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4. If you have any doubts about your ability to do a capsize recovery, do one first before you are too far from the shore.
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F.e. read here:edvardta said:...
What's most important when it comes to sailtrimming?
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Much! I know both. Functional underwear, spraytop, hikingplants, sailing boots or sailingslippers, bouyoncy aid, sailingcap, sun glasses (cheap ones, that are attachet by a small line around your neck), sunblocker are the things you want to use in the summer. The wetsuit (under that: Helly Hansen's fleece suit) and the suitable wetsuit hikingpant you wear from late autumn to early spring.edvardta said:...
another question that I was wondering if people could help. The boat came with hiking pants that go over a wetsuit. How much better is it to use the neoprene hiking pants where the enforcement is in the pants itself?
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Much! I know both. Functional underwear, spraytop, hikingplants...
Functional underwear? What's that?
"Functional underwear" is the globalized 1:1 wording now here in Germany for that stuff that a sailor may wear under the wetsuit or drysuit, also. In the past, during the wonderful times at our globe, every nation had an own typical language, we here said: "Sportunterwaesche aus Lycrakunststoffgarn"". But in our times, a lot of original German words here are changed into words that come from the English/American language (f.e. at the railway station: "Kundenschalter" during the past / now: "Infopoint")Tell me more. Functional underwear? What's that? ...
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Is that when you get your panties in a wad?
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I'm not sure Old Geezer. Yesterday, I was in a hurry to leave to go to work. During that time, I wrote that stuff, perhaps a bit to fast with my fat "Laserites-fingers" on the tiny keyboard of my PC. I guess, I did mean this:...
Hiking plants? What are they? Plants that walk? Anyone else read "Day of the Triffids"? ...