I just have two questions.
1.) We approach the windward mark in my good friend Steve's hot boat, "Tortuga", while he's four minutes behind us on that tank, "Wisdom".. Ooops. Darn, how did that override happen on the winch?
**CRUNCH** we get intimate with the Blossom Rock buoy. Even worse, we get intimate with Barking Spider, Prep J and Jeannette, all at the same time, all with swapped crews and skippers. The gel coat flies... **crunch, crunch, crunch**
What does Steve (or Alan) tell their insurance agents?
If the skipper stays on board, it's no biggie, of course.
I'm sensitive to the insurance issue as mine is (hopefully) going to pay off a large chunk of what it costs to get Wisdom repaired.
2.) Ed has a hot crew. Wheeewwiiiee, they're good! They've been working on Ixxis for years. Alan has the local drunks from the shopping mall who've never been on a sailboat in their lives. They swap crews. They race. Who wins?
(Who cares who wins, for this one, of course...)
What's more likely is that Ed has the red hot crew of seven while Alan has the "only been on the boat once" crew of three. They swap crews for a race. Somehow it doesn't seem fair, if the racing is the point. If just getting experience with other folks on other boats is the point, well, then no problem.
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:56:53 -0700
Steve Hutchinson <Shutchinson@dutragroup.com> wrote:
> Just thinking that if word got out that we play musical
> boats that
> guys looking to crew might think it was cool and sing the
> praises of the
> fleet to thier firends...
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> Steve
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Received on Tue Jul 31 17:50:22 2001