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     captain_chaza
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| | Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 04:14 pm: |  
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Introduction Under Construction
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captain_chaza
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| | Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 04:43 pm: |
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Ahoy great crew
Do you think we should change our tactics from medium to short term
As you all know
The Long term we keep onboard as mistakes and to remind us everyday of when we should have /could have cut our losses
Reinforcement is always worth the loss
Lately, Every time the Captain sees a break in the weather the wind seems to fizzle out???
Do we all agree that in these difficult times maybe even small trophies are worth attaining or is it some sort of insult??
Actually ...
Maybe lots of small gains is better than the rarer big win one?????
Who said you have to buy at the bottom and sell at the top ANYWAY?
EGO?? or FOOL??
In the good old days I understood this approach as I could only physically chart 3 shares with 1-2 indicators if I had the time
The funny thing was that I was so far ahead of my time
It was ALL the Fundamentalists against the Chartist
It was so easy!
It was money for jam
No Computers and No IC in those days
(All charts by hand)
I even had a small staff of dental students to help me plot the charts
I admired their attention to detail and they were all mates of my brother the now Dentist
I trusted them to plot the course accurately
I warned them "Otherwise we will sink!"
They did such a fine job we were written up in the "AGE" early 1970's
Naturally you could not survey that many craft so what we tried to do was have our money (investment or bet if you wish) on the right tack
Sometimes only one looked good! etc etc
That's when tactics come in and lots of mistakes were and are still made to this day
TBC
(Message edited by captain_chaza on November 20, 2003)
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captain_chaza
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| | Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 06:06 pm: |
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Ahoy great crew
The problem with a lot of academic toy sailors
is that they only sail naked
They do not even put a T shirt on to lose but get paid to comment on the poems of Virgil and how it influences the seas and global weather conditions
What sort of respect do you give to these guys?
They ware grey or beige suits
We on the Great Ship "Incredulous" are dressed in Navy Blue
We are the real Men of the Sea
I think?
Sorry Sea-Gals
As in Mankind!
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julles
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Username: julles
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| | Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 09:42 pm: |
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Captain regarding post One the answer is Yep! Why carry stowaways?
In response to Post 2.
You are not responsible for the crew nor it's stow-a-ways. Only the Ship!
Still sorting out my T-Shirts ... Julles
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stampy
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| | Friday, November 21, 2003 - 03:01 pm: |
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Ahoy Captain
Having been a short term harbour racer for a few years (I've done ok at it). I've learnt 2 things that you might find of interest. Both relating to time
1/ As a harbour racer your exposed to emotional moves on the day which are frustrating at least but considering your expected returns are needed to keep your course true.
2 and second is the amount of time involved . Golf becomes a thing of the past as you need to be at the wheel from open to close.
In saying that if you truely love to sail it is a very addictive way of spending the day. looking for the small wind shift and change in current is worth a lot. '
You probably aren't risking as much with each race but generally the pay off isn't quite as large either.
Myself Captain I'm trying to have a go at both by splitting my efforts between short term, long term, my day job at a financial firm and being a husband and new father
Regards
Stampy
The cabin boy
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captain_chaza
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| | Friday, November 21, 2003 - 03:56 pm: |
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Ahoy Braveheart
Hope you had a great day
You must be so proud!
I felt it here off the coast of Melbourne
You didn't miss much at sea on the ASX today
As we expected but hoped would not happen the wind fizzled out again
OUCH! OUCH and another OUCH!
We did a few great lowering manoeuvres but as usual
NOT Enough!!!
It seems this skipper is addicted to sailing with too many sheets up!?!
Re your comment on the responsibility of the Captain you are 100% correct
It is always the duty of the 1st officer and his loyal helpful crew to answer and deal with the crew problem
I'll be off to my "Favourite" Scottish Restaurant soon
but as I am so depressed when they ask me
"Do you want chips with that?"
I will answer
"No thanks!! I am not in the mood today"
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julles
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| | Friday, November 21, 2003 - 10:51 pm: |
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I am proud Captain as she looked so beautiful today, a real princess, my little girl all grown up.
Thankyou for feeling it, I cried, laughed, stressed, and empathised with aching feet all in one day.
It will surely never be forgotten! Not with the brown snake that came dashing out of the gardens fearing it's very life with all the noise and movement... !
Gosh, I've never seen anything like it a young lass of 16 or so kept stepping out with her foot trying to catch this Very lively snakes tail, we (the adults) were yelling "Don't touch it!!"
Next thing we know she' got this snake by the tip of it's tail and then she calmly bends down, picks it up, carries it 20 mtr's away and gently places it on the ground.
Incredible, awesome stuff I couldn't help but cheer Bravo'
Not forgotten for that and seeing my daughter look so radiantly beautiful.
Julles 
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elisabeth
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| | Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 04:42 am: |
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Julles, so nice to start this day feeling warm and fuzzy reading about your happy day, such a wonderful memory for you to treasure. All best wishes for you and your daughter as she starts the next big adventure in her life.
Elisabeth
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stan
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| | Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 09:31 am: |
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Ahoy Incredulous
message incoming from the cheer squad [stop]
cold front coming your way [stop]
better secure your brass monkeys or the crew will be chasing them around the deck [stop]
are brass monkeys the capn's responsibility or the first officers crew problem [stop]
message attached:
WHERE DO BRASS MONKEYS COME FROM…?
In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons. Those cannon fired round iron cannon balls. It was
necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck?
The best storage method devised was a square based pyramid with one ball on top, resting on four resting on nine which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon.
There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate
called a "Monkey" with 16 round indentations.
But if this plate was made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to make "Brass Monkeys."
Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey.
Thus, it was quite literally,
"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!"
(And all this time, you thought that was an improper expression, didn't you?)
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