"The ride quality feels like falling down the stairs whilst wearing calipers"-JC
"Pain is temporary, glory lasts forever, and chicks dig scars"-some dude off Smack Down Under
"If things start getting ugly, don't try and fight it, just go with it"-My mate Gareth in preparation for a particularly large night out. I think I will paint this across the transom of my boat when it's finshed as my downwind mantra. Incidentally, Tom and I took Gareth for a sail the other day, it was his first time on a dinghy ever, so we thought the 18 would be a good starting point as we could run around sailing the boat whilst he just sat there. He noticed "this boat seems quite a big bigger than the other ones sailing..." We did get him triple wiring with the kite up within 5 minutes, and we did helpfully tell him that "If things start getting ugly..."