Gave a Nacra 20 a 200m head start at the top mark on my moth in 8-10 knots of breeze, and beat them to the bottom mark 1.5nm away. Just followed their line so pure speed.
They only caught up to me on the upwind as the breeze lightened and I couldn't foil...
Lee, I thought you told me that everytime you saw Tad's spinnaker it was your sign to put away the grill, hoist anchor, and get back to racing. Tadald MacDonald, I gave Mark Schneider your address he's coming to stay with you on a business trip. Figured you wouldn't mind.
Before JW and I went sailing I told him I spent a couple of minutes on Catsailor. He said Booorrrring! There is nothing going on there lately. Then he comes up with the Monday Smackdown. This is good, mix it up, this may not be enough the bring out the popcorn for though.
The Term “spinnaker” came from the Roman “spinnakee” or “eunuch who wears billowy pants to hide the fact that it had no balls”. The eunuchs were usually referred to a TAWD and were mostly selected from far away colonies on the outerbanks of the new world.
The Term “spinnaker” came from the Roman “spinnakee” or “eunuch who wears billowy pants to hide the fact that it had no balls”. The eunuchs were usually referred to a TAWD and were mostly selected from far away colonies on the outerbanks of the new world.
IT LIVES I was wondering if you were still alive or if the gay bars finally took their toll.
Oh lord. A tofu-eating Californian just tried to say "y'all." It's a contraction, folks, of "you all." Just like "ain't" is a contraction of "am not." Youse should look it up.
You SAY you don't need them, but the A-cat guy that was out with us on Sunday seemed to feel otherwise. He was all smiles on the uphill stuff, but we turned the corner and the guy started yelling that we were "cheaters."
edit: at least I think that's what he was yelling... after about 30 seconds, we'd gotten pretty far ahead of him and it was hard to make out what he was so upset about... maybe there was a shark or something...
You SAY you don't need them, but the A-cat guy that was out with us on Sunday seemed to feel otherwise. He was all smiles on the uphill stuff, but we turned the corner and the guy started yelling that we were "cheaters."
edit: at least I think that's what he was yelling... after about 30 seconds, we'd gotten pretty far ahead of him and it was hard to make out what he was so upset about... maybe there was a shark or something...
He was yelling that because you had two spinnakers up.
Sucks for the A-cat that the big fat fiberglass barge of an F18 can hang with them uphill. And did you say "expensive" when describing an F18 next to an A?
Hobie 16... yes, we see them at A-pin all the time - they always have the start before ours.
You SAY you don't need them, but the A-cat guy that was out with us on Sunday seemed to feel otherwise. He was all smiles on the uphill stuff, but we turned the corner and the guy started yelling that we were "cheaters."
edit: at least I think that's what he was yelling... after about 30 seconds, we'd gotten pretty far ahead of him and it was hard to make out what he was so upset about... maybe there was a shark or something...
Sucks for the A-cat that the big fat fiberglass barge of an F18 can hang with them uphill. And did you say "expensive" when describing an F18 next to an A?
Hobie 16... yes, we see them at A-pin all the time - they always have the start before ours.
Not at the Alter Area A Qualifiers when it’s blowing 18+. Don’t ask me how I know, but Bob was there too.
Originally Posted by Team_Cat_Fever
Originally Posted by brucat
No need. As Eric so nicely pointed out, there's a reason we don't need spinnakers...
Mike
Eric doesn't need a chute cuz he doesn't own a BOAT.Are you saying your boat doesn't count as a boat?
“I’ll take reading and comprehension for 1000, Alex...” That’s not even remotely what Eric said. Lack of testosterone caused by some critical missing body parts blocking your ability to read? If I were to ask a female, she’d probably say that would be a first in the history of mankind, usually it’s too much testosterone that screws up our thinking.
Sucks for the A-cat that the big fat fiberglass barge of an F18 can hang with them uphill. And did you say "expensive" when describing an F18 next to an A?
Hobie 16... yes, we see them at A-pin all the time - they always have the start before ours.
Not at the Alter Area A Qualifiers when it’s blowing 18+. Don’t ask me how I know, but Bob was there too.
Originally Posted by Team_Cat_Fever
Originally Posted by brucat
No need. As Eric so nicely pointed out, there's a reason we don't need spinnakers...
Mike
Eric doesn't need a chute cuz he doesn't own a BOAT.Are you saying your boat doesn't count as a boat?
