I’m here for the ducks, man.

Love this. Makes me think of crazy late 60s experimental guitar stuff like Terry Cath. Also makes me think of of misadventures in a tiny Sunfish sailboat. Never even made it out of the harbor….

I’m here for the ducks, man. Love this. Makes me think of crazy late 60s experimental guitar stuff like Terry Cath. Also makes me think of of misadventures in a tiny Sunfish sailboat. Never even made it out of the harbor….

I am transported by your story and I love the duck sounds.

I am transported by your story and I love the duck sounds.

That is what it reminded me of all the people taking sailing lessons in San Diego. There were many mishaps and people doing what we all later said was stupid stuff but when it was you doing it, it didn't seem all that stupid at the time but I remember my late wife was trying to get up to courage to take out a 14 foot Capri and she said I'm just gonna look foolish and at that time somebody is trying to take out a 28 foot boat and put it in reverse and it started going out you know sailboat don't like to go out in reverse, but it started going out and you realize that he left the bow line tied so we went running up to the bowel about that time. People started trying to help him, but running up to let the ball line go then he realize he was going too fast so he went back and he jammed the motor into  forward  and started going in forward but sailboats don't like to go forward when they're going backwards so it gradually gradually started gathering way and he was running up to the bowel about that time the bowel stopped. The bowel line stopped the boat and the motor kicked up and started, and then slammed back down because of the physics of the situation and suddenly the boat started going forward very fast, and people were putting sitting on the dock trying to defend him off, ready to help out in any realize that he didn't have time to keep denial, speeding sailboat from running into the dock unless he went back and took care of the motor so he ran back to stern again and he put the motor into reverse and of course it came right out of the water and people were stopping the boat with their feet helping him get it untied and everything and he's got ready to bring it to stop and go back. They said just stop and he was able to handle the motor and other people helped him on that and so I looked at her and said so can you beat that and she said no I think I'm gonna be fine now but thanks for your comment. It's always fun to be around people in water but when I saw the ducks doing pretty much the same thing yeah this just occurred to me. It was just fun teaching sailing is like HERDING cats and for people on sunfish some of them don't want to get wet. You can't help it.

[quote=Paisleyfrog]I’m here for the ducks, man. Love this. Makes me think of crazy late 60s experimental guitar stuff like Terry Cath. Also makes me think of of misadventures in a tiny Sunfish sailboat. Never even made it out of the harbor….[/quote] That is what it reminded me of all the people taking sailing lessons in San Diego. There were many mishaps and people doing what we all later said was stupid stuff but when it was you doing it, it didn't seem all that stupid at the time but I remember my late wife was trying to get up to courage to take out a 14 foot Capri and she said I'm just gonna look foolish and at that time somebody is trying to take out a 28 foot boat and put it in reverse and it started going out you know sailboat don't like to go out in reverse, but it started going out and you realize that he left the bow line tied so we went running up to the bowel about that time. People started trying to help him, but running up to let the ball line go then he realize he was going too fast so he went back and he jammed the motor into forward and started going in forward but sailboats don't like to go forward when they're going backwards so it gradually gradually started gathering way and he was running up to the bowel about that time the bowel stopped. The bowel line stopped the boat and the motor kicked up and started, and then slammed back down because of the physics of the situation and suddenly the boat started going forward very fast, and people were putting sitting on the dock trying to defend him off, ready to help out in any realize that he didn't have time to keep denial, speeding sailboat from running into the dock unless he went back and took care of the motor so he ran back to stern again and he put the motor into reverse and of course it came right out of the water and people were stopping the boat with their feet helping him get it untied and everything and he's got ready to bring it to stop and go back. They said just stop and he was able to handle the motor and other people helped him on that and so I looked at her and said so can you beat that and she said no I think I'm gonna be fine now but thanks for your comment. It's always fun to be around people in water but when I saw the ducks doing pretty much the same thing yeah this just occurred to me. It was just fun teaching sailing is like HERDING cats and for people on sunfish some of them don't want to get wet. You can't help it.

Thank you I learned that picking technique when I was in junior high school learning to play the guitar and I would spend a lot of time trying different things and trying to get different sounds out of my Guitar. That's one of the ones I've learned. I learned it while I think I was trying to learn to play that percolator song with the made the sound of the coffee dripping, but I'm not sure but I love to make different sounds with it and it's just but the duck sound is in itself. Pretty cool, but thank you very much.

