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14-02-2012, 11:48
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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New Member - Aspiring Sailboat Owner !
Someone please talk some sense into me before I go an do something crazy....
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14-02-2012, 12:20
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Sponsoring Vendor
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Heathsville, VA
Boat: Gemini 105Mc 34'
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
Welcome aboard. I think you should get a sailboat.
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14-02-2012, 13:33
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C.L.O.D.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Gigaflopper.
It appears you may already be infected - and there’s no known cure. 
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"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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14-02-2012, 13:37
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Wookie
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Houston
Boat: '76 Allied Seawind II, 32'
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
Hell, you're in the wrong place.....I own 2 sailboats!!
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14-02-2012, 13:40
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: On Board, just above the water
Boat: Aloha 10.4 34' - "Nomad"
Posts: 954
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
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Originally Posted by Gigaflopper
Someone please talk some sense into me before I go an do something crazy....
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Come on down to Myrtle Beach and join me on a short cruise to Savannah about March 1st. You'll be able to find out if you like it and all it will cost is your travel to and from. + drinks and additional food of course.
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The Nomad Blog Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
"It is the bliss of ignorance that tempts the fool, but it is he who sees the wonders of the earth." -May God protect this fool.- http://theroamingnomad.com
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14-02-2012, 13:53
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Boat: 1966 Allied Luders 33
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
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Originally Posted by Don1500
Come on down to Myrtle Beach and join me on a short cruise to Savannah about March 1st. You'll be able to find out if you like it and all it will cost is your travel to and from. + drinks and additional food of course. |
So you're heading out again, Don?
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14-02-2012, 14:03
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Houston,Tx
Boat: Aquarius 23'
Posts: 1,552
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
Buy my old boat, I'm buying a new one.
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14-02-2012, 14:58
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: On Board, just above the water
Boat: Aloha 10.4 34' - "Nomad"
Posts: 954
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
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Originally Posted by malbert73
So you're heading out again, Don?
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Yes, I want to be in Savannah for St. Paddy's day, big party. Then I think I'll go back up to Long Island, to see some family. Should start getting warmer by the time I get there. Spend a few weeks in Hampton on the way. Maybe go outside and catch the expressway to get there.
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The Nomad Blog Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
"It is the bliss of ignorance that tempts the fool, but it is he who sees the wonders of the earth." -May God protect this fool.- http://theroamingnomad.com
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14-02-2012, 16:57
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mildy confused and ain't no expert
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Salem MA/Merrimack NH
Boat: Hunter 410
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
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Originally Posted by Gigaflopper
Someone please talk some sense into me before I go an do something crazy....
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You stupid idiot! Aren't you afraid of drowning, stroms, pirates? Sailboats are out in the cold wind, water spray, rock and roll all over the place. You can only carry so much water, how are you going tto ale a showere every day? Speaking of showers; how am I going to be able to run my bow dryer!
That's all I have until we know more about you.
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One would think that blowhards and sailing should go well together. But I wonder!
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14-02-2012, 17:39
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: On Board, just above the water
Boat: Aloha 10.4 34' - "Nomad"
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
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Originally Posted by Don Lucas
You stupid idiot! Aren't you afraid of drowning, stroms, pirates? Sailboats are out in the cold wind, water spray, rock and roll all over the place. You can only carry so much water, how are you going tto ale a showere every day? Speaking of showers; how am I going to be able to run my bow dryer!
That's all I have until we know more about you. |
Don't forget the KRAKEN! It has been released!
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The Nomad Blog Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
"It is the bliss of ignorance that tempts the fool, but it is he who sees the wonders of the earth." -May God protect this fool.- http://theroamingnomad.com
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14-02-2012, 17:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern California
Boat: Hunter 450
Posts: 705
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O-ohhh, you'll be sorrrry!! Few can ever get the saltwater out of their veins once they try it! It's been 4 yrs for me living full-time (never sailed before-though my hubby sailed 30yrs) and now they will have to bury me in my sailboat! Never want to live anywhere else. Cruising is another world- even the dock is better than land-everyone seems nicer, more time to socialize or even just say hi. How many land folk would invite you to go for a trip like Don? Hope you love it like the rest if CF'ers! 
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14-02-2012, 18:55
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Chesapeake Bay
Boat: Wharram custom 44'
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
Dropping into this seething cauldron. You do not see any remorse about their own fatefull decisions. Like those who have witnessed a bad movie, they encourage others to go see it. Perverse, but understandable.
Thick skin and a sense of humor (?) required.
You have to go out and get a 20' boat and claw off a lee shore.
You have to ask about anchors and anchoring.
You have to ask about sail trim.
If you have a keel boat you have to talk about catamarans flipping over.
If you have a catamaran you have to talk about how fast the bleeping thing goes.
But this is the most active REAL sailing site around and I must now submit for the flurry of said activity.
MY CATAMARAN IS THE FASTEST BOAT!
That is, it is made fast to the dock. I've got to make a few more cabinet doors and run some wires...
Such is life.
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14-02-2012, 20:50
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: El Ciudad del Mission San Diego de Alcalá en Alta California, Virreinato de Nueva España
Boat: Dread Pirate Ship Radio Flyer
Posts: 1,442
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Re: New member, aspiring sailboat owner!
Buy a Cal20 and sail it to Hawai'i. That crazy enough?
With a username like Gigaflopper, you sound like a computer techie.
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A house is but a boat so poorly built and so firmly run aground no one would think to try and refloat it.
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16-02-2012, 16:21
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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I think I'm trouble. But I'll be in fresh water to start! I've been addicted to sail blogs and stories of ocean crossings and long term cruising for a while now.
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