> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Duke [mailto:tduke@rockbridge.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:13
> To: Steve Merchant
> Subject: RE: [WWP] Maiden Voyage
>
>
> Steve and Deanna,
>
> Been there done that! This boat was made for the inexperienced.
> Glad you like it. This should reassure anyone who is considering a
> P19 that it is very stable.
>
> Ted Duke, Fairfield, Virginia
> 1990 WWP-19 #626 "The Duchess"
> (short mast-long boom)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Merchant [mailto:stevenL652@netscape.net]
> > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 23:37
> > To: WWPotter@egroups.com
> > Subject: [WWP] Maiden Voyage
> >
> snip
>
>
> >> Great time for about 20 minutes, then dead calm. Should have had a
> > premonition. Without any warning the wind is 30 knots and the
> boat is on its
> > side. Boat is smarter than we are and by itself bears up nicely
> into the wind.
> > Wife grabs her life vest and starts to wriggle into it. Wind
> catches the boat
> > and we are again staring between our toes at the water. Wife is now in the
> > life vest. Boat bears up nicely into the wind. The wind seems to gust even
> > more and for the third time we are on our beam-ends. Wife reports that her
> > life just flashed before her eyes. The boat bears up nicely into
> the wind by
> > itself.
>
> snip
>
> > Steve and Deanna Merchant
> > WWP 19 #824 "Winter's Dream"
> >
>
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