The sailing nerd-out thread

[Mike95060]

bpw is my new wander lust hero.

 

[bpw]

For a little moto content, here is the bike we bought in Chile and rode on a 5,000 mile loop around the Andes two-up. 9 hp from a fire breathing 125cc. The first picture was taken at about 15,000 feet while trying to get over the Andes. Had to push while Anna walked a few of the steep parts since I neglected to buy extra carb jets to re-jet for altitude.

Second picture is near Valdivia, Chile were we lived for a winter on our boat at the yacht club.

It is the only motorcycle I have ever bought new, they are $1600 full retail from the dealer. Sweet little adventure bikes. Honda cgl125 pro.

 

[bpw]

This is a classic anchorage in Chile, notice lines to trees instead of an anchor to hold the boat in place. You can sail about 1200 miles along the southern coast of Chile stopping in perfect little coves every 10-20 miles with the exception of two places where you need to go overnight.

We hit a tree with our mast trying to sail out of here.

As you get south there is less vegetation and it turns into a sort of high alpine environment even though you are at sea level. Hard to see in this picture but we have three lines ashore plus the anchor to hold us in place during heavy wind. It blew hard enough one night in this anchorage to knock things off the table.

This picture was taken after hiking about an hour up a mountain from where the boat was anchored on the Beagle Channel in the deep south.

 

[bpw]

This is the Yacht Club Micalvi in Puerto Williams Chile. It is a sunken freighter sitting on the bottom that has had the wheel house converted into one of the coolest bars in the world. We lived here with our boat tied alongside for about 4 months.

 

[bpw]

We spent 3 weeks sailing to Antarctic on a friends charter boat, amazing place and we hope to go back with more time someday.

 

[gixxerjeff]

Moar pix pleeze.

 

[bpw]

Our friend Andy all geared up for some nasty sailing past Cape Horn on the way to Antarctica. You felt like the little kid in the snow suit every time you got dressed.

Anna at the helm trying to keep it together while we scream along in 45+ knots of wind, glorious sailing. It started snowing a little bit later.

 

[latindane]

Happy I opened this thread

Very cool to make a marina bar out of a sunken boat!

And I think I stood corrected on the sheet & traveller bit. I am probably remembering wrong (or just did it wrong all along!)

 

[bpw]

And I think I stood corrected on the sheet & traveller bit. I am probably remembering wrong (or just did it wrong all along!)

The traveller down and tight sheet is correct also, I normally go traveler down/tight sheet first, then if I still have too much power I start twisting the sail by easing sheet and cranking the traveler up. Twisting to dump power is quite inefficient since the top of the sail is not doing much except creating drag, much better to use all the other options first.

This is all very boat dependent as well, something lighter and racier than I am used to will work the traveler a lot to control power in puffs and lulls.

 

[bpw]

Very cool to make a marina bar out of a sunken boat!

Funniest part was the boat wasn't perfectly level so they built a level floor but the ceiling still sloped. Went from about 6'06" headroom at one end to 5'06" at the other. Lot's of drunken heads banged into that ceiling while dancing.

The bar would also partially flood during extra high tides.

Not my picture but this is inside the bar. The flags are from all the boats that visited over the years.

 

[Cycle61]

This is now officially thread of the year.

 

[bpw]

An ugly day on our way from the Falkands to Uruguay. Very nasty part of the world for sailboats, we had three gales in 14 days of sailing. The Argentine coast has very few harbors and most are difficult/dangerous to enter so we decided to skip Argentina and head straight to Uruguay. The tower on the back with the red telltale is our self steering gear, one of the most important pieces of gear on our boat.

The dog was very unhappy, she would just hide in the bunk with whoever was off watch and act miserable.

She was a lot happier when we arrived in Uruguay. Warm air, warm water, and plenty of beaches for digging and running.

 

[explorin]

Very cool....although i think id get tired of heeling over...the first time i stepped on a catamaran i knew thats what i would use if i sailed the world..

Ive had a hobie cat 16, and a laser.i chose the cat to sail every day..so much fun getting on one pontoon.

 

[BMW]

Great thread!!!

I thought I would contribute something small. Out in the Jeanneau 53 on Tuesday night...

 

[bpw]

Great thread!!!

I thought I would contribute something small. Out in the Jeanneau 53 on Tuesday night...

Nice, I sailed for a couple weeks on a friends Jeaneau 53, seriously comfy boat.

 

[ThumperX]

Ben, I k3ep missing you. Was down on Sugardock last week.
Your dog has an uncanny resemblance to the Bossdog.

I miss sailing.

 

[bpw]

Ben, I k3ep missing you. Was down on Sugardock last week.
Your dog has an uncanny resemblance to the Bossdog.

I miss sailing.

I missed you but I got to see Bossdog the other day running around the salvage operation. Made me miss Osa even more, we are hoping to get her out here soon.

We have been waiting on the salvage to get our new boat hauled at Sugardock so we can start working on the rebuild.

 

[ThumperX]

You're welcome to borrow him anytime.
I miss sailing, it's the one thing that can provide blind terror and absolute contentment all on the same day

 

[poach]

At Willow Springs I used to hold the throttle wide open from T5 until T9 turn in point, but the idea of being in a little boat in a a gale makes my stomach go cold as ice<shudder>

Tip o the hat to you guys...

 

[gixxerjeff]

I miss sailing, it's the one thing that can provide blind terror and absolute contentment all on the same day

Motorcycles fill that void for me nicely, from time to time.

 

[n10sive]

Our Corsair F-28CC on Lake Tahoe (with my Lake Tahoe spinnaker). Was a great boat for Tahoe as it would sail easily in a puff and really get up and haul in the afternoon Zephyrs. Top speed across Meeks Bay was 24.9 Knots with the main hull in the air...weeeee! arty

 

[SFMCjohn]

RIP Captain Creamer/Globe Star

Professor Creamer, who died at the age of 104 on Wednesday, taught geography for many years at Glassboro State College, now Rowan University, in Glassboro, N.J.

His expertise helped him become a history-making mariner, the first recorded person to sail round the world without navigational instruments.

His 30,000-mile odyssey, in a 36-foot cutter with a small crew, made headlines worldwide on its completion in 1984 ...

... It is daunting enough to circumnavigate the Earth with the aid of modern global positioning technology, much less with medieval and Renaissance tools like a mariner’s compass and sextant.

But Professor Creamer, in the grip of an obsession that had held him for years, shunned even those newfangled contrivances, as well as a radio, a clock and a wristwatch.

He chose instead to rely on his deep knowledge of the planet and its vagaries, and be guided by nothing more than wind, waves, the sun by day, and the moon and stars by night.

(god bless Captain Creamer, and New Jersey, too ...)

 

[Killroy1999]

I used to sail Lasers back in the day. You like to get wet?

I tried a FJs, but it seemed like a pig on a low wind day.

 

[msethhunter]

Got rid of mine. Mac 26S. Was an easy boat to own because of the water ballast, but it needed weight in the board. It was a good lake sailor. Our lakes here in SoCal pretty much suck. I took it to Ana Capa and Santa Cruz a few times and that was a challenge. You had to time leaving Ventura perfectly otherwise the Sun Downers would kick your ass.

 

[augustiron]

Good bump. I'm sitting on my powerboat in Emerald Bay at the boat in camping area as I write this, daydreaming i had a 36' sailboat to cruise the lake on and gunkhole camp.
Pic from last night when the Loyalton fire smoke.took over the lake for a couple of hours.