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Steven Fesler
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Initially Posted - 06/25/2004 :  17:35:24  Show Profile
This is the most fun I'm aloud to have when my wife has her eyes open.
Steve & Connie on Wazapan #3096
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OJ
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Response Posted - 06/25/2004 :  22:43:10  Show Profile
Hey Steven,

That's some fine looking topography there . . . where do you hail from?
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Steven Fesler
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Response Posted - 06/26/2004 :  01:29:44  Show Profile
This is Banks Lake in Eastern Washington State. All the water in it is pumped up several hundred feet out of Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake which is the lake created by Grand Coulee Dam. The Grand Coulee itself, a geological formation created by glacial action, is what you are seeing here. Engineers in the fourties saw the potential to be able to irrigate millions of acres by filling this formation with water. This idea, along with the promise of the creation of hydroelectric power swayed a reluctant congress to kick in the money for Grand Coulee Dam. Happy sailing!
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oldsalt
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Response Posted - 06/26/2004 :  01:45:11  Show Profile
Nice shot Steven, and you're a dead ringer for my uncle Max who started me out in boating when I was 2 years old.
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 06/27/2004 :  18:24:24  Show Profile
Steven - if you keep holding a spinnaker sheet in your bare hands without a wrap on a winch, I'd respectfully suggest that you wear gloves! Rope burns on the palm are sooo painful !
Derek
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MattL
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Response Posted - 06/30/2004 :  03:21:33  Show Profile
Hey Steven,
We don need no stinking gloves!!!!!!!
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 06/30/2004 :  05:24:13  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
Actually, I'd recommend a turning block on the pulpit and then to the cleat. Wouldn't look as "aargh" but would free up one hand for thyself.......

Oscar
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/30/2004 :  08:11:42  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
If that's a tri-radial spinaker Oscar, I wouldn't recommend cleating it. I would think about a turning block aft on the rail and then forward to a winch.


And Derek - I don't wear no stinking gloves on the 32'
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Steven Fesler
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Response Posted - 06/30/2004 :  16:11:15  Show Profile
You guys are a laugh a minute which is one of the reasons this is such a great forum. The sheet goes through a block behind me then comes forward and you can see in the photo it's wrapped around the cleat. On real windy days, (too damn windy for a spinnacker) I do wuss out and wear some stinking gloves.
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 06/30/2004 :  17:12:23  Show Profile
Duane - I never wore them either on the 50' catamaran - but there's a big "hand" difference 'twixt a 1" diam jib sheet and the 1/4" mainsheet on "TSU"...
Derek
P.S. I use full fingered baseball batting gloves - I don't like fingers poking out.
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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 06/30/2004 :  21:24:21  Show Profile  Visit Ben - FL's Homepage
If you wear gloves, how will you ever build up any calluses?
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 07/01/2004 :  00:19:20  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
Gloves Schmoves.....we've been had!!!!!......Speaking of spinnakers. Found a nice asymmetrical one used (but not too much) for Lady Kay.....fifty feet tall.... wonder if that's big enough to go for a ride under in a bosun's chair....

Oscar
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triley
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Response Posted - 07/02/2004 :  05:05:41  Show Profile
Would think that would be big enough to run you under.

Tom
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