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Re: What cruel jibes?
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It would be nice if when making scathing comments that you state you are in truth an 'interested party'
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Correct Robin I did once work for John Goode at Southern, however I left and am equally critical as I am of praise for John Goode. He has some great ideas and some not so great ideas. And I had my reasons for leaving.
However I am not biased either way.
And though my post may seem and may even have been scathing. The point I am trying to make is simply that the technique of using a sail up the backstay is a perfectly seamanlike practice. You dismissed it immediately as unsafe and that nobody should do it near your boat. But nobody should make any manouevre in an unsafe manner it has nothing to do with sails up backstays. Nobody (I think) has ever said that a bunch of novices should take a difficult to manouvre yacht and take it into a situation they cannot get out of.
That is the point of using an instructor, at some point you have to progress from berthing in an empty pontoon to berthing in a very crowded one and it is usually helpful and safer for most people to do that with an instructor, obviously you had a bad experience, but even instructors get it wrong and not all are good.
I agree with Twister Ken though when he stated that he would radio the marina and try and get an easy berth, that is obviously the correct and seamanlike thing to do. Though quite often you have no choice.
And a few well practiced techniques can make a seemingly unhandleable boat into a handleable one
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It would be nice if when making scathing comments that you state you are in truth an 'interested party'
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Correct Robin I did once work for John Goode at Southern, however I left and am equally critical as I am of praise for John Goode. He has some great ideas and some not so great ideas. And I had my reasons for leaving.
However I am not biased either way.
And though my post may seem and may even have been scathing. The point I am trying to make is simply that the technique of using a sail up the backstay is a perfectly seamanlike practice. You dismissed it immediately as unsafe and that nobody should do it near your boat. But nobody should make any manouevre in an unsafe manner it has nothing to do with sails up backstays. Nobody (I think) has ever said that a bunch of novices should take a difficult to manouvre yacht and take it into a situation they cannot get out of.
That is the point of using an instructor, at some point you have to progress from berthing in an empty pontoon to berthing in a very crowded one and it is usually helpful and safer for most people to do that with an instructor, obviously you had a bad experience, but even instructors get it wrong and not all are good.
I agree with Twister Ken though when he stated that he would radio the marina and try and get an easy berth, that is obviously the correct and seamanlike thing to do. Though quite often you have no choice.
And a few well practiced techniques can make a seemingly unhandleable boat into a handleable one
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