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Underdawg did an excellent job of explaining the rules. Here's the simplified version: Don't insinuate Pedo. Warning and or timeout for a first offense. PermaFlick for any subsequent offenses Don't out members. See above for penalties. Caveat: if you have ever used your own real name or personal information here on the forums since, like, ever - it doesn't count and you are fair game. If you see spam posts, report it to the mods. We do not hang out in every thread 24/7 If you see any of the above, report it to the mods by hitting the Report button in the offending post. We do not take action for foul language, off-subject content, or abusive behavior unless it escalates to persistent stalking. There may be times that we might warn someone or flick someone for something particularly egregious. There is no standard, we will know it when we see it. If you continually report things that do not fall into rules #1 or 2 above, you may very well get a timeout yourself for annoying the Mods with repeated whining. Use your best judgement. Warnings, timeouts, suspensions and flicks are arbitrary and capricious. Deal with it. Welcome to anarchy. If you are a newbie, there are unwritten rules to adhere to. They will be explained to you soon enough.
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Corvo
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Here's how SSS handles it in the Three Bridge Fiasco: 1. If any part of a boat's hull, crew or equipment crosses the starting line during the five-minute period before its assigned start time: a. It will receive a 20-minute penalty without a hearing. This modifies RRS 63.1 and A5. b. It need not return to start properly, but shall proceed to sail the course. This modifies RRS 28.1 and 29.1. There are 300+ boats starting, going in either direction they choose, so we don't want people trying to correct an OCS. That's the only reason for the blanket 5-minute rule.
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Wait - what? Here's a Moore in its element, typical NorCal ocean conditions. Sorry about the photo quality - I took it, but I couldn't find the original so I snipped it from Latitude 38 on line.
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Jack O'Neill, I think. Edit: I'm wrong. O'Neill's paddle out looked very similar.
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Conjugation? We conjugate verbs - Chingo, chingas, chinga ... Try again.
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It could be named after a ship that wrecked there. Like Blossom Rock in SF Bay.
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Are you sure that's his boat and the trim is his doing? IIRC, his first time in Hawaii someone else took him sailing on another boat, and he posted a few pictures. Edit: never mind, here he is on the OPB. First pic must be the San Juan. http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2014-04-09#.WYY-tlGQxaQ
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As a general rule, slow motion in sports videos sucks. Unless you're trying to determine whether the ball got to the first baseman's glove before the runner's foot hit the bag, you totally lose the essential dynamics.
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It doesn't have to be that way. I spent less than $10k to do the race in my 32 footer in 2010 - not counting the unpaid leave from work. And I wasn't "just doing it for the experience" - I took home a few trophies.
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Do you have a song that will always be part of a particular race?
Corvo replied to nolatom's topic in Sailing Anarchy
This one kept invading my space during the 2010 SInglehanded TransPac. -
Lookita Merit 25. More comfortable cockpit, equal performance. Easy to fly a kite shorthanded if you add a tillerpilot.
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I don't get it. I bought a used Toyota from Shift. They told me it was subject to the airbag recall. I phoned my local Toyota dealer and got the airbags replaced the next day.
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Correcting myself, too late to edit: My backup pilot is a Simrad TP30. I think it's identical to the TP32 except that it's not networkable.
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I have no problem with aluminum. It's just that you wrote "all stainless instead of plastic", and I assumed you were including the housing. Thanks for clarifying.
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32 footer, 8400 lb. I've had a Raymarine X5 for about 8 years. It worked great on the SHTP in 2010, but a couple of years later it got stupid. I sent the computer back to Raymarine and they fixed something free of charge and updated the software. It took a lot of tinkering with settings to get it to work reasonably well, but it's still not quite as good with the spinnaker up as when I first got it. I will say that the ram has never failed - a common complaint with RM pilots. But I'm now running a Pelagic ram with the Raymarine controller. It's a little faster than the RM ram. It's actually not all stainless as someone stated: plenty of aluminum in the housing. And it didn't drop right in to replace the RM ram; Brian the designer fabricated a modified clevis for me. I'm still not totally happy with the mount: the ram is not perfectly horizontal, and there's a lot of play in the clevis. Also, with my mounting bracket the electrical cord has to come out the top; I'd prefer it to be on the bottom. I'm going to rethink the whole mount eventually. But Brian is a really good guy, very helpful. At some point I expect to go all-Pelagic. As a backup, I have a Simrad TP20. None of these are integrated with my instrumentation network.
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Huh? CORW finishes in San Diego, Pac Cup starts in San Francisco. If you are coming from out of state like the OP (ie on a trailer) it is a nice opportunity to get some time sailing out the Gate and some good breezy downwind miles. Worked great for us in 2016. Agreed. I guess we have different definitions of a feeder.