And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I've spent the day: weed eating the defensible space, and shampooing the white carpet (who the heck puts white carpet in a house in RED Bluff). Would much rather be on the water.
No no no no nno noooonoooosn nonoono no. It's the very definition of sailing by the lee and it looks fine but a 3 degree change in the wind from aft sees the boom flying over, all the sails drawing on the lee side and you powered under with a snapped mast. The wind is not constant and I lived in dread every time I shot out a whisker pole to do this.....and then, like an idiot, one pops a spinnaker. I'd do it for race but not for fun, pleasure or profit.
Though I'm not having a bad day by any estimate, I'd rather be "there".
ReplyDeleteI hear that. I'm mowing the field behind my house. Gotta put in that defensible space!
DeleteI've spent the day: weed eating the defensible space, and shampooing the white carpet (who the heck puts white carpet in a house in RED Bluff). Would much rather be on the water.
DeleteNo no no no nno noooonoooosn nonoono no.
DeleteIt's the very definition of sailing by the lee and it looks fine but a 3 degree change in the wind from aft sees the boom flying over, all the sails drawing on the lee side and you powered under with a snapped mast. The wind is not constant and I lived in dread every time I shot out a whisker pole to do this.....and then, like an idiot, one pops a spinnaker. I'd do it for race but not for fun, pleasure or profit.