Trust me Birdface... club boats aren't perfectly maintained... they're maintained, but it is often good enough maintenance, rather than perfect. On one club boat I went out on a few years ago, prior to buying my boat, the mainsail
shackle was to short for the headboard on some of the sails, so it was a bit of a gamble on this particular boat whether the main you grabbed was actually going to fit. One sail, I had to fix it by notching the headboard slightly to fit.
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Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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