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Appleton 151 Dark Jamaican Rum
Jamaican Rum 83.5/100
a review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Posted by Arctic Wolf on March 6, 2010
Review: Appleton 151 Dark
I have been told that Appleton Dark overproof rum is one of the most favoured rums on the Isle of Jamaica. This knowledge intrigues me as I often prefer cask strength offerings when I drink whisky. I do not believe this is due necessarily to the higher alcohol content, but rather due to the concentrated flavours in a spirit bottled at a higher than 40 percent alcohol volume. Now a rum at 75 plus percent alcohol by volume is another story entirely. At this strength we have a spirit which is much higher in alcohol volume than any cask strength whisky I have tried, and rum already having a vigorous flavour profile will be extremely concentrated at this strength.
In the Bottle 4/5
We have a tall clear glass rum bottle which displays the extremely dark brown spirit inside. I have made my point about the inferiority of pressed on screw caps in the past and will not belabour it here. Because the rum is reasonably priced I will not quibble unnecessarily with the presentation.
In the Glass 9/10
When I swirl the rum in my glass I see nice legs trailing back in the rum. I get a sense of power and richness from the nose which I like. The aroma from the glass is very strong with molasses, brown sugar spices and a heavy alcohol updraft. I do not believe this rum is meant to be sipped or enjoyed neat as I am about to do. But I must admit I was not expecting such a nice smell from the glass. The alcohol masks the individual scents to some degree, but I can identify spices akin to cinnamon and nutmeg, as well as a vague imprint orange and banana peel.
In The Mouth 50/60
I had to prepare myself for the first sip. It was a somewhat numbing experience. Sweet burly molasses and spice is about all I can say at this point as the strength of the alcohol numbs the palate before much else can be deciphered. I let everything sit in my mouth for a little while and decide that the flavour is quite complicated, but as I mentioned, the heavy alcohol strength has numbed my ability to distinguish anything individual. The rum is not meant to be drank this way, and I decide not attempt much more with a straight spirit. I added Coca Cola to the sipping glass in about a fifty-fifty mixture. This is a strong drink but fairly close to the typical strength of a normal rum now. I also mixed a fruit drink with fifty percent Appleton Dark and fifty percent of a grapefruit and pineapple juice mixture.
Both the rum and coke, and the fruit cocktail I mixed were very nice. They have more sweetness and more caramel flavour than I have noticed when mixing with other Appleton rums. A vague sort of nuttiness as well which I want to say is reminiscent of walnuts.
In the Throat 12/15
That first sip I took earlier had me gasping for breath for a few seconds. The intensity of flavour and alcohol was just too much for me to handle straight up. But I let my palate and throat rest and actually enjoyed the caramel and spice afterglow. My two cocktails each produced a thumping burn and a strong caramel aftertaste.
The Afterburn 8.5/10
The Appleton 151 Dark Jamaican Rum is an intense, rich rum. If your preference is for a strong mixed drink, then there is a place in your bar for the rum, especially if you like burly molasses and strong caramel flavours. Although I found its flavours rich and intense, I did not find them overly complex. Brown sugar spices and caramel prevail with the alcohol bite masking the other flavours.
Rum Punch
I am avoiding suggesting a cocktail entirely and moving instead to suggest that this rum will be at home in most rum punch recipes that call for dark rum. Its not that I do not think Appleton Dark 151 Proof rum should not be used in cocktails, its just that I think the strong nature of the rum will make a great base for Rum Punch.
I did a bit of research for punch recipes and the earliest recipe construction I could find was in the form of a poem from the New York Times in 1908. The poem does not give ingredients rather it gives an overall suggested form of ingredient types:
Here is the poem and its suggested recipe construction:
This recipe I give to thee,
Dear brother in the heat.
Take two of sour (lime let it be)
To one and a half of sweet,
Of Old Jamaica pour three strong,
And add four parts of weak.
Then mix and drink. I do no wrong —
I know whereof I speak.
From this poem, and in the spirit of poetic license, I have designed a Jamaican Rum Punch using the ingredient construction from the poem in the New York Times from 1908.
