Next you'll be asking us to rig ratlines, carry cutlasses and eat hard tack for lunch.
I will, however, gladly welcome the rum ration.
Next you'll be asking us to rig ratlines, carry cutlasses and eat hard tack for lunch.
I will, however, gladly welcome the rum ration.
Oh, yeah! I'll join that get back to basics class for racing seamanship. Maybe include a no GPS either provision either, with cell phone stashed securely in cabin the way in a JFK did it. Style will count in my personal rating measure when tallying of the division points.
Last edited by Black Jack; 04-04-2021 at 08:17 AM.
Without friends, none of this would be possible.
No GPS? How about adding no instruments, except maybe the depth sounder for safety?
Who the heck needs a depth sounder. Get the old lead line out of the garage. If we're going to do it, lets do it. No plastic hulls either!
If you don't have one in the garage here's a pretty sweet looking lead line from Landfall Navigation.
https://www.landfallnavigation.com/n...hoCtq0QAvD_BwE
I was surprised you could even buy one these days.
I always gave him the benefit of the doubt that he was caught in a puff when the photo was taken beleiving that a beauty aboard took his mind off his sailing for moment.
it sure would help our recreation if a high profile modern icon american was an avid sailor. We could use one about now.
Without friends, none of this would be possible.