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[zie_verse]

So, I'm still alive. For those of you who were in doubt. I'm back in Saugerties with the Clearwater. I really like the guys I'm working with right now. Shame is, most of them will be gone by the end of the month. But we'll be getting new people to replace them that will, no doubt, be just as awesome in different ways. No complaining here

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[quirk341]

Tell me what a ballantine is! I wanna know! *sits cross-legged on carpet*

[zie_verse]

So. The line that's attached to the top of the sail is called a halyard. To get the sail up, you have to pull on this line a lot. To get the sail back down, you feed that line out gradually but swiftly. To avoid the halyard fetching up (or getting tangled) you loose coil it after raising the sail (loose coil being your basic round coil). You THEN start at the bitter end, where there's usually a knot or something, and recoil the line with one big circle and then three small, overlapping circles. It looks vaguely like a Venn Diagram with three circles. The overlapping keeps each circle on it's own level so it can't wrap itself around another layer. It's a pretty cool idea.

If you can, you should CONSIDER taking a week and coming sailing with me. It should be Sat to Sat anytime from April 15th to July 28th. Let me know. You'd get to go sailing all week and teach little kids. And hang out with your coolest cousin. Dude. Ballantining is far from the coolest thing you'd learn.

[quirk341]

all I had time to read at the moment was the last paragraph, and I'm sold. I'll find a week to do it.

Pirate life, here I come!

[zie_verse]

Awesome. The website is Clearwater.org. There's a pretty simple application. Let me know when you can come and I'll talk to the powers that be about it. *bounces*