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When she texts to tell you her parents aren’t home

Posted by foilrider@reddit | sailing | View on Reddit | 62 comments

I’m probably too old for this meme, did I do it right?

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PelagicDreamer@reddit

This is race mode
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PelagicDreamer@reddit

Now the rocket sled
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gemfez@reddit

Weeee
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PigAndJim@reddit

lol. Also, what kind of boat is that? Looks fun.
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Suspicious_Jello_490@reddit

that spinnaker...
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oga_ogbeni@reddit

This is frighteningly fast! How can you you tack or jibe at this speed?
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H-713@reddit

As long as you keep the boat moving fast through the gybe, it's pretty controlled and not too difficult. The problem is when you let the boat slow down, and then you've got 20 knots of wind slamming the main over. That's when you lose it. If you've \*really\* got it down, it's possible to stay up on a plane the whole time.
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KingJellyfishII@reddit

take down the spinnaker, gybe, rehoist
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foilrider@reddit (OP)

No, you leave it up the whole time.
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KingJellyfishII@reddit

well then I don't know, the only times I've sailed with a spinnaker in high winds we dropped before gybing but it could be because I'm no good at sailing...
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paushi@reddit

Wow. They were gliding.
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Miserable-Miser@reddit

Planing.
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paushi@reddit

Doesnt look like a plane
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crispybaconstrip@reddit

I think it was trying but too much weight from all the crew in the cockpit
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paushi@reddit

For me it's rather the missing wings.
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FredIsAThing@reddit

Right? A plane is for smoothing wood, and this doesn't look like wood much at all.
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Glenbard@reddit

I honestly don’t believe I’ve ever seen a sailboat come up on plane in person…
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arr4ws@reddit

Now imagine a melges 24. 😇
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Benthos1122@reddit

Or the 17
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NotSayinItWasAliens@reddit

You: "I know they aren't home. They're in the boat with me."
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gagnatron5000@reddit

Man, the second that genny filled out they screamed into a plane! Where's that pirates of the Caribbean theme song?
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Commercial_Copy2542@reddit

Asymmetrical spinnaker 
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Jabudah@reddit

Genny is a valid abbreviation of gennaker, itself a portmanteau of Genoa spinnaker
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Commercial_Copy2542@reddit

That is tacked to a prod and not cut like a gennaker. Sorry, it's an asymmetrical spinn
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Telekomiker69@reddit

Oh a asym spin is a asym not driven on a fixed pole. It is on a mobing pole. Like the VO 60 or the America's cup boats from 2005.
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Wildgreekpilot@reddit

You knew what he meant, we all do... jebus ya boat snobs. Making this not fun for everyone else.
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Legitimate-Gift-1344@reddit

Boat snobs, just a rung down from Porsche snobs.
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foilrider@reddit (OP)

J/70 class rules refer to it as a gennaker.
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Commercial_Copy2542@reddit

Noted, this video is awesome. Get full of envy considering I race on an IOR boat that just digs a deeper hole and loads up exponentially. 
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port-left-red@reddit

Much of the world (including sail makers, pro sailors) use the term asymmetric and gennaker interchangeably, even if gennaker can technically have a specific meaning.
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Commercial_Copy2542@reddit

That I will concede is geography based, but the angles they are sailing and how the sail is cut...it's a spinnaker 
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gagnatron5000@reddit

Thank you, I'm still pretty new at this.
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typicalheathen666@reddit

All engines ahead flank, come to course 270!!!!!!
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zimirken@reddit

Shoot, reminding me I need to make an engine telegraph.
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hypnotoad23@reddit

Turn right heading 315
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typicalheathen666@reddit

Turn right heading 315 aye, conning officer my rudder is right 15 degrees coming to course 315 checking course 138!
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fusiformgyrus@reddit

Yeah you did alright :)
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richtopia@reddit

I was a little confused when I saw 4 people in the boat - I guess she is making pizza?
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Shot-Scratch3417@reddit

No, she is a boat. And you are a boat. You’re both boats.
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Nephroidofdoom@reddit

Explains the extended bowsprit. Heyoo!!
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Weird1Intrepid@reddit

Do you want a tender? Because this is how you make a tender
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ihaveabaguetteknife@reddit

Oh Sweet Summer Child…
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Ynaught-42@reddit

Wow, what a rush! I'll never forget when our Thistle planed under us - that was a hell of a day!
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ConsciousAccident738@reddit

It must be my age but the "parents aren't home" makes her sound very young. How young are sailboat owners now days? ... stupid me now days no one has money to buy or rent so everyone stays with they parents until inherit parents' house.
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clamdever@reddit

Spin-nak-her?? I hardly know her!
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AliiyCat@reddit

Niceee
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Optimal-Company-4633@reddit

Weeeeee
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scshireman@reddit

She just knows OP has that Big Dock Energy.
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blewisCU@reddit

Giant red flag
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jkalchik99@reddit

Note: I'm 250 lbs. of movable ballast.....or rather, was. Haven't set foot on a deck in 20 years. 30+ years ago, I was on a J-22 in a 30-35 knot wind (IIRC....) with a full spinnaker on a dead downwind run to the finish line (12 starts, something like 120 boats in the fleet.) We were one of the very few boats that didn't take a reef in any of the sails, and sailing 1 man short to boot. The gent who set the finish told me that night that he saw something like 8" of the keel's leading edge visible out of the water. That was one heck of a ride.
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stinkyelbows@reddit

Just MOVIN
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Sweaty_Catch_4275@reddit

Funny )) By subj: j70 - not bad yacht for regattas!
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ItTakesTooMuchTime@reddit

I had a friend who planed a boat like that once. Didn’t believe him. Now I’ve seen it and… wow
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TangoLimaGolf@reddit

Obligatory “The Whomper”.
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AdExciting337@reddit

Hell to the yeah!!!
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Vivid_Atmosphere_566@reddit

Props to cameraman for being able to record this
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The3levated1@reddit

Thats about the amount of speed a Leisure 23 would get by sailing it down a tall waterfall.
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Rockgarden13@reddit

So cute 😍
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40ozSmasher@reddit

Lord, I get scared each time you post.
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Embarrassed_Arm1337@reddit

Damn they are moving
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KoalaOriginal1260@reddit

If it works, it works. I don't think you are ever too old to make up a Trump meme.
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DanielJoseph111@reddit

💙💙💙
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