Irish Sailings - Let's Get Quizzical - Week 9 - What's your sailing personality ?

When I’m not sailing I like to …

Garden

What do you mean not sailing?

Prepare gourmet meals in the galley

Like man you don’t want to know

To improve downwind performance while under spinnaker I …

Pull on the sheet

Tension the fraculator

Unplug the blender

Grab a paddle

My ideal shopping trip involves ...

London boat show

The local chandlery's performance section

Nearest upmarket shopping centre

Nearest vape shop

The ideal boat is ...

Cruiser racer

Something lean and fast with lots of strings to pull and no wimpy lifelines

Something with a queen-size master berth an electric head and a blender

Anything as long as it floats and gives good vibes man

My favorite sailing destination is ...

West Cork

J24 Nationals

The balearic islands

Hey any trip is a good trip

My favorite movie is ...

Splash

Master and Commander: the far side of the world

Titanic

Captain Ron

When something breaks I ...

Break out the welding rig and mix up some fibreglass

Call Danny

Make an appointment with the boatyard master

Live with it man

The ideal pet is ...

A small dog

A herd of cats

A bichon frisé

A pink elephant

My favorite television show is ...

Hee haw

Clipper yacht racing

Globe trekker (on the on-board 42-inch plasma screen)

Gilligan’s island

My favorite breakfast is ...

A good fry up

Bacon Butty

Eggs Benedict

Whatever life passes my way man

A bad day is when ...

Some newcomer beats me in a race

Anyone beats me in a race

There is a voltage drop in the main refrigeration circuit

It isn’t the day that’s bad; it’s a disturbance in the flow

A sailing club dinner

Is an opportunity to talk shop

Is time not spent sailing

Probably bulk cooking, not sure of the standard

Is an opportunity to get someone else to pay for dinner

Demasting is ...

A damned inconvenience especially if I don’t have all the right parts on hand

An opportunity to get a new high-performance mast

An excuse to lay up in a fancy port

Dis mast is de big stick on my boat

My favorite music is ...

A collectionn of sea shanties

Sinatra

Rachmaninoff

Rasta

“head up” means ...

Push the tiller away from the helmsperson

Move the tiller toward the boom

There’s a new keg on the tap

The lake is down so it’s a long hike to the bar and bathroom

My favorite book is ...

My sailing photolbums

Sailboat tuning guides

Ferenc maté’s classic yachts

The whole earth catalog

“starboard tack” means ...

The boat is going left

The boom is on the left side of the boat

The blender is in the galley on the left

Don’t walk barefoot on the deck

A vegetarian ...

Is someone who doesn’t eat meat

Can follow an acceptable training diet if the proper supplements are added

Can be a pain to cook for

Is saving the planet

Wherever I go ...

I bring a mobile workshop

I cover the fleet behind me

I bring my platinum card

Like there I am

The best After Sailing drink is..

Box of Wine

Beer

Gin & Tonic

Grog!!