[quote=mgoltsman]Pete,
Thanks for taking the time to answer my many questions. I have heard of this search feature, of course, but then I would have to do the work instead of making you do it :-) No, really - I have tried the search function of course - both on the site and on the google - but the problem is that I am a real noob and sailing has not bothered to update its terminology since what, 16th century? So it is difficult to weed out the answers to my questions out of something like "sheet your leeward gaff clew to the starboard cleat clevis pin". The most I can figure out of such answers are prepositions and articles, with perhaps an odd pronoun here and there :-(
Search function is the way to go when you are able to comprehend answers, or at least form coherent questions. In my condition, unless the search turns up a comprehensive "how to be a noob" post, the only way to move forward is for someone to take pity on me as you did. So thanks again.
Mike.
P.S. Dismasting the worst thing you can imagine? Bah! You have poor imagination, or else you are an optimist. I expect having to be towed or to row to shore with a mast across your deck would suck, but my nightmare is discovering that the boat is listing because one of the hulls is half-full of water and filling. Can you even rescue a boat in that circumstance?[/quote]
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