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23-12-2017, 12:54
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#526
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Land of Disenchantment
Boat: Bristol 47.7
Posts: 5,607
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
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Originally Posted by picklesandjesse
Done a few singlehanded passages, the longest was only 28 days but I was a very different person at the end of that one. Set an alarm to get up every 15 minutes to check for shipping but eventually went to sleep and slept past the alarm. Slept for 30 hours and woke up the next day but didn't know it !! Found out when I turned the radio on and found a distant radio station. Very funny really. After awhile I just had a lookout every few hours or when my mind thought there might be a ship out there. Never saw one, not surprising really.
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" ONLY 28 days?!" That's quite an accomplishment, sir!
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23-12-2017, 13:18
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#527
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Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Channel Islands, CA
Boat: 1962 Columbia 29 MK 1 #37
Posts: 14,391
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
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Originally Posted by picklesandjesse
Done a few singlehanded passages, the longest was only 28 days but I was a very different person at the end of that one. Set an alarm to get up every 15 minutes to check for shipping but eventually went to sleep and slept past the alarm. Slept for 30 hours and woke up the next day but didn't know it !! Found out when I turned the radio on and found a distant radio station. Very funny really. After awhile I just had a lookout every few hours or when my mind thought there might be a ship out there. Never saw one, not surprising really.
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30 hours! Wow, and I thought I had set the record at 10 hours once.. not even close!
Speaking of demons, a friend just gave me a book entitled "Off the Deep End, A History of Madness at Sea."
Is he trying to tell me something?
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Pythagoras
1962 Columbia 29 MKI #37
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23-12-2017, 14:43
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#528
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: aboard, in Tasmania, Australia
Boat: Sayer 46' Solent rig sloop
Posts: 28,610
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
You mean you think it's an objectivity test? [Teehee].
A.
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24-12-2017, 06:58
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#529
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: forest city
Boat: no boat any more
Posts: 2,511
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
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Originally Posted by lateral
Damn right.
It seems there is a general pervasiveness of entitlement these days.
To sympathy, free money, services, fame etc.
But really the universe still doesn't give a @#$%.
One thing to learn for intrepid beginners to sh'd cruising, are you mentally up for it? Or will your demons come out of the closet?
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too damn right!!!...print this in large letters, frame it & hang it on the wall for everybody to see!
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24-12-2017, 09:29
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#530
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: puget sound washington
Boat: 1968 Islander bahama 24 hull 182, 1963 columbia 29 defender. hull # 60
Posts: 12,183
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
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Originally Posted by Don C L
30 hours! Wow, and I thought I had set the record at 10 hours once.. not even close!
Speaking of demons, a friend just gave me a book entitled "Off the Deep End, A History of Madness at Sea."
Is he trying to tell me something?
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he is trying to politely tell you the fact that everyone else already knows.
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24-12-2017, 10:12
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Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Channel Islands, CA
Boat: 1962 Columbia 29 MK 1 #37
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
