How had an interest in sailing originally developed?

[Don C L]

I was really hoping the AI would send us its favorite Jimmy Buffett videos.

[Peregrine1983]

I keep waiting for this person to chime in and defend their AI-like writing style.

[barnakiel]

I was 4 and my dad took me to the boats. He would beat me with a long stick when I refused to learn anything nautical. And so I learned rowing, tying ropes, bailing out, trimming sails and helming. And some time later I discovered one of the girls on that sailing team was very blonde, very lean and very sweet, so I stuck with sailing to get a chance to talk to her and, a bit later, to do other things with her.


So.


One can say my father made me learn sailing. And then I met her and so my interest in sailors developed.


I still like sailing kind of. And I still like that girl.



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[sailorboy1]

I will answer the question if the OP posts again in the thread. It is a good worthwhile question.

[skipperpete]

Originally Posted by wholybee

GPTZero gives it a zero percent chance of being written by AI.



https://gptzero.me/

I recently read that GPTZERO had been defeated as Chatgpt developed and changed to meet the challenge. As far as I know, GPTZERO has been shelved by the education department as a verification tool. Its not clear how zero lost some of its ability, evolving gpt4 or users doing a manual edit across an AI generated text could both be indicated.

[ChrisJHC]

Originally Posted by Adelie

I can't tell you how much fun it was to sail a Laser on the windward side of 520 during a storm. Never did that alone though, always in pairs. Still had to do some intense rescues with folks that got in over their heads.

For most of you that don't know, 520 is a major E-W route in Seattle that has a floating bridge over Lk. Washington, which is too deep and wide for most kinds of bridge. The thing about floating bridges is that the reflect the waves. During a storm the big waves would reflect creating a very nasty chop on the windward side. If you were good, it was fun and exhilarating. You wanted to be at least 200m upwind from the bridge so you if you wiped out you had time to recover before being blown into the bridge. And you went in pairs so if a boat broke, you could get a ride home and the only thing being recovered was the hull and not your body.

If you sailed the leeward side 200m downwind it was 20+kt and almost dead flat. You could plane most of the way across the lake.

I can tell you that it would have been much better in a beach cat!

[Adelie]

Originally Posted by ChrisJHC

I can tell you that it would have been much better in a beach cat!

I've sailed Hobie 16s,18,18SX,21 and a Whaler SuperCat.

For that particular piece of stupidity the Laser was the preferred ride by pretty much everybody in the club that was rated to take boats out in that weather.

[s/v Jedi]

From the Laser I wanted to step up to the Contender. Then I crewed on a Tornado. One day, while in full plane, surrounded by water flying everywhere, I hear a noise, look behind me and see a Mistral windsurfer fly past. I think it was a Mistral Kahlua. I put my Laser up for sale that same afternoon and gota Mistral Tarifa.

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by ChrisJHC

I can tell you that it would have been much better in a beach cat!

Not on that particular piece coffee water in those winter conditions. The Lazer was one of the best suited for that fun strip. Better to me was a star . A bit drier run but still a blast .
Now days it's cruising there around the shore on a century resorter.
Moor summers out of the aqua verda paddle club marina in the montlake cut.

[Iron E]

Originally Posted by skipperpete

I recently read that GPTZERO had been defeated as Chatgpt developed and changed to meet the challenge. As far as I know, GPTZERO has been shelved by the education department as a verification tool. Its not clear how zero lost some of its ability, evolving gpt4 or users doing a manual edit across an AI generated text could both be indicated.

I wonder if it never was very good at analyzing ai in the first place. Clever marketing might have been the only thing the company was good at.

Students original work were constantly being flagged as AI.
This led to outside testing that showed the Constitution flagged as ai, Genesis flagged as AI, and multiple handwritten letters verified pre 70's again, flagged as AI.
I don't think that legally, schools could use it any longer to condemn students writings. To accuse someone of cheating is a pretty big accusation.