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10-08-2013, 18:12
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#241
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 30,618
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
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Originally Posted by ohdrinkboy
It's like a girl with gigantic implants, no bra, and a tube top getting mad at you for looking at them......what do they expect.
Sorry, been drinking.
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10-08-2013, 18:13
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#242
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: FN QLD
Boat: Junk rig Schooner
Posts: 209
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
Poor bastards.. tons of problems and ten's thousands of 
Havent even left the bay yet..
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10-08-2013, 18:59
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#243
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Hull Diver
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Under a boat, in a marina, in the San Francisco Bay
Posts: 5,433
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
There's a guy over on SA now claiming to be Hot Rod. It was bound to happen.
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10-08-2013, 20:25
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#244
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
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Originally Posted by ohdrinkboy
It's like a girl with gigantic implants, no bra, and a tube top getting mad at you for looking at them......what do they expect.
Sorry, been drinking.
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You gotta good point there, but is he begrudging the press? Or the wackos lurking in the bushes taking picture of him. He seems kinda easy going and oblivious, a trait I think vital to this whole adventure.
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10-08-2013, 23:55
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#245
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Hull Diver
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Under a boat, in a marina, in the San Francisco Bay
Posts: 5,433
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
OK, you need to go check out the SA thread. Verifiable proof that Hot Rod and his kid are posting over there now...
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11-08-2013, 13:42
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#247
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Punta Gorda, Fl
Boat: Endeavourcat Sailcat 44
Posts: 3,176
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
Someone said earlier that the Flyin Hawaiian was an ugly boat, well it has to go along way to catch up to this one, seen in Georgetown SC in 2007.
PS It is a Catamaran
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11-08-2013, 14:29
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#248
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
Boat: Pearson 365 Sloop and 9' Fatty Knees.
Posts: 10,469
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
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Originally Posted by Astrid
Curious how it seems to resemble some sort of Civil War ironclad gunboat.
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Ever stop to think someone may be saying something similar about your boat? 
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11-08-2013, 14:36
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#249
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Catskill Mountains when not cruising
Boat: 31' homebuilt Michalak-designed Cormorant "Sea Fever"
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
Ugly doesn't matter much with boats. Functional does. It's really nice when the two (that is, esthetics and functionality) coexist at a high level.
I fear the Flyin Hawaian's functionality was low to start with, and will decline by the day. I believe it will end not with a bang (i.e., no catastrophic break-up outside the Golden Gate), but with a whimper -- the beginning of slow seeps through that 3/8 CDX as it dampens and delaminates and cracks; followed by swelling and rot and more seeping, followed by some small impact or event that opens a leak too big to sop up or pump out. And she will wallow down, into the water or onto the mud. . . .
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11-08-2013, 14:45
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#250
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
Boat: Pearson 365 Sloop and 9' Fatty Knees.
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
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Originally Posted by rebel heart
The problem, perhaps, is that he is misinformed thinking that he is entitled to do what he pleases on the ocean.
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Ya...we wouldn't want him to do what pleased him
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Originally Posted by Ocean Girl
My husband's answer is: He is. 
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Plus the fact we know nothing about him but some are still able to pass judgment. I find his free spirit rare now-a-days.
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 Actually I think his stupid decision is Hawaii... |
 Yup...I lived there and can attest to that.
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Originally Posted by rebel heart
Being a good sailor and taking a good boat (not necessarily an expensive one) to far away places is still being an oddball.
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Glad you straightened that out for me...
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11-08-2013, 14:57
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#251
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
Boat: Pearson 365 Sloop and 9' Fatty Knees.
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
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Originally Posted by europaflyer
Just in from SA. Apparently the rig is full of lines flying all over the place, and Hot Rod et al. are having real problems parking the Fly Hi Jr. in its usual spot between the hulls. They're in a much less sheltered anchorage, not too far from the main channel. Look at the swell in the 2nd picture... how long until a seam opens? 
Chart 18652a
Depth where he is anchored is 13, which I'm guessing is in fathoms? 24m to me, which is more than the top of his masts... I think buying a little Bayliner escape pod was a good call, probably the first he's made. |
Euro...You better stay in port...looks scarey out there...
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Originally Posted by smj
I agree he may not make it. But at least he didn't sit in his armchair criticizing other people's dreams and ambitions. Kinda makes you wonder who the true loser is.
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A little harsh...but true.
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11-08-2013, 16:19
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#252
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
Euro...You better stay in port...looks scarey out there... |
 not scary in a proper boat certainly, but this thing is a floating eggshell and I would be damn scared if my family was on board...
Hot Rod posting a lot on SA now, doesn't seem to be interested in any help offered but he wanted an argument and yes, he got one. Barely possible to understand his posts, his standard of literacy seems, shall we say, somewhat rough and ready. 
CDX plywood in water. Tick tock.
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11-08-2013, 17:20
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#253
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
Boat: Pearson 365 Sloop and 9' Fatty Knees.
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
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Originally Posted by europaflyer
not scary in a proper boat certainly, but this thing is a floating eggshell and I would be damn scared if my family was on board...
Hot Rod posting a lot on SA now, doesn't seem to be interested in any help offered but he wanted an argument and yes, he got one. Barely possible to understand his posts, his standard of literacy seems, shall we say, somewhat rough and ready.
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Well...sounds like you have him and his vessel completely figured out.
I vote we get pitch forks and torches and put an end to the situation.
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11-08-2013, 17:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: WNC mountains U.S.
Boat: Haven't seen it yet. Bought on Ebay
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Did it sink, did it float ? Anything new or are we having hash for breakfast?
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11-08-2013, 18:16
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#255
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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Re: The Flyin Hawaiian is gone!
Quote:
Originally Posted by europaflyer
not scary in a proper boat certainly, but this thing is a floating eggshell and I would be damn scared if my family was on board...
Hot Rod posting a lot on SA now, doesn't seem to be interested in any help offered but he wanted an argument and yes, he got one. Barely possible to understand his posts, his standard of literacy seems, shall we say, somewhat rough and ready.
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Well, hot rods exact word were, when refering to the complete jackassery of SA:
"This is like preschool revisited"
Hot Rod did ask for help But clearly doesn't trust their motives. So far the help offered at SA is for their holiness enlightened selves to go aboard FH and point out what he did wrong.
Hot rod also mentioned how rewarding it was to build a boat with his son.
As far as the personal attack about his literacy, He is typing by flip phone, and even commented that it was limiting his answers and very frustrating.
I used to think SA was a place for hard core sailors/racer, a little high strung but basically ok people. Frankly, after reading the thread about FH, they are really a bunch of self righteous class A ninnies. I mean..WOW!
Does the be nice rule pertain to the axxholes over at SA? bashing a guy for having the nerve to build a boat without their consent or approval?
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