Arctic Wolf's JAMAICAN RUM PUNCH
(using the 1908 New York Times Poem Version)
1 cup of Lemon Juice & 1 cup Lime Juice (Take two of sour )
1 1/4 cup Pineapple Juice & 1/4 cup Grenadine (To one and a half of sweet)
1 !/2 cup Appleton 151 Dark Jamaican Rum & 1 1/2 cups Appleton Estate VX Rum (Of Old Jamaica pour three strong)
3 cups Ginger ale; 1 Cups Orange juice ; a dash of bitters & Ice cubes (And add four parts of weak)
Garnish the punch bowl with tropical flowers, and a variety fruit slices, pieces and chunks.
My research also turned up a new version of this old poem which I found on many websites. No one seems quote the origin of this bit of poetry, so I'll throw it out for anyone who can enlighten me so that I can give proper credit for this sparking dactylic gem:
"One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, and four of weak."
Using this cadence, the same recipe above will be changed slightly, and now the recipe is:
Arctic Wolf's JAMAICAN RUM PUNCH
(using the more modern poem version)
1/2 cup of Lemon Juice & 1/2 cup Lime Juice (One of sour)
7/8 cup Pineapple Juice & 7/8 cup orange Juice & 1/4 cup Grenadine (two of sweet)
1 1/2 cup Appleton 151 Dark Jamaican Rum & 1 1/2 cup Appleton Estate VX Rum ( three of strong)
4 cups Ginger ale; a dash of bitters & Ice cubes (and four of weak)
Again garnish the punch bowl with tropical flowers, and a variety fruit slices, pieces and chunks.
I should mention that my friend forrest pointed out to me that the ice in each recipe is part of the "weak". The actual quantity of the other "weak" ingredients should be lessened somewhat to allow for the melting ice.
I should also point out that these recipes are "Forrest Approved"! You can visit his great site for more cocktail suggestions and drink constructions.
2 Responses to "Appleton 151 Dark Jamaican Rum"
June 9, 2011 at 9:54 am
I live in the UK and can no longer find a supplier of Appleton 151 Dark Rum. Where did you get yours from?
In aniticipation.


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One has to be a cenotaph.
Josiah Hazen Shinn is buried beside his wife, Mildred Carleton Williams Shinn, in Roselawn Memorial Park in Little Rock, Pulaski County, AR.
Isn't he?
I mean, I photographed their graves. Personally.
It wasn't an hallucination.
I can prove it.
The stone for the family plot...
Josiah's marker, at the foot of his grave...
Minnie's marker, at the foot of her grave...
So what is this?
It looks like a gravestone for Josiah Hazen Shinn to me.
In another cemetery.
A devoted husband and loving father. He has entered into the fullness of life. He lived a peaceful, constructive and an honorable life and such a life smiles at death. He lived no inglorious life and came to a peaceful and glorious death. He was the bough broken under the load of ripened fruit and such as he have passed into God's acre, the christian's home.
And the earth is mounded up behind the stone. There's a footstone there. Like a fairly recent grave.
Next to a retaining wall very similar to the one that surrounds the (former) Williams family plot in Oakland Cemetery, Russellville, AR. Where Katharine Leah Williams is buried. She was Minnie's niece.
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Updated: April 6, 2012
"For one thing, everybody in Abilene passes by that property all the time, so it's very accessible," says Bill Minter, Director of the Abilene Preservation League.
Lincoln Middle School is just one of the many buildings that add a bit of rich history to the downtown area. Thanks to grant funding, as of last week, the building is now in phase two of its environmental assessment.
Minter adds, "What type of hazardous materials might be there whether its lead paint or asbestus or anything like that."
A small but hopeful step in the process.
"When that's complete, we'll know what will be needed to take care of any concerns like that," says Minter.
The Preservation League has big hopes for the building. Residential housing, a public library even a place for higher education. Just few of the many potential re-uses of the building.
Minter says, "There are at least 12, pretty good ones, that we have identified and there may be still others."
Last month, the school board offered the property to the city. An offer that has yet to be accepted.
