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Looks great! Don't forget to add the ever important disclaimer "not for navigational use" to keep your butt safe from the lawyers.

Feb 18, 2008 3:41 pm EST in discussion New Feature, would like your feedback.

Chris and Liza-One of the funniest things about this thread and the talk of wanting the peace and serenity, smashing through the water engine fumes making you ill is the fact that I have worked on boats all over the world and except for the Chicago area, Annapolis area and I will even throw in the San Fransisco bay area, 90% of ALL sailboats I have seen have been under power. Heck I have even seen them bitch about the stinkpots as they motored along with the sailcover rotting. I listened and have seen them moaning about the rough weather on lake Ontario in a group of four boats heading downwind rocking to and fro with no sails up becouse they were too stupid to realize their sails were what would steady them. Or the times we gave fuel to a sailboater in the middle of an Atlantic crossing becouse that free wind was nowhere to be seen and he had used up all that stinking fuel he brought. This weekend warrior talk(kinda like the lawyer riding his Harley on the weekend pretending to be a bad boy)is amazing, when you remove any engine from your "sailboat" and sail it away from the dock and back again, then and only then you have the right to talk about your free air sailboat and the stinkpots. And until then learn the rules of the road, I do not know how many times over the years I have had sailboats think they have the right of way over anything out there, as they chug along on their little engine. The sailboat loses its status as soon as the engine is on, even if the engine is not engaged and he has sails up, it is then considered a power boat. One more rant for Ken Hampton, your talk of take away his gps and give him a sextant, do you even know how to use a sextant. Do you realize that on anything like a small yacht or sailboat that even on the best of days, the best that you could hope for is to get your position within 30 miles of your actual location. A large ship could get a more accurate site, but that is a stable platform standing 80 ft above the water. Your best bet to take away the gps and give them a sextant is an airplane. Sorry to bring reality(mine at least) to this forum, but the comments were starting to grate on me.

Jan 17, 2008 7:33 am EST in discussion POWER -vs- SAIL .....

Capt. Don you mean a tiller don't you.LOL

Jan 16, 2008 3:00 pm EST in discussion POWER -vs- SAIL .....

Power or sail? Easy ,when I go from point A to point B I do not like visiting points C,D,E,F, and friggin G. What took me 14 hrs once, took a sailboat 28 hrs to complete and we left the same place, same time. I also traveled at 8 knots for far too long growing up commercial fishing and that is just too slooooow for me.

Jan 14, 2008 6:38 pm EST in discussion POWER -vs- SAIL .....

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