Those Days

These Days
Antony (Tono) Lineberger Aboard 1976-1979
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What's your best Flint School memory? Worst? Scariest?

My scariest would be either when we lost the bowsprit on Quest on the transatlantic, (thought the masts were next for a while) or when i rode the foresail gaff saddle up the mast that time we left Dover in a force 8, had 15 foot waves running across the deck as we past the break water, only time i really used the 3-pt system while climbing. That whole sail sucked, only one on my watch who had his own harness,ie only one stationed way forward with the white water. never saw Quest bury the bow like Vega.

Worst: either bow watch/English channel/winter/ice/wind over the bow/dog watch, (same sail as above) or water skiing that time off Copenhagen in Jan, (wasn't too bad when you were up, but my partner Todd Brinegar fell TWICE!) or swiming class in Malaga Spain also in Jan. (I shivered all the way through 3rd period)

Best? Maybe the VW tour through the Alps, staying in the Youth hostels. Danced my 1st time with some german girl at the Munich hostel, to crockadile rock... god, that sounds tacky now.


Flint School, Aboard Te Vega and teQuest, 1969-1981
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