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Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf (WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA)
9.24.04 | Mia T

Posted on 09/24/2004 6:52:39 AM PDT by Mia T

Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA

by Mia T, 9.24.04


Kerry is UNFIT #21:
THUMBSUCKER SERIES
-BOARDHEAD TO THE RESCUE-

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"I mean, I was in Safwan. I went there when the signing of the armistice took place at the end of the war."

John Kerry
The O'Reilly Factor, 2001







ohn Kerry's odd phrasing, above, suggests he was more likely windsurfing in the Persian Gulf than witnessing the signing of the Gulf-War cease fire. (Kerry's prior relevant vote, as well as his tawdry dilettantish tendencies, would tend to support this view.)

Similarly, Kerry's statements about the Iraq War hint at cognitive and ethical, if not corporeal, absence; they tell us more about John Kerry than simply what his Iraq-War politics may be.

WINDSUCKER

Anyway the wind blows is fine with me
Anyway the wind blows, it don't matter to me

--Frank Zappa

Windsurfing, like war, transcends the particular in its revelations about John Kerry. Although windsurfing is delicious metaphor--witness the recent Bush-Cheney ad--windsurfing in its most literal, technical sense is what best exposes Kerry for what he is--a wussy, opportunistic fraud.

RIGGED

Kerry's gear is the dead giveaway.

Kerry sails on what boardheads call "light air,"--one just cannot escape the metaphors here-- i.e., a gigantic sail estimated at 11 square meters, and a humongous board providing redundant flotation.

According to expert windsurfer, Paul Kotik:

"No hard-core windsurfer would be caught dead on a rig like that. If you need a sail that big and a board the size of the Titanic, then guess what ? It isn't windy enough to go sailing! Real sailors head out when high winds call for sails in the 5 square meter size, or smaller, and boards so small (and therefore fast and maneuverable) that they won't even float the sailor unless they are moving along at a decent clip. They are big skis, not small boats. Kerry's wussy rig is what you use when you must be seen to be windsurfing. Sailing a rig like that is to real windsurfing what skippering a supertanker is to riding a jetski... The hardcore windsurfer's credo is "Just say 'no" to six-point-oh", meaning that if you need a sail in a size bigger than 5.0 square meters, there ain't no point."

A windsurfer friend of mine, Rod, adds this observation, "Long boards typically have something called a centerboard or a daggerboard which acts as a fulcrum for turning large boards like [Kerry's]. Daggerboards are for total weenies."

Visible in Kerry's Nantucket windsurfing photo-op video is what appears to be evidence of a daggerboard--the knob on top of the board that controls dagger position.

Rod continues, "Up-hauling is another weenie windsurf situation. If the wind is so light that you stand on top of the board and pull the mast up out of the water to begin sailing, there is very little wind. Water starting is... what keeps most people out of the experienced ranks... It is the only way to start in high wind/deep water conditions."

Conversely, according to Rod, some wind is required in a water start. "In a water start, you are not standing on anything, just floating in deep water. You 'fly' the sail, controlling it just inches above the your head and the water, moving your feet onto the board; the sailor pops the sail up filling it with wind, which pulls you up onto the board in one maneuver and propels the board forward."

Kerry's gigantic sail suggests a deliberate wind-avoidance strategy and, hence, an up-hauling, not water-starting, boarding technique scenario. Indeed, given Kerry's reflexive avoidance of high wind/deep water conditions over the years, weenie up-hauling is the only credible scenario.

 

John "One Position on Iraq" Kerry's 1971 Replay

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John "One Position on Iraq" Kerry's 1971 Replay

YOO-HOO DAN RATHER!
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Is a less-than-honorable discharge and clinton "pardon" behind Kerry's refusal to sign form 180 to release ALL of his records?

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THE KERRY-RATHER-BARNES FORGERIES DECONSTRUCTED

HEAR THE FIRST VEEP DEBATE NOW! (the whole ball of wax)
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KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE

KERRY'S VIETNAM FIXATION
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YOO-HOO! UNDECIDEDS + "PERSUADABLES"
HEAR THE SPEECH JOHN KERRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO HEAR

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EXPLOITING MAX CLELAND

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BOARDHEAD TO THE RESCUE


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(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)


Kerry is UNFIT #20: THUMBSUCKER SERIES
PREEMPTION-
(the whole ball of wax)

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A PRESIDENT KERRY MAY BE ABHORRENT
...BUT IS IT EVEN CONSTITUTIONAL?


getting kerry's goat
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Two Psychologists on Kerry: Dangerous on National Security

YOO-HOO! followthemoney.org. . .
OVER HERE!

