tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263863416874538973.post5163828243318740323..comments2024-03-26T06:23:27.120+00:00Comments on Arwen's meanderings: Dinghy cruising Nineteen tips for dinghy cruising on riversstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06932550661580632605noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263863416874538973.post-4824322958287784552019-02-11T16:06:49.641+00:002019-02-11T16:06:49.641+00:00hello Max. How are you doing?
Local knowledge Is e...hello Max. How are you doing?<br />Local knowledge Is everything. You are right. Sadly, I am finding that I cant retain knowledge as well as I used to since retiring.......which is a little worrying I suspect :) <br />of course having the knowledge and then being able to use it efficiently are also two separate things as well!!<br />Still, getting out there and sailing these lovely rivers is what it is about - I am a very lucky manstevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06932550661580632605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263863416874538973.post-6138304453801583012019-02-11T14:01:18.310+00:002019-02-11T14:01:18.310+00:00Great post Steve, having spent years sailing our l...Great post Steve, having spent years sailing our local coastal rivers everything I recongnise everything you say.<br /><br />Years ago we set off for a race down the Beaulieu river on a downwind leg, I couldn't help smiling when one of the boats set a square sail, as we rounded the first bend the wind went 180 degrees and stopped him dead. <br /><br />Local knowledge is everything, I'd been caught out on that corner before although not with a square sail set.<br /><br />Max Bursledon Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14020592383830135476noreply@blogger.com