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21-08-2012, 21:53
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Well Holy Crap We Cut the Docklines and are Officially Landless
It's been like 96 hours so far and it's been insane, not to mention the months and weeks work beforehand. Started off with a fizzle but life has been steadily improving. We're putzing around Catalina this summer to dial some stuff in before we go south into Mexico. Myself, my wife, and our two year old daughter.
Really wanted to say thank you to this place. Cruisersforum can drive me insane sometimes but if it wasn't for a lot of the advice and input from people on this board I really don't think I would have gotten to this point. I've done a lot of sailing and I do a lot of boat handling, but "cruising" itself, and I still don't like that word for some reason, is a whole unique set of challenges. It's been wonderful to have so many helpful people and their advice.
I'm in Two Harbors right now and I'll put my little Cruisersforum burgee thing on the spreader.
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21-08-2012, 22:15
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Vancouver BC
Boat: 1993 Hunter H28
Posts: 152
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Happy Sailing, may the wind be at your back.
I have always appreciated your posts and the learning you have passed on to us!
eliems
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21-08-2012, 23:01
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ohio
Boat: Now boatless :-(
Posts: 11,580
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Hey, if you're headed to Mexico you're going the wrong way - LOL...
Congratulations Eric - You should be an inspiration to many would be cruisers. I remember one of the earliest posts I read was some dude upside down is his bilge rebuilding the toilet system on his boat - I literally thought "holy crap", what a PITA that is...
Anyway congrats to you on getting out there.
Here's a little blast from the past gift lest we ever forget...
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...iego-6078.html
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21-08-2012, 23:24
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,191
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Aloha and congratulations! Hope you get over this direction when you're through with Mexico. Permanent moorings are hard to find but temporaries can be had.
kind regards,
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John
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21-08-2012, 23:29
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: South East Asia
Boat: Hans Christian 48T
Posts: 381
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Hi Eric
Good luck with the new stage in life. Look forward to reading your posts from wherever you go.
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Capn Morgan
'If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run...'
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21-08-2012, 23:57
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Sailing QLD, Australia
Boat: John Pugh Windsong sloop 38ft
Posts: 167
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Congratulations guys! Hope our GPS tracks come within hollering distance of each other one day!
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21-08-2012, 23:58
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Punta Banda, Ensenada. and Canada
Boat: 28Ft Piver Encore, Tri-Maran, Anchored in San Diego.
Posts: 728
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Good Fortune Eric may the gods of the deep look kindly at your wake.
Boy ,,,i'm Jealous,,,Keep the brite sides up!!
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22-08-2012, 00:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Valencia, Spain
Boat: SAGA 27 AK
Posts: 509
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Good for you Eric, congratulations, or should I say felicitaciones now that you're Mexico bound! Wish I was accompanying you, only a couple of years left...
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Sweet are the uses of adversity.
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22-08-2012, 00:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Caribbean --> Australia
Boat: Lagoon 420, Duncanson 29, Laser
Posts: 102
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Congrats!
Cruiserforum burgee thing? Where did you get that from and how do I get one!
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22-08-2012, 00:28
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 382
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
So excited for you and your family! Enjoy your adventure, hope to meet you out there someday. Cheers, TCG.
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22-08-2012, 00:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 1,065
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Just in time for the elections.
How long at sea?
This will be a time your daughter will remember for all her life.
Fair winds.
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22-08-2012, 00:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 1,065
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
BTW: 33N 118W is nowhere near the middle of nowhere.
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22-08-2012, 02:06
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
Boat: 63 custom alloy sloop,macwester26,prout snowgoose 37 elite catamaran!
Posts: 10,594
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
leaving is the hardest part!
best of luck
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22-08-2012, 02:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,140
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Good for you! Always remember schedules do not work real well when cruising and are not the same as weather windows. Fair winds!
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Mike
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22-08-2012, 04:29
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Moderator and Certifiable Refitter
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: South of 43 S, Australia
Boat: C.L.O.D.
Posts: 20,305
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Re: well holy crap we cut the docklines and are officially landless
Great news, looking forward to hearing more about your new life
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangereous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence
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