Top ten things learned in nine hours of sailing instruction.

[Tamaroa]

Top ten items learned in sailing instruction

(10) The boom gets its name from the sound you hear when it hits your head.

(9) You can secure pretty much anything with a bowline knot.

(8) When the opposite rail goes under the water, you are about to capsize, and there isn't a darn thing you can do about it.

(7) It is much easier to right a capsized boat when you remembered to put the center-board down. (Because you can pull, then sit, on it.)

(6) When re-boarding after a capsize, climb in at the STERN. Anything else is asking for a repeat capsize.

(5) Tacking is much easier than jibing. In fact, jibing should probably be banned by federal law.

(4) If you doubt the modern physical theory that space has six extra "hidden" dimensions, meet the TILLER EXTENSION.

(3) Sheets, halyards, stays and shrouds are all different things. None of them is the same as the other. They just LOOK the same.

(2) It is much harder than you would think to know where the wind is coming from. And when you have finally figured it out and got the boat moving, by the law of vector addition, the wind is now coming from a DIFFERENT place.

(1) You can't do ANYTHING with a sail boat if it isn't moving.

[Keith_Hixson]

I remember taking a little sail boat out on an Eastern Washington lake a couple years ago. I and my buddy were having all kinds of fun going up and down the lake. Then the wind stopped. We were dead in the water. Just sitting there. Lunch was coming and we were sitting. Power boats came by and we were just sitting. My partner jumped out and got behind the boat starting kicking and became our motor so we could get in for lunch. Always have a paddle or motor on board with those sail boats.

Keith

[b3196]

I believe John follows these same rules when he's driving his car
Bob K

[DMZ-LT]

Cause one 18 wheeler to jackknife , knocking one new pickup off the road and shutting down a major artery and you never hear the end of it

[Andy]

The pick-up wasn't really hit all that bad. The driver did have the cell phone knocked out of his hand but that's not a bad thing. You saw blue and red lights, you hit the breaks, diagnosed normal!

Stay healthy,
Andy
(remember me next time we meet)