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The sailing nerd-out thread

Were you there over the weekend? I swear you could surf the inlet on the weekend with all bozos.
 
I was there (Emerald Bay to Tahoe City) last weekend and was horrified with the amount of people
 
wow, good thread, I dont miss sailing till i get near the ocean or see old pics
 

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bpw said:
My girlfriend and I spent the last five years cruising this sweetie of a boat, now sold to a good home but we miss her. She is built of Ferro-cement and has no engine.

Now I work as a yacht surveyor so I still get to be around boats all day, but we are hoping we can get our new boat re-built and leave again in about 5 years. Only been 6 months and we already are starting to miss cruising.

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For some strange reason we like sailing in cold places...

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you mentioned in another thread that you were getting back out there! Good for you you crusty old sailor! what you going out in, and where you going?
 
Re: tahoe/emerald bay

I wouldn't venture to EB on a weekend unless I had to, we are here mon to thurs.

And yes Bozos galore, people start surfing/wakeboarding just outside the bouys when leaving, so you have idiots in the water with a flag up RIGHT THERE in the channel.

And then you had the idiots from 8pm till dark when the bay was empty making surfing laps in the bay (you know, that no wake zone of the entire bay) music blasting, yelling, people on the shore yelling and cursing at them that it was a no wake zone every time they fell and stopped, which was often.

Good times.
 
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:rose

(god bless Captain Creamer, and New Jersey, too ...)
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Thanks for the post, John. This guy was amazing. The NYT had a good obit/article on him today.

Thanks for the bump, too. I totally missed this thread in 2016!
bpw is my new Hero! :hail

I got dragged onto a sailboat against my will back in late 2012. After the race the owner of the boat asked me if I remembered where we were docked. I said "Of course." He said "Great!" then handed me the wheel and wandered off. I've been crewing on that very same boat ever since that day, and have hardly missed any races until this year when everything went to hell. I'm pretty sure that boat got sold this past weekend and our new-to-us boat is on it's way here from Port Townsend as I type. If I weren't being so hyper-careful with this Covid thing pre-transplant I'd be sailing her back myself. Hoping to watch her sail under the gate this week. This will be the one that takes us to Hawaii - PacCup 2022 or bust! :party

That fateful first day, September 5th, 2012...
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WaterChick
 
#1Freak said:
you mentioned in another thread that you were getting back out there! Good for you you crusty old sailor! what you going out in, and where you going?
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Yep, just about to start building out a 33' Aluminum boat from a bare hull to be our new cruising boat. Got a couple years of work ahead of us to get it done.

Initial plan is truck the boat to Duluth and sail out the great lakes to the East Coast, then probably back to high latitudes. Would like to visit Iceland/Greenland/northern Europe.
 
WoodsChick said:
Thanks for the post, John. This guy was amazing. The NYT had a good obit/article on him today.

Thanks for the bump, too. I totally missed this thread in 2016!
bpw is my new Hero! :hail

I got dragged onto a sailboat against my will back in late 2012. After the race the owner of the boat asked me if I remembered where we were docked. I said "Of course." He said "Great!" then handed me the wheel and wandered off. I've been crewing on that very same boat ever since that day, and have hardly missed any races until this year when everything went to hell. I'm pretty sure that boat got sold this past weekend and our new-to-us boat is on it's way here from Port Townsend as I type. If I weren't being so hyper-careful with this Covid thing pre-transplant I'd be sailing her back myself. Hoping to watch her sail under the gate this week. This will be the one that takes us to Hawaii - PacCup 2022 or bust! :party

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:thumbup

my BIL is a hardcore sailor (lives on his boat and is part of the management team at a local marina). he has done the PacCup twice. the first time as navigator, the second as captain (both as hired crew on someone else’s boat). after another race he was also hired to fly over to hawaii and sail a boat back. he’s never done it on his own boat, but keeps threatening to. he also keeps threatening to set sail and disappear lol.
 
So, yeah, the shelter in place has put the idea back in my head to sell my condo and buy a sailboat to fart around the Pacific in my retirement. I’m just a few years away from paying off my place. Once that happens, things get to be a bit more real. I’m going to spend the next few years patiently shopping for the perfect boat. :thumbup

I’m kinda settled on the idea of wanting a ketch rig and furling masts to make things easier for my solo butt to handle everything from the cockpit. At the very least, it is nice to have something to dream about again. It’s been a while.
 
