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 Index | HEADLINE: Precision Sailboat saves hundreds of homes and millions of dollars!It couldn't be a coincidence that on 7/4/98 , the same day we purchased our P165, the drought breaking rains finally arrived in central Florida. Florida was in the midst of 5 months of drought, and there were huge uncontrolled brush fires in several central Florida counties. Well, the rains finally came, the fires were put out and evacuation orders were lifted.If I had known the critical part this purchase would play, we would have certainly bought the boat sooner. As it was, we had several rainy days to get the boat setup properly for sailing. |
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After much discussion we christened her the "Mai B 1" . This is
of course short for "Messing About In Boats", an important and
relevant speech given by Ratty in Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows"
"There is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not." |
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Since the weather had turned rainy, I had time to make some much needed
modifications to make the boat more efficient. Keeping in mind the basic engineering maxims:
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