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'm a smoker but I do work on blowboats, nobody told me about the boom thingy really will knock you off the deck when it swings, I thought that only happens in the movies. I know better now.
40 years of sailing and the only time a did a fantail recovery was for my daughter. Mostly one just leaves them behind and comes back up on them into the wind. Ever so much easier that way. OTGH, sharks.
Modern day keel-hauling.
ReplyDeleteI'm a smoker but I do work on blowboats, nobody told me about the boom thingy really will knock you off the deck when it swings, I thought that only happens in the movies. I know better now.
ReplyDelete...where the water hazards will cost you a stroke instead of giving you one.
ReplyDeletelean out just a little further - still got some water's comin' o'er the bow
ReplyDelete40 years of sailing and the only time a did a fantail recovery was for my daughter. Mostly one just leaves them behind and comes back up on them into the wind. Ever so much easier that way. OTGH, sharks.
ReplyDeleteMight be a race. Do they lose points for loss of crew? Or do they just consider them to be the equivalent of ballast?
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