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17-10-2011, 20:50
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Houston Tx.
Boat: 2000 Hunter 290
Posts: 19
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Greetings From Texas
Just wanted to say Hello from Texas.
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17-10-2011, 21:33
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#2
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Clear Lake Marine Services - Seabrook, Texas
Boat: Gulfstar, Mark II Ketch, 43'
Posts: 2,359
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Re: Greetings
Welcome Aboard Cruisers Forum
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Formerly Santana
The winds blow true,The skies stay blue,
Everyday is a good day for SAILING!!!!
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17-10-2011, 23:08
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#3
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: We're technically refugees from our home in Yemen now living in Lebenon
Boat: 1978 CT48
Posts: 5,964
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Re: Greetings
Welcome to the forum Flanza4
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James
S/V Arctic Lady
I love my boat, I can't afford not to!
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18-10-2011, 06:32
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#4
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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: 49,139
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Re: Greetings
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Flanza4.
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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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08-11-2011, 18:51
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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: Greetings
Aloha and welcome aboard!
Good to have you here.
kind regards,
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John
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08-11-2011, 19:00
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: north carolina
Boat: command yachtsdouglas32
Posts: 3,113
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Re: Greetings
Hello from NC...are you a sailor?..have a boat? want a boat?what kind of boat?...DVC
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23-04-2013, 21:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Houston Tx.
Boat: 2000 Hunter 290
Posts: 19
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general cruising questions
Hello all, just had some general concerns about open water cruising. I have had my Hunter 290 29' now for about 4 yrs. Love it no real major problems. And have used it to cruise up and down the texas gulf coast. Like a lot of sailors, sooner or later you get the itch to go "out there" so to speak. I'm getting the itch to cross the pond, (for me that would be the gulf of Mexico) to the Keys, the Bahamas, Cancun etc. I've mostly sailed in bays and the ICW here in Tx. The times I have had it off shore was just a few mi. out in 4-6' seas. It hobby horses a little but I can live with that after all it is only 29'. Anyway I guess my real question is, is it wise to take this boat in Ocean crossings? I have to admit it doesn't inspire the greatest of confidence in open water for me. But that could just be me. I really like my boat and do not want to move up unless I have to. at 7400 lbs. it's a bit tender but I don't have to put a reef in unless the wind approaches 20kts.
Just don't know if the boat would survive a gail force squall out in the middle of nowhere.
Any thoughts?
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24-04-2013, 07:08
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#8
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Austin TX
Boat: Nimble Artic 26
Posts: 951
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Re: Greetings From Texas
I crossed from Antigua to Florida in a Ericson 32. There were Hunters the same size as yours sailing around Antigua. I think you could do it in that boat with no problem.
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