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NancyBrooke
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 Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:17 am Post subject: Got Sailing Expertise? |
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Any big sailor's out there? I have a little experience - I always imagine that if the captian get's smacked by the boom I could manage to get to shore but that's about my limit.
But I have a little question I need to ask about wind direction and course plotting for a story.
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Andreth
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:43 am Post subject: |
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Hey Nancy,
My husband says, what do you want to know? He's ex-Navy, and we live out on a lake and use our boats pretty often. He thinks he can help you here.
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:10 am Post subject: |
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Same with mine. Rob, what do you know, on top of being the programmer guy, is a sailor... 
do.
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for offering up help from your spouses! 
I'm writing a fic about, in part, the end of Adrahil's reign and I had this romantic notion he might sail off into the sunset, sort of. The phrase that I have floating about my head is something like:
"He was last seen piloting his boat heading southwest on a broad reach, racing the ____ wind to the open sea." (though that may be too much even for me).
See, I know enough to toss around terms like "broad reach" but not what direction the wind would be coming from if you were heading south east on a broad reach out of Dol Amroth.
Five years of Shore School down the drain. At least I can tie a good bowline (and spell it, too).
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Andreth
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Nancy,
Here's the verdict - if you're heading southwest (or southeast) on a broad reach the wind would be blowing from the north. But it wouldn't hurt to have Do check with Mr. Rob just to be sure. And my husband says being able to tie a bowline is an important thing because it's a knot you can always use. Of course, I can't tie a bowline to save my life, so now I'm going to have to listen to him give me grief me about THAT again.  Let me know if you need anything else.
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Robbie
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I concur, the wind is from the north.
Bowline - that's the rabbit coming out the hole, round the tree and back down the hole. Tadaaaa
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NancyBrooke
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That, a square knot, a hitch or two and friends with good answers will get you out of a lot of jams.
Thanks, all.
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