Great Red Shark
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This was the alternative.
I Hate Bad Artwork Depicting Sailing!
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Back in the days of floppy drives, there was a program called jive.exe that made it's way around. It translated text into jive speak (or at least the creator's idea of jive speak). I'm hoping that somebody with more free time and ambition than me, can find the original code and convert it to Snagglese or create a new one. The text below is a translation of Ed's erudite prose from the FP by this site that seems to have copied the original jive program. https://funtranslations.com/jive
Some elecshuns most certainly wuz not stolen and puh'haps some wuz. What it is, Mama. Right On! De incumbent Wo'ld Sailin', Kim Andersen wuz accused uh some numba' uh edical breaches durin' de run-waaay down t'last year’s Wo'd Sailin' Presidential elecshuns which impacted his campaign t'serve some second term. 'S coo', bro. Sheeit, de jury be now back in. 'S coo', bro. No comment – eyeball fo' yo'self. What it is, Mama. Right On! Pretty alleyetic dat some knode WS ass-kissa' had his daddy’s newsletta' quoted… I wonda' how de elecshun winna' be gettin' on wid deliverin' on his elecshun promises uh brin'in' huge sponso'ship deals t'de Wo'ld Sailin' table??
Some elecshuns most certainly wuz not stolen and puh'haps some wuz. What it is, Mama. Right On! De incumbent Wo'ld Sailin', Kim Andersen wuz accused uh some numba' uh edical breaches durin' de run-waaay down t'last year’s Wo'd Sailin' Presidential elecshuns which impacted his campaign t'serve some second term. 'S coo', bro. Sheeit, de jury be now back in. 'S coo', bro. No comment – eyeball fo' yo'self. What it is, Mama. Right On! Pretty alleyetic dat some knode WS ass-kissa' had his daddy’s newsletta' quoted… I wonda' how de elecshun winna' be gettin' on wid deliverin' on his elecshun promises uh brin'in' huge sponso'ship deals t'de Wo'ld Sailin' table??
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I love bad sailing artwork. Something to look at and ponder how other brains malfunction when when they attempt to translate something they saw first hand or in a photo, into what they think they saw. It says much about how poor everyone's memory truly is.
Great Red Shark
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No, bad sailing art is one of the constants in life - precious few artists understand what it IS that they are looking at, in regards to boats under sail and then they "Artistic Interpretation" the parts that they don't get, which is most of it.
Seriously, there's Jim DeWitt and Phil Uhl, and darn-few others that don't just make a complete and total hash out of any spread of canvas - a long-held pet peeve of mine.
Seriously, there's Jim DeWitt and Phil Uhl, and darn-few others that don't just make a complete and total hash out of any spread of canvas - a long-held pet peeve of mine.
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that friends is a stepped tacking demountable hydrofoil currently deployed at the bow to provide vital lift for a port start in the Tuesday ladies raceLook what I stumbled upon. This is a thing, apparently.
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Somebody Else
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The report is for 2020. It was, in all likelihood, produced and approved this year.pssst....ist frome 2020
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That is an upside-down Rocna anchor.
I have one on my power boat. Great anchor. Worth the extra money.
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Santanasailor
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Waterskiing. They had thousand’s lining the banks at the pro tours. (Been part of that crowd). Within a couple of years it went from couldn’t find a place to park at the tournaments to couldn’t find a tournament to watch. USA waterskiing catered to its few Ultra Elite skiers (who coincidentally were not the top skiers in the pro tour but second tier skiers who USA waterskiing seemed to be enamored with).
It was all about “we got to get in the olympics, we got to get in the olympics, we got to get our super elites in the olympics. Unfortunately, if you forget the base, make it all but impossible to ever qualify for anything other than a few Class “C” tournaments keeping the organization going gets kind hard, And for the skiers involved, its gets kind of old to sit back and watch the same five or so “elite” skiers get all the glory, all the gold and all the attention. Especially when people like Wade Cox, Kristi Overton, Deena Mapple and Freddy Krueger all world record holders, master’s tournament winners and Pro Tour Champions are ignored because they are not three event skiers.
Things may have changed but the days of thousands lining the banks at places like Champion Lake at Shreveport are long gone.
Yes, that’s his real name Fredrick August Krueger Jr. Still current world record holder in ski jumping at no less than 42 years of age and still winning tournaments, truly to the skiing world “the Nightmare of Elm Street.
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Santanasailor
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I promise not to hijack this tread again, but make no promises otherwise
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close up of this cwewWel I know a few good ones:
Edward Hopper , Ground Swell, 1939
It's a catboat. (a kind of americain beauty boats that are still for sale.)
Even new builds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Swell
Expat Canuck
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Some famous sport personality once said: The best way to ruin a sport (or a discipline in a sport) is to get it selected for the Olympics.
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βhyde
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Always thought Jame DeWitt did a pretty good job of not making sailing look ridiculous.
Makes a difference when the artist knows something about sailing.
https://www.mcssl.com/store/jimdewitt
Makes a difference when the artist knows something about sailing.
https://www.mcssl.com/store/jimdewitt
