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Ixamyakxim: That's awesome congrats! Enjoy her! That's not a bad boat to learn to sail on either - do you have someone who can walk you through the ropes or are you just going to read and or wing (sail?) it?
I have to attend a weekend course on the basics. It´s a requirement for the insurance. I can´t even move the boat by myself if it´s not insured or have someone qualified on board.

I have been told it´s easy as balls though, it´s mostly about what not to do, rather than what to do with it. What most people tell me is that sailing is one of those things that you can learn over the weekend but you will never master in a lifetime.

My wife is also attending, and my daughter wants to bring her boyfriend aboard when we finally start weekend sailing, i might "accidentally" dunk him.
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Menelkir: My wife is also attending, and my daughter wants to bring her boyfriend aboard when we finally start weekend sailing, i might "accidentally" dunk him.
I might be able to give you a few pointers they don't teach in class on how to do this. Also, if he gets careless, rude or overeager I can help you educate him on why that part of the boat is called the "boom," especially if he likes to keep his head up high ;)
Bring
On
Another
Thousand

I guess there goes the gaming budget... Ha!

Fair winds and following seas, to ya. Be safe out there.
Ahoy matey! Just dropping the obligatory music for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avaSdC0QOUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8T095mFdW8
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Aturuxo: And everything they went through before that. Hard to find finer examples of amazing badassery than Shackleton and his crew.
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Matewis: Wow, that ad can't be real can it?
Oh, but it is. It's the ad he published in a number of newspapers to recruit his crew.
Another thing that beats fiction in their adventure is that the worst injury suffered was a guy that had to have his foot amputated because of frostbite... and that guy boarded as a stowaway because he was initially rejected by Shackleton!
I don't quite understand why there isn't a host of blockbuster movies based on this story.
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Matewis: Wow, that ad can't be real can it?
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Aturuxo: Oh, but it is. It's the ad he published in a number of newspapers to recruit his crew.
Another thing that beats fiction in their adventure is that the worst injury suffered was a guy that had to have his foot amputated because of frostbite... and that guy boarded as a stowaway because he was initially rejected by Shackleton!
I don't quite understand why there isn't a host of blockbuster movies based on this story.
There's a lot to work with that's for sure, but I'm no good with dogs in stories so they had better keep out the part where they were killed because they couldn't afford to feed them anymore.
There are just so many insane parts of that story. I can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like for the crew left on elephant island for close to a year (edit : my bad, actually 'only' 5 months). For all that they knew the little James Caird and/or the captain and its crew perished in the rough seas, in which case nobody else would know that they were still alive or much less even where they were. Then there is the James Caird voyage itself. I recall reading that they had to take turns to go up and chop ice off of the mast on the 2 week journey, and that they had precious few nights with clear skies which they could use to navigate. Odysseus man, he had it easy :P
Post edited May 04, 2015 by Matewis
Fuck you too harder, awesome go enjoy the sea