“I’ll take reading and comprehension for 1000, Alex...” That’s not even remotely what Eric said. Lack of testosterone caused by some critical missing body parts blocking your ability to read? If I were to ask a female, she’d probably say that would be a first in the history of mankind, usually it’s too much testosterone that screws up our thinking.
Mike
My stiffy blocks my vision,it's a common thing amongst us "big expensive boat" guys. You oughta try it your wife would thank you.
I'll send ya a taller glove. Yo Momma Trey is so fat ,when she he wears her his Malcolm X shirt helicopters try to land on her him. Nothing against your Mom , I just had to go there.
Yea Tawd it was kind of a bummer sellin the A cat, but it was either that or be homeless. On the other hand it is only soft water sailing. Its not like I am giving up iceboats.
This weekend I thought my nuts were never coming back. It was about 6 deg sailing Saturday. Sunday was a balmy 15 degrees. This is a video of John Harper which gives a feel for what Iceboating is like
Of course when this was taken it was only blowing about 10 mph so they were not going that fast, mayby 40 down wind. On a windy day a 1 mile windward leeward takes about 2 1/2 min upwind and 70-90 seconds downwind. Upwind -downwind closing speeds ~100 mph. Nothing like it.
Eric US 5193
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Monday Smackdown - 02/02/1008:45 PM
WHATS THE WIND CHILL AT 6* AND 100MPH?
NO THANK YOU
THAT LOOKS INSANE!
(what happens when you hit a frozen rock or twig at 100mph?
Sucks for the A-cat that the big fat fiberglass barge of an F18 can hang with them uphill. And did you say "expensive" when describing an F18 next to an A?
Hobie 16... yes, we see them at A-pin all the time - they always have the start before ours.
Not at the Alter Area A Qualifiers when it’s blowing 18+. Don’t ask me how I know, but Bob was there too.
Mike- You have got to show up for it to count... most of us don't have memories that go back far enough to remember a regatta you were sailing in! (luv ya man, but you have got to get back on the water!)
No doubt Chris!!! I have great pics of my boat decorated with Christmas lights in my front yard. Sadly, no great pics of it racing. Altough, we did get out sailing with Hunter a few times this year, which in some ways is better than racing.
But, fuzzy memories are no excuse for a wall of I-20s and assorted other Nacras being parked and in the way of two H16s coming in on suicide port to A mark at the last Lipton Cup we attended (circa 2001?). Just because you can't remember doesn't mean it didn't happen!
There's some non marsupial recognizing SOBs on this board.It's a pouch thing.I might look like I've got something in a pouch but that's just my Roosteresque physique.
Yea Tawd it was kind of a bummer sellin the A cat, but it was either that or be homeless. On the other hand it is only soft water sailing. Its not like I am giving up iceboats.
This weekend I thought my nuts were never coming back. It was about 6 deg sailing Saturday. Sunday was a balmy 15 degrees. This is a video of John Harper which gives a feel for what Iceboating is like
Of course when this was taken it was only blowing about 10 mph so they were not going that fast, mayby 40 down wind. On a windy day a 1 mile windward leeward takes about 2 1/2 min upwind and 70-90 seconds downwind. Upwind -downwind closing speeds ~100 mph. Nothing like it.
Eric US 5193
I wanna try that so bad.Looks like making a trip and the conditions panning out would be almost impossible. You need to get another A cat. I know you can swim. For anyone who doesn't know, Eric penned the Tawd moniker and he's a little light in his loafers with too much sugar in his blood. Tawd
Playtpi are not marsupials either. That Opossum looks scary.
well i had to learn more... wow pretty crazy
The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
The bizarre appearance of this egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal baffled European naturalists when they first encountered it, with some considering it an elaborate fraud. It is one of the few venomous mammals; the male Platypus has a spur on the hind foot that delivers a venom capable of causing severe pain to humans.
Well Tawd, Ifin they let you above the mason Dixon line, you just get in your caaar and start driving up. Couple of dogtown coffee's later you be up here in the great white north. One good day iceboating and you will be looking for a used doublewide up in Maine
Well Tawd, Ifin they let you above the mason Dixon line, you just get in your caaar and start driving up. Couple of dogtown coffee's later you be up here in the great white north. One good day iceboating and you will be looking for a used doublewide up in Maine
You don't do Southern any better than JW's tofu buddy. Shoot me a PM ,I might take you up on that. I want the heated iceboat, though.
