Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA29992; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:53:59 -0700 Return-Path: <Bill.Lide@ncal.kaiperm.org-DeleteThis> Received: from vanna.kaiperm.org by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA111495740; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:49:11 -0700 Message-Id: <199504251849.AA111495740@hplms26.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill.Lide@ncal.kaiperm.org-DeleteThis Subject: Re: Maytag hints In-Reply-To: The letter of Monday, 24 April 1995 7:48pm PT To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
>>lots of good input from Ben but one of the most important: keep your mast
>>pointed out to sea...NEVER towards the beach..unless you wnat to SNAP IT...
I've had the experience of snapping a mast in small Atlantic surf when a wave
broke on the sail while I was holding the clew, out to sea. The mast did not
dig into the sand. It seems that a breaking wave stresses the mast more
when the clew is outward than when the clew is floating free and pointing
toward shore.
Bill
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