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echo: sailing
to: GEORGE SKINNER
from: DAN CEPPA
date: 1995-11-21 08:11:00
subject: my boat

-> On 11-18-95  23:48, George Skinner got back to Dan Ceppa 
 GS> mount a standard trailer hitch to the tongue of the trailer and use
 GS> the jib sail halyard and connect it through another line to the second
 GS> winch.
That could work, but a 2nd winch seems more expensive!  
 -> my yard before attempting to look too foolish down at the
 -> marina!  After all, I'm still known as the "guy that turtled
 GS> ready, I noticed my spreaders were missing. I had to un-step the mast
 GS> to install the spreaders. The first time out I also forgot the
I don't have far to go, so I leave all my shrouds in place.  The only 
time I had a major problem was after turtling in getting all the 
shrouds and lines sorted out.  
 GS> I even installed the boom upside down, never noticed until we were in
 GS> the water.
The last time out, I didn't put in the battens.  Natalie noticed 
it and we finally put them in for our run back to the marina at 
the end of the day!  
... Recipe for a sailboat  -- First, you take a keel...
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