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catdan

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Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 08:09 AM

ericeas the gust hit the boat lurched up to around 45degrees and i pushed the tiller hard down to get head to wind and then bolted like a monkey up the tramp to the stay and hung off shouting

down you b*tch, down!

and you know what?

she responded

Haha--same here on the P18-2, except in those situations the best I can manage to utter is "oh-oh-oh-OOOHHH!" while my GF screams.

Her screaming is a great alarm device, it makes me immediately push the tiller down and head into the wind making the cat come down. This has always saved us so far. :)

Dan
kingwilly

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Posted: Nov 30, 2009 - 02:25 AM

sailboatguy75last fall, there was a break in the storms,of what looked like a couple of hours on the doppler. well i had had a couple of adult sodas, and grabbed a couple of teenage sons of a freind of mine. ten minutes after getting started i knew we was going over. (BOYS DONT LAND ON ANYTHING) then we was in the drink. to bad the water was only 12 or 14 ft deep. muck bottom lake, mast STUCK waaaay bad in the muck. wind coming right against the tramp driving the mast in deeper. we swam to shore and came bact the next day to get her. she was still in the same spot thank goodness. but like above a landwalker called 911. i just said you called em you deal with em. AAHHHHHH good times!

Sorry, just gotta say alcohol and water never mix, drink afterwards not before.
MN3

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Posted: Dec 02, 2009 - 11:32 AM

i agree you should NOT drink booze if you have kids onboard. If your crew are adult, they can make informed decisions for themself.

As an adult, i accept the increased risk of sailing and having a drink or 2.
turtlecat

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Posted: Dec 14, 2009 - 10:52 PM

Last time I went over was the first and only time I've ever been over in the N6.0. It was during the onset of hurricane Gustav and we were well inshore on a fresh water lake. So we were clipping along at great speed and I was driving her hard all day loving the speed and having fun with my old sail buddy that happened to get me into the sport a decade earlier on his H16. I was really feeling quite proud of the old girl cause we were in 3-4' chop in the open part of the lake and she was busting waves while flying a hull and didn't even HINT that she was going to pitch us, a feeling that I never get on my H14T unless I need a paddle. Anyhow, I turned the tiller over to my bud and settled in for a great ride on the trap calling out gusts when we started a slow blow over...My buddy looks at me...smiles, and says "later!" and bails backwards of the boat. While I'm cussin' him the boat finishes its fall and I run out of trap adjustment to stay "upright" and do a splat in the sail. In retrospect, the days flying his H16, I remember a fall that found me with one leg on each side of the mast...DOH!! I think I need new friends :)

edited by: turtlecat, Dec 14, 2009 - 09:55 PM
MN3

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Posted: Dec 15, 2009 - 10:36 AM

QuoteMy buddy looks at me...smiles, and says "later!" and bails backwards of the boat

hahah! the last time i got wet, my buddy forgot to stay "Deep" when we gybed with the spin out! He went to far upwind and over we went.. i stayed high and dry on the top hull till he needed help pulling on the rightin line...

all i could say was "hahahah"

edited by: andrewscott, Dec 15, 2009 - 10:37 AM