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Brian is a senior architect with Orbitz.com. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The NIO library, a feature added to Java as part of JDK 1.4, offers an alternative, high-performance technique for handling input/output (I/O) operations. This library supports working directly with native channels, sockets, and direct memory buffers to increase the performance and throughput of I/O. In addition, it offers the ability to do true nonblocking I/O operations. However, if used incorrectly, NIO can yield little performance increase and can cause an increase in the load and reduce stability of an application. In this article, I discuss how Orbitz (the company I work for) used NIO to increase performance and stability by replacing an older standard I/O implementation. Orbitz communicates with various third-party backend systems to retrieve data for its customers. During the course of handling a single customer request, the Orbitz.com application performs time-sensitive I/O to fetch the customer's response. With a large number of concurrent users, the application can be performing hundreds of I/O operations at the same time.
The Orbitz.com application handles concurrent user requests by allowing each request to be performed in a separate thread. These threads, called "execute threads," can be configured such that each request is handled by a new thread or by a thread from a thread pool. In either case, it is vital to ensure that no thread is running for an extended period of time. When threads take too long processing a single user request and a new thread is used for each request, the Java VM has the possibility of crashing when excessive threads are created. Likewise, if a pool is being used and threads from that pool take too long while executing, other users are forced to wait until a thread has finished and can be reused.
Standard I/O
The Orbitz.com application was initially implemented with a standard I/O design using Java 1.3. To guarantee timeouts for I/O operations, it employed a separate thread to perform the I/O operations. The execute threads are then joined on this new thread using a timeout. With this approach, it prevented the execute thread from hanging when I/O operations encountered problems. Listing One shows the original thread that performed the I/O operations. It has been simplified from its original version.
By calling the join method on the IOThread, one of the execute threads waits until the IOThread has finished running. A timeout is specified when the join method is called to ensure that the execute threads do not wait forever for an IOThread to complete. Listing Two shows an example of how an execute thread used an IOThread.
The first version of the execute threads created new instances of the IOThread class for each I/O operation. Using the initial implementation it was observed that the servers were periodically experiencing high thread counts. It had initially been assumed that the maximum number of threads that could be created in a Java VM running this code would be 2N, where N was the number of execute threads. After some investigation, I found that an instance of the IOThread would remain in memory if it experienced network problems and was hung while performing an I/O operation. In addition, the execute thread correctly timed-out and the next execute thread attempted the same operation, with the same results. The net result was that the Java VM created an enormous number of threads and eventually ran out of memory.
To reduce the thread count, I added a thread pool that stored instances of the IOThread class. I also changed the execute thread code so that it checked out an IOThread instance from the pool, used it, and then checked it back in. This not only reduced the high thread count, but also reduced the overhead of thread creation. Listing Three shows the second version of the execute thread that used the pool of IOThreads (the implementation of a thread pool is out of scope of this article).
This improvement still has an underlying problem. If the network experiences major failures, all instances of IOThread in the pool quickly become stalled and execute threads begin to fail during check-out because there are no more IOThreads in the pool. Additionally, when I began testing this new design under heavy load, I found that it still had problems that reduced overall performance. The issue was excessive context switching.
All the implementations thus far force the Java VM to perform increased context switching because either the execute threads or the IOThreads are all performing I/O operations concurrently. The largest problem with this concurrency is that the Java VM doesn't know which threads are ready to perform I/O operations and which are not. Therefore, the Java VM might put a thread onto the processor that isn't ready to perform I/O operations. Meanwhile another thread that is waiting to run is ready to perform I/O operations. Because Java does not provide the ability to "stack the deck" by moving threads that are ready to perform I/O to the top of the list, it is possible that a thread, which is ready to perform I/O, might wait long enough that it times out.
The NIO package added to Java 1.4 offers Java developers the ability to perform true nonblocking I/O and guarantee timeouts for I/O operations. It also works with low-level operating-system constructs to increase performance and reduce latency. In addition, it provides the ability to monitor multiple I/O operations concurrently, also known as "multiplexing."
Multiplexed NIO is a technique that moves all the I/O work into a single thread that watches over many I/O operations executing concurrently. A multiplexed NIO design uses the java.nio.channels.Selector class in conjunction with subclasses of the java.nio.channels.SelectableChannel class. The Selector class lets the application watch many I/O connections (subclasses of the SelectableChannel class and also known as "Channels") and organize these Channels into those that are ready to perform I/O and those that are not.
I decided to redesign to use NIO and a single thread to perform all the I/O operations. Listing Four shows the skeleton body of the NIO thread.
