I have stopped learning about sailing

[Peppermint]

It's an often stated tenet of this site and any yacht club bar that you never stop learning. Well in an attempt to gain my pedant pennent I'd like to suggest that I do now know it all, everything, the lot.

You learn everything you need to know quite quickly really. From then on your just adapting what you know to different, often unique, circumstance. Thats if you remember it in time. It's a bit like a tool kit, you can have thousands of pieces in it but you only need about ten of them to get by.

As you can tell I've woke up in a funny mood today.

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[powerskipper]

I like the way you have put that and agree with you , experiance is knowing which tool to use and when quickly!

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[whisper]

Oh dear !! Whatever shall I do ?? I'm a couple of spanners short of a full tool kit. Perhaps another RYA course is urgently required/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif.

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[halcyon]

Only problem is that you only find the tool you are missing, when you come to use it.

Costs nothing to window shop for the toolbox.

Brian

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[powerskipper]

AAAHHH /forums/images/icons/wink.gif
but my tool kits comprizes of;
2 hair clips,
knife [ dinner table type]
grey stick to anything tape,
super glue,
torch,
packet tissues
OH and an adjustable spanner or two! /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Talbot]

You have the duck tape, but have forgotten the araldite - with these two most people can bodge anything! /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[tillergirl]

Oh I stopped learning years ago - that has nothing to do with knowing everything - it's just too much trouble to learn anymore!

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[Sybarite]

I would add that with about 35000 threads on these fora probably every possible topic in relation to boats and the sea has been covered.

Nevertheless I love wandering about marina pontoons looking to see what others have done or how they have set up their rigging or something and I nearly always find someting which makes me say ' Hey that's a good idea".

John

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[Sybarite]

I would add that with about 35000 threads on these fora probably every possible topic in relation to boats and the sea has been covered.

Nevertheless I love wandering about marina pontoons looking to see what others have done or how they have set up their rigging or something and I nearly always find something which makes me say ' Hey that's a good idea".

John

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[LadyInBed]

No, I'm sure there’s always something to learn about or to stretch your knowledge a bit more.
For me, I've just got my first spinnaker to play with and after four years of trying I still can't get off my riverside fore and aft mooring when the wind is blowing me onto the bank.


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[johnneale]

You only learn from your mistakes - if you're that perfext, then you know it all !

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[johna]

Laay a permanent chain kedge out to the centre of the river from your bow mooring and then work yourself along it.

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[Mike21]

With my wife being a YM instructor, I'm discouraged from making mistakes/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[LadyInBed]

Interesting thought, I'm not sure how the Environment Agency would take to it.
I had thought about slinging a grapnel across the river and hauling myself out on that, but I think recovery would be a problem. A permanent chain would be a solution, just hope nothing tries to pass as I cast off!!
At present I wait for a friendly boat to pass and sling him a line.


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[kds]

Well - I have certainly learned something and will try it.
Thanks John

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[TheBoatman]

Hey Nigel
I was about to break into a long spiel about springs, engine throttle settings, fenders, warps and instructing crew,,but hey your my type of sailor
"I wait until some one passes and sling them a line". That seems like a good plan to me, and no doubt it works everytime?
signed
Peter
RYA Instructor<s>

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[happyfish]

All you need is a hammer and tube of mastic then you can do anything?

<hr width=100% size=1>Sunset smells of Dinner I Must end my tales see you the next quiet place
I furl my sails