Re: Crew Qualifications (was New Sailors)

Chris paraphrased Herreshoff: ".if you'd rather gab or daydream than sail, you should stay home and drink beer in the back yard." My version is slightly different: ".you should come sailing with me; I'll run the boat, you hand out the beer, and we'll laugh and tell all the funny stories we know." Alfred Poor 1969 Cal 29 #132, "Pentaquod"

Alfred Poor wrote: > > Chris paraphrased Herreshoff: > > > > "...if you'd rather gab or daydream than sail, you should stay home > and drink beer in the back yard." > > > > My version is slightly different: "...you should come sailing with me; > I'll run the boat, you hand out the beer, and we'll laugh and tell all > the funny stories we know." > Sounds good, Al, as long as you're not sailing S-curves and alternating between luffing and stalling. I've got nothing against beer or stories but just can't stand not paying attention to the boat while doing both. Maybe it's situational OCD. On my own boats, this attitude makes me into a terrible tiller hog. If you won't sail the boat, let me do it. On the other hand, on our local big schooner, everybody wants to take the wheel--except me. I couldn't care less. Our yachts have that nice groove you can find and follow, but the schooner is kinda like one of those discs for sliding down snow-covered hills--all control is very approximate. Sail trim gives you a steering range of about 45° before there's any feedback. It's great for those who aren't attentive. On the schooner, I just sit back and share stories while somebody else tries to figure out if there's a groove somewhere. Chris Campbell > > >

I suffer from the same disease as Chris. But at least the onset of the symptoms aren't too fast. I used to have a wonderful sailing companion. Irena would always take the tiller at the start of an evening sail. While we BS'ed I would sometimes find myself saying 'so are we headed someplace new?' or the like. By the time I started to feel the twinges of aggravation, Irena would say, "Ok, I've had enough, you sail". Which was lucky for me, because I would have hated to loose her - good comany, sense of humor, looks, and liked to bitch about where we worked. td From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Chris Campbell Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:12 AM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Crew Qualifications (was New Sailors) Alfred Poor wrote: Chris paraphrased Herreshoff: "...if you'd rather gab or daydream than sail, you should stay home and drink beer in the back yard." My version is slightly different: "...you should come sailing with me; I'll run the boat, you hand out the beer, and we'll laugh and tell all the funny stories we know." Sounds good, Al, as long as you're not sailing S-curves and alternating between luffing and stalling. I've got nothing against beer or stories but just can't stand not paying attention to the boat while doing both. Maybe it's situational OCD. On my own boats, this attitude makes me into a terrible tiller hog. If you won't sail the boat, let me do it. On the other hand, on our local big schooner, everybody wants to take the wheel--except me. I couldn't care less. Our yachts have that nice groove you can find and follow, but the schooner is kinda like one of those discs for sliding down snow-covered hills--all control is very approximate. Sail trim gives you a steering range of about 45° before there's any feedback. It's great for those who aren't attentive. On the schooner, I just sit back and share stories while somebody else tries to figure out if there's a groove somewhere. Chris Campbell DISCLAIMER: Important Notice ************************************************* This e-mail may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this e-mail.E-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the knowledge of the sender or the intended recipient. If you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e-mail messages, you may decide not to use e-mail to communicate with IPC. IPC reserves the right, to the extent and under circumstances permitted by applicable law, to retain, monitor and intercept e-mail messages to and from its systems.