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Listing ID: 221
Title: Proper Course
Description: Blog of a grandfather who sails a Laser, and his endless quest to become a better sailor.
Category: Recreation : Hobbies
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listed on: April 20, 2008 10:55:07 PM
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| Dork - 2010-07-30 07:00:00 |
| Esteemed bloggerO Dockerhas decreed that this week is Dork Week. I was a bit confused when I wrote yesterday's post. I thought the blogmaster saidDirkWeek. Oops. Maybe I can make amends with this post and write about dorks instead. So what is a dork? According to Wikipedia (which is never wrong) dork is "USA pejorative slang for a quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends. Often confused with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence." Hmmm. Well, O Docker did make a good attempt at portraying himself as a dork in hisMore Dorkstory. Some nonsense about sailing around in circles while playing with the backlight button on his GPS. Quirky? Yes. Silly? Yes. Stupid? Indubitably. But O Docker is not a dork. He is one of the cool kids.More Dorkis clearly pure fiction and I, for one, don't believe a word of it. Sadly, in our superficial society, we are quick to label people based on their appearance. If someone's clothes indicate that they are "out of touch with contemporary trends" they may be called a dork. And in sailing it seems that fashions change as quickly as in any other walk of life. You can often spot a sailing dork by his headgear. There are a lot of dorks in Laser frostbite sailing. Fleece-lined caps. Hats with earmuffs. Peruvian llama herder hats. Very dorky. I probably look pretty dorky myself in my knitted blue and red ski hat with snowflake patterns on it. But, according to the Google, the champion #1 sailing dork, first on the list of 727,000 results for a search on "sailing dork" is....   |
| Dirk - 2010-07-29 09:52:00 |
 On 26 October 1616 Captain Dirk Hartog set foot on what is now known as Dirk Hartog Island, just North of Shark Bay in Western Australia. It was the second recorded landing of a European on Australian soil, and the first on the west coast of Australia. Hartogh's ship was the Eendracht, a 200 tonne vessel with 32 guns and a crew of 200, and it was on the way to the East Indies from the Netherlands. He recorded his position, now called "Cape Inscription", and left a pewter plate nailed to a post standing upright in a rock cleft on top of the cliff, inscribed with the details of the date, ship and crew. That plate, now held in the Rijksmuseurn in Amsterdam, is the oldest known written record of a European landing in Australia - Australia’s first known piece of writing. The plate was found 81 years later by another Dutch mariner Willem de Vlamingh.  |
| Moth Sailors Are Bad People - 2010-07-28 10:06:00 |
 I used to like Moth sailors. Certainly I respected those amazing sailors in the International Moth Class flying around on their foils. And those dudes that sail Classic Moths seemed like a pretty cool bunch too. But no more. I have discovered their dreadful, dark, evil secret. Thanks to Earwigoagin's exposé atFrankenboatthe truth is out... Moth sailors have been sawing up Laser hulls and turning them into Moths!!! Ouch. This is sooooooooo wrong!  |