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2011-03-05 03:38:35 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
heh heh... good rhyming in the southern oceans
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2011-03-10 21:52:56 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
In Honor of Nuptials for UC

There once was a SOLer, UC
Who decided on matrimony
His boat and his life
He now shares with his wife
May they all have the best there can be!

Best Wishes UC!!
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2011-03-10 22:30:13 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
A Follow Up by Dinty:

dinty 22:21: (March 10th)
There was a young bride named Holly
Who too late discovered her folly
For when it was time
He said," my name is UC
And I am a SOL'er
And nothing we say will console her
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2011-03-13 19:05:25 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
There was a sol'er
Known as Mouthanser
A very helpful fella
He and Xrase
published their calc for VMC
-To me!
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2011-03-13 19:29:52 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
On Sailing Low Wind TWA's Around the World

There are times when I think I am hot:
When I think I'm ahead but I'm not.
I'm sailing in gherkins
A Ford or a Perkins
Would really be helping a lot.
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2011-03-15 20:22:16 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
Decisions ... Decisions

For a whole week I pondered: "What's best?"
Whether I should go East or stay West
I reached a conclusion
Perhaps a delusion:
"I can't win in the wake of the rest!"


Late Night/Early Morning Blues

I am struggling to move on ahead
When I really should be in my bed
But SOL is addiction
It's not only fiction:
It's better to lead than be led.

--- Last Edited by Mouthansar at 2011-03-16 00:45:42 ---
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2011-03-16 01:48:44 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
Mouth is our Poet Laureate
No one is better at word-e-at
But if he wants to apply
To the Crown or to I
He's gonna hafta do more-o'-it

--- Last Edited by Rod at 2011-03-16 01:49:59 ---

--- Last Edited by Rod at 2011-03-16 01:57:29 ---
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
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2011-03-16 01:55:27 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
It must be inherited: When my Dad was in school, he was off sick when the class studied Byron's "Childe Harold", so to be prepared, he memorized it all----and on any and all occasions for the rest of his life, when he felt it was called for, he would start out---"Childe Harold to the dark tower came," and continued until we shut him up!
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
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2011-03-16 15:59:16 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
The problem with SOLer's
Is the inadequate polars
Twenty knots in five knot winds
Would please all of their greedy minds
And put them ahead of 'all-of-us'
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
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2011-03-20 02:37:44 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
Mouth #1 to thund'rous applause
No sleep for poets, no time to pause
A fast path he'll steer
And try not to hear
Ever so faintly: the theme song from "Jaws"

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