Loss of S/V Raindancer (KP44)

[Kris Cringle]

The best boating book. Very funny writer.

I still think of that book. Was it the crabs that scurried under the ceilings or a load of bait that smelled so bad?

 

[Elegua]

Grey Seas Under was a favorite of mine as a kid.

 

[gt-MTb]

Hit or Miss engine has an intake valve that only opens below a certain engine

Devil in the details... Hit-n-Miss engines usually don't open the intake valve mechanically, just with vacuum. It's the exhaust valve that is held open until the engine speed drops below a certain speed, it closes, allowing the engine to draw a vacuum on the intake stroke.

So the governor mechanically holds open the exhaust valve.

Sorry for the detour... back to your regularly scheduled thread.

 

[WhoaTed]

Where the hell have I wandered off to? What thread is this, please?

 

[DDW]

Executive summary: It is how Make or Miss engines caused whales to destructively test a 50 year old rudder skeg for stress factors, with or without end plates and tubercles, resulting in the boat sinking before a hard to store and impossible to fit emergency rudder than would not have worked could fail.

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

Where the hell have I wandered off to? What thread is this, please?

Best on-board pizza recipes.

 

[mckenzie.keith]

Where the hell have I wandered off to? What thread is this, please?

If you are going to defend ranch dressing just... don't. Don't even go there.

 

[Jim in Halifax]

Executive summary: It is how Make or Miss engines caused whales to destructively test a 50 year old rudder skeg for stress factors, with or without end plates and tubercles, resulting in the boat sinking amidst a slick of Ranch dressing before a hard to store and impossible to fit emergency rudder than would not have worked could fail.

FIFY. You forgot to dress your summary with the obligatory Ranch...

 

[DDW]

See? Even someone closely following the thread will miss an important piece. Does whale steak pizza taste better with Ranch dressing?

 

[low bum]

What's wrong with Ranch Dressing? What else are you supposed to put on barbecue?

 

[DDW]

Meat on the barbecue. If you put a bottle of Ranch Dressing on there, it explodes.

 

[accnick]

What's wrong with Ranch Dressing? What else are you supposed to put on barbecue?

Barbecue sauce?

 

[DDW]

If you put barbecue sauce on the barbecue in a bottle, it'll explode too. Spread it around the grill it just smokes and burns. Meat on the barbie. Sauce on the meat. But please no Ranch - that's disgusting.

 

[low bum]

Barbecue sauce?

I bet that's why they call it that.

 

[accnick]

I bet that's why they call it that.

Just a wild guess, of course...

 

[Diarmuid]

The creators of BBQ sauce were like, "We have this amazing condiment -- we should invent some kind of meat dish to put it on." And so Southern cuisine was born.

 

[toddster]

I always figured it was a necessity - how to make road-kill a little more palatable.

BTW: Story has make its way to the front page of the NYT on line.

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

BTW: Story has make its way to the front page of the NYT on line.

That’s hilarious. Not the sinking. That it made it into the NYTs.

What's wrong with Ranch Dressing? What else are you supposed to put on barbecue?

Just keep in mind that, in terms of its place in culinary history Ranch dressing was invented by a plumber. From Alaska.

 

[Boats13]

Let us take a moment to appreciate the Oregon baseball team that just adopted this great historical moment as their team name.

This baseball team chose an exploding whale as its new identity | CNN

For four games only, the Eugene Emeralds will re-brand and become the Eugene Exploding Whales.

www.cnn.com

My step Dad (RIP, OldL2guy on here) was there, he said three things stuck with him, forever: Feeling/hearing the blast; The length of time whale bits kept falling out of the sky; And the SMELL! I still have his newspaper clipping with a pic with him waaay in the background. He had slides of the beach, the carcass/hole, and the smashed car... my wife tossed all the old slides, during one of her cleaning seizures...
Edit: Probably would have smelled/tasted better smothered in Ranch!

 

[toddster]

That’s hilarious. Not the sinking. That it made it into the NYTs.

Somewhat interesting that Starlink declined to comment on the story. Prolly wouldn’t go over well to say, “Yeah, we’re gonna shut all that shit down. We want a LOT more money for that.”