Sailing backwards

[jimi]

Its at night, as you can see by the moon, I'm sailing backwards to maximise the benefit of sailing by the lee with my new fully battened leeches. What lights should I be diplaying? And by day ... am I on starboard or port tack?

Bugger me ... its another CR question, I'm off for my tin hat & chemical protection suit!

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[snowleopard]

i think the answer is two vertical all-round reds.

i think the courts would take the view that having a loony at the helm was the same as being not under command ;-)

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[iangrant]

Have you been drinking home made whiskey again?
Officially - you are sailing so display a mast top tricolour, as for port or starboard, eeerr? Have another!

You forgot to ask which sound signal you may use if the fog came in?

Ian

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[claymore]

Too difficult for me. No stranger to sailing backwards though - really must get the hang of coordinating HW Oban in the Almanac with HW Dover on the Tidal Atlas when trying to get up or down the Firth of Lorne

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[Magic_Sailor]

For Christmas? nm

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[snowleopard]

across the Irish Sea nm

;-)

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[jimi]

Gulp

I've invented a new sail, its a bit like a fully wired bra so that it maintains its shape whatever you do ... so in the case my leach is my leading edge rather thasn the trailing one. (Learnt this from Laser sailing .. often heralded a capsize to windward;-))

Frealy, my boom is on my port side looking forrad to the bow but on my starboard side relative to my motion through the water.

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[claymore]

Re: Gulp

I think you need to read some of the early works of Percy Blandford. We seem to be moving into the area of the Cross-Bow Rudder and this does get complicated. As a note of caution - the green reflection on your main is a definate sign of impending bad weather - its sort of related to the red sky at night....etc etc but Green main at night means the weather will be shite is a relatively unknown but most accurate weather lore saying in the deeper recesses of Little Langdale Valley - you are the YM and so the call is yours but if that was me I'd be looking to unhook some of my wire leeches and get it down to a B cup rather than the rather buxom situation currently prevailing

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[colvic]

Keep this up and you just may disappear up your....

Phil

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[Twister_Ken]

Poppy cock

>Its at night, as you can see by the moon<

That's not the moon, it's the sun which has been flattened by people (pointing no fingers) mucking about with the tides, and thus screwing up the sun's gravity. Similarly, you are not sailing backwards but being drawn astern by a black hole somewhere in the region of Uranus.

 

[colvic]

Re: Poppy cock

Put far better than I could

Phil

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[DeeGee]

Re: Gulp

Interesting... ColRegs are not interested in whether you are going forwards or backwards, just which side you have the wind on. I often sail backwards over the ground, even if forwards in the water! You might confuse someone who finds he is going slower forward than you are going backwards in the same direction, cos he would then become an overtaking vessel, and need to keep clear of you... as for your weird bra...!

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: jimi stop it

i am trying to work here and you are making me laugh

do you have your engine running??

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[jimi]

OOhhhh

Presumably thats how you spoke to your insurers as well?

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