[Public-List] upwind in wind

[Robert Kirk]

She may be pretty, but read the fine print: she's wooden. No one except a 
masochist should ever TOUCH a WOOD boat. One of my earliest memories is 
standing in the boatyard alongside my father on freezing March days in Long 
Island,  handing him yarns of  tarred oakum which he hammered into the 
seams with a caulking iron. He always complained that every relative in 
town wanted boat rides in the summer but nobody was ever around in the 
spring. If God wanted you to have a wooden boat he wouldn't have invented 
tubeworms & fiberglass.

Bob Kirk
Isobar #181


At 04:38 PM 10/25/2011, Gordon Laco wrote:
>Hi Roger -
>
>I know that boat... She's mostly a motor yacht and a sailing yacht second.
>That's not to say she isn't a wonderful boat; but they didn't give her a
>mizen because she doesn't sail much.
>
>That's practical.  On the other hand, part of any successful yacht's measure
>is that she be lovely...and I agree with you she looks like she'd be nicer
>with a mizen!


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