"bombastic ass" is not the antidote to "boorish ass"
(or why Keith Olbermann Cannot Do Cleanup for Chris Matthews)

UNFIT #19:
JOHN KERRY'S "MORE SENSITIVE WAR ON TERROR"

THE COMPLEAT JOHN KERRY
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Kerry, NOT Bush, paralyzed by 9/11 attacks
Hear Kerry admit he could not think

THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 3
UNFIT #10: 9/10 mindset


THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 2
KERRY-DEMOCRAT CONTEMPT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY[annotated]


THE DEMOCRATS-ARE-GONNA-GET-US-KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES1

dox in sox on lummox in box on fox

THE REAL "REAL DEAL"
(what Kerry's commanders and crewmates REALLY think of him--with transcripts)

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THE MAN FROM HOPE: been there, done that

"Hope is on the way!" (the scoop)

THE TERRORISTS' USEFUL IDIOTS
all the usual suspects


A Vote for Kerry is a Vote for the Terrorists

ELECTION BOTTOM LINE:
TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER or TERRORIST ANNIHILATOR

JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT SERIES: 8/10/04 UPDATE!
taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief


JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT SERIES:
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UNFIT #6: The Deadly Kerry-Hollywood Axis
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UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#1-making the tough choices in a post-9/11 world
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#2-understanding the job description

UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#3-sang-froid and the "nuclear" button

UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#4 - Kerry champions tolerance for terrorists


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USEFUL IDIOTS

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The Cycle of Violence:
NOW WITH HYPERLINKED INSTRUCTION MANUAL


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bill clinton, boy "genius," unwittingly bares all on BBC

deconstructing clinton… "just because I could"

vetting missus clinton...

The Parallel Universe of Jamie Gorelick

nepotism + tokenism = a nancy pelosi
(or a hillary clinton)

Kerry's Belated Condemnation Focuses on Process
Kerry Lacks Moral Authority to Condemn Content

"CRY BUSH" + Iraqi-Prisoner "Abuse"
What are the Dems up to?


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The Mary Jo White Memo:
Documentation of clintons' and Gorelick's willful, seditious malfeasance


What is the REAL Reason for Gorelick's Wall?

giant sucking sound
KERRY MAKES DUKAKIS LOOK CONSERVATIVE, SMART + JUDICIOUS


Q ERTY6 utter failureBUMP

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"Sickened" by clinton's Failure to Protect America from Terrorism

MUST-READ BOOK FOR DEMOCRATS:
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(Who in his right mind would ever want the clintons back in the Oval Office?)

The Man Who Warned America
(Why a Rapist is Not a Fit President)

UDAY: "The end is near… this time I think the… Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."

 

 

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TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: boardhead; gulfwar; iraq; johnkerry; nantucket; napalminthemorning; rig; rigged; windsurfer; windsurfing; wot

1 posted on 09/24/2004 6:52:40 AM PDT by Mia T
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To: WorkingClassFilth; jla; Gail Wynand; Brian Allen; Wolverine; Lonesome in Massachussets; IVote2; ...

ping


2 posted on 09/24/2004 6:56:16 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T

Where is JAWS when you need him.


3 posted on 09/24/2004 6:59:51 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Mia T

And their words will hang them.


4 posted on 09/24/2004 7:11:20 AM PDT by bmwcyle (I wear sleepwear therefore I think)
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To: Mia T
MIA----Love the music background-ROFLMAO! Love the taped comment of Kerry saying he can fight a more sensitive war on terror as his thumb finds his creepy mouth--ROFLMAO and LOVED the windsurfing debacle! YOU ARE A GEM! Your flash plays should be on Brit Hume's grapevine series EVERY NIGHT!

America deserves to see these. So much!

Leno and Letterman should play um, as well! They would have people rolling in the aisles!

YOU GO GIRL!

And as to the thread running today about whether or not Kerry was at the signing (surrender) of the Kuwait War...lol...well, that remains a top level secret. My guess...he was in the AREA, with the intent of being there for the future historical photos, so that he could embellish his presidential resume, lol, but that General S., knowing full well that Kerry voted AGAINST that war, was NOT ABOUT to let that egoistical, arrogant, photo-op hound anywhere near that signing....so Kerry was probably in a fancy bar somewhere in Kuwait, furious and confused, as men like kerry who do not know themselves, always are.