[quote=fetalface]I am transported by your story and I love the duck sounds.[/quote] Thank you I learned that picking technique when I was in junior high school learning to play the guitar and I would spend a lot of time trying different things and trying to get different sounds out of my Guitar. That's one of the ones I've learned. I learned it while I think I was trying to learn to play that percolator song with the made the sound of the coffee dripping, but I'm not sure but I love to make different sounds with it and it's just but the duck sound is in itself. Pretty cool, but thank you very much.

I think you left a stray period in the description
dunno what a regatta is, but the ducks are having a good enough time with it
- Ebrit

I think you left a stray period in the description dunno what a regatta is, but the ducks are having a good enough time with it - Ebrit

Usually a regatta is a race. Of course, anytime to sailboats are on the same body of water. It can become a race.

What happens normally, though it’s that a regatta has become a group of things to do with boats and water sports like boat racing boat handling things like that where people compete one way or the other some in the way that they handled their boat and someone with the way that they wanna race or get in a race. This reminded me of the way that people had to qualify in a boat in San Diego.

One thing that everybody in sailboats has it’s the ability to make really great mistakes and still survive and come out of it looking good. Some people may make a few mistakes to give up, but most of their friends will say don’t give up just keep after it even though you may feel like you will never get it and that you’ve really embarrassed yourself. You will eventually get it and you cannot embarrass yourself anymore than anybody else’s already done.

They’re usually seems to be at least one loudmouth who seems to appear to know everything at least they present themselves so and they yell and scream and go through a loud inhaler and carry on, and it just struck me that here they are ducks, imitating humans without knowing it. It was funny.

As for a stray period, I may have.

[quote=DESLRV]I think you left a stray period in the description dunno what a regatta is, but the ducks are having a good enough time with it - Ebrit[/quote] Usually a regatta is a race. Of course, anytime to sailboats are on the same body of water. It can become a race. What happens normally, though it’s that a regatta has become a group of things to do with boats and water sports like boat racing boat handling things like that where people compete one way or the other some in the way that they handled their boat and someone with the way that they wanna race or get in a race. This reminded me of the way that people had to qualify in a boat in San Diego. One thing that everybody in sailboats has it’s the ability to make really great mistakes and still survive and come out of it looking good. Some people may make a few mistakes to give up, but most of their friends will say don’t give up just keep after it even though you may feel like you will never get it and that you’ve really embarrassed yourself. You will eventually get it and you cannot embarrass yourself anymore than anybody else’s already done. They’re usually seems to be at least one loudmouth who seems to appear to know everything at least they present themselves so and they yell and scream and go through a loud inhaler and carry on, and it just struck me that here they are ducks, imitating humans without knowing it. It was funny. As for a stray period, I may have.

that one loudmouth would've been much better for me than being alone in a glorified tub taking on water in the cold and the damp way back when tho I mean it wasn't a race in San Diego or anything just a cold lake in a cold land at a boating school regardless of whether they were a duck

guess it's just not for me
- E

that one loudmouth would've been much better for me than being alone in a glorified tub taking on water in the cold and the damp way back when tho I mean it wasn't a race in San Diego or anything just a cold lake in a cold land at a boating school regardless of whether they were a duck guess it's just not for me - E

[quote=DESLRV]that one loudmouth would've been much better for me than being alone in a glorified tub taking on water in the cold and the damp way back when tho I mean it wasn't a race in San Diego or anything just a cold lake in a cold land at a boating school regardless of whether they were a duck guess it's just not for me No matter what there's always this one guy that's got the loudmouth. He's got that bull horn out there and he's hollering at somebody and even if he's not mad at him, he sounds mad at him and it scares you know why out of most of these young guys and young girls out there that are just trying to learn to sail in. You know it's fun to watch them but all I just thought it was so interesting that all these ducks were lined up. There's one duck out there that's apparently going through some kind of thing and there's one Doc that's just quacking the heck out of it no matter what Howie turns or does the swimming routine out there it's wrong Apparently he just swims off eventually and gives it up, but he did make several approaches exactly the same and got quacked at each time - E[/quote]