Fwd: cabin top handrails

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Gee Larry, lighten up! Sounds like you could use a day out sailing!

Nobody ever said the British don't think a little differently. They don't
even speak the same English! But, let's not alienate those poor folks who
have to live under a monarchy. I mean, when was the last time the Queen was
caught in a hallway at Buckingham Palace doin' a little hootchy-coo with one
of the staff?

Bruce's contributions have always been entertaining and enlightening. Let's
not start another solarfry thing here. Please!

Thanks,
Geoff
No. Lake Tahoe, NV

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Subject: Re: cabin top handrails
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Bruce Longstaff
Uxbridge GB Wrote:

>Eric Johnson was writing about re-location cabin top handrails.
>
>May I throw in a thought?
>
>With the general tippiness of any light boat it is a good idea when going
>forward to keep one's weight close to the centreline. Thus, from the
>stability point of view a hand hold should be on that centre line, forcin=
g
one
>to lean towards the middle of the boat.
>
>Subject then to the location and the track of the moving cabin sliding
hatch,
>the best place for a handhold would be behind the mast step, on the centr=
e
of
>the cabin top. There may be room for more than one, in line. Another go=
od
>place for a hand hold would be on the outer (cockpit) side of the after
cabin
>bulkhead, horizontally like a towel rail. Useful spot for keeping sail
ties
>and other short pieces of line.
>

Hey Brucy boy, once again you have shown how out of touch you are with th=
e
Pottering scene in America you are. The original post was about the large=
r
Potter. The HMS-18 / P-19 is a verrrrry stable boat. Unlike your tippy,
tiny, UK Potters, the bigger (made in America) Potter can handle one goin=
g
forward outside (did he say outside?) Yes, I repeat OUTSIDE of the side
stays! I'm not a small fellow, but I can (and have on occasion when showi=
ng
my boat) stand on the rail, grab the stay and lean outboard. How about
trying that on your Potter? I would pay to watch you do it.

Now, before all of you P-15 owners get in an uproar, please let me explain
where I am coming from in this tirade. Bruce has (ever sense he signed up
to this list) ragged on the American boats, the P-19 in particular. He ha=
s
repeatedly implied that the American boats are inferior to the UK ones, an=
d
has even stated that we have no right to call our little ships, West Wight
Potters (even though we (IM) own that right . Bruce has even stated that
the larger Potter is much less a boat then the smaller UK version, and has
implied that it shouldn't even placed in the same category as the smaller
one. I have owned, and sailed both Potters (I know he can't make that
claim) and can say that even if they aren't sisters, they are at least fro=
m
the same family, boxy little boats that are: easy to launch, easy (and
forgiving) to sail, can carry a ton of junk in their dry cabin, and anothe=
r
ton in their dry cockpit. and are just fun to be out on the water on. If
that doesn't make them cousins, I don't know what would.

P.S. I also have to say that it bugs me when he refers to us as " the
former colonies". I don't remember when California was a colony of GB,
unless he is talking about the time that a British pirate, Drake, hauled o=
ut
on our northern coast to repair his leaking (even back then (just like my =
MG
today) British products leaked) boat before pulling his tail between his
legs and running west to escape the Spanish.

Larry
P-19 #817
NorCal

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