5 posted on 09/24/2004 7:13:42 AM PDT by Republic (Terri Schiavo,saved by TERRI's LAW after 7 days of starvation, fights ACLU-Felos to keep law intact)
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To: Mia T

Hey great comments! How ever I have Windsurfed in 4 to 64 mph wind used all kinds of equipment and will tell you 11 square meter sails are not for pussy's. Yes wide boards 35 inches wide make this sport easy.

With that said John Kerry likes windsurfing and should stick to windsurfing since he is a communist of the worst kind!!

If he had his way we would not have the extra $700 to $4000 dollars we need to enjoy our sport!

Windsurfers and Mountain Bikers for BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


6 posted on 09/24/2004 7:19:40 AM PDT by SOCAL Wind Surfer (WINDSURFERS for BUSH!!)
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To: js1138

see what you started?! ;)

(thx for the heads up.)


7 posted on 09/24/2004 7:32:45 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T

I think Kerry's Easter in Iraq is worse than what we first thought. He voted against the war, then showed up as soon as it was safe and took credit for it.


8 posted on 09/24/2004 7:49:03 AM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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To: js1138

bump!

(Sort of like what he did with his swift boat, retreating and returning for Rassmann only when he determined it was safe.)


9 posted on 09/24/2004 7:52:54 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T
My dad always said, "you can’t teach an old dog new tricks" and apparently the same goes for old Horses. When you are a dead in the wool Commie loving, blame America first, military hating Massachusetts Liberal, you always look to attack and spit on our troops first. If you are also a UN loving NE-xtreme Liberal, you are always going to impugn our closest allies. If they happen to be the newly freed country leader for whom we have just spilled over a thousand Brave Soldiers lives, then spit on him/them too. Yaaaaawn Cut & Run Kerry does not have the integrity to be a mediocre Senator let alone President of the United States.

One of the main problems Liberals have with running campaigns, let alone Wars and Presidencies; is they are incapable of delegating. They have been programed to believe that the Centralized Planning Model is the only way to organize. This is why they believe that the Gummit is better at spending our money than we are. When they become Candidates for a national office like President they cannot take advice and have their hands on everything. The reports of Yaaaawn writing his own boring run-on speeches is proof of that weakness.

No political advisor equipped with two firing brain cells would have told Yaaaaawn to go out and attack the Prime Minister of Iraq. This is a truly historic disgrace of epic proportions. Kerry went out on his own because the PM gave him a minor shot about Yaaaawn always downplaying our successes and turning them into failures to the benefit of our enemies. In response Kerry goes nuts and accuses the Leader of a newly born Country a liar...Monumental!! Nobody on that Rubber Bus would have suggested anybody do this. Only the knee-jerk; heavy on the jerk, main Candidate.

Prime Minister Allawi is a man of integrity and bravery that can is matched by very few men in World History. This man defied Saddamn and received an axe to the head. He is number 1 on the Terrorist hit parade in a country filled with terrorist scum attracted like moths to a zapper. His death will bring a month long celebration in this turd century pit, and Kerry has the nerve to degrade and disrespect this hero? This amounts to calling Lech Walesa or the Pope lying cowards in Poland during the Soviet crackdown.

How can he do this utterly despicable action. Easy, he hates America and it’s closest allies! During Vietnam, which is his entirety; he called the South Vietnamese Govt a puppet of the United States. He vilified and degraded that Govt when we were winning the war while he professed the Communists in N. Vietnam the liberators and freedom fighters. The liberators ended up murdering over 10 million civilians after Kerry coerced "Peace with Honor". So attacking Iraq’s new Govt is his first step. His strategy is to disgrace the bravery of the country’s interim officials who are being murdered for taking their stand for Freedom.

His next step in Vietnam was to attack our soldiers after he declared the newly formed Govt illegitimate. He declared the war illegal and “the wrong war, at the wrong time in the wrong place”. If the war is wrong than it follows that our soldiers are fighting the wrong war. This is his seditious strategy and why he was called a traitor then, and is a traitor now. And yes Yaaaawn we are questioning your patriotism, which is what you do to people who are betraying their country for their own benefit.

If this man will not stand shoulder to shoulder to a statuesque MAN like Allawi than who will he stand with. Allawi is the George Washington of Iraq. The only difference was Washington had to fight the British and Benedict Arnold, while Allawi has to fight barbaric terrorists from a dozen neighboring scorpion nests. Kerry doesn’t understand the honor and history of freeing 25 million people from a tyrant who had already killed nearly a half million people, and he will never will. The leaders John Kerry has stood shoulder to shoulder were Ho Chi Min 10 million murders, Lenin-Gorbachev 50 million murders, Mao Tse Tung 70 million murders, Fidel Castro 1 million murders, Daniel Ortega 20,000 murders, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge 5 million murders, Yasser Arafat 1000s of murders. John Kerry’s respected leaders do have a pattern which helps explain his admiration for Saddamn’s killing fields.

