Helping with waterstart/clearing the sail

[rigitrite]

If internet forum threads have souls, this ones soul is quietly pleading: "Kill....me.....pleeeeeze.....KILL.....ME!!!!"

[wsatl]

[isobars]

The OP, shmish, is talking energy conservation ["It was exhausting"], not the landlord or breaking surf.

It's really sad that someone is forcing rigitrite to read this thread.

[wsatl]

[grantmac017]

Where Smish sails, like basically everywhere that isn't a river or lake, there are significant currents and shore break. They don't have the luxuries of an easy spot like the Gorge.

[isobars]

Jeez, Grant ... I've sailed many ocean venues on both sides of the continent, including Maui, Florida, the Texas coast, and the Oregon coast in full-on nukers ... plus New Mexico in stronger wind than I've ever encountered in any of those places (it was a good thing I was sailing Hurricane Super Nukers many of those days). I have grounds on which to disagree with someone who claims that some bumps prevent Archimedes from floating the sail or that this thread's laundry list of physical workouts saps no more energy than cracking those figurative oysters.

And you guys don't get to keep moving the jello (sharks, riptides, breaking surf, etc.) you're nailing to the wall retroactively. What's next ... Niagara Falls? The Red Sea? An aircraft carrier wake? The deadly whirlpools we had to avoid at one NM lake? Unprotected dam spillways at two other NM lakes? The shipping lanes I've sailed off Kanaha on sinkers before I could even jibe?

We don't all sail to the same drummer. Any amateur WSer who prefers manhandling his sail out of the water (or jibing his overpowered sail) by brute force after 10 hours in nuking conditions is a bigger man than I, Gunga Din.

[wsatl]

[westender]

Flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

[isobars]

If I (or Trump) cured cancer*, you clowns would still be ragging on us. How much credence does that lend to your personally biased and thoroughly myopic criticism?

* BTW, I HAVE slowed down my own cancer by many years, and you can guess how: by arguing with and often outright rejecting (based on medical science) many oncologists' demands based on their mindlessly following the crowd. You guys' whining isn't going to change a damned thing except for the small handful of people who reject my opinions and/or facts just because someone told them to with no proof and often even despite proof to the contrary.

[swchandler]

After 14 posts on this thread, many of which were deliberately offered to be both arguable and difficult, isobars is now predictably playing the victim card. It's a routine that gets very old, but sadly, he will never change.