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Joking aside, the pessimist in me says that the whispers of covid being, essentially, airborne HIV are just too persistent and ring too true to discard... Consider this: HIV initially presents as an influenza-like illness, sometimes just as a fever and muscle aches, sometimes with no symptoms...

*Corrected* Hey, cool it with the dripping clam, sis, I'm happily with someone!! (But I am amused and honored that you are imagining me with my shirt off!)

Lol, that kinda throws my reply on its head then... lmao!

Hey calm your hard-on bro, I don't swing that way!! (But, despite being conservative, I have always supported y'all's right to marry, for the record.)

I wear a seatbelt when driving and a pfd when sailing because these are sensible things. (And a P100 biological cartridge half face respirator at the height of covid.) Now, metaphorically, a seatbelt equates to a mask, not the covid injection... it is tried and true and mitigates risk but is...

"He's wearing a signboard that says HEY DARWIN, I FUKKIN' DOUBLE-DARE YOU!!" Yes. I was secure enough in my own judgement that I was willing to bet my own LIFE on it... sadly most "men" today lack the courage to do this. I was proven correct in my judgement which took into account my age...

To get the third, I would have to get the first, and the air temp in Hell has not dropped below 32 degrees yet...

I am interested because I have several pre-93 cam cleats and I like the jaw shape and action better than the new style. (I am guessing because search engines are garbage now an I can't find comparison photos). I can't find anyone mentioning this point, but the jaws in my cleats are more...

Stumbled across this thread while looking for something else, browsed through it, EVERYONE seems to be missing the actual reason. It is not marketing. It is not cost. It is not friendliness to new sailors. It is not age and race of sailors. To find the answer, one need only go to a coastal...

Double checked, my hull is 1045, and the mainsheet base was held in with wood screws through the deck and into a thickened fiberglass bit on the hull like the hiking strap attachments were. Makes it difficult to reattach since the old screws rusted and the same size thread does not grab after...

No, and I guess i misremembered the hull #. It is a teal blue vanguard with yellow stripes. Looks like the later mkI (open behind the cb trunk under foredeck to cockpit, but drilled originally for jam cleat control lines) I think it has what I understand to be the factory installed floor pan...

So, after a long ass delay, my Vanguard is about to finally get on the water. I believe it is hull # 1066 (if memory serves) and as I was doing some gelcoat work I noticed it was once named "Pump Rocker". I am dubious of how well my fix on the foot of the round carbon (Willets?) mast will...

Data I recorded, note that it is approximate because it was down with a tape rather than a caliper. Mast foot sizes: Carbon wing mast:  60~62mm Some of the aluminum masts:  60~62mm Other aluminum masts with ring:  ~72mm My mast:  ~55mm My mast cup:  ~64mm My mast gooseneck bolt bottom...

Sounds like impressive women for sure!  That must be a HARD pill to swallow for any guy if he loses to one of them! Then again, if one of the women beats a male sailor, that puts a used Finn on the market the next day, right?

I have a question pertaining to retrofitting vanguard boats also.  Specifically updating from a needlespar to Carbon mast.  It seems from reading that this is a common upgrade to make what is the generally practiced method of doing so?  The obvious solution seems to be making an adapter cup so...

Don't tell me even sailing is getting infested with cry-baby snowflakes! If that guy needs a safe space from all the big mean Finn sailors, maybe he should go sit in an Opti and pout.