Comments on: I’d Give Myself a B+ on This Test https://www.uksailmakers.com/2025/08/09/tested-by-the-wind-gods/ Sail with Confidence! Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Greg Beihl https://www.uksailmakers.com/2025/08/09/tested-by-the-wind-gods/#comment-1010 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:26:45 +0000 https://www.uksailmakers.com/?p=12773#comment-1010 In reply to Adam Loory.

Say hi to her for me. I talk with Brian Nickerson and Mark Ketelson frequently, her old shipmates. Good luck!

]]> By: Adam Loory https://www.uksailmakers.com/2025/08/09/tested-by-the-wind-gods/#comment-1009 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:15:13 +0000 https://www.uksailmakers.com/?p=12773#comment-1009 The trip is a hoot. For the last two weeks I have been sailing in Newfoundland with another Winnetka Thistle sailor, Keven Drummond.

]]> By: Greg Beihl https://www.uksailmakers.com/2025/08/09/tested-by-the-wind-gods/#comment-1008 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:50:01 +0000 https://www.uksailmakers.com/?p=12773#comment-1008 Go Adam go! Looking forward to your progress. You are a braver man than me!

]]> By: 'B J'. https://www.uksailmakers.com/2025/08/09/tested-by-the-wind-gods/#comment-1007 Sun, 10 Aug 2025 21:18:36 +0000 https://www.uksailmakers.com/?p=12773#comment-1007 Well done U are a ‘real sailor’. U’re story helps motivate me. I’ve got 300? pages of my own, 58 year, 12 main boat, Sailing Stories, c/w much editing yet to do. ‘B J’.

]]> By: Bill https://www.uksailmakers.com/2025/08/09/tested-by-the-wind-gods/#comment-1006 Sun, 10 Aug 2025 09:48:26 +0000 https://www.uksailmakers.com/?p=12773#comment-1006 I’d have retained the jib/genoa rather than the main as it is easier to drop on any point of sail and can be more quickly depowered.

]]> By: Roger Widmann https://www.uksailmakers.com/2025/08/09/tested-by-the-wind-gods/#comment-1005 Sat, 09 Aug 2025 20:19:49 +0000 https://www.uksailmakers.com/?p=12773#comment-1005 Outstanding, Adam! Really, a good test that you passed.

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