Who are the real subject matter experts here?

[arbarnhart]

Originally Posted by blt2ski

I seem to recall a sayng about Howard Cosell, anybody remember him? He could talk about something he knew nothing about for 3 hrs, and if HE KNEW something about, for 8 hrs............ or some such ratio.

THat should tell you whom the experts are around here..........NOT!

By the way, I try NOT to think, as I usually pull a brain muscle then!

Marty

Cosell's biography was titled "I Never Played the Game" as one of the biggest criticisms commonly leveled at him was that he talked as a football expert even though he never played a down.

[danjarch]

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[poopdeckpappy]

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[Boasun]

Originally Posted by tdw

and the next thing you know you're a senile member with a drooping flagstaff but that's all in the future , ain't it ?

I'll have you know that my flag staff don't droop.

[Pamlicotraveler]

Originally Posted by sailingdog

Some of the names I'd recommend listening to are:

Sailing dog bit the bait and offered his own "recommended list" The question itself is a non-starter. If you ask a question and people try to help, the forum has accomplished what it is supposed to accomplish.

Disclaimer before I continue: I am not on Sailingdog's recommended list. Most posters on here are helpful but know their limitations. There are a few "cut and pasters" that occasionally try to act like experts when they may not be, but for the most part the advice here is honest and useful.


In the spirit of Jeff Foxworthy...you are an expert if:

• If you have left a dock with a spring line still attached, you are an expert.
  
• If you have run you diesel engine with the raw water intake closed and had to change the impellor before restarting, You are an expert.
  
• If you have attached a staysail halyard to a spinnaker, you are an expert.
  
• If you have sailed at dusk with sunglasses on and commented how quickly it got dark, you are an expert.
  
• If you have accidentally left your engine in gear while talking to friends after docking, you are an expert.
  
• If you have docked your boat at a Yacht Club with your undergarments still being dried on the lifeline, you are an expert.
  

and so on....

[ReverendMike]

Originally Posted by longislandsound

OK, I've been reading for a while, and as a newbie I'd like to know from the other members on the board, who are the real experts here. The ones that sail, and know stuff.

Thanks in advance, just curious. Please give me names, ok?

OK, time for a serious answer: This is the internet! Al Gore didn't install lie detectors in it when he built it! Everyone on here reveals only what they want others to see. Some are quite open and honest, some are lying sacks of S....ugar. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle. The answers are just the answers, sometimes a beginner will cut-and-paste the right answer and sometimes a very experienced sailor will post a wrong answer to be funny. If you go only by experience and take the 'joke' from the expert to be truth, you deserve that long swim back to land! (that sounds familiar... ). Self-reliance is crucial to sailing (or maybe not, who am i to say? ), and you won't get that simply because you believe everything that you are handed from some 'expert'. If you're naive enough to believe that sailingdog has four legs and a tail or that I'm a real reverend, you're probably better off reading a book.

[danjarch]

This is what happens to saildog when he posts bad advice.



So he tries really hard to be right.

[jerryrlitton]

ex·pert /n., v. ˈɛkspɜrt; adj. ˈɛkspɜrt, ɪkˈspɜrt/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[n., v. ek-spurt; adj. ek-spurt, ik-spurt]

Varying degrees of ignorance

[nolatom]

Originally Posted by Pamlicotraveler

Sailing dog bit the bait and offered his own "recommended list" The question itself is a non-starter. If you ask a question and people try to help, the forum has accomplished what it is supposed to accomplish.

Disclaimer before I continue: I am not on Sailingdog's recommended list. Most posters on here are helpful but know their limitations. There are a few "cut and pasters" that occasionally try to act like experts when they may not be, but for the most part the advice here is honest and useful.


In the spirit of Jeff Foxworthy...you are an expert if:

• If you have left a dock with a spring line still attached, you are an expert.
• If you have run you diesel engine with the raw water intake closed and had to change the impellor before restarting, You are an expert.
• If you have attached a staysail halyard to a spinnaker, you are an expert.
• If you have sailed at dusk with sunglasses on and commented how quickly it got dark, you are an expert.
• If you have accidentally left your engine in gear while talking to friends after docking, you are an expert.
• If you have docked your boat at a Yacht Club with your undergarments still being dried on the lifeline, you are an expert.

and so on....

I did #3 just last Saturday, while "teaching" students on a breezy day on a sporty little swing-keel skiff...

Was showing them how to rig up an assymetrical spinny, attached "everything" (I thought) then the wind picked up so I decided to leave the kite lesson for another day. Then, a student pointed out that something was flying out in the breeze--the spinnaker halyard? I'd attached a similar-looking line to the peak of the kite, but it turned out to be the tail end of the tack/bowsprit line, which looked similar..

Eventually I snagged it, and used it as one of my frequent lesson points..."Don't feel bad about making mistakes, it's how you learn...even your instructor can make some doozies..." which I frequently do...

[sailingdog]

Originally Posted by Pamlicotraveler

Sailing dog bit the bait and offered his own "recommended list" The question itself is a non-starter. If you ask a question and people try to help, the forum has accomplished what it is supposed to accomplish.

I mainly named the people who annoy me the most... and you haven't made that list... I should have put Christyleigh on the list... damn hindsight is 20/20.

Originally Posted by christyleigh

Actually... I think the PC name thing should be reversed because Mac's are more of a 'Personal Computer' and the IBM designed personal computers are better adapted to being the Network Workstations that they are. Heck... back in our early network days here at HC those damn Mac's would sometimes crash the network - just by being Mac's ...with their little quirks - not the best network machine.... but, although I have never touched one, argueably the best Personal Computer.
As for us Nauticateers ganging up on you .... not needed.... as many have already pointed out .... if you still need training wheels.........well........ I get to dig harder and deeper as a fellow thick skinned New Englander......

Yup... Macs are far more personal...and much better network machines nowadays, since they're using an OS based on a FreeBSD/Unix core. I have training amas...not training wheels... Cam has training wheels on his new RV.