One just never knows about the weather no matter how much research. We were moving our 40' Passport sloop from San Juan Islands WA to San Francisco. We even hired a captain to lead us, just in case, a crew of 5 including the captain. We were hit by a storm that we saw coming from the South so we headed out to open sea, away from the coast. It was a fight but exhilarating and we felt like Old Salts when it was over and our hired captain said that was the worst storm he had ever seen. It had even sent our oven flying across the galley. But that was just the baby. In an hour, we were doing 22 knots with just a storm sail, absolutely flying on the surface of the water. By the time the alarm was given, just long seconds, Mama hit and pulled the storm sail out of the deck by the six big bolts and wrapped around the main mast. We did not ever go completely around but the main mast was hitting the water on both sides and we had trailing seas of God knows what. We turned on the autopilot, battened down and waited. I was scared but I knew that the Passport was designed for the worst. Plus, in preparation, I had read Joshua Slocum's book, Sailing Around the World Alone. If he could survive everything that Mother Nature threw at him in his self-made wood craft, we would survive this storm in this modern, well-designed and well-built sailboat. And I will say that we were always haltered and clipped in while on deck no matter the weather and followed all safety protocols. This was 1995.
There must be some transition in sailboat design that moves from you will survive a knock-down to you will never have a knock-down. Any number of racing sailors have been over to spreaders in the water on boats that aren't damaged and continue racing. Not small boats, 50', 60' racer cruisers, planing designs and displacement boats. This boat can be tipped on it's side by wind alone, no sails up, and it doesn't recover? Not many power boats would suffer that catastrophe, or perhaps these monster yachts have different expectations.
I want to congratulate you on your improving English. When you were at school your English teacher would have taught you during grammar class the don't use the definite article before a proper noun. Finally I see you refer to Bayesian as such instead of "the" Bayesian. Any chance you can persuade other journalists to follow your lead? Does any one address you as the Peter?!
Haha. New Englanders in particular talk that way. Since we really are smarter than you, we assumed this construct was correct. I am probably the first to inform you that this is simply a regionalism.
One just never knows about the weather no matter how much research. We were moving our 40' Passport sloop from San Juan Islands WA to San Francisco. We even hired a captain to lead us, just in case, a crew of 5 including the captain. We were hit by a storm that we saw coming from the South so we headed out to open sea, away from the coast. It was a fight but exhilarating and we felt like Old Salts when it was over and our hired captain said that was the worst storm he had ever seen. It had even sent our oven flying across the galley. But that was just the baby. In an hour, we were doing 22 knots with just a storm sail, absolutely flying on the surface of the water. By the time the alarm was given, just long seconds, Mama hit and pulled the storm sail out of the deck by the six big bolts and wrapped around the main mast. We did not ever go completely around but the main mast was hitting the water on both sides and we had trailing seas of God knows what. We turned on the autopilot, battened down and waited. I was scared but I knew that the Passport was designed for the worst. Plus, in preparation, I had read Joshua Slocum's book, Sailing Around the World Alone. If he could survive everything that Mother Nature threw at him in his self-made wood craft, we would survive this storm in this modern, well-designed and well-built sailboat. And I will say that we were always haltered and clipped in while on deck no matter the weather and followed all safety protocols. This was 1995.
As a story, that one beats mine any day.
There must be some transition in sailboat design that moves from you will survive a knock-down to you will never have a knock-down. Any number of racing sailors have been over to spreaders in the water on boats that aren't damaged and continue racing. Not small boats, 50', 60' racer cruisers, planing designs and displacement boats. This boat can be tipped on it's side by wind alone, no sails up, and it doesn't recover? Not many power boats would suffer that catastrophe, or perhaps these monster yachts have different expectations.
I want to congratulate you on your improving English. When you were at school your English teacher would have taught you during grammar class the don't use the definite article before a proper noun. Finally I see you refer to Bayesian as such instead of "the" Bayesian. Any chance you can persuade other journalists to follow your lead? Does any one address you as the Peter?!
Haha. New Englanders in particular talk that way. Since we really are smarter than you, we assumed this construct was correct. I am probably the first to inform you that this is simply a regionalism.