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I'm kinda between hither and yon right now, but if I get settled somewhere,
I will attempt to add a bit more flesh to the incidents alluded to in the
following message I sent Judy. I'm interested that the Potter be given it's
full due in terms of seaworthiness; makes me look a little bit less like a
crazy person!
Regards,
Bill Combs
-- WWP 19 #439 (Aug 1987) "Ursa Minor" Fort Walton Beach FL ttursine@earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~ttursine -- Never test the depth of the water with both feet> on 2/16/00 2:18 AM, Judith Franklin Blumhorst at drjudyb@pacbell.net wrote:
> You haven't ever *really* been in 30 foot breaking waves with your P19, have > you?!?!? I can imagine surviving 50 knots intact on my P19, but I'm not > sure I'd survive breaking waves over the top of my mast.
Absolutely not, and may that hold true henceforth and forever! I have, through bad luck & bad placement, seen 50+ knots on one or two occasions & also never wish to repeat that experience. I was in deep water then and the swells were huge (how huge? who knows?) but not breaking. Fortunately, the wind didn't last all that long either time, so all I saw was the top of a couple blowing off. Because of advanced insanity I was merely apprehensive, not bone-deep scared. Silly me.
I've suffered through 10-12 foot breaking waves a couple of times at the Destin East Pass Inlet here on the Gulf, but that's a whole different thing. More like a cross between body surfing and sailing in a washing machine. Now THAT was scary, but good old Ursa Minor always dealt with my mistakes like a real lady. There's a lot of spare seaworthiness in a P19, a capability to cope with conditions beyond that to which an intelligent, prudent person would subject one. I wish I didn't know that! ;-) --- Regards, Bill Combs <ttursine@earthlink.net> http://home.earthlink.net/~ttursine --- Never test the depth of the water with both feet
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