Great that a disaster was thwarted. I love how little it takes me in a story to open up my imagination. Thanks
. On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:37 PM, TOM VINCENT <tvince...@msn.com> wrote: > It looks like I wrote something without a total explanation. Light air is > the usual air that we have on Wednesday night races, I would not think of > taking the asym to weather in true winds over 6 to 8 knots. My #1 is a 150 > and it does the job up to 10 to 12 true, I usually have a crew of 6 to 7 > and their weight on the rail makes a huge difference. I broached once last > year during the prerace, we were fooling around with the spinnaker up and > got hit with a wind gust that must have been in the high teens and we were > on a beam reach. It was not funny at the moment; but, one of the crew was > sitting on the coaming in the cockpit and when we broached he slid off and > his butt hit the water. He thought he was a goner, thank god for life lines. > > Tom > Frolic II C&C 36' cb > Chesapeake City, MD > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > -- “Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.” - Nicholas Monsarrat
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