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!)
Playtpi are not marsupials either. That Opossum looks scary.
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!
Mike
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.
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
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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.
Eric US 5193
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
thank you Bill Nye
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.
John Williams is the only skipper that can walk under the boom in a tack and not duck.
But everybody already bought opossum hats.
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.
Speaking of shrinkage....
Carry on.
Mine is the blue one on the right. Although I'm not real sure where the testes went.
Sadly, we have officially reached an all new low, right down to SA's level. Not to mention WAY TMI about Karl...
Mike
Have I mentioned that the F16 forum set up to avoid people like Sue and Macca, isn't really worth the price of admission? $25....
Bring it back to catsailor boys and girls.
Ahh those were the days.......
Mike
Agreed!!!
TMI
Get back to work Aido - aren't you supposed to be making a string main for Brownie?
Had lunch with JW this afternoon and have proof positive that squirrels and possums get along.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.catsailor.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10093/JW%20with%20Possum.jpg)
Sorry John, I just had to share,
Dan DeLave
Mate I'm the weapon multi tasker. Watching string machines do their work isn't exactly labour intensive.
Every time I saw your spinnaker in the Tybee it was at the start or after I'd had a refreshing cold beer after finishing and I strained my eyes as it appeared on the horizon.
Sorry John, I just had to share,
Dan DeLave
JW,
Like I said in the survey thread, it applies here also:
Every time I saw your spinnaker in the Tybee it was at the start or after I'd had a refreshing cold beer after finishing and I strained my eyes as it appeared on the horizon.
He's watching you through his nightvision scope right now.
Your mum dresses you funny.
Tawd is too fat to be gay....
But your not...
Then how come they never hit on me?(much)
No challenge for 'em, your easy.
![[Linked Image]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Opossum2.jpg/800px-Opossum2.jpg)
Looks like the last Opossum my dog encuntered. Need I say she HATES opossums. She holds the record for a 50 yard dash and opossum kill... total of about 6 seconds! I love that dog!
You better watch it,you'll suffer the wrath of Johnny Opossum, friend of the last North American Marsupial.