tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451271892473686275.post8507849354547570019..comments2023-08-24T06:43:12.127-04:00Comments on The Tufted Titmouse: Captain's Log, #4Dr Benwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01487095207583971575noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451271892473686275.post-49634465647436126382009-11-30T01:02:16.925-05:002009-11-30T01:02:16.925-05:00Really enjoy your captain's logs. Brings back...Really enjoy your captain's logs. Brings back memories of my younger days sailing a 14' Grummond canoe that had been outfitted with dagger boards on each side, a lateen rig and a tiny rudder. It wasn't all that comfortable, but it was pretty fast owing to it's minimal surface area. And the best thing about sailing a canoe: they're made for paddling if necessary!!<br /><br /> We'd sail that contraption from early March until November in the Potomac River near Wash, DC. We were rank amateur sailors, but we never once tipped it over. <br /><br />One tip I'd like to pass along. I'm sure by now you've experienced dropping something important in the water and losing it forever. After that happened to us a few times, despite really trying to tie the important things down or stowing them away, we started "sacrificing" things (cigarettes, sandwiches) at the boat dock as an offering to the River God(s). We'd still occasionally lose things, but who knows how much worse it might have been if you hadn't performed the ritual!<br /><br />Happy Sailing!cornbread_r2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451271892473686275.post-61408074668992733322009-10-14T16:42:19.944-04:002009-10-14T16:42:19.944-04:00Hey, I followed you over here from SBM and found: ...Hey, I followed you over here from SBM and found: a fellow sailor! I spent most of my twenties sailing around on big wooden boats, and I'm a little nostalgic. Never was very good at sailing fast, though.<br /><br />Sounds like you are learning some of your boat's idiosyncracies...we used to spend hours changing the rig ever so slightly for maximum performance (on boats that maxed out at 10 knots!) or trying to adjust the sails so the boat steered itself. Anyway, I look forward to more of your captain's log!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com