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Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 02-10-2020, 08:20
Replies: 50
Views: 9,905
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: How cold can I sleep onboard?

Dr. David Lewis sleep as best he could circumnavigating Antarctica in a rotten sleeping bag and rotted off kangaroo hide foul weather gear. He described his fingers as looking like sausages, but he...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 02-10-2020, 08:12
Replies: 74
Views: 11,263
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: How often you dive to see your anchor after anchoring?

We have 2 Lexan windows in the bottom of our dinghy that almost always afforded us a good view of our anchor. We would cruise over it almost every time we left the boat..
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 28-09-2020, 07:59
Replies: 68
Views: 12,749
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: choosing a wooden boat for cruising the world?

Lady Ben is a website that sells only wooden boats. I agree with your criteria. Hot or cold we love being able to steer from inside the boat. It pours rain in the cold and the tropics.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 18-09-2020, 08:49
Replies: 24
Views: 3,954
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier

I have a copy he signed for me. I too have read it a few times. I started sailing when it was considered foolhardy and maybe suicidal to leave the safety of a slip in any boat that was not a double...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 17-09-2020, 08:24
Replies: 95
Views: 10,012
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Corded or Cordless Tools, Which is Best

Nice thinking. I use a bunch of batteries that I charge in my kitchen and I am going to move my chargers to a shed today. Slightly more inconvenient but one less worry mostly for my pets when they...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 11-09-2020, 12:53
Replies: 39
Views: 6,878
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Sailboat falls of trailer on the 401 (Highway in Canada)

Well I have taken 3 hours to drive from 2224 Athens Ave, Simi Valley, California to work in West Los Angeles, California probably at least seventy five times on a bad day, a good commute, and I left...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 11-09-2020, 10:05
Replies: 39
Views: 6,878
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Sailboat falls of trailer on the 401 (Highway in Canada)

I grew up in Los Angeles so the busiest highway in Canada is not unlike the most densely populated city on the Dark Side of the Moon to me. If it did not snow there I would illegally immigrate there...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 07-09-2020, 08:56
Replies: 287
Views: 42,994
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: I'll acknowledge the elephant in the room...Full keel is dead... ssb is dead...

A little over 40 years ago some young guys bought a Morgan Out Island 41 Ketch and decided to sail it to Columbia. They found out there was a race coming up from Florida to Columbia and entered to be...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 05-09-2020, 08:18
Replies: 95
Views: 10,012
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Corded or Cordless Tools, Which is Best

Years ago I was renovating hotel rooms at a resort in Scottsdale. At the end of phase one we packed up and left until 6 months later and I charged up batteries for 2 De Walt screw guns and a cheap...
Forum: Our Community 27-08-2020, 17:15
Replies: 70
Views: 7,148
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: We have a winner!

I seem to recall a MacGregor 26X winning the Newport to Ensenada Race one year.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 24-08-2020, 07:44
Replies: 287
Views: 42,994
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: I'll acknowledge the elephant in the room...Full keel is dead... ssb is dead...

I reiterate, when we bashed back from Baja a little late in the season in 2015 every single boat we sat at anchor with waiting weather for weather windows that did not sport a full keel, every one,...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 15-08-2020, 16:18
Replies: 287
Views: 42,994
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: I'll acknowledge the elephant in the room...Full keel is dead... ssb is dead...

Probably true, it only has 110,000 miles on it.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 15-08-2020, 15:04
Replies: 287
Views: 42,994
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: I'll acknowledge the elephant in the room...Full keel is dead... ssb is dead...

16 y.o. Tundra.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 15-08-2020, 12:33
Replies: 287
Views: 42,994
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: I'll acknowledge the elephant in the room...Full keel is dead... ssb is dead...

As to homes so securely attached to the ground that no one would think to refloat them, we live behind a row of sand dunes about 2 or 3 minutes away from the junction of 2 Tectonic plates assuming...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 14-08-2020, 08:25
Replies: 255
Views: 30,960
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Does anyone ever choose to weather storms offshore anymore?

What if it were not a storm, but rather a tsunami warning?
Forum: Navigation 07-08-2020, 07:07
Replies: 62
Views: 6,858
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: wood ships , iron men

I sleep more better. May be false though. I still get up and peer around at night and on windy nights I do it a lot.
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 07-08-2020, 06:48
Replies: 113
Views: 10,492
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Considering ditching electronics and navigating the "old" way

We have used celestial navigation just because we like astronomy and math. But to ditch having a GPS driven anchor alarm is crazy.
Forum: Navigation 07-08-2020, 06:46
Replies: 62
Views: 6,858
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: wood ships , iron men

I have a Casio watch that lost 1 second in almost 2 years. The battery is dead now and it is in a drawer. I am afraid to fire it up again because I don’t want to find it is no longer perfect, like me...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 03-08-2020, 09:29
Replies: 217
Views: 38,924
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Rocna or Manson Supreme? (OP Ducks His Head)

A few years ago in the middle of the night the slight breeze became 45 to 50 kts directly into the shallow bay we were in. We were the smallest boat and anchored inside every other boat and too close...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 30-07-2020, 15:38
Replies: 155
Views: 21,908
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Sleeping as a couple?

I worry more about over crowded vessels safety where maybe everyone assumes someone else is doing what needs doing, take for instance the Titanic.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 30-07-2020, 15:34
Replies: 155
Views: 21,908
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Sleeping as a couple?

We have always spent far more time anchored that sailing. Even in later years with good a gps anchor alarm I still glance out at night. We use a watch system when traveling that suits us well. It is...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 27-07-2020, 07:11
Replies: 47
Views: 7,207
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: cracks in keel top in bilge

A little off topic, but around 1974, ‘75 my mother was living in California aboard a boat preparing to and then waiting for hurricane season to end to head South. She became friends with a couple...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-07-2020, 06:54
Replies: 124
Views: 23,955
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Strange story about Boot Key Harbor

Power corrupts. Who of us would not feel a bit superior with such a position in life?
Forum: Auxiliary Equipment & Dinghy 17-07-2020, 11:14
Replies: 20
Views: 2,923
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Keeping bottom of dinghy Clean

We have a 12’ plywood dinghy with 2 Lexan panels either side of the keel. We cleaned it by flipping it on a beach and wiping vinegar on it with a sponge and after a few minutes scraping off the...
Forum: Our Community 17-07-2020, 07:58
Replies: 82
Views: 11,248
Posted By fatherchronica
Re: Etiquette while docked

I live across the street from a church that has 3 sodium vapor lights on at night. We are star gazers and the light pollution is pretty intense, but we found a spot in our backyard that is only...
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