Prime Minister Allawi just doesn’t have the numbers it takes for Yaaaawn Cut and Run Kerry’s respect.

Pray for W and Our Troops

10 posted on 09/24/2004 7:55:10 AM PDT by bray (Nam Vets Rock!!)
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To: bray

Excellent analysis!
You nailed it.
thanks!


11 posted on 09/24/2004 8:02:25 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T

I'm not going to comment on Kerry's physical courage. But he has absolutely no political courage, and that's been demonstrated time after time.

Most Freepers remember the dire predictions before the current Iraq war (not to mention the dire predictions before Gulf War I). Even considering the long drawn out nature of the war, it has been nothing like what ws predicted by the dems.


12 posted on 09/24/2004 8:02:26 AM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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To: jla

ping


13 posted on 09/24/2004 8:53:39 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Republic

thx :)

...and barstool bump!


14 posted on 09/24/2004 11:05:11 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Wolverine

bump


15 posted on 09/24/2004 6:37:51 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T
Another masterpiece...

Kerry, just another appeaser; mouth-breather lip licker liberal who would sell US out in a heartbeat! The man has dead eyes...so empty.....

16 posted on 09/24/2004 8:01:01 PM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: Wolverine; All
ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS:

WINDSURFER WATERLOO
why the surfboard--not the snowboard--is (to mix war metaphors) Kerry's Achilles' heel



by Mia T, 9.26.04




THE HOT DEBATE OVER THE WINDSURFING AD [09/23 11:54 AM]

There is apparently much debate about the windsurfing ad over at the Corner. Here's the CNN summary of the charges and countercharges so far:

Underscoring the Bush attacks was a new television ad showing Kerry windsurfing to the strains of the "Blue Danube" waltz. A narrator reads a list of what the Bush campaign contends are the senator's vacillating positions on the Iraq war, education and Medicare.

The ad ends with the tag line: "John Kerry. Whichever way the wind blows."

The Kerry campaign reacted angrily to the ad, charging that its "lighthearted" approach was inappropriate in the middle of a war.

"This is a shameful advertisement that shows a disturbing disregard for those fighting and sacrificing in Iraq," said Kerry spokesman Mike McCurry, who demanded that the president repudiate it.

Edwards offered a similar critique during an appearance in Miami, Florida.

"Today George Bush is laughing again. Over 1,000 Americans have lost their lives. Americans are being beheaded. Iraq is a mess, and they think this is a joke," Edwards said. "It is clear they have no idea how to protect our troops, but they will do anything to protect their jobs."

Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel defended the ad, saying that "what's disturbing is John Kerry's various shifting positions on the war on Iraq."

"What the ad spells out is that it's important to have a leader whose word we can believe not only on the day they say it but the next day as well," Stanzel said. "There is no weather vane on top of the White House. This country needs leaders who stand for something when the times are good and when the times are bad."

The Kerry campaign released a new spot, denouncing the windsurfing commercial as "a juvenile and tasteless attack ad."

Thought one: There's a quick and easy way that Kerry can stop the ads that are calling him a flip-flopper: Stop flip-flopping.

Thought two: If you don't want the Bush campaign to run ads featuring footage of John Kerry windsurfing, stop inviting television crews to record Kerry windsurfing.

Thought three: If the ad is so "juvenile and tasteless", why does the new Kerry ad not show the picture of John Kerry windsurfing? Could this be because some focus group somewhere concluded that windsurfing looks like a pastime of the idle rich?

Your humble correspondent wonders if the Blue Danube waltz was the wrong music for the commercial. Maybe Doris Day/Mari Wilson/Lila Downs "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps":

You only tell me 'Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.'

A million times i ask you,
and then i ask you over
again, you only answer
perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

if you can't make your mind up,
we'll never get started.'

UPDATE: About a billion Kerry Spot readers point out that the Kerry campaign is complaining about a lack of seriousness right after their man has done interviews with Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Dr. Phil, and Regis.

Kerry Spot
[jim geraghty reporting]
NRO

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NEW virtual john kerry can bore + snowboard at the same time series

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johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com

Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA

by Mia T, 9.24.04


Kerry is UNFIT #21:
THUMBSUCKER SERIES
BOARDHEAD TO THE RESCUE

(Nantucket, July 17, 2004)

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"I mean, I was in Safwan. I went there when the signing of the armistice took place at the end of the war."

