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Forum: General Sailing Forum 25-02-2024, 14:30
Replies: 43
Views: 5,882
Posted By newlazydays
Re: A story for old mariners

My original story has gone far further than I ever imagined, and the comments on the "rope on a boat" theme have been interesting. Many years ago I met Irving Johnson and since then have loved all...
Forum: Our Community 18-02-2024, 16:59
Replies: 341
Views: 38,321
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Why do cruisers quit cruising?

Working in the big boat industry years ago in Fort Lauderdale I heard the following story. One day the wife said "it's me or the boat'. To which the man said "OK see you" and came back to the boat....
Forum: General Sailing Forum 14-02-2024, 13:12
Replies: 79
Views: 5,314
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Why do so many people think cruising must be forever?

Many years ago I was tucked into a nice anchorage with a number of other boats. An ominous squall line was approaching. Just before the squall hit a British registered yacht anchored off my port bow....
Forum: General Sailing Forum 30-01-2024, 17:40
Replies: 54
Views: 4,035
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Recommend me some ripping yarns about sailors crossing the Atlantic Ocean or simi

I have read many of the books already mentioned, but here is one that I enjoyed. Survive the Savage Seas by Dougal Robertson
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-01-2024, 13:29
Replies: 43
Views: 5,882
Posted By newlazydays
Re: A story for old mariners

Boatman61, I take my hat off to you as a solo sailor, but I don't want to do it myself. I have done short deliveries by myself, but long passages,no. To me there is so much to go wrong. I have broken...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-01-2024, 13:11
Replies: 43
Views: 5,882
Posted By newlazydays
Re: A story for old mariners

Jim Cate. I concede you are right.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-01-2024, 16:31
Replies: 43
Views: 5,882
Posted By newlazydays
Re: A story for old mariners

There is actually one rope on a boat. It's the bell rope! However having taught sailing for 15 years in the past I was pretty insistent on the students learning every part of the boat by its proper...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-01-2024, 13:21
Replies: 43
Views: 5,882
Posted By newlazydays
Re: A story for old mariners

psk125 mentioned the "futtock spanner". The futtock shrouds on a square rigger supported the join of the lower and upper masts. In the old days, and if you were a hardened sailor you climbed up and...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 25-01-2024, 12:42
Replies: 43
Views: 5,882
Posted By newlazydays
A story for old mariners

Fifty four years ago I was working on my boat in a well known yard in the south of England. Over a period of months I had come to know quite a few of the workers in the yard and we would sometimes...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 02-11-2021, 15:49
Replies: 61
Views: 8,762
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Are Logbooks necessary?

Just a thought. I recently dug out my log book from 1971. In those days navigation was by sextant and we were in the Med at the time. The log book was a great memory jogger of all the places visited...
Forum: Crew Positions: Wanted & Available 06-10-2021, 20:16
Replies: 19
Views: 2,491
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Mac 65 moving from Solomons to Florida

If you go round the horn drop into Ushuwaia on the way. Some nice pubs.
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 06-10-2021, 20:05
Replies: 32
Views: 4,834
Posted By newlazydays
Re: 45' Leopard Catamaran Delta anchor power set rpms

Putting my penny's worth here. After many years chartering in the Bahamas my anchors got bigger the longer I was there. I finished up with a 110 lb claw from China on a 51 foot mono hull sail boat. I...
Forum: Crew Positions: Wanted & Available 24-07-2021, 17:52
Replies: 0
Crew Available: Opua to Auckland
Views: 639
Posted By newlazydays
Opua to Auckland

I will be arriving in Opua around Thursday 29 July on a 52 foot ketch from Auckland. Is there anybody coming back to Auckland a couple of days later and needs a hand? Experienced sailor.
Forum: Crew Positions: Wanted & Available 02-12-2020, 14:18
Replies: 1
Views: 698
Posted By newlazydays
Auckland. Want a reliable hand?

Semi retired captain. 27 years experience in the Caribbean and Bahamas. Sailing since the late fifties. Handled boats to 90 feet. 60,000 miles sailing. Very mechanical. Done some delivery work and...
Forum: Navigation 07-08-2020, 08:10
Replies: 62
Views: 6,853
Posted By newlazydays
Re: wood ships , iron men

Dead reckoning comes from deduced reckoning.

Back in 1970 I was heading south to the Med in a wooden ketch built in 1934. Teak on oak and copper clenched with pitch pine decks and spruce...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 20-07-2020, 12:54
Replies: 45
Views: 8,123
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Treasure Cay. Boat adrift.

For those that don't know, Treasure Cay is in the Abaco Islands, Bahamas. Last year hurricane Dorian did untold damage here. I lost my own boat in Green Turtle Cay during the same storm.



The...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 20-07-2020, 06:42
Replies: 45
Views: 8,123
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Treasure Cay. Boat adrift.

Re.
SANDY'S WAY from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/tags/nova scotia.html). Last evening three Bahamians and myself re-floated the boat and put it back on a mooring....
Forum: General Sailing Forum 19-07-2020, 05:50
Replies: 45
Views: 8,123
Posted By newlazydays
Treasure Cay. Boat adrift.

I am in Treasure Cay now. Last night, (19th July) a boat broke from the mooring ball.


SANDY'S WAY from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The boat is now aground on the western side of the bay.

...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 09-07-2020, 10:02
Replies: 34
Views: 3,925
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Back to the Bahamas

I arrived in the Bahamas yesterday at Treasure Cay airport. The original terminal still trashed. Now two "caravans". One as a waiting room the other for Immigration/Customs.


If coming in, make...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-06-2020, 10:00
Replies: 228
Views: 29,649
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Captain/Owner Sleeping at the Helm

Your story reminded me of an incident maybe 20 years ago. I was briefly involved in the construction of a 65 foot power catamaran and was asked if I would captain it. I declined, but a friend of mine...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 18-06-2020, 11:10
Replies: 34
Views: 3,925
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Back to the Bahamas

Thanks for that info. I had already booked a flight with a small airline and they told me at the time of booking that the virus check was going to lapse at the end of June. I was going to get tested...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 13-06-2020, 11:09
Replies: 34
Views: 3,925
Posted By newlazydays
Back to the Bahamas

I would like to get back into the Bahamas to retrieve a boat from Abaco. Does anyone know what this entails under Covid19? Travel restrictions?
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-05-2020, 12:35
Replies: 20
Views: 4,916
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Abacos Report

26 May 2020.



I "chatted" with someone on the Bahamian Government website today. It would seem from the info she gave me that the Bahamas will not be opening up till July 1. I was hoping to be...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-05-2020, 08:05
Replies: 44
Views: 6,044
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Quote Question re sailboat delivery

I read this thread with interest. One of the best quotes was this.


and who also is highly mechanical. There are tons of Captains out there that have no idea what to do when something breaks. ...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 07-05-2020, 08:22
Replies: 58
Views: 15,492
Posted By newlazydays
Re: Ketch or Sloop for Caribbean and ocean crossing ?

For what it is worth......


I lived on a 51 foot ketch for 17 years and did thousands of miles single handed. What I liked about the ketch was that you could hang things on the mizzen. For...
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