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Saw this thread had been bumped and figured I’d add something for Larry’s “jahrzeit.” Here’s a photo Tim Ford took during the 2015 Marion-Bermuda race on Cruisin‘ Loser’s boat. We were going upwind, away from Bermuda, in a horrible sea and a whole lot of breeze while we fixed broken shit on...

Eight bells for our Larry. He was at home and at peace. 

Hi, All. Just an update:  As of Tuesday, Larry was alert with improving numbers, but the plan was to go home on hospice care.  There’s the prospect of some good time with family, but it seems the sarcoma fight is over.     My wife is in text communication with Lynne, but we have not...

In the one prospective, randomized, controlled trial of headgear in sports that I was able to find (a very large study of rugby players), there was no significant effect of padded headgear on measures of brain injury <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19127196>. PM me if you are...

The clinical data on this question are not very good or very clear. The best come from football and if there is an effect of helmets on concussion there, it doesn't seem very big. This may be because much of the acceleration-deceleration you mention is not linear, but rotational. Of course...

I don't like the Wichard clip and have enough trouble with the other one (Kong?), especially at O-God why am I doing this-thirty seven hrs with a scop patch behind each ear. It too has a hook, but not as pronounced as the Wichard. Being aluminum, it is also much lighter, which is good.

Any opinions on the Crewsaver Ergofit series? They have some very serious looking jackets with massive buoyancy and and AIS transmitters, available at great prices from a discounter in the UK. I am thinking of getting one for next season unless someone tells me they're rubbish.

Unless the tingling starts to interfere significantly with sleep, which is no kind of joke. But to quote an old professor of mine, "If your ass hurts, stop sitting on thumbtacks."

This is due to compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve in the groin (not spine, pelvis, sciatic nerve) and the syndrome of numbness and tingling on the side of the thigh even has a Latin name, "meralgia paresthetica." It almost always gets better if the cause is removed, although it...

Sailing in no wind takes skill. Sailing in no wind in shoal water, among fish traps, in tight quarters with commercial traffic, while having ones ankles incessantly stabbed by dog flies, is a consummate test of seamanship.

The cruise ships go to the Navy Yard at the other end of the island from St. George's.

What's the rear spacing, 125 mm? Get it cold set to 130, buy a new wheel and a whatever-speed freewheel, and put whatever Shimano is selling these days on it as a shifter. What am I missing? That's a great frame. I'd hold onto it.

Sorry. I did find the Annapolis list and signed up after Suijin's first post. Thanks again. Hope the family gathering was good, M25. See you in a couple of weekends.

There's a couple of decades of good clinical and basic neuroscience, epidemiology, and genetics on ADHD, but folks prefer to blame it on people they don't like because it feels good and fits with their beliefs. Why do we need to actually find anything out, when we have such a font of truth deep...

Need Ritalin to do what, is the question. To have their ass worked off on a farm, play ball and hunt on the weekends and afternoons, and pay enough attention in a rural school to pass? Sure. No Ritalin required. To compete with elite kids and get into a competitive college and go to law...

Just giving you, shit. I dont have time now, but there is literature on the benefits and risks of psych drugs and, while it doesn't say anything about individuals in these exceedingly rare cases (right, gun guys?), they do not, as a rule, make people sicker. Unhappy and crazy people do tend to...

I have some unfounded and data free theories about aeronautics and air weapons systems, of which I would be happy to unburden myself, if you have the time. :)

I think you'll find that for any given level of pathology or absence thereof, the people who are getting clinical attention, including meds, are less likely to act out than the untreated ones. If not, why all the talk about the deficient mental health system and violence? Personally, I prefer...

Hoo, boy. If the drugs are so "powerful," why don't they work? Tom, you can find a much higher grade of anti-psychiatry nonsense if you leave the gun apologists and try Thomas Szasz.

Thanks! Found the Newport crew link, but not the Annapolis one.