rather that approach them by pointing out that what they were doing was "wrong" I asked them if the would like to know a "better way" to rig the boat that would make it faster.
Sometime's it is all in the way you approach someone.
I agree!
While stationed at Biloxi, MS I had the occasion to come upon a family trying to step the mast on an H16 at the beach. What made it especially difficult was that he was not using the hinge pin, nor was he trying to hinge it up at all. He was trying to lift it straight up into the mast base!
I walked up and asked just like you did. "Would you be interested in an easier method?"
He was more than happy to have some help. So much so that I got free use of the boat, that was parked on the beach, for the whole summer I was stationed there. Many good times were had on, and under that boat that summer... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
