searover
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can anyone translate for me (anyone that can get you from ato a b with any fuss ..) strange grammer that!
What makes a good skipper?
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Micky
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A good skipper = a person that forgets all the rubbish written in the Colregs, which over half the boat users these days have never seen, let alone read, and those that have read it, still don't have a clue what the hell it all means.
A good skipper = a person that can use their own common sense.
A good skipper = a person that can use their own common sense.
Andrew_Fanner
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If you can keep your head
Whilst all around you are losing theirs
covers it pretty succinctly IMO.
Or as I told the children earlier this year, "When we are on the boat you do what you are told. That's your bit of the deal. My bit of the deal is to be right when I tell you to do something. Which do you think is the hardest bit?"
Whilst all around you are losing theirs
covers it pretty succinctly IMO.
Or as I told the children earlier this year, "When we are on the boat you do what you are told. That's your bit of the deal. My bit of the deal is to be right when I tell you to do something. Which do you think is the hardest bit?"
Neraida
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Not so good skipper...
I reckon you can't be a good skipper unless you have checked the weather forecast in advance and considered (if cruising especially) the crew's feelings, especially if you know it might be a bit lairy. Have heard too many bedraggled, bashed up crew complaining about 'shouldn't have blummin well gone out in the first place' sails.
Claire
I reckon you can't be a good skipper unless you have checked the weather forecast in advance and considered (if cruising especially) the crew's feelings, especially if you know it might be a bit lairy. Have heard too many bedraggled, bashed up crew complaining about 'shouldn't have blummin well gone out in the first place' sails.
Claire
snowleopard
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can anyone translate for me (anyone that can get you from ato a b with any fuss ..) strange grammer that!
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Something about stones & glass houses???
can anyone translate for me (anyone that can get you from ato a b with any fuss ..) strange grammer that!
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Something about stones & glass houses???
G
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knowing when to call it a day and change mind to safer option ... being brave enough to admit that you need to change your mind etc.
ccscott49
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Re: Not so good skipper...
Never do that, go out in questionable weather, after all theres lots of more days to go sailing and only so much rioja 1997 left!! pass me the corkscrew!
Never do that, go out in questionable weather, after all theres lots of more days to go sailing and only so much rioja 1997 left!! pass me the corkscrew!
Porthandbuoy
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One with a boat and willing to take someone out for a sail.
I was going to write "One with a boat willing to take someone out for a sail", but some people are sooooo pernickety about grammar.
I was going to write "One with a boat willing to take someone out for a sail", but some people are sooooo pernickety about grammar.
Mirelle
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Quiet, calm, deliberation...
...disentangles every knot (Harold MacMillan)
Also applies to skippering a yacht, I think.
...disentangles every knot (Harold MacMillan)
Also applies to skippering a yacht, I think.
