[ARCHIVED THREAD] - A learn to SAIL thread! (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/10/2010 3:54:32 PM EDT
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By request, I'll try to get it done by wednesday, then I will bump it up. If I post here now it will give me encouragement to finish it. If I just start typing in word I will forget about it. I'll try to fill in one part per day. I might add parts to the post before they are finished. When each post in finished I will put the title on top of the post in bold. Parts of Sailboat that you must remember to follow along in this tutorial.  |
Can you explain jibber jabber or is that unrelated? 
I really want to learn to sail. Turns out a guy in one of my organizations is teaching an adult sailing class. I don't have time to take it but he said he'd be happy to give me a condensed course and take me out. I can't wait to see how this thread goes. |
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Holy tag, Batman!
I swear, I'll finally build this one of these days. I've got the plans, and made cardboard templates of all the smaller components, bought the sail and a pile of stuff like epoxy, hardener, and fiberglass cloth(?). All I need is the plywood and the time. And a mast and rigging. And some oars. And all the hardware. And probably a shit-ton of other stuff. 
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don't forget to feed the shaft seals. only use prop wash on the screw. i need 50ft. of gig line and a battery for a sound powered phone. When I was at a SAC base a new female Crew Chief was sent to bench stock to get 20 feet of Fallopian Tube. Right after she asked for it she realized what she said. Can't do that in today's Air Force.
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| I read in one book that if the early sailors understood aerodynamics and how lift is produced, they would have designed much better rigs for the windjammers. Also, if the early aviation pioneers understood how sails work, they would have gotten into the air sooner. |
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We will have to discuss anchoring as well
Fucking that up can happen to anyone-my parents who still sail every year and are in their mid 70s almost lost their boat this past year cuz they dropped it, unawares, over a discarded lobster pot-didnt take and around midnight a 40 know wind came up hehe. One of their worst nights and they have sailed to N greenland and S to the falklands and around the horn to chile.... so anchoring; gear, setting one and getting a stuck one out 
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I would prefer a knitting thread, i've always wanted to learn how to do that I happen to own a very nice pair of hand knitted socks made by a 245 pound body builder friend of mmine that has a past time of knitting socks while sitting on a park bench. He is a former crab fisherman. Nobody gives him any shit about it, either. |