Conference 7.286::sports_91

I have this 12" Schooner that I take into the bathtub with me.  It's really
cool.  Usually, I just let it float, but every once in a while I'll turn
on the showerhead and pretend that a typhoon has blown up, and make all the
little men on board go overboard and drown.....

Sure does beat a rubber duck or f*rting in the tub!

8^)

'Saw

    Christophe Auguin of France, has built up enough of a margin to win the 
    27,000 mile BOC Challenge.  Auguin had trailed fellow Frenchman Alan
    Gautier until the final leg of the around-the-world sailing race.
    
    Auguin's boat, Group Sceta, was 217 miles ahead of Gautier's Generali
    as of noon on Sunday.  Auguin could finish in 120 days, which would
    smash the previous record of 135 days.  
    
    The race started Sept. 15, 1990 in Newport, RI.
    
    I had the pleasure to see AUguin and most of the other racers finish
    their leg in Sydney Harbor last December.  Truley remarkable boats and
    sailers.
    
    One remarkable story was one of the female sailers had her main mast
    ripped down in a storm, yet she still manged to get her boat back to
    Sydney and hang onto 9th place at the time.  I saw her mast sitting on
    the doc next to her boat - the metal was totally twisted and ripped
    apart.
    
    JD

 >   C'mon, 'Saw, tell it like it is.  All those "little men on board that
 >   you throw overboard" during that make believe typhoon in your bathtub
 >   are seamen (without the `a'), right?  :-)
 
Nope.  But they have to be careful of jellyfish (see above, without the "a")
and the GREAT WHALES (who have no heads).

Ay, matey, the Bounding Bathtub can be a very dangerous place......

Actually, for the America's Cup, they've got a new class of boat.

Either they redefined the 12 meter specifications or came up with a whole
new class, I'm not sure which, but the boats are bigger, and believe it or
not much closer to the huge boats that used to participate when the
races first started.....

Should be interesting.  I hope they don't run into any typhoons, jellyfish,
or headless whales 8^)


Sailor_'Saw

    Hawk,
    
    I'm telling ya, the guys Nancy and I saw in Sydney were far from
    Yuppies.  Talked to one of the US guys for a little bit.  Guy looked
    like a marijuana farmer.  He was cleaning his tools off - they were all
    rusted to heck.  Sailing around the world ain't very easy.  They got
    caught in a typhoon at one point.  Pretty scarey stuff.  And these were
    solo endeavors.
    
    JD

Sailing around the world by yourself is tough.

I mean, first off, you wouldn't have SPORTS notes.  Personally, I'd make
it as far as the Race off Long Island and that'd be that.  I'd have to
turn the boat around.

Then, you'd have no one to talk too.  I mean, I'd probably be starting up
conversations with squids and stuff...  I mean, just imagine a Bill Murray
type guy going "Hey Mr Squid...Nice of you to be here tonight...On the
World Sailing ship, yeah, yeah..."

And then sex.  I mean, if you alone, the only sex you're gonna get is
Mr Hand, right?  Right.  I mean, it's a noble venture to go around the world
looking for a woman (and hey, with luck, you'd catch up to a Meg Ryan clone
floating on four steamer trunks), but let's face it, around the world
alone is a LONG time to go without nookie....

Finally, what if like, you ran outta toilet paper?  I mean, you just
can't jump into the lifeboat and find the nearest 7-11, ya know....

Nope, it's a darned tough undertaking....

I'll stick to sailing my boat in the bathtub.....


'Saw

    Gary Jobson is racing in this Cup.  Be interesting to see how he'll
    make out after the long hiatus.  I'm just happy that the litigious
    Kiwi is out, and that the farce with the big cat won't be repeated.
    The Kookaburra vs. America series in '87 was truly great.  I hope
    for a repeat of that quality of racing.  
    
    MrT

Looks like I'll have to go out and pick up a boat now :-)


Quiche Lorraine by the B-52's is a great song
Soccer is a great sport
Water skiing behind a nice boat and then pulling into the harbor for some 
	cocktails is a great way to spend a summer evening.


Metz

When I was in the Bahamas I saw some absolutely BODACIOUS boats.

I could see hangin' out on one of those, cruisin' the Caribbean, watching
the sunset while sucking back a brew or a Goombay Smash....

Oh ya mon, dat would be da life.....

'Saw

    I think this America's Cup stuff is disgusting in the way it's been run
    and haggled over, and pay it little or no attention.  My idea of
    sailing is a Sunfish.
    
    But I did notice that DEC donated a VAX 9000 to MIT to help them design
    this year's American entry into the race.
    
    Dan

    Well it's official: 
    
    French skipper Christophe Auguin sailed Groupe Sceta into Newport,
    R.I., Tuesday, to win the BOC Challenge, a singlehanded sailboat race
    around the world.   
    
    Auguin's record-breaking time - 120 days, 22 hours and 36 minutes -
    surpassed the previous mark in the 27,000-mile race by 15 days.  Auguin
    will get $100,000 in prize money.
    
    JD

    Hey JD, where'd the guy from Minnesota finish?  Last I heard he was
    about 175 miles back.
    
    MrT

    MrT,
    
    Didn't hear.  Not a big sports item...
    
    JD

    I'm looking forward to the America's Cup.  The boats are all new
    designs with about 1/2 the weight of the 12 meters and 40% more
    sail area ..... crew size has increased to , I think, 16.
    
    Last Spring I was hanging out in Portsmouth R.I. one Saturday when
    I noticed this HUGE mast down at the end of a dock.  Turns out to
    be Matador 2 ..... owned by Bill Koch from Dedham, MA. ..... this
    maxi-racer was a prototype for the Cup boats.  What a unit !!  Mast
    of @ 140 feet .... bright red hull ..... during this past maxi racing
    season Matador 2 cleaned up on the world circuit.
    
