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22-11-2010, 06:13
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 49,129
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As a reformed actor, Mark is used to reading other people’s lines.
"Gentlemen Never Sail to Weather: The Story of an Accidental Odyssey"
by Denton R. Moore
Bon voyage!
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Gord May
"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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22-11-2010, 06:24
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#17
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,140
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Mark:
Sail safely and let us know when you arrive at a destination where ever that may be. Hopefully it will be your original destination.
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22-11-2010, 07:22
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Las Brisas Panama AGAIN!
Boat: Simpson, Catamaran, 46ft. IMAGINE
Posts: 4,507
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After finishing your circumnavigation, what's next? BEST WISHES in a good crossing, and your safety....... i2f
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22-11-2010, 07:41
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#20
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: ontario canada
Boat: grampian 26
Posts: 1,743
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Fair winds and following seas.
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22-11-2010, 07:45
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Bremerton, WA
Boat: it doesn't have a sail so it doesn't count!
Posts: 93
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Be safe,
Godspeed,
craig
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"The ocean has always been a salve to my soul... Later down the road of life, I made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land." -- Jimmy Buffett
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22-11-2010, 08:12
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: By the River of Silver
Boat: FPD 1760 LCD 17"screen
Posts: 304
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Fair winds and good luck, Mark. Hope that low avoids you or you avoid that low.
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We are all in the same boat. Be happy that not everyone is on your side.
Always bear in mind that I am total newbie .
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22-11-2010, 08:18
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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Quote:
Originally Posted by perchance
Fair winds and following seas.
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+1, especially on the fair winds part.
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cruising is entirely about showing up--in boat shoes.
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11-12-2010, 12:04
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Kansas City, MO
Boat: In the hunt again, unknown
Posts: 1,331
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkJ
If you're interested have a look at the weather system mid atlantic for my previous route on the rhumb line.
So I am heading south to just north of Cape Verde Islands under the donk + sails to keep under the system. However that means a slow trip as their ain't no wind down there!
Thats why I would have like to have gone yesterday at sparrows... I don't go anywhere that Passage weather thinks there could be 30kts on the nose as ya can normally add 5 to 10 on, plus apparent.... and gentlemen try to avoid going to weather!
Glad I got pleanty of booze.
Even the wind acceleration zomne off the airport ain't accelerating.
Mark
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Well Mate, you should be almost out of booze, hope you are almost to St. Martin!
Hope the trip across has been an easy one.
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11-12-2010, 12:44
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CF Adviser Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Virginia
Boat: Island Packet 380, now sold
Posts: 8,942
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As of yesterday, only 33 of the ARC boats had arrived in St Lucia. Last year on day 19, over 150 had arrived. It's turning out to be one of the slowest ARCs ever. Many boats headed south to avoid headwinds and had to endure days of light winds before finding the Trades.
Mark mentioned in his earlier post that he was planning to head well south before turning West, so he's probably been seeing the same conditions.
Maybe we can start a pool. I'll make the first bet --1500 AST on December 17th.
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11-12-2010, 17:44
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S/V rubber ducky
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: heading "south"
Boat: Hunter 410
Posts: 20,362
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0920 Dec 19
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11-12-2010, 18:50
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#28
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Oct 2007
Boat: Endeavour 42CC
Posts: 1,182
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0830 dec 18
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11-12-2010, 20:30
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Fr. Poynesia
Boat: Southern Cross 35' Cutter - FrPol & H-boat 26' - Sweden
Posts: 245
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GordMay
As a reformed actor, Mark is used to reading other people’s lines.
"Gentlemen Never Sail to Weather: The Story of an Accidental Odyssey"
by Denton R. Moore
Bon voyage!
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I learn something every day, thought Eric Hiscock came up with that expression.
We all tend to borrow from eachother don't we? ...and after that's been going on for a while, it turns into an adage.
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11-12-2010, 21:07
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#30
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: La Paz
Boat: 41' Custom CC Cutter
Posts: 647
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Sunset on the 15th. Go Markus! It's all downwind with women and beer at the finish. The Caribbean awaits, me laddie. It's stage time, don't waste it. !!! But if you get to LA, i can get you stage time at a comediy club if you feel the urge to talk to an American, LA audience. See you in the Pacific, Markus. Jon @ La Paz
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