Lightweight Sailing Dinghy

Jim, I understand your despair, but you're fighting a losing battle with the [sic.]. I wonder how many know what it means?

Hi Feva Sailor,

See the below from the Wikipedia. Basically the oldies in the forum find it hair-raising to find so many mistakes in your posts.

Don't worry about it though for two separate reasons:

1) They are old, and when new things come along, old people don't like it. This doesn't hold things back though. (Douglas Adams has written extensively on this, citing wireless, television, computers, the internet, mobile phones, palmtops, contact lenses, railways and even the bicycle).

2) Incredibly soon you will start not liking new stuff (perhaps it has happened already?), and the people who are doing the new stuff will carry on regardless, just like you are doing now. (Douglas Adams was very amusing describing this process happening to himself)

Best wishes,

Will

Sic is a Latin word meaning "thus" or "so". In writing, it is italicized and placed within square brackets — [sic] — to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, or other preceding quoted material is a verbatim reproduction of the quoted original and is not a transcription error.

This may be used either to show that an uncommon or archaic usage is reported faithfully (for instance, quoting the U.S. Constitution, "The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic] their Speaker...") or to highlight an error, often for the purpose of ridicule or irony (for instance, "Dan Quayle famously changed a student's spelling to 'potatoe' [sic]"), or otherwise, to quote accurately whilst maintaining the reputation of the person or organisation quoting its source.

In folk etymology, "sic" is sometimes thought to be an abbreviation of "spelling is correct", "same in copy", "spelled incorrectly", "spelling incompetent" or "said in context", to cite but a few erroneous backronyms.

If you  are taking out a total novice the laser2000 is better, much less tippy than the RS but still fast and fun. A good asymmetrical starter boat, interesting enough for you whilst allowing your novice to learn the basics!