John Kerry
The O'Reilly Factor, 2001


"Well, I haven't been briefed [about the new al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States] yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me; I just haven't had time."

John Kerry
Larry King Live
July 8, 2004






ohn Kerry's odd phrasing, above, suggests he was more likely windsurfing in the Persian Gulf than witnessing the signing of the Gulf-War cease fire. (Kerry's prior relevant vote, as well as his tawdry dilettantish tendencies, would tend to support this view.)

Similarly, Kerry's statements about the Iraq War hint at cognitive and ethical, if not corporeal, absence; they tell us more about John Kerry than simply what his Iraq-War politics may be.

WINDSUCKER

Anyway the wind blows is fine with me
Anyway the wind blows, it don't matter to me

--Frank Zappa

Windsurfing, like war, transcends the particular in its revelations about John Kerry. Although windsurfing is delicious metaphor--witness the recent Bush-Cheney ad--windsurfing in its most literal, technical sense is what best exposes Kerry for what he is--a wussy, opportunistic fraud.

RIGGED

Kerry's gear is the dead giveaway.

Kerry sails on what boardheads call "light air,"--one just cannot escape the metaphors here-- i.e., a gigantic sail estimated at 11 square meters, and a humongous board providing redundant flotation.

According to expert windsurfer, Paul Kotik:

"No hard-core windsurfer would be caught dead on a rig like that. If you need a sail that big and a board the size of the Titanic, then guess what ? It isn't windy enough to go sailing! Real sailors head out when high winds call for sails in the 5 square meter size, or smaller, and boards so small (and therefore fast and maneuverable) that they won't even float the sailor unless they are moving along at a decent clip. They are big skis, not small boats. Kerry's wussy rig is what you use when you must be seen to be windsurfing. Sailing a rig like that is to real windsurfing what skippering a supertanker is to riding a jetski... The hardcore windsurfer's credo is "Just say 'no" to six-point-oh", meaning that if you need a sail in a size bigger than 5.0 square meters, there ain't no point."

A windsurfer friend of mine, Rod, adds this observation, "Long boards typically have something called a centerboard or a daggerboard which acts as a fulcrum for turning large boards like [Kerry's]. Daggerboards are for total weenies."

Visible in Kerry's Nantucket windsurfing photo-op video is what appears to be evidence of a daggerboard--the knob on top of the board that controls dagger position.

Rod continues, "Up-hauling is another weenie windsurf situation. If... you [can] stand on top of the board and pull the mast up out of the water to begin sailing, there is very little wind. Water starting is... what keeps most people out of the experienced ranks... It is the only way to start in high wind/deep water conditions."

Conversely, according to Rod, some wind is required in a water start. "In a water start, you are not standing on anything, just floating in deep water. You 'fly' the sail, controlling it just inches above the your head and the water, moving your feet onto the board; the sailor pops the sail up filling it with wind, which pulls [him] up onto the board in one maneuver and propels the board forward."

Kerry's gigantic sail suggests a deliberate wind-avoidance strategy and, hence, an up-hauling, not water-starting, boarding technique scenario. Indeed, given Kerry's reflexive avoidance of high wind/deep water conditions over the years, weenie up-hauling is the only credible scenario.

 

John "One Position on Iraq" Kerry's 1971 Replay

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NEW! compleatjohnkerry.blogspot.com

NEW! unfitforcommand.blogspot.com

johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004
 

election update!
JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT~THE SERIES

WINDSURFER WATERLOO
why the surfboard--not the snowboard--is (to mix war metaphors) Kerry's Achilles' heel

Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf

John "One Position on Iraq" Kerry's 1971 Replay

YOO-HOO DAN RATHER!
KERRY'S BELATED "HONORABLE" DISCHARGE:
Is a less-than-honorable discharge and clinton "pardon" behind Kerry's refusal to sign form 180 to release ALL of his records?

