The Sailing Thread

[BmillsSkier]

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This schooner was a bit surprised when I sailed up in my peapod and asked for Grey Poupon. They actually did invite me to stay for their lobster bake, but I was plenty baked already.

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[Redsmurfer]

My Scarlett is a sexy Olson 29

[Peruvian]

^^^shes a peach!

[F#*k you cat]

Peace is my Olson 30 sailing out on the Great Salt Lake.

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[3s]

My Scarlett is a sexy Olson 29

That's a serious reverse transom. How big and deep is the keel?

[Redsmurfer]

Draws 5 feet or so, 29 feet LOA, 3500 lbs, built like brick shithouse and designed to race to Hawaii by a Santa Cruz surfer. Actually built in Santa Cruz the same year I graduated from UCSC, 1986. Updated her with a sprit to fly asymetricals, modern rudder, and new molded sails. "Fast is fun"

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Not too deep then
Must really heel over easy
You carry a 110% jib on the roller?

[warthog]

So friends or friends recently commissioned a 444 Vision Cat.
They are in South Africa doing shakedown runs for a month.

They just started asking around about dock space.
I gotta think something fell through. Nobody buys a 44 ft cat with a 12 ft beam and huge draft without having a place to keep it. RIGHT???
I can't imagine the stress.

Beautiful though.

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

Never even look at a boat unless you have a place to put it, both summer and winter....

[m2711c]

free docking on the canal… don’t believe that 48 hour rule crap. people just leave their shit wherever they want for as long as they want…




fact.

[GiBo]

My 92 yo step dad owned a Cal 40 for over 50 years (berthed in Hawaii) . He hadn't sailed it for 20 years or so and it was always semi for sale. I don't think he really wanted to see her go, but my mom thought it a waste of money to have it sitting in a slip. He finally sold it to an 80 yo dude who was planning to sail it around the world. Guy flies out and works on it for couple of months. He set sail about a month ago. He gets about 2/3 of the way to the mainland and calls the coast guard. He couldn't go on. He was exhausted. Coast guard says they can't get to him so they some how call out for available vessels in the area and a Turkish freighter headed to China picks him up.

So what happens to a boat left adrift?

[m2711c]

finders keepers on the high seas… owner has to pay to get it back.


https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/ad...her%20actions.

[Redsmurfer]

its a 100 on the furler, the boat was designed to sail with 1200 lbs of crew weight but single handed I can still do mid 6's upwind and off wind with no swell I can do 9-10 knots or more depending on how ballsy I am feeling.

[singlecross]

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[warthog]

Never even look at a boat unless you have a place to put it, both summer and winter....

To be fair, they both do reef restoration with NOAA and will be in SA fairly quickly after it is finally delivered to FL, so they don't really need a spot for too long. I would imagine they have a backup plan with NOAA or possibly the waterfront college they went to. I have to think they just are shopping for better options.
Final option here is just to toss out a mooring ball and float it in the bay. Tons of people do it all the time, but between the sailing vagrants and the birds, I think that is beyond a last option for them.
I will let you all know how it goes down.

[Peruvian]

Sailed past Lone Rock Point (BTV) and saw some folks climbing with Petra Cliffs - in the white just to the left of Lone Rock.

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

Sailed past Lone Rock Point (BTV) and saw some folks climbing with Petra Cliffs - in the white just to the left of Lone Rock.

You guys are killing it this summer. Jumped off those cliffs in my youth.

[Peruvian]

You guys are killing it this summer. Jumped off those cliffs in my youth.

The tradition continues (kids jumping from high cliff and the rock tonight).

[Peruvian]

[DBdude]

moorage shelburne bay?

[Peruvian]

moorage shelburne bay?

I sail out of the LCSC downtown but goniff has some big news over in Shelburne Bay.

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

I sail out of the LCSC downtown but goniff has some big news over in Shelburne Bay.

He doesn't hardly ever post on TGR any more but big news indeed. 36' big....

[Peruvian]

In that case…



From the malden voyage on Sunday. Yesterday we headed back out in some ripping 20knot winds with gusts closer to 30.



The captain at the helm.

[BmillsSkier]

The banana is a funny finger in the eye of superstition.

Got out on my in-laws' new to them J-112 this weekend on Lake Erie. What a fantastic boat.

[Peruvian]

The banana is a funny finger in the eye of superstition.

Maybe thats why we didn’t catch any fish.