The Occasional Fishing Thread, Wings of an Angel Edition [Bandersnatch]

Welcome Piscators and Piscatrixes, Nimrods and Nimrettes, and Rough Riders of all genders to the current installment of the occasional fishing and hunting and other wholesome outdoorsness thread, Sailboat Edition.

Sometimes these outdoors threads draw a nice emotional response, but for sheer comment count the most successful have been about something I know nothing about (horses) or which my host and Medici the Dildo knows nothing about (making fire). So tonight we’re talking about sailing, which I know next to nothing about.

What little I do know I learned on one of those. It’s a Dyer Dhow. Single mast, single sail, centerboard. Because of that I can rent a Sunfish at a lake and sail around. I encountered the Dhow here:

That’s a sailing camp in Mystic, Connecticut. One of those ships is the Joseph Conrad and the campers live aboard. There were pinholes in the wall between the boys’ quarters and the girls’ showers, but that’s a story for a different blog.

Now, having exhausted my experience, I know we have some America’s Cup racers and live-aboard enthusiasts here. I’m really counting on you to take up the slack.

At the time of my introduction America’s Cup yachts looked like this. Ted Turner would win the race and then get drunk and fall under the table.

Now they look like this:

While demonstrably a wind-driven watercraft, it doesn’t look like a sailboat to me. Sailboats are pretty. And they have sails.

This thread welcomes rebuttals from people who actually know what they’re talking about.

All wholesome outdoors content is on topic, but it occurs to me that you may also want to talk about sleepaway camp if you did that. The sailing camp was my only experience. One of my sons did sleepaway camp once and didn’t like it. The other looked forward to a month of freedom every year as if he were Papillon.

And with that we move on to the raison d’etre of this here HQ, the comments section. Brickbats, praise, and fish brag pics are welcome at aoshqfish at sign gmail thinphtog

posted by Open Blogger at 07:30 PM

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