See, Jake - you could learn a lot from the people that have had me as crew before. Instead of saying something like, "you're not going to like this halyard..." they would say something like, "I have a new halyard set up that is the latest-greatest. NOBODY else is going to have this, John. You can deal with it, right?"

When I sailed with Mark Smith on the 6.0 some time ago, he told me about this awesome line he was using for the downhual - absolutely ZERO stretch stuff. What he MEANT was that he still had his original line off a Prindle 19 from 1984. Anyone who's sailed with Mark remembers that line, which we affectionately came to call, "The Saw."