RATHERGATE IS ANOTHER WATERGATE: The Nexus

CARL BERNSTEIN: RATHERGATE MAY BE ANOTHER WATERGATE

CLUELESS: O'REILLY AND PODHORETZ ON RATHERGATE

THE KERRY-RATHER-BARNES FORGERIES DECONSTRUCTED

HEAR THE FIRST VEEP DEBATE NOW! (the whole ball of wax)
CHENEY WARNS AMERICA: THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT OUR SURVIVAL
KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE

KERRY'S VIETNAM FIXATION
PART 1: advice from bill

Kerry's new W offensive

YOO-HOO! UNDECIDEDS + "PERSUADABLES"
HEAR THE SPEECH JOHN KERRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO HEAR

(WHY INFORMED, RATIONAL DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE FOR BUSH)

DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER

EXPLOITING MAX CLELAND

Kerry is UNFIT #21: THUMBSUCKER SERIES
BOARDHEAD TO THE RESCUE


The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)


Kerry is UNFIT #20: THUMBSUCKER SERIES
PREEMPTION-
(the whole ball of wax)

CONTEMPLATING KERRY'S "GUT"

A PRESIDENT KERRY MAY BE ABHORRENT
...BUT IS IT EVEN CONSTITUTIONAL?


getting kerry's goat
john kerry lacks presidential temperament

Two Psychologists on Kerry: Dangerous on National Security

YOO-HOO! followthemoney.org. . .
OVER HERE!

"bombastic ass" is not the antidote to "boorish ass"
(or why Keith Olbermann Cannot Do Cleanup for Chris Matthews)

UNFIT #19:
JOHN KERRY'S "MORE SENSITIVE WAR ON TERROR"

THE COMPLEAT JOHN KERRY
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA

Kerry, NOT Bush, paralyzed by 9/11 attacks
Hear Kerry admit he could not think

THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 3
UNFIT #10: 9/10 mindset


THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 2
KERRY-DEMOCRAT CONTEMPT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY[annotated]


THE DEMOCRATS-ARE-GONNA-GET-US-KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES1

dox in sox on lummox in box on fox

THE REAL "REAL DEAL"
(what Kerry's commanders and crewmates REALLY think of him--with transcripts)

Did John Kerry pick a running mate or hire a lawyer when he selected John Edwards?

THE MAN FROM HOPE: been there, done that

"Hope is on the way!" (the scoop)

THE TERRORISTS' USEFUL IDIOTS
all the usual suspects


A Vote for Kerry is a Vote for the Terrorists

ELECTION BOTTOM LINE:
TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER or TERRORIST ANNIHILATOR

JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT SERIES: 8/10/04 UPDATE!
taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief


JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT SERIES:
taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief


UNFIT #9-JOHN KERRY: DEADLY OPPORTUNIST
SELF-CONFESSED WAR CRIMlNAL MORPHS INTO SELF-PROMOTER WAR HERO


UNFIT #6: The Deadly Kerry-Hollywood Axis
HOW CAN YOU PUT YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES IN ITS HANDS?


UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#1-making the tough choices in a post-9/11 world
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#2-understanding the job description

UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#3-sang-froid and the "nuclear" button

UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#4 - Kerry champions tolerance for terrorists


sanitizing evil
Kerry Cabal Censors Nick Berg Decapitation


"Loose Cannon" Kerry's AWOL/PURPLE-HEART FRAUD

pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic

USEFUL IDIOTS

MOORE IS LESS--THE MOVIE

The Cycle of Violence:
NOW WITH HYPERLINKED INSTRUCTION MANUAL


JOHN KERRY'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans


bill clinton, boy "genius," unwittingly bares all on BBC

deconstructing clinton… "just because I could"

vetting missus clinton...

The Parallel Universe of Jamie Gorelick

nepotism + tokenism = a nancy pelosi
(or a hillary clinton)

Kerry's Belated Condemnation Focuses on Process
Kerry Lacks Moral Authority to Condemn Content

"CRY BUSH" + Iraqi-Prisoner "Abuse"
What are the Dems up to?


DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EARS (The Perjurer Returns)
(Clinton: Claims I Turned Down Bin Laden are 'Bull')

The Mary Jo White Memo:
Documentation of clintons' and Gorelick's willful, seditious malfeasance


What is the REAL Reason for Gorelick's Wall?

giant sucking sound
KERRY MAKES DUKAKIS LOOK CONSERVATIVE, SMART + JUDICIOUS


Q ERTY6 utter failureBUMP
Lib Author Regrets Voting (TWICE!) for clinton
"Sickened" by clinton's Failure to Protect America from Terrorism


MUST-READ BOOK FOR DEMOCRATS:
How clintons' Failures Unleashed Global Terror

(Who in his right mind would ever want the clintons back in the Oval Office?)

The Man Who Warned America
(Why a Rapist is Not a Fit President)

UDAY: "The end is near… this time I think the… Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."
 
 

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17 posted on 09/27/2004 2:46:25 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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