Well balanced? -2nd attempt

[tome]

It ocurred to me whilst out sailing at the weekend that my genoa is a little larger than my office at 472 sq ft vs 440.

Is this about right?

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[BlueSkyNick]

Nah mate, your office is far too big. If it needs to be that size, you are obviously spending too much time in it, (or you have illusions of grandeur).

From the title, I thought this thread was about the definition of a well balanced Aussie - bloody great chip on BOTH shoulders !

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[snowleopard]

No way! well balanced is when you spend more time on the boat than in the office.

what's the point in having an office if it hasn't got room to lay out your sails?

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[sailbadthesinner]

reduce your office size and spend the rent saved on paying someone else to do some work leaving you more time for the boat

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[SlowlyButSurely]

No. I think that ratio would introduce severe "office helm". The ratio should be more like: area of spinnaker to floor area of office.


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[jimi]

.. or the area of paper on my desk as I'm an advocate of the ultimate hotdesk ... a volcanic yin!

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[Ohdrat]

I think that your office should be about the sq footage of a storm sail.. the flourescent colour would help to scare people away too.

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[tome]

I'm going down to the boat to think this through. Until 2pm, office fully battened.

BTW, storm jib is 100 sg ft.

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[Aeolus_IV]

What does that mean for me - my (home) office is only 72 sqr feet -- so how small a boat should I be sailing?

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[jimi]

International Moth

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[Aeolus_IV]

You're 'avin a larf, I watched those capsize in a dead calm left to their own devices. I did sail a Contender though, would that do instead?

Jeff.

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[ParaHandy]

... hardly ... is the 440 not sq mtrs? and thus you require a boat according to a well known formula which gives the answer 5.66787 times bigger. worse still, the measure could well be cubic mtrs in which case you are suffering oxygen starvation and getting to the boat would be the only satisfactory cure ...

hope this helps, a concerned person

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[jimi]

Epitome of well balancedness!

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[tome]

Just returned from the boat - glorious weather!

I think you may have a better balanced ratio. It's about the same as I had when working from home, though I should come clean and say that this is a combined office and workshop/store.

Managed to scrub just one side of (teak) deck in 2 1/2 hours and have therefore decided that boat is plenty big enough. Time to reduce the office size, which I can do by installing one extra person to halve available space. This also has the advantage of someone else to do the ordering, answer phones etc giving me more time to potter on the boat.

So that will give me 472 vs 220 sq ft which is altogether better.

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[tome]

If the 440 was sq mtrs SWMBO would have grabbed a substantial part of it for her theatre arts business and I would be surrounded by props and clowns outfits, like I am at home. Feather boas are the worse- I find bits of them in all kinds of unlikely places and don't take that to mean I've been dressing up.

Tom (Nora at weekends).

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[ParaHandy]

Thespians all ...

this am dram stuff is getting serious ... my swmbo reminisces from time to time of her starring role in Lysistrata and points out if too frisky the plot which seems to require a garment of roughly equivalent size to yer genny to cover a young greek's 'bits' ...

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[tome]

Re: Thespians all ...

<swmbo reminisces from time to time of her starring role in Lysistrata>

You think you've got it bad! Every couple of months we get a visit from SWMBO's music director who is an opera singer. After a couple of glasses of wine, the arias start issuing. Wonderful voice, but I end up with tintinitus cowering in the garage pretending to do some job or other.

SWMBO thinks this is hilarious and now packs me off to the boat for the night with some sandwiches. I still get the ringing in my ears just thinking about what's going on at home...

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[janeK]

"Feather boas are the worse- I find bits of them in all kinds of unlikely places and don't take that to mean I've been dressing up."

Is there something you REALLY want to share with us ... come on come clean... you know we would all sympathise?

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[tome]

They don't bat an eyelid in my local if I walk in with a dagger through my head anymore. Latest addition is 6 electric blue sequinned Michael Jackson jackets but they are a tad on the small side for me. If you need a beanstalk or a ghost-detector, I'm your man!

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[jimi]

Recent photo of Tom at the pub

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