Marine LED bulbs and fittings for boats. Best Prices & Free Worldwide Shipping.
Page 8 of 8 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Topic Options
Rate This Topic
#248240 - 05/13/12 01:28 PM Re: Congratulations to Dave & Dave [Re: Timbo]
RobLyman Offline
journeyman

Registered: 07/30/01
Posts: 84
Loc: Orange Park, FL
Originally Posted By: Timbo
Ouch!

Well, at least they are titanium, so you won't need those zink plates stapled to your butt when you go sailing!


LOL. Yeah, but the screws are out now.

Top
#248245 - 05/13/12 04:09 PM Re: Congratulations to Dave & Dave [Re: jkkartz1]
Timbo Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 01/27/05
Posts: 5274
Loc: Sebring, Florida.
How'd you do that?

I hope there's a good story, not a, "I tripped over the dog..." type thing!
_________________________
Blade F16
#777

Top
#248284 - 05/13/12 11:12 PM Re: Congratulations to Dave & Dave [Re: Timbo]
RobLyman Offline
journeyman

Registered: 07/30/01
Posts: 84
Loc: Orange Park, FL
Originally Posted By: Timbo
How'd you do that?

I hope there's a good story, not a, "I tripped over the dog..." type thing!

Mountain biking. Hard left turn, front wheel broke loose, fell on my left ankle and then left leg. I didn't get my foot out of the clipped in pedal fast enough and rolled/dislocated my ankle with my tibia offset from my ankle. When I came down on my leg, I had little support for my relatively smaller fibula, which broke an inch and a half below my knee. The break wasn't so bad, but the dislocation, with torn ligaments and tendons, required the screws to hold my ankle in place until the ligaments and tendos healed.

I just started walking without crutches a few days before the Mug Race. That was from an accident that happened the 3rd week of January. I really need to get out o the water.

Top
#248285 - 05/13/12 11:33 PM Re: Congratulations to Dave & Dave [Re: jkkartz1]
Timbo Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 01/27/05
Posts: 5274
Loc: Sebring, Florida.
OUCH!!

That hurt just reading it!

Well you're right, a little salt water on it ought to help.
_________________________
Blade F16
#777

Top
#248358 - 05/14/12 08:27 PM Re: Congratulations to Dave & Dave [Re: Timbo]
waterbug_wpb Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 12/17/01
Posts: 3841
Loc: Naples, FL
What if you could submit a polar for each boat to USS portsmouth committee? I thought someone said there's a smartphone app that draws one up.

Get the best sailor on the boat to drive it for a while, get the polars and crunch the numbers into some sort of DPN/PN. Then you wouldn't have to worry so much about individual mods, but rather how they all work together (or not) to make the boat faster...

I'd bet Randy's sew-sew from EC might have done pretty well at Mug, too?
_________________________
Jay


Top
#256987 - 02/05/13 04:10 PM Re: Congratulations to Dave & Dave [Re: Karl_Brogger]
David Ingram Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 06/18/01
Posts: 3213
Loc: Clermont, FL, USA
Originally Posted By: Karl_Brogger
Huh. Always light air.... Franken boats about.... Me thinks a C2 rig needs to find its way onto my Viper.


Remember saying this Brogger. Are you going frankenboat it up in 2013 and show us how the big drift is done? It's always light air and I've heard you're a bit delicate so the chances you'll break a nail are low, but it can be a bit warm so you're makeup might run.
_________________________
David Ingram
F18 USA 242
http://www.USF18.com

"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
"Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall
"F!@k'em if they can't take a joke" - My Dad

Top
#256991 - 02/05/13 05:39 PM Re: Congratulations to Dave & Dave [Re: David Ingram]
Jake Online   content
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 06/18/01
Posts: 10362
Loc: South Carolina
_________________________
Jake Kohl
A-cat F-18
Team Seacats

Top
#257032 - 02/05/13 10:51 PM Re: Congratulations to Dave & Dave [Re: Mugrace72]
Mugrace72 Online   content
old hand

Registered: 04/27/08
Posts: 874
Loc: Alachua, FL
Originally Posted By: Mugrace72
Originally Posted By: Mark Schneider

So... the OA should lead and choose the most workable handicap system.

The rudder club should lead...


That ain't gonna happen Mark. We (cat sailors) are the outliers. Their handicap guy is overloaded as it is with trying to merge PHRF, Portsmouth, etc. into some sort of believable spreadsheet. It is called RCHS (Rudder Club Handicap System) and no one but he knows (or should know) how it works. That way it is hard to protest anyway.

Our Portsmouth numbers are only the base number and he has the ability to make WAG adjustments as he sees fit.

Having said that, word is that he is willing to make bigger adjustments for next year. That was the talk after the race anyway. The new lady Commodore wants this to happen.

It might be a good time for some well written letters to find there way to the Rudder Club.



Address:
Commodore Jim Maedel
Rudder Club of Jacksonville
8533 Malaga Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32244
Telephone/fax:
904 264-4094
office@rudderclub.com



It is not too late to get your letters in to the new commodore, Jim Maedel. They promised last year to look into reviewing the ratings.

Time to write some letter folks.
_________________________
Jack Woehrle
Hobie Wave #100, Tiger Shark III
HCA-NA 5022-1
USSailing 654799E
Alachua FL

Top
Page 8 of 8 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8


Moderator:  forumsadmin