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[Rob01]

Boats are a bigger money hole than guns or tractors. Two favorite boat sayings. They are a hole in the water you throw money into and the two best days of a boat owners life are the day you get it and the day you sell it.

Here you go Mike

 

[Dead Eye Dick]

Now this is a subject I can relate to. In the 80’s I raced a Nacra 5.2 cat. When I got tired of getting beat up I bought a ‘84 J30. Used it for club races and a few PIB Bay week regattas. Sorry, no pictures

If that sail shape looks bad on AnnaElesie forgive, they are so old, I think they were recut from the sails Columbus used to sail over in 1492.

 

[Dead Eye Dick]

Boats are a bigger money hole than guns or tractors. Two favorite boat sayings. They are a hole in the water you throw money into and the two best days of a boat owners life are the day you get it and the day you sell it.

Here you go Mike

First part is true, to sail AnnaEleise competitively we would have to purchase a new set of sails every year at the price of a nice precision rifle. That’s just sails. Replacing running rigging, getting a good bottom, and other maintenance. Tough. and Anna is just a 20 footer. Maintenance and sails go up by a factor of 2 for every foot in length.

Second part. We lost Getaway, the second boat pictured in Hurricane Sally. She was tough to get going , but she was a really fun boat to sail. Wish I still had her. The first boat pictured is AnnaEleise, a Santana 20. We’ve owned her for 35 years. Even our son, who has no interest in sailing has said, if something happens to Brenda and I, he’s not selling her. She’s a member of the family. If I had to let her go, it would be one of the saddest days of my life. Spent many an hour with her.

AnnaEleise, in light air, she can outrun the Wrath of GOD.

 

[Rob01]

First part is true, to sail AnnaEleise competitively we would have to purchase a new set of sails every year at the price of a nice precision rifle. That’s just sails. Replacing running rigging, getting a good bottom, and other maintenance. Tough. and Anna is just a 20 footer. Maintenance and sails go up by a factor of 2 for every foot in length.

Second part. We lost Getaway, the second boat pictured in Hurricane Sally. She was tough to get going , but she was a really fun boat to sail. Wish I still had her. The first boat pictured is AnnaEleise, a Santana 20. We’ve owned her for 35 years. Even our son, who has no interest in sailing has said, if something happens to Brenda and I, he’s not selling her. She’s a member of the family. If I had to let her go, it would be one of the saddest days of my life. Spent many an hour with her.

AnnaEleise, in light air, she can outrun the Wrath of GOD.

 

[DownhillFromHere]

BOAT: acronym Bust Out Another Thousand. For me, the boat was just the thing that pulled me on a slalom ski back in the '60s. The teens around the lake were all proficient skiers; 13-15-year-olds driving power boats pulling skiers was perfectly normal. I was really proud when I was able to take off from the edge of the dock so I didn't get wet; my 14-year-old ego therefore assumed I could get off the water the same I got on: kick the ski back and turn around to sit on the edge of the dock. I still have the scar, and the water-diluted blood made my cousin driving the boat think i was disemboweled.

Tractor: I spent a lot of summer-job hours on one dragging a golf ball picker all over a driving range. It had a protective steel mesh cage on it - it was a very popular target. Bad enough to have a ball hit the cage on the outside, like being in a trash can hit with a bat. Worse was when the ball ricocheted off the ground and rattled around with me inside the cage.
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I look back nostalgically on those high-school and college summers... boats and tractors and cars and motorcycles o my. So many of us cheated Mr. Darwin....

 

[Im2bent]

First part is true, to sail AnnaEleise competitively we would have to purchase a new set of sails every year at the price of a nice precision rifle. That’s just sails. Replacing running rigging, getting a good bottom, and other maintenance. Tough. and Anna is just a 20 footer. Maintenance and sails go up by a factor of 2 for every foot in length.

Second part. We lost Getaway, the second boat pictured in Hurricane Sally. She was tough to get going , but she was a really fun boat to sail. Wish I still had her. The first boat pictured is AnnaEleise, a Santana 20. We’ve owned her for 35 years. Even our son, who has no interest in sailing has said, if something happens to Brenda and I, he’s not selling her. She’s a member of the family. If I had to let her go, it would be one of the saddest days of my life. Spent many an hour with her.

AnnaEleise, in light air, she can outrun the Wrath of GOD.