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My Ninja. :thumbup
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Cape May to Cape May, the hard way ... :laughing:thumbup

WoodsChick said:
bpw is my new Hero! :hail
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+1!

WoodsChick said:
PacCup 2022 or bust! :party

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PacCup 2022 sounds awesome, good luck! :gsxrgrl

Preparation for the PacCup sailboat race:

Getting ready for the race is an effort of several months at a minimum. Typical preparation budgets, from entry fee to post-arrival rum, run from 20 to 60 thousand dollars and up.

With on-water times from five to seventeen days, twenty-four hours a day, this is the equivalent of running a hundred round-the-buoys races back to back. Reliability, flexibility, and spare parts are the keys to a successful preparation.
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think this year is also a Vendee Globe year, god willing:

Vendée Globe
Dates: the start of the race – on November 8, 2020
Venue: around the world

The only solo sailing race around the world that also non-stop and without assistance. Competitors will raise their sails in November, 2020, in the recognized mecca of the world sailing, the city of Les Sables d’Olonne.
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enjoyed the boat building links, too ... :ride
 
auntiebling said:
i love the idea of sailing everywhere, but i'll never do it.

so, i pacify my laziness by WATCHING other people building sweet wooden boats.

acorn to arabella
https://www.youtube.com/c/AcornToArabella/videos

sampson boat co
https://www.youtube.com/c/SampsonBoatCo/videos

both projects are pretty amazing, and evidently there are a LOT more boat builds on youtube but those 2 have kept me enthralled
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I spent a winter working for Harold Burnham building the schooner Isabella, learned a lot that year.

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I've got 500 hours as crew on the Schooner Alma. Mostly second mate but spent a summer as first mate.
https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/alma.htm
Never did any big ocean sailing. Spent a week gunkholing in the USVI and BVI and sailed my small boats all over SF Bay for many years.
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I also grew up sailing. My cousin started me on a Banshee. Got the worst sunburn ever. He was the Venture 24 Regional Champion. I crewed for him a couple times. He was sort of like Captain Bligh. My first boat was an El Toro. Then got into Sunfish. I used to only take that thing out on Small Craft Advisory Days. Big fun surfing that thing. Eventually I bent the mast. We rented a Laser in Kona and had a magical afternoon sailing along as Flying Fish jumped over the boat.

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auntiebling said:
i love the idea of sailing everywhere, but i'll never do it.

so, i pacify my laziness by WATCHING other people building sweet wooden boats.

acorn to arabella
https://www.youtube.com/c/AcornToArabella/videos

sampson boat co
https://www.youtube.com/c/SampsonBoatCo/videos

both projects are pretty amazing, and evidently there are a LOT more boat builds on youtube but those 2 have kept me enthralled
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I've been watching both of those channels for a while now. I also watch Mads over at Sail Life. He's rebuilding a Warrior. It's turning out amazing! Be careful though. His rabbit hole is really deep.

https://www.youtube.com/c/SailLife
 
dravnx said:
I've got 500 hours as crew on the Schooner Alma. Mostly second mate but spent a summer as first mate.
https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/alma.htm
Never did any big ocean sailing. Spent a week gunkholing in the USVI and BVI and sailed my small boats all over SF Bay for many years.
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Alma is a cool boat, and saying she sails like a barge isn't an insult!
 
I watch Project Binky.
I went to SF when the Aussie 18s were in town. Completely crazy. Never seen a monohull pitchpole before.
I would really like to try out the 49er Class. Those boats look like over powered surfboards with ladder racks.

Mad
 
Maddevill said:
I watch Project Binky.
I went to SF when the Aussie 18s were in town. Completely crazy. Never seen a monohull pitchpole before.
I would really like to try out the 49er Class. Those boats look like over powered surfboards with ladder racks.

Mad
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I did time on 505s then the 49er class hit. Talk about fully acrobatic. :etf

Trying to dog up pics of my stunningly beautiful IOR 2 Tonner Bohemia.
 
spent a lot of time on this barge.
 

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I work as a shipwright in Port Townsend and am currently restoring this Tumlaren on my own time. It was built for the prince of Denmark in 1947 then found it's way into BC and eventually the backyard of a man who lives on Marrowstone Island. After sitting out of the water for 16 years I got my hands on it in April and have it almost ready to sail. Currently rigging it and building a carbon motor mount.
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