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Therefore, always bloop on a wing, never a jib halyard.

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It was a great boat.

Bloopers didn't come out until after we had sold the Crusader. Great boat, but it really needed blooping. George once told me that it was an attempt to maximize sail area to wetted surface. With the board all the way up it was totally uncontrollable in anything over 20. After a couple of really...

Old age is creeping up on us Willie. The good news is that we are still managing to stay ahead of it. We are a dying breed. Far too many of us who haven't raced in 20 years have reached their dotage and are populating the race committees and protest committees. Age doesn't make one wise, but it...

Bloop till it droops.

The 0wners have already voted with their feet. I'm one of them.

First, I was campaigning a 40 footer in the SORC when I was in my 20's. It was really fun. Second, PHRF was formed on the East Coast as a reaction to the disposable boats of the later 70's. The accomodation requirements have been gutted through the years to finally end up with PHRF being the...

The good thing about being a grandfather is that you are old enough to screw the youngsters mothers and enjoy it.

They bitch about ratings in Sarasota because there isn't anything else to complain about.

Unless it's a pretty long leg and not very shifty, the blooper is more of a distraction than it's worth. If it's shifty you end up chasing yourself trying to trim it and steer enough by the lee to make it work well without going too far.

Throwbacks unite.

I promise not to poke fun at your light ass soon to destroy itself go fast rocket with no accomodations that you paid an inordinate sum of money to purchase. Further, I won't give you any crap about your efforts that are going nowhere to extablish a one design class. I won't even tease you for...

I think it depends more on the platform. Fractional, less effective. Asymetrical, less effective to not effective at all. Masthead with symetrical, can be pretty effective. Just because a boat goes faster through the water, that doesn't mean the vmg is actually better. I wonder what a Melges...