[Fred Douglass]

Actually, being a protohomonid, I usually knuckle-walk around Olde Cappe Codde well into January in shorts, polo shirt and an LL Beano chamois shirt (when it dips below 40F).

Me boat's never hit 20, but it's hit 18kts (just prior to a kidney-wrenching spin-out and knock-down)-----the latter being really good at stripping lard off your arteries and heart-valves, ar-ar-ar! Being a Bob Evelyn designed "Pointin' 29" it's hysterical in many ways....Rod Johnstone stole its design for the J-30, but mine's the real deal. 28.5 loa, 12.5 beam (!!), Airex-cored hull, 44' stick, 8,000 lbs. disp., 44% lead (ballast ratio) and 2010 sq. ft. spinnaker (see reference to broaching, above)! ar-ar-ar.

If you DO indeed need crew, put me on your list. Althouogh I've lost c. 60 lbs. I can still scare mere humans off the sidewalk---I'll be in charge of crew "recruitment" and morale (former weapons officer in OUR Navy [although my former XO sometimes wondered])---Moikie will be in charge of shoulder-fired ordnance....

Chow,