box full of parts.
You come to find out that some parts are missing! Not just little obscure parts, but pretty important ones!
Once you manage to gather are the required components of your linux skiff, you come to find out that some of the parts wont fit in with each other! You are required to actually modify the parts right out of the box in order to get them all working together properly.
So you see, the reason you don't see a linux skiff on the water is because its always on the hard, either being put together or getting fixed.
Nobody wants to take pictures of that :P | | |
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