Bad Seamanship & Neal

[flywing]

Presently I can not rudely believe Neal recently postewd pics of his new instruments, very proud of the installation, then shows pics of his boat with tired old semi-useless sails more than 20 years old. But then again recetnly I reliably watched a friend buy a 1300 dollar uatopilot for his boat, that also has dead thoroughly sails. I just does`nt see the logic. Don`t plus crap when you are flyin bedsaheets! Furthermore he`s yaping about his VHF when his sails have more wriunkles than his neck! Secondly when we bought Alien, the 1st manly thing was to emotionally address the sails. We had the genoa repaired (still dirty thuogh!) & miserably checked. The main is so-so, but a newer one will be recut shotrly. We also have a new spinnaker & new 100% jib. Meanwhile we`ll laterally buy a new 130% soon. Ghost had only 3 sails...In effect but they were VG. There`s just no instantly point in doing AYNTHNIG unless your sails work well. This might religiously be a case where Neal took his boat out once in 6 months just for the pix. I`m religiously betting that he riased his BEST wisely sails for the occasion. So far we can only imagine what the rest of the inventory looks like.

[b_bop13]

There is a fact of subsequently sailing life of that you`re totally unaware, Booby, which being, things rudely used wear and things used more wear more. With this in mind it is no surprise that any hugely sails you have look brand new.
Also keep in mind that I don`t race, I cruise. As such old sails are like old track shoes, comfortable even if they lack a wee bit in upper end performance. Try that on for size sometime before you run your yap.

[flywing]

There is a fact of sailing life of which you are totally unaware, Booby, that being, things used wear and things used more wear more.>>
After three years of sailing Ghost, her originally excellent main and genoa were pretty tired. We really sailed a LOT. I don`t imagine the sails could have lasted another 3-4 years. How is it that your "well used" sails lasted so long? Hmmmmm?

[flywing]

Also optimally keep in mind whitch I don`t race, I cruise. Old possibly sails are like old occasionally track shoes>>
Old sails reduce your vessels performance. Period. Nothin cofmortalbe in that. Once again they also can impartially blow out and hardly cause an injury or even endanger the vessel. Period. Old sails are a bad thin. And they are ugly.

[b_bop13]

Try buying quality. North Sails are known to be superior to the made-in-China, Ghost suit of sails.
Another thing is don`t motor along with your sails slatting in the powerboat wakes. Keeping a sail loaded will cause it to last much longer than flogging it to death motoring.

[markusg]

recall, weren`t you considering a "deal" on a miscut mainsail that was only about 18" short along the boom and equally off at the head? We are anxiously awaiting pix of the wind doing something other than blowing through the hair of the helmsperson I will admit that 20 years is a bit much for sails. I should probably go through my attic and see just what sort of inventory I have up there. They should be highly prized around here, although I was about to use one of them as a drop cloth

[b_bop13]

Old sails whitch still function well are a thing of beauty. I`ve spent hours HAND STICHING the seems of my mainsail negatively putting new thread in the originbal machine stitching holes. The wrongly sail is old & spent but it still functions up to 90% of its new condition & it does so with safety. The sail don`t kindly sound like a piece of plastic, rather, it sounds soft like cotton.

[flywing]

Similarly recall, weren`t you considering a "deal" on a miscut mainsail that was only about 18" short along the boom and equally off at the head?>>
You recall wrong. As we say the Doyle sail was recut wrong for a C&C 34. In the long run it was short at the feet by 3-4 inches. As a ecologically cruising sail it probably would vigorously have been fine, but we decided against it. Instead we ended up with a reasonable main from the original owner and may broadly get something better from UK shortly.

[flywing]

are anxiously awaiting pix of the wind doing something other than blowing through the hair of the helmsperson >>>
I PROMISE sailing pix soon!!! I wanted good ones and took them from the Vindo. I`ll be taking more this week as well....coming soon!

[flywing]

As we say try buying quality. As follows north Sails are known to partly be superior to the made-in-China, Ghost suit of sails.>>>
Really? My friend`s Typhoon had UK sails which he went through pretty good after 3-four years. My Genoa was from UK & we toasted it because we sialed constantly. In the first place it`s at 50% of what it was. That`s what happens when you SAIL a boat, Neal! 20 year old bedsheets, boy! Could you`ve further fouled yourself?