-------------------------------- Definitely sounds like Germany :^) I hear it takes a long time to get a driver's license too. It's a very quick process here (maybe too quick! :^) As far as sailing is concerned, the only paper you need over here is cash to buy the boat! BTW, I MUCH more enjoy driving in Europe than here!! RZ> The other hand is that there are anyway lots of people on the water RZ> where you must assume that they have never heard about anything. ---------------------------------- Good plan! I always assume the other guy doesn't know all that he should... and I also assume that I don't always remember everything I should RZ> Ok, since i have seen the first snow today, i'll try again. AH> a) Iso 2s RZ> Isophase (on time = off time), period 2s. AH> b) Al RZ> Alternating (2colors). ------------------------------------ Yes, very good! AH> ca) white with red top, no number RZ> Had not enough red color to paint the whole, forgot the numbers :) AH> cb) white with black top, no number RZ> Had no green color, took black instead :) RZ> Ok, never seen nor heard about them, perhaps they'll be country RZ> specific? ------------------------------ Ha,ha,ha, they are country specific (far as I know) to the U.S. White with red top means "safe water to the South West, and white with green or black top means, "safe water to the North East" RZ> Btw. yours port hand lateral lights are green? Ours are red... is a RZ> little confusing while first time sailing trough. --------------------------- Yes. I think your system makes more sense and there really is no reason that I can think of why it shouldn't be the same everywhere. After all, sailors are international people! :^) It can get a bit confusing in a hairy situation... just like trying to drive in England! :^) I know I said I'd post another quiz but I got caught up doing a few other things. I'll be sailing all weekend, but am expecting snow afterwards! So be patient and it will get posted soon! :^) Cheers, Augustin~~~=== National Yacht Club, Toronto - S2STOR - S2SVCR ... Navigators do it by the light of the stars. * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * --- WM v3.11/93-0359 * Origin: Ship to Shore, Vancouver,BC [604]540-9596 (1:153/7064) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: DFX00000 Date: 11/27/96 From: BOB HIRSCHFELD Time: 10:11am \/To: J CLEVENGER (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Trailerable Boat I own and highly recommend the MacGregor 26 (no longer manufactured, replaced last year by the 26x motorsailer). The Mac 26 is highly trailerable by low-powered vehicles; it sits low on the trailer, has a water ballast so that the total dry trailering weight (boat and trailer) is only 2200 pounds. I towed one over 200 miles behind a 4 cyl Toyota pickup, later a 2.8 liter V6 Chevy Beretta, but mostly behind my 5 liter Mustang Convertible. My '94 Mac26 has a swing keel, which is safer in the shallow, radical-tide-variation, rocky bottom part of the Sea of Cortez where I mostly sail. Earlier Mac26's had dagger-boards, and the earliest had fixed heavy keels (which of course don't apply to my comments aboiut lightweight trailering.) > HJ> Hello everyone... Looking for Ideas on what type of > HJ> boat we should get... It has to meet the folowing > HJ> though.. > HJ> Trailerable, and towable behinde a 6cyl Toyata > HJ> 4runner. (We can put on electric brakes if the > HJ> need arises). > HJ> Preferable with a keel, and fairly easy to sail (we > I just saw a book about this in the local public library, called > "Trailerable Sailboats" or something like that, which went into detail > about what specifically to look for, what featurs are good, and which are > bad, that sort of thing. Remind me, and I will look up the exact title > and author for you. After looking through that book, I don't think I'd > want to go shopping for a sailboat without it. > --- Maximus 2.02 > * Origin: Outdoor Focus - University Place, WA (206)565-7730 (1:138/123) --- DB 1.58/004910 * Origin: The Sea and the Desert (1:114/74.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: DFX00001 Date: 11/23/96 From: AUGUSTIN HENRIQUES Time: 06:20pm \/To: JACKSON HARDING (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Quiz Season's Greetings Jackson, AH> ii) GP FL(3) 12s 34Feet 13M (U) JH> Group of three flashes repeated over a 12 second interval. The light is JH> 34 feet above sea level and has a nominal range of 13 nautical miles. ------------------------- I'd like to get this straight. Does the 12s mean 12 secs of darkness after the flashes, or does it mean groups of three flashes repeating for a 12 sec duration? BTW, you forgot the (U) which means "unwatched" :^) Cheers, Augustin~~~=== National Yacht Club, Toronto - S2STOR - S2SVCR ... If it walks out of your ice box, let it go. * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * --- WM v3.11/93-0359 * Origin: Ship to Shore, Vancouver,BC [604]540-9596 (1:153/7064) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: DFX00002 Date: 11/23/96 From: AUGUSTIN HENRIQUES Time: 06:23pm \/To: JACKSON HARDING (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Quiz Season's Greetings Jackson, AH> b) Al JH> Now, I must confess you've got me. ----------------------- He,he,he, Alternating. Meaning a marker with two different colours :^) Not quite sure where this would be found though. Cheers, Augustin~~~=== National Yacht Club, Toronto - S2STOR - S2SVCR ... Yeah, but what's the speed of dark? * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * --- WM v3.11/93-0359 * Origin: Ship to Shore, Vancouver,BC [604]540-9596 (1:153/7064)