Flatboarding: the sailing style

taichiskiing wrote:

ok, your keel points down, and
your sail points up, nevertheless, how does your sailboat turn?

It turns quite well.

Thanks for asking.

//Walt

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 07:51:21 -0800 (PST), taichiskiing
wrote this crap:

Actually, that's what "ultimate" about the flatboarding, it applies/
depicts everything that "slides." Your sailboat goes nowhere but where
the keel points.

That's absurd. The keel points down.

Oop, another partitioned terminologist; ok, your keel points down, and
your sail points up, nevertheless, how does your sailboat turn?


The helmsman controls the rudder.

The Johnnie Depp, (Capt Jack Sparrow), action figure gives us speed
and power.




A mighty Hungarian warrior
The blood of Attila runs through me

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 08:27:40 -0800, "Norm"
wrote this crap:

Oop, another partitioned terminologist; ok, your keel points down, and
your sail points up, nevertheless, how does your sailboat turn?


Its been 34 years since I was in a sailboat, but even I know you don't turn
it by turning the keel.


The keel doesn't even turn. Even Sarah Palin knows that.




A mighty Hungarian warrior
The blood of Attila runs through me

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:37:56 -0500, Walt
wrote this crap:

taichiskiing wrote:

ok, your keel points down, and
your sail points up, nevertheless, how does your sailboat turn?

It turns quite well.

Thanks for asking.

//Walt


It should turn to port and starboard. It helps to have a Johnnie
Depp, (Capt. Jack Sparrow), action figure on board.




A mighty Hungarian warrior
The blood of Attila runs through me

On Dec 9, 10:51*am, taichiskiing
wrote:
On Dec 8, 8:07 am, A mighty Hungarian wrote:

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 07:09:48 -0800 (PST), taichiskiing
wrote this crap:

You are getting weirder every day.

Actually, that's what "ultimate" about the flatboarding, it applies/
depicts everything that "slides." Your sailboat goes nowhere but where
the keel points.

That's absurd. *The keel points down.

Oop, another partitioned terminologist; ok, your keel points down, and
your sail points up, nevertheless, how does your sailboat turn?

Regardless of his facetious answer, your claim that a sailboat goes
where the keel points is wrong 99.99% of the time. Only when you run
the boat dead downwind does a sailboat go where the keel points. At
all other times (except when passing through the eye of the wind when
tacking), the keel points at an *angle* to the direction in which you
are sailing.

Thank you for exposing your ignorance so plainly.

A mighty Hungarian warrior wrote:

It should turn to port and starboard. It helps to have a Johnnie
Depp, (Capt. Jack Sparrow), action figure on board.

I've got a Johnnie Walker action figure on board. Does that count?

//Walt

....and I've got a Margo Adler action figure adorning the top of my
Solstice Tree...

On Dec 9, 9:08*am, A mighty Hungarian wrote:

The keel doesn't even turn. *Even Sarah Palin knows that.

Are you sure?

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:50:42 -0800 (PST), Richard Henry
wrote this crap:

On Dec 9, 9:08*am, A mighty Hungarian wrote:

The keel doesn't even turn. *Even Sarah Palin knows that.

Are you sure?


I'm sure that the keel doesn't turn. Trust me on that.

Strive for success.

Merry Christmas.




A mighty Hungarian warrior
The blood of Attila runs through me

On Dec 9, 9:20 am, alan wrote:
On Dec 9, 10:51 am, taichiskiing
wrote:
On Dec 8, 8:07 am, A mighty Hungarian wrote:
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 07:09:48 -0800 (PST), taichiskiing
wrote this crap:

You are getting weirder every day.

Actually, that's what "ultimate" about the flatboarding, it applies/
depicts everything that "slides." Your sailboat goes nowhere but where
the keel points.

That's absurd. The keel points down.

Oop, another partitioned terminologist; ok, your keel points down, and
your sail points up, nevertheless, how does your sailboat turn?

Regardless of his facetious answer, your claim that a sailboat goes
where the keel points is wrong 99.99% of the time.

What a conceited boring little knowledge.

Only when you run the boat dead downwind does a sailboat
go where the keel points.

Not really, a boat, without its own power, will track straight
following the keel, even in crosswind; i.e. it will track straight at
an angle to the crosswind.

At all other times
(except when passing through the eye of the wind when
tacking), the keel points at an *angle* to the direction
in which you are sailing.

No, under a turning power, the keel points at an angle "tangent" to
the traveling path of the boat, and the proper interpretation/
explanation of the mechanics of the turning is the turning force/
centripetal force turns the keel and the boat follows the keel.


Thank you for exposing your ignorance so plainly.

Your little knowledge doesn't shed the light.


IS

On Dec 10, 9:21*am, taichiskiing
wrote:
On Dec 9, 9:20 am, alan wrote:



On Dec 9, 10:51 am, taichiskiing
wrote:
On Dec 8, 8:07 am, A mighty Hungarian wrote:
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 07:09:48 -0800 (PST), taichiskiing
wrote this crap:

You are getting weirder every day.

Actually, that's what "ultimate" about the flatboarding, it applies/
depicts everything that "slides." Your sailboat goes nowhere but where
the keel points.

That's absurd. *The keel points down.

Oop, another partitioned terminologist; ok, your keel points down, and
your sail points up, nevertheless, how does your sailboat turn?

Regardless of his facetious answer, your claim that a sailboat goes
where the keel points is wrong 99.99% of the time.

What a conceited boring little knowledge.

Only when you run the boat dead downwind does a sailboat
go where the keel points.

Not really, a boat, without its own power, will track straight
following the keel, even in crosswind; i.e. it will track straight at
an angle to the crosswind.

No, actually. It won't. Any book on sailing beyond something for the
absolute beginner will tell you that.


At all other times
(except when passing through the eye of the wind when
tacking), the keel points at an *angle* to the direction
in which you are sailing.

No, under a turning power, the keel points at an angle "tangent" to
the traveling path of the boat, and the proper interpretation/
explanation of the mechanics of the turning is the turning force/
centripetal force turns the keel and the boat follows the keel.

No. It points at an *angle* inward of the tangent to the path of the
boat. If it didn't, there would be no centripetal force and the boat
would turn.




Thank you for exposing your ignorance so plainly.

Your little knowledge doesn't shed the light.

Just to help you out a little, I've been sailing since I was 7 years
old and have competed at the world championship level.

But go right on displaying your ignorance if you prefer.