Sailing isn't all beaches and beers, good thing for navionics

[natraps116]

Our recent little gale we encountered

https://youtu.be/bF1A36h1dis

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[PortClydeMe]

Originally Posted by natraps116

Our recent little gale we encountered

https://youtu.be/bF1A36h1dis

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Just one question, Dave. Who are you "Staring" at? It's not polite to stare.

[PortClydeMe]

Watched the whole viddy.

Hmmm, I don't know, man. I'd have kept sailing.

Makes a person wonder how Robert Manry crossed the North Atlantic single-handed in a 13-foot wooden Old Town "Whitecap" in '65, with just a compass, sextant, and no engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x64u_KdqKnU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TODW-evYA

Robert Manry Project - THE BOATS - Story of Tinkerbelle | The Robert Manry Project

Anyway, nice that you gave a nod to the folks here at CF. Don't get wet!

[natraps116]

Originally Posted by PortClydeMe

Watched the whole viddy.

Hmmm, I don't know, man. I'd have kept sailing.

Makes a person wonder how Robert Manry crossed the North Atlantic single-handed in a 13-foot wooden Old Town "Whitecap" in '65, with just a compass, sextant, and no engine.

Robert Manry Project - THE BOATS - Story of Tinkerbelle | The Robert Manry Project

Anyway, nice that you gave a nod to the folks here at CF. Don't get wet!

Yeah , we could have also sailed into a storm on any of our passages. We chose to wait 36 hours and it was smooth sailing for the 400 miles to Providencia.

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[PortClydeMe]

Originally Posted by natraps116

Yeah , we could have also sailed into a storm on any of our passages. We chose to wait 36 hours and it was smooth sailing for the 400 miles to Providencia.

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Before Robert Manry embarked on his solo trans-Atlantic, he took his son for a "test sail" on Lake Erie. After encountering 6-footers on the lake, he said "Heck, no problem. I think I'll sail this Maine-built 13' skiff from Falmouth, Mass to Falmouth, England."

During his 70+ day voyage, he was knocked out of his boat 6 times by huge breaking 20-footers. Can you even imagine? Those were the days, huh?

[pete33458]

Around here, we call that "the afternoon."

Pete (!)

[Jon Eisberg]

Originally Posted by PortClydeMe

Watched the whole viddy.

Hmmm, I don't know, man. I'd have kept sailing.

Not sure about that, but I'd have removed the engine from that dinghy, for starters...

But that's probably just me...

Good thing for Navionics, indeed...

Until, it isn't... ;-)

[PortClydeMe]

Originally Posted by pete33458

Around here, we call that "the afternoon."

Pete (!)

haha

A cruiser sails to the coast of Maine, and then takes his tender to explore the small quaint lobster village. After looking around town a bit, he approaches a local and asks:

Cruiser: "Can you tell me where the center of town is?"

Local: "Don't move one damn inch!"

[PortClydeMe]

More Maine humor:

Out-of-state cruiser to a Maine lobsterman: "Have you lived here all your life?"

Lobsterman: "Not yet."

[korrigan]

Originally Posted by PortClydeMe

Before Robert Manry embarked on his solo trans-Atlantic, he took his son for a "test sail" on Lake Erie. After encountering 6-footers on the lake, he said "Heck, no problem. I think I'll sail this Maine-built 13' skiff from Falmouth, Mass to Falmouth, England."

During his 70+ day voyage, he was knocked out of his boat 6 times by huge breaking 20-footers. Can you even imagine? Those were the days, huh?

Stories are only told by people who live to tell them.

It's been a long long time since I read Joe Taskers book (mountain climber) but I remember quite clearly how he would tell a harrowing tale of near death at high altitude and then in the preface to the next story talk about how much confidence that last trip had given them and how they wanted to up the stakes for the next one.

He and Peter Boardman did this over and over again until they didn't come back any more.

So it's not really all that impressive to have lived through something that probably should have killed you. That seems like bad style.


Oh right the thread.....


Seems like if you are relying on an app running on an ipad or any other device for your safety in a sudden storm then that too is bad style.


And what's with all the darkness? I'm expecting Riddick to pop out at any time.

[PortClydeMe]

Originally Posted by korrigan

Stories are only told by people who live to tell them.

It's been a long long time since I read Joe Taskers book (mountain climber) but I remember quite clearly how he would tell a harrowing tale of near death at high altitude and then in the preface to the next story talk about how much confidence that last trip had given them and how they wanted to up the stakes for the next one.

He and Peter Boardman did this over and over again until they didn't come back any more.

So it's not really all that impressive to have lived through something that probably should have killed you. That seems like bad style.

I beg to differ, but to each his/her own. I found his voyage to be quite impressive, with lots of planning involved.

That aside, my point was a bit different. There was a time with rotary phones, and folks who were not so hesitant to embrace adversity. Myself? I sure the heck am not going to try a trans-Atlantic in a "30-year-old" 13-foot sailing skiff that I fixed in my garage. Robert Manry did. Fairly impressive, if you ask me.

Blogs by youngsters with chart plotters sailing around in good weather, asking for sponsor (patron!) donations? Not so impressive.

If Ed Hillary had never ascended Everest, maybe nobody would have. Food for thought.

[natraps116]

Originally Posted by korrigan

Stories are only told by people who live to tell them.

It's been a long long time since I read Joe Taskers book (mountain climber) but I remember quite clearly how he would tell a harrowing tale of near death at high altitude and then in the preface to the next story talk about how much confidence that last trip had given them and how they wanted to up the stakes for the next one.

He and Peter Boardman did this over and over again until they didn't come back any more.

So it's not really all that impressive to have lived through something that probably should have killed you. That seems like bad style.


Oh right the thread.....


Seems like if you are relying on an app running on an ipad or any other device for your safety in a sudden storm then that too is bad style.


And what's with all the darkness? I'm expecting Riddick to pop out at any time.

Remember, I said we use the iPad navigation app in addition to a chart plotter and radar. And it was so dark because it was a freaking white out gale that covered the sun completely. Duh. The sun was still out when the storm hit. You just couldn't see it.

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[FamilyVan]

Can you guys not afford a new flag?

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[natraps116]

Originally Posted by FamilyVan

Can you guys not afford a new flag?

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We actually have a nice 3X5 flag we raise once under way. The little one is for bad weather.

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[korrigan]

Originally Posted by natraps116

Remember, I said we use the iPad navigation app in addition to a chart plotter and radar. And it was so dark because it was a freaking white out gale that covered the sun completely. Duh. The sun was still out when the storm hit. You just couldn't see it.

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No worries. I'm just ribbing you. That sort of adventure gets pretty routine after a while. The more you go out the more it will happen.

The trick is to make it all part of the plan; that's when you are starting to develop style.