    The Cup course has been altered to provide several more downwind runs;
    also each boat will have onboard cameras.  They're anticipating a large
    viewership after the Freemantle experience.  Should be quite
    interesting.
    
    
    Greg

    
    I hope you packed your slicker.
    
    Dickstah
    

No Later Than 17:00 today.

Chap

    Gilligan's Island was *NEVER* like this!

    I need a cigarette... 

    > ...I bet Jake is relieved
    
    And, since when has ESP SEX been released?  Or, is Jake just field
    testing it?  :-)
    
    Hawk
    

    
    Stay tuned for the further adventures of "The Sperminator".
    

Dan'l,

My MAIN!

I owe you a beer (or two or three) nexted time you're up here, or I
am down there....


Quite a beautiful story, and much, much different than "The Old Man
and The Sea"....


Again, glad you had a good vacation!


8^)


'Saw

    Hey, wait a second.  Now where the hell am I?  I thought I was in this
    note a few back.  Jeepers!
    
    JD

    Great note, --dan'l.
    
    BTW Mr. Medvid:
    
    Just when did you last live in Pittsburgh???
    
    I took Robbie, my six year old, to soccer(indoor) Saturday, and the
    other team had this little 5 year old, same haircut, same color hair,
    SAME EXACT FACE you got!!!!
    
    Didn't know there were any "atolls" on the Mon or Allegheny Rivers!!
    
    This kid any relation(known or unknown) of yours??
    
    Done any swimming in Monroeville area?????
    
    
    Inquiring minds and all that crap
    
    JaKe
    

    --dan'l definitely in contention for Note Of The Year!!!
    
    You certainly do have a way with words (and tails OOPS, I mean tales)!
    
    willingly(?) stuck in a safe harbor!
    Kev
    

    Sigh...

>    Just when did you last live in Pittsburgh???
>    
>    I took Robbie, my six year old, to soccer(indoor) Saturday, and the
>    other team had this little 5 year old, same haircut, same color hair,
>    SAME EXACT FACE you got!!!!
    
    If he scored, he was probably related.
    
>    Didn't know there were any "atolls" on the Mon or Allegheny Rivers!!
    
    I always did enjoy the Three Rivers Regatta while in Pittsburgh.  The
    Monongahela is Seneca Indian for "River that has banks always falling
    in."  Shortened to 'mon' gives it new meaning if'n you know your Latin
    for certain parts of the anatomy.  But such talk of 'venery' will not
    be tolerated in this topic.  Please stick to boating...I know I will.
    
    	--dan'l

    
    >>I always did enjoy the Three Rivers Regatta while in Pittsburgh.  The
    
    A Truly wonderful event, the Regatta is.  Me and the Mrs. and the
    rugrats go there every year specially for the Formula 1 boat races and
    the beer and food and (me not the wife) to look at the skantilly clad
    wimmen wandering around on a hot August day.
    
    JaKe
    

    
    What was the menage a trois riviers like, dan'l?
    

Well,  Saturday did it for the America's Cup.  America� successfully
defended the Cup, and did it in grand style, winning by 44 seconds.

Buddy Melges, the helmsman on America� added the America's Cup to his
Olympic Gold Medal ('72), and at the age of 62 said that he would NOT
be back in a competing capacity in 1995.

France and Spain have already officially challenged.


I didn't see the race, but wish I had....


'Saw

    
    And the city of San Diego took a bath.  For some reason, there was a
    much reduced interest in this year's Cup.  The mayor actual asked the
    citizens to call their out of town friends and ask them to come and
    visit to watch the Cup.
    
    Brews

>    And the city of San Diego took a bath.  For some reason, there was a
>    much reduced interest in this year's Cup.  The mayor actual asked the
>    citizens to call their out of town friends and ask them to come and
>    visit to watch the Cup.
    

The only thing that bothered me about this Cup was that, with the exception
of Race 5, the seas were so calm.  It would have been much more exciting
had they had the choppy seas so prevalent off Western Australia.

My great-great-great-grandfather was a sea captain, and this sailing stuff
really stirs my blood....

'Saw

PS  I might have missed a "great" there....

    Well, if San Diego expected tons of spectators, they need to get a
    little real.
    
    Yachting is not baseball or football or basketball or things like that. 
    It's not a sport that attracts tons o' spectators.  For one thing, it's
    an ocean sport, and there's a hell of a lot of the USA that ain't near
    the ocean.  Two, it's a very exclusive sports.  Like someone said, if
    you have to ask how much it costs to own a boat like that, you can't
    afford it.  And lots of people who like the water don't even own a
    paddle boat, much less'n a sailin' one.  Three, it's not something you
    can watch with your six pack in the cooler on the beach.  At least not
    with much clarity.  :)   ("See that spot son?  I think that's sail
    boat.  Oops, it's a seagul.  Oh well.")
    
    It's much more fun to watch on ESPN with all the neat computer grafix
    and cameras n stuff.  As much as I like San Diego, I wouldn't go there
    simply to watch a sailboat race.  So if'n the mayor expected lots of
    folks too, no wonder the city took a bath.  Sheesh.
    
    
    kim

    re: .39
    
    Perth did very well when the race was there in 1987, so SD having some
    expectations of tourist is not that far fetched.
    
    Mets in '92
    Go Bruins (at least this round)
    The Crazy Met
    

    	In my opinion sailing without a fifth of Captain Morgan ain't
    really sailing...
    
    				/Don

    
    .41�   	In my opinion sailing without a fifth of Captain Morgan ain't
    .41�    really sailing...
    
    
    	Aye-Aye Mate!
    
    B.A.