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If your jib is unfurled for more than four hours, should you see a doctor?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 11, 2010 at 01:53 PM
Do we celebrate this day because Chris C was the last guy to discover America?
Posted by: Olo Baggins of Bywater | October 11, 2010 at 02:12 PM
very good this article
Posted by: anderson | October 11, 2010 at 02:14 PM
Sailing and beer. A classic combination. How could Magellan be wrong?
Posted by: Psycho-Joe | October 11, 2010 at 02:24 PM
Dave, don't let anyone fool you. Jib size DOES matter.
Posted by: Siouxie | October 11, 2010 at 02:27 PM
The Irish discovered America. Columbus
was a showoffhad better marketing.Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 11, 2010 at 02:28 PM
Did Edgar have big jiblets?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 11, 2010 at 02:34 PM
Happy Snooki Day everyone!
Posted by: bonmot | October 11, 2010 at 02:42 PM
They must have been using a left-handed sail (or "spinnaker") on their jib.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | October 11, 2010 at 02:54 PM
Regardless of whether the Israelites, Chinese, Vikings, Irish, or Italians say they "discovered" America, I believe the title should go to the people who were there to meet them.
Posted by: Hammond Rye | October 11, 2010 at 03:06 PM
You mean the squirrels?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 11, 2010 at 03:12 PM
Or the roaches.
Posted by: Siouxie | October 11, 2010 at 03:16 PM
Think about how many
insanely stupidbrave voyages would not have been made without the assistance of alcohol.Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 11, 2010 at 03:20 PM
Searching for a 1986 comment to append. . . .
Posted by: Steve B | October 11, 2010 at 03:26 PM
A voyage of a thousand miles begins with the first sip . . .
Posted by: bonmot | October 11, 2010 at 03:46 PM
Heya, Ferdinand - hold my sangria and watch this!
Posted by: Columbus | October 11, 2010 at 04:20 PM
'Christopher Columbus sailed all the way across the entire ocean hundreds of years before the discovery of aluminum cans'
...and the Vikings did it long before 'sexting'.
Posted by: sandy | October 11, 2010 at 04:29 PM
@Sandy --
Since Viking is the gerund form of "to vike" I'm not so sure that 'exting wasn't involved.
Ed didn't say much, did he?
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | October 11, 2010 at 04:36 PM
My jib is THIS LONG! (hold arms wide apart).
What's a "Jib"? One of the Bushies?
Don't mind me, I'm just jibbering.
Posted by: Steve | October 11, 2010 at 05:33 PM
You never know what you can ketch from a jib.
Posted by: bonmot | October 11, 2010 at 05:40 PM
Actually, Christopher Columbus sailed (most) of the way across the entire ocean on a carrack, which was square-rigged and had a spritsail, but no jib.
Historical accuracy aside, Dave obviously learned the most important "evolution" on a sailing vessel -- splicing the mainbrace.
Posted by: Ralph | October 11, 2010 at 06:40 PM