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John Russell
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Initially Posted - 04/22/2007 :  11:38:48  Show Profile
I might have something on my boat that none of you have. A "windy thingy" You know, that thing at the top of the mast that points in the direction of the wind. It doesn't have a "spinny thingy" however. So, I don't know how fast the wind is actually blowing.

Anybody else have interesting thing(y)s on their boats?

One of us has a few things yet to learn.
John Russell
1999 C250 SR/WK #410
Bay Village, Ohio
Sailing Lake Erie
Don't Postpone Joy!
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bear
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Response Posted - 04/22/2007 :  15:03:03  Show Profile
That's probably a "Windex" John.
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 04/22/2007 :  18:54:41  Show Profile
Ya think????

Just to be clear, it was the Admiral that christened the Windex and the Anemometer.
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Andy_334
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Response Posted - 04/22/2007 :  19:28:50  Show Profile
and there was I thinking they were called chicken feet! :-)
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John Mason
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Response Posted - 04/22/2007 :  23:48:53  Show Profile
I have a "windy thingy". The problem is, it never seems to be pointing in the right direction.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 04/23/2007 :  09:22:37  Show Profile
They always point right at the place you want to get to (or they just go around and around)... Thus, my new boat.
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Bill Arden
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Response Posted - 04/23/2007 :  13:13:20  Show Profile
Where I learned, they were called "wind chickens."

Connie, my Admiral, is learning to sail from me (that's her first mistake... Well, maybe her second...). Our first time out on Prana (and the first time she had to take an active role in sailing a boat), I gave her the wheel and told her to keep the boat pointing into the wind so that I could raise the main. Since she had trouble feeling the direction of the wind, I explained that she could simply turn the wheel so that the boat was lined up with the arrow. Then I went to the cabin top to prepare the main.

The next thing I knew, I was clinging to the mast for dear life as the boat motored around in tight circles.

When I regained the cockpit, we had a discussion about how the arrow worked. She had gotten the idea that by turning the wheel, she was controlling which way the arrow pointed - so she kept following the arrow around, trying to get it pointing straight ahead!

The second time out, she did much better. Her teacher learned a few things, too.
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