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GregOnC25
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Initially Posted - 08/09/2004 :  22:48:26  Show Profile
I bought a new clinometer to replace the broken one, but havent had time to install it yet. However, I found that my 13 year-old daughter Emily has a fairly reproducible and uncontrollable response when heel of the boat exceeds ~15 degrees. I heard "whoa Daddy whoa" alot this weekend as we zipped along in 12-15 knot winds (gusts to ~20) on Barnegat Bay. My first season with my C25 is turning out to be wonderful. What a great boat (and a great forum for good advice)! Who's your clinometer?
GregOnC25
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 08/10/2004 :  08:44:56  Show Profile
My heeling alarm starts out like..." Don, Don, we're heeling!" then, as we heel a bit more turns to, " Don, what the $%#@& are you doing? Even us out!" , and then finally it's just a high pitch scream.

I'm thinking of replacing this heeling alarm with a more traditional inclinometer.
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OJ
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Response Posted - 08/10/2004 :  08:49:52  Show Profile
Once mine hits 25 degrees it just repeats "Stupid, Stupid, Stupid . . . " It even sounds a lot like my wife!
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takokichi
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Response Posted - 08/10/2004 :  09:01:17  Show Profile
My inclinometer is defective - she doesn't think we're sailing unless there's water coming over the coaming. I've tried to explain "flat is fast" but she doesn't get it and hates reefing because its not enough of a workout to grind the headsail when its not fully deployed. Go Figure.
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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 08/10/2004 :  10:20:12  Show Profile
After bouncing around the cabin the first few times we went out now mine is my 5 year old son yelling "HOLD ON!"

CVick
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Ben
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Response Posted - 08/10/2004 :  10:25:00  Show Profile
My inclinometer is the sound of crashing sounds coming from the cabin. I may have to make some minor adjustments (stowing things a bit better).
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atgep
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Response Posted - 08/10/2004 :  12:37:57  Show Profile
I use a visual approach. When the spinnaker goes in the water it is time to drop the spinnaker. This occured during the MUG race this year when my rudder imputs to the death roll were a little off!

When traveling upwind, If the kids Stop saying "Whoaaaaa" and there eyes get BIG then it is time to reef. I find the silent child much more truthful than the screaming one.
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RichardG
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Response Posted - 08/10/2004 :  13:09:24  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Who's your clinometer?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Horizontally flying canned food projectiles down below.
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sdaly66
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Response Posted - 08/10/2004 :  13:25:26  Show Profile
My 5 year-old son is fearless. My 8 year-old son (with a somewhat more acute sense of mortality) begins with "Daddy, let out the sail!" at about 15 degrees.
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Spain
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Response Posted - 08/10/2004 :  14:06:33  Show Profile
I have a more selective alarm. It only sounds when you attention is on something else, say where the Susquahanna and Elk Rivers meet the Chesapeake Bay, and you are trying to stay out of the channel while watching a tug and tow headed up the Bay toward you and a Cargo Vessel that has just exited the C&D Canal bearing down on you from the north. I hear "Oh, Oh , Oh" and my reply is "Whats wrong?" I then hear "We are leaning".
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coach
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Response Posted - 08/10/2004 :  16:34:49  Show Profile


My five year old just looks at me and laughs. She loves the healing when she is down below. The most I have healed with her is 25 degrees.
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megrier
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Response Posted - 08/11/2004 :  17:40:18  Show Profile
I know I've gone to far when the porta-potty tips over!

Last weekend I got caught in a gust and had the rail in the water for the first and hopefully last time. It was quite interesting standing on the side of the cockpit wall/seat and looking down at the water wondering when the thing would round up!

Greg
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GregOnC25
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Response Posted - 08/11/2004 :  23:58:02  Show Profile
I thought we might have some fun with this one! Aside from improving upon my nautical terms ("inclinometer"), I learned that the rail can go in the water without capsizing. I guess there is some comfort in that, so I will keep pushing my human inclinometer beyond 15 degrees.
Thanks to all for the amusing replies!
Greg
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