[Rhodes22-list] Re: Salt Water Sailing

[stan]

just to get technical for a moment - no one can sail around the Statue of 
Liberty in a sailboat - no matter what the weather.-

stan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico at earthlink.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Salt Water Sailing


> Richard,
>
> Wow, do you think if those relatively benign conditions were too much for 
> those folks, that it would have been possible to make sailors of them??
>
> We have never spent time in salt water yet. We have though, beat all day 
> long in 15 to 20 knot breezes against a 3 to 4 foot wind driven chop, both 
> in our R22 and now in our Flicka. This to make the trip from the bridge 
> across KY Lake, back up to Light House Landing marina, which is about 20 
> miles. Fetch with that wind direction was also about 20 miles, against the 
> current. We actually found this quite exhilarating, but also pretty 
> tiring. NOT particularly scary though.
>
> But, all this makes me curious: Would the conditions you described on this 
> trip around the Statue of Liberty somehow be tougher or worse than the 
> conditions I just described?
>
> Rik Sandberg
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