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.
What…???. You mean the amount of fossil fuels needed for mining refining assembling and transporting all the raw materials that goes into a product should be considered…
The Watermelons don’t ask that question for solar panels, windmills or EVs…
Look like port and starboard daggerboards with a crewman doing something with the port one. Except there appears to be a line attached to one of them going to a outrigger boom. I really can't make heads of tails of that setup.
As a local pool builder said "Thank God for rich people, poor people don't buy swimming pools." If the wealthy want high performance sail boats for cup races, I can profit buy selling them material, parts or my labor. They benefit and so do I.
How much fossil fuel went into that?
ReplyDeleteWhat…???. You mean the amount of fossil fuels needed for mining refining assembling and transporting all the raw materials that goes into a product should be considered…
ReplyDeleteThe Watermelons don’t ask that question for solar panels, windmills or EVs…
do the pumpkins or eggplants ask?
DeleteThe Devo-style uniforms alone would cost a fortune. Then there’s the months of training for extensive formation deck posing. That’s gonna cost.
ReplyDeleteLook like port and starboard daggerboards with a crewman doing something with the port one. Except there appears to be a line attached to one of them going to a outrigger boom. I really can't make heads of tails of that setup.
ReplyDeleteThose are not daggerboards in the traditional sense; they are foils. The spar is telescoping for headsails. (retracted in the picture)
DeletePurpose built, single use. Used (and battered) $1.5MM
ReplyDeleteExpect to dump another $150K+ into her.
Expensive toy used to inflate the ego of the owner.
ReplyDeleteAs a local pool builder said "Thank God for rich people, poor people don't buy swimming pools." If the wealthy want high performance sail boats for cup races, I can profit buy selling them material, parts or my labor. They benefit and so do I.
DeleteAnon 3:53 PM
DeleteWhy despise people for their wealth? Hmmm, it seems we've heard that whine before.
i want a free one nowwwww.
DeleteYachting is and has always been a sport for the uber wealthy.
ReplyDeletetell 'em down at the marina.
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