Tad, everytime I saw your spinnaker in the Tybee I wanted to order a Big Mack.
Every time I saw your spinnaker in the Tybee it was at the start or after I'd had a refreshing cold beer after finishing and I strained my eyes as it appeared on the horizon.
Tad, everytime I saw your spinnaker in the Tybee I wanted to order a Big Mack.
Every time I saw your spinnaker in the Tybee it was at the start or after I'd had a refreshing cold beer after finishing and I strained my eyes as it appeared on the horizon.
He's watching you through his nightvision scope right now.
The lonely O'possum... the last of the North American marsupials...
Looks like the last Opossum my dog encuntered. Need I say she HATES opossums. She holds the record for a 50 yard dash and opossum kill... total of about 6 seconds! I love that dog!
The lonely O'possum... the last of the North American marsupials...
Looks like the last Opossum my dog encuntered. Need I say she HATES opossums. She holds the record for a 50 yard dash and opossum kill... total of about 6 seconds! I love that dog!
I left Gunther (my 75lb bull terrier mix) in the yard overnight a couple of years ago (he usually stays indoors). Over the next week, I would find a new piece of some unfortunate opossum in different areas of the yard. A leg here, a tail there, some entrails there....
Or, "Put Possum in 55 gallon drum and feed for 3 weeks (vegetables, grain, etc.). Shoot possum between the eyes (his brain is real small, but it's around there somewhere). Scald in 140 degree water with hickory ashes and green pine needles. Scrape hair with mason jar lid. Rub down liberally with salt and pepper. Place roasting rack in pan. 1 cup water and 1/4 cup wild turkey in bottom of pan. Slow cook 2 hours (medium possum) baste often. Remove top and brown 15 minutes. Slice and serve on sweet potatoes. Feeds one Hillbilly or 150-300 city folk. Submitted By JENNY EUWINE "
Or, "Put Possum in 55 gallon drum and feed for 3 weeks (vegetables, grain, etc.). Shoot possum between the eyes (his brain is real small, but it's around there somewhere). Scald in 140 degree water with hickory ashes and green pine needles. Scrape hair with mason jar lid. Rub down liberally with salt and pepper. Place roasting rack in pan. 1 cup water and 1/4 cup wild turkey in bottom of pan. Slow cook 2 hours (medium possum) baste often. Remove top and brown 15 minutes. Slice and serve on sweet potatoes. Feeds one Hillbilly or 150-300 city folk. Submitted By JENNY EUWINE "
My recipe says: Drink the wild turkey and put the opossum in the crab pot. Steam crabs and have at it.
Dude, with your redneck verbage, that's the best you can do?
I could have said Tad was a Liberal,tree hugging,Monohull sailing, Ernesto Bertarelli loving friend of Hobie1616 but I thought that was a little over the line.
Dude, with your redneck verbage, that's the best you can do?
I could have said Tad was a Liberal,tree hugging,Monohull sailing, Ernesto Bertarelli loving friend of Hobie1616 but I thought that was a little over the line.
Dogs are under the porch or in the truck carcass next to the old washing machine in the front yard.
Is there a partially primer gray Camaro up on blocks? Is there malnourished children running in and out of a rusting trailer? Is there a heavyset woman pulling on a Marlboro red while breast feeding a baby, and yelling at said malnourished children?
OK Tawd, here's some smack for ya; Since I showed you how to do the GT 300 in style, you gonna bring yer boat and race against me? I already showed you how to ram another boat in the surf and kindly say "F'you, get out of the way!" Not to mention how to right the N20 solo and go back to find lost crew. Also how to reach with the chute so hard you break the spinn pole. Are ya skeerd? Are yer bones healed yet? Should I have sent another tube of Vagisil back with your soiled shorts?
Disclaimer; Pound for pound, we had more fun than any other team (468lbs total crew weight).
We also had a team manager so drunk, he was talking to telephone poles.
We'll have to see how the money holds out. Not looking good at this point. I still haven't had any work since June.I'll be doing whatever Race May brings and we'll see after that. He wasn't just talking to telephone poles, he almost got in a fight with one. And no I'm still not healed up.Pretty sure that my right hand is permanently screwed. Oh yeah, Your a fatass! I think I weighed in at 137 1/2. Gimme a call.
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