As with the threaded standard I/O design, the execute threads need a way to supply work to the NIOWorker in the form of a URL they want to contact. The NIOWorker then connects to the URL, sends an HTTP message to the server, and then reads the HTTP-response. After it completes that work, it passes back the result to the execute thread. One unit of work is designated using an inner class within the NIOWorker thread that lets a URL be passed in and the contents to be passed back. Listing Five shows the inner class of the NIOWorker that represents one unit of work.
Supplying work to the NIOWorker is not a simple process and requires two methods. Because the NIOWorker thread is a separate thread that handles all the I/O operations, execute threads must add their work and then wait for the NIOWorker thread to process it. Therefore, the NIOWorker class has one method that forces the execute threads to wait, and a second method that actually adds the work. This design waits and notifies using the Work object as the monitor. Listing Six shows the two add methods that force the execute threads to wait and add the work to the Selector.
This code creates a SocketChannel, which is a Channel that extends SelectableChannel, and registers the Selector with it. This Channel is set to nonblocking so that operations performed on Channel do not block until complete but rather return as quickly as possible. Registering a Selector with a Channel informs the Channel to begin a specific I/O operation and also tells the Channel to signal the Selector once the operation is complete. Here the code is setting the Channel to begin an OP_CONNECT operation, which forces the Channel to connect to a remote socket.
During the registration, this code also constructs a small class that holds some state information for the I/O operation. This is called an "attachment" and can be any object. The attachment is associated with a specific Selector/Channel relationship. This Selector/Channel relationship is called a "SelectionKey" (also known as "key"). It stores the type of operation the Channel is performing as well as the attachment. The WorkState object is what the NIOWorker uses as an attachment. WorkState lets the results that are read from the Channel be stored in a StringBuffer. It also provides a mechanism to monitor timeouts so that the NIOWorker thread does not continue working on something that has timed out. Listing Seven shows the WorkState class.
To watch over the Channels, the NIOWorker thread needs to perform "selects" by calling the selectNow method on the Selector. Performing "selects" tells the Selector to update all of its keys to reflect which Channels are ready and which are not, allowing the NIOWorker thread to stack the deck by only working on the Channels that are ready. The number of ready keys is returned from this method. Listing Eight shows the main run method for the NIOWorker thread that performs the select.
The processKeys method handles all of the Channels that signal the Selector that they are ready to perform I/O. Because the Selector handles multiple Channels, the processKeys method performs the I/O for all Channels that are ready. Listing Nine shows the processKeys method that is responsible for iterating over all the SelectionKeys and handling each one.
The Selector object provides the ability to retrieve all the keys that are ready to perform I/O using the selectedKeys() method. This method returns a Set containing all the keys that are ready to perform I/O. This Set is populated with the ready keys whenever a select operation is performed on the Selector.
One important detail about the processKeys method is that during the loop iteration, the WorkState attachment is retrieved from the SelectionKey and used to verify that the work has not timed out. If it has timed out, the finished method is called to signal that the work is complete, which in this case is due to a timeout rather than success.
The doWrite, doRead, and finished methods are the last methods that complete the NIOWorker. The doWrite method writes the HTTP-request String to the channel. Listing Ten shows the doWrite method.
The doRead method is responsible for performing a read from a Channel and signaling if everything has been read from the Channel or not. Listing Eleven is the doRead method.
The doRead method is a standard NIO implementation of reading from a Channel. It reads zero or more bytes from the Channel and also determines if the Channel has any more to read. Once this code is certain that there is nothing more to read, it returns True to signal to the processKeys method that it should call the finished method. This code goes one step further and sets the success flag on the WorkState object. This is used in the finished method to determine whether the HTTP-response should be parsed.
The final finished method notifies the execute thread that its work was complete, whether successfully or not. The success flag set in the doRead method is used to determine if the HTTP-response is parsed out. Listing Twelve is the finished method.
NIO does not handle the HTTP-request generation and HTTP-response parsing automatically. That work is left up to the NIO implementation or the client. This design handles the generation of the HTTP-request and parsing of the HTTP-response messages. The buildHTTPRequest and parseHTTPResponse methods were added here for illustration. The work of generating and parsing the HTTP messages is slightly more complex but is available in the full version of the code, within the HTTPParser class and the classes that implement the HTTPMethod interface.
Listing Thirteen is an example of an execute thread calling the NIOWorker to perform some work.
To fully appreciate the benefits gained between standard I/O and NIO, I collected statistics using each design employed. These statistics were collected by running each of the actual implementations through a series of load tests in a fixed environment. Table 1 presents the results from those tests. All values are the number of transactions completed by an implementation per minute.
In addition to a load test, the standard I/O and the NIO solutions were both used in the Orbitz production environment for some period of time. I was able to monitor each one and collect statistics for load and latency. Table 2 shows the statistics from the Orbitz.com production environment.
Additional Thoughts
The code I present here is only part of the complete solution used in the Orbitz.com application. I simplified some of the code, but have retained the major work required to implement a multiplexed NIO solution.
NIO is not a simple API to use and I encountered many issues during testing that required fine tuning. A few things I found that should be kept in mind are:
- Prevent adding too much work to the Selector. This can cause memory leaks that result in a Java VM crash. The Selector can be queried to determine how many keys it currently has and that number can be compared to a configurable threshold.
- Determine if your run method runs in a tight loop. The earlier code runs in a tight loop and this may be undesirable for low- to medium-volume applications. To cause a looser loop, one of the Selector methods with a timeout can be used. This will cause the call to that method to block until a Channel is ready.
- You may want to use a tight loop but wait when the Selector is empty inside the run method. Inside the add methods, the NIOWorker thread can then be notified when work is successfully added.
- Increase performance by moving the ByteBuffer and CharsetDecoder from the doRead method to instance variables on the NIOWorker object.
- Check the Selector for each loop iteration in the main run method to determine if any work has timed out. This check will prevent the Selector from becoming full of invalid connections due to network failures.
- The full version of the code, available electronically (see "Resource Center," page 3) includes all of these implementation details.
One major NIO pitfall to be aware of is that you should always use multiplexed NIO. Putting NIO code into multiple threads reduces overall performance and can cause excessive load. I experimented with using NIO in multiple threads and observed that due to enormous amounts of context switching the load nearly tripled, while latency and throughput remained unchanged.
A multiplexed NIO solution is an ideal solution for the Orbitz application requirements because of the efficiencies of multiplexed I/O operations. Multiplexed I/O means that there is a single thread doing many I/O operations by leveraging a Selector to perform the multiplexing. Using a Selector, multiple Channels executing I/O operations are managed and watched over concurrently. This means that at no point is the Java VM ever waiting on Channels that are not ready to perform I/O; because the Selector knows precisely the Channels that are ready to perform I/O and those that are not. Because there is only a single thread performing I/O, the problem of context switching between multiple threads performing I/O operations has been eliminated. All of these conditions greatly reduce overhead and latency while increasing total throughput over a standard I/O implementation.
Thanks to David P. Thomas of Orbitz for reviewing this article.
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public class OldIO { public String execute() { IOThread thread = new IOThread(); thread.start(); try { thread.join(15000); // Wait for 15 seconds } catch (InterruptedException ie) {} return thread.getResult(); } }Back to article
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public class PoolOldIO { private static ThreadPool pool = new ThreadPool(); public String execute() { IOThread thread = pool.checkOut(); String result; try { thread.execute(15000); // Wait for 15 seconds } catch (InterruptedException ie) { // Smother, okay to be interrupted } finally { result = thread.getResult(); pool.checkIn(thread); // Must always check-in the thread } return result; } }Back to article
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protected void processKeys() { Set keys = selector.selectedKeys(); for (Iterator iter = keys.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) { SelectionKey key = (SelectionKey) iter.next(); iter.remove(); WorkState state = (WorkState) key.attachment(); SocketChannel channel = (SocketChannel) key.channel(); try { if (state.isTimedOut()) { finished(channel, key, state); continue; } boolean connectable = key.isConnectable(); if (connectable && channel.finishConnect()) { // If the Channel is connected, setup the Channel to // write the HTTP message to the remote server key.interestOps(SelectionKey.OP_WRITE); } else if (key.isWritable()) { // If the Channel is finished writing, setup the // Channel to read the HTTP response if (doWrite(channel, state)) { key.interestOps(SelectionKey.OP_READ); } } else if (key.isReadable()) { // If the Channel is finished reading, call finished // to complete the work if (doRead(channel, state)) { finished(channel, key, state); } } } catch (IOException ioe) { System.err.println("Failure during IO operation"); finished(channel, key, state); } } }Back to article
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 8:59 am
Post subject: 2 bolt quick release vs single twisty type base.
THere are already thread on Us cup vs euro pin.
But why do some people use the two bolt system. I know it would be stonger (2 bolts instead of 1). But is that the only reason? I have been using the twisty base since the dawn of time.
the thing i don't like about the 2 bolt is it is fixed...not easily moved around on the track, compared to the twisty. Or am I wrong?
I know it is easier to remove....but so is my twisty.
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Most people dont move the mast base around in the track. We just put the base part of the two bolt system where we want it on the track and leave it there. If you really want to move it around, its super easy, since with the Chinook system, the allen wrench for each of the two bolts is in the bottom of the universal. In fact, it
the bottom of the universal, and it's actually quicker and easier to move the track than with a single bolt. I have one base for each of my boards, so I just plug in and go every time. Its VASTLY superior to any other base systems. Chinook makes great products; worth every penny.
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Strength wise, I have never heard of a single bolt base failing (I am sure some have). I take my bases off and use them on different boards with different sails, so they get moved around a bit. So, I use the single bolt (universal/base as a single unit). Both work well, decide on convenience and not strength.
If you do want to move your base while in/on the water, the double bolt is a no go, or difficult at best since you have to remove the sail/universal from the base to use it as a too. On the single bolt, just twist the circular base to loosen or tighten without detaching it from the sail (not easy, but easier than the two bolt).
Single bolts probably come lose more often and slide in the track compared to the two bolt.
Decision time.........
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After 25 years of the single bolt I went with the 2 bolt the last season and love it. As Rigitrite said once I find the sweet spot for the base I leave it there. Really quick and super easy to connect/disconnect. I've had my base separate after a big jump in gnarly conditions with the single bolt. At impact I was left with the rig in my hands and my board floating away. Not fun. Especially when you're on the other side of the river.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:24 am
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going from memory but didn't SKYKING fly a twin bonaza ?
the ONLY reason I have, and do use the single bolt,and in particular one board which has a short mast track, the 2 bolt Chinook doesnt fit.
I also have used it on a board that wanted more forward placement than a 2 bolt afforded.
I have had problems with single bolt bases , coming loose.In conversations with the companies involved this is a rare occurrence, in one case the internals during construction were mis threaded, the other was said to be worn out, both replaced without charge BTW. I have several singles and cant explain why some have been troublesome and others not, nor could the reps, most reasonable explanation was the wah wah pads when flipping the sails caused the base to unwind
IF this occurs on the water the base may still remain in the track, but you will notice it sliding for/aft and is difficult to do anything but sail straight along, turns/ waterstarts will suck. If it becomes un attached, you need more than one person to assist to replace. In very extremely unlikely event a 2 bolt comes loose, it would slide, but NOT come out that I have heard of.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:28 am
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some boards have really small tracks. that makes using a double bolt quite limiting for adjustments. single bolts do twist off quite easily, one does have to be more careful about making it secure. the price of limiting my adjustments and the inconvenience of adjusting on the water for doubles, make me prefer single bolts.
personal preference.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 12:26 pm
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Because I strongly prefer simplicity, reliability, and compatibility, I stick a Chinook two-bolt base on every board and fuhgheddaboutit. It's been a hands-down winner for me in every regard.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 12:44 pm
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^^ What he said. Exactly.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 2:19 pm
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The most common single bolt failure I have seen is it unwinding itself in freestyle if you are doing a lot of sail 360s or ankle biters. The whole rig just twists right off. Also with the single bolt, if you do not wear booties than a volcano pad is mandatory to save your toes from the little tightening wings.
In the end I use both. Singles with my race boards where I have to do lots of adjusting and doubles with my wave & freeride gear where Im using the same sails in the same wind with the same boards. Like Isos said, it is a no-brainer.
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While I do have both, I use the single bolt style most often. The big downside to the two bolt design is that they cost more. Not a big issue if you have one or two boards, but if you have many boards the cost escalates. I have 7 boards in my van, and if all of them were set up with the two bolt style it would cost at least $175, plus tax. If you were to share a two bolt base between many boards, the time to install and remove it would be time consuming and problematic.
Regarding the single bolt design, if they are equipped with a brass fastening component, they can fail on the water. I had that happen one time at Jalama. The wave immediately sunk the sail and I had a hard time finding it in the lineup. However, once I did and got it to the beach, there was still remnants of the brass still attached to the thread on the universal. The brass fastener was missing from my board when I retrieved it on the beach. After that event, I will never use a brass fastener, and instead depend on the trusty stainless steel threaded tabs. Although fins aren't the part of the discussion here, I also steer clear of any fin tabs that are not made of stainless steel.
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"Thank you for your candor," said Martin after the review.
Martin was praised for his communications with the Board of Selectmen, although he was criticized for his lack of communication with the board regarding the town's finances. Those finances were discussed in an executive session following the performance review.
"I think, like anything else in this world, everything revolves around money," said Selectman Ken Fracasso. "If we don't have a CEO who has a full understanding of financial responsibilities, we're behind the 8 ball."
Originally, the Board of Selectmen had decided to hold Martin's performance review on Wednesday. But following the board's Jan. 7 meeting, Fracasso had requested to hold a special meeting on Jan. 12 to discuss possibly firing Martin. That meeting, as well as a Jan. 11 meeting to discuss hiring a financial liaison to the Selectmen, was canceled after town attorney Kevin Nelligan brought up issues with the town's audit.
"When we realized we were getting low on cash," Fracasso said, "we should have gotten weekly updates, not monthly."
Winsted's general fund had dipped dangerously low over recent months, and the cash crisis came to a head at the Jan. 7 Board of Selectmen meeting. The announcement that the town has begun receiving tax revenues at a faster clip than expected — 63 percent of the town's taxes have already come in, according to Winchester mayor Maryann Welcome — but Fracasso said that the town would run out of money by the end of the fiscal year without a supplemental tax.
"A professional town manager would have looked at all the financial obligations first," said Fracasso. "We fell behind right from the beginning."
Firing Martin had been perceived as a partisan issue, as Fracasso had called for the special meeting on Jan. 12. Notably, Second Selectman Candy Perez deferred until after the rest of the board had spoken, anticipating Fracasso's remarks.
"I think I'd like to hear from Ken," said Perez. "He had a lot of things to say when he wanted to call for the meeting." Continued...
Selectman Glenn Albanesius, who is the board's other Republican, did not comment, beyond remarking that he hoped to continue his relationship with Martin. Selectman George Closson, who spoke at length during the review, said that Martin needed to improve his performance in several key fields, mostly involving financial matters.
Closson said that while Martin has communicated capably with the board, his grasp on the town's general fund has been lacking. During his comments, Closson noted that Martin was unable to answer Fracasso's questions regarding the town's general fund balance during Board of Selectmen meetings for months, saying that "as a result, the town manager does not have an understanding of the town's cash flow."
"Before all of this was going on in October," Closson said, "I think this really goes back to the prior period. You're really grasping it now."
Subsequently, Closson also said that Martin's ability to develop policies efficiently was also hamstrung by his lack of a grasp on Winsted's financial status. The financial issues plaguing Winsted have officially escalated into a criminal matter, according to town attorney Kevin Nelligan, who debriefed the Selectmen on the accounting problems in an executive session following Martin's performance review.
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The board originally planned on holding Martin's performance evaluation in executive session, but Martin asked to hold the review in public. Martin had done the same at his previous performance review, and the town manager was praised for his decision to have the board discuss his performance to an open audience. However, Perez did state that "you need to communicate with this board more."
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Impressing the in-laws is a challenge many couples face during the festive season. But don't let it stress you out too much. Zoosk teamed up with relationship coach Jo Hemmings to come up with these 5 simple tips on leaving a good impression with your sweetheart's parents. Here's a summary:
1. Don't strive for perfection. Stress can rub off on others. Remember that the holidays are a time to have fun.
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3. Make love, not war. When it comes to your sweetie's parents, it's not your place to get involved in family disputes.
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5. Be inclusive, not exclusive. Make your in-laws feel like they are a part of your life and you will be a greater part of theirs.
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