Dueling Barstools » Sailing http://duelingbarstools.com Brains, Heart, and Balls, for Individual Freedom. Tue, 22 May 2012 00:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Only a Sailor Knows the Feeling http://duelingbarstools.com/2010/02/only-a-sailor-knows-the-feeling/ http://duelingbarstools.com/2010/02/only-a-sailor-knows-the-feeling/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:51:47 +0000 divinryan http://duelingbarstools.com/?p=196 Fast is doing thirty six (36) knots in a sailboat. Granted, it’s the Alinghi 5, but 36 knots is still fast. As in “I hear he’s real fast, Johnny” fast.

Good read here about the upcoming America’s Cup duel between BMW Oracle and the Alinghi 5. I particularly enjoyed this bit:

The crew has also become accustomed to Alinghi’s speed. Mr. Butterworth described a recent day when a sailor who had never been on the boat came along [on the Alinghi 5].

“He’s sitting on the back and we’re doing 36 knots,” he recalled. The man uttered a curse, Mr. Butterworth added, “and he says, ‘Is this right?’

“We said yeah, this is normal now.”

Love of the sea truly is a strange and unaccountable emotion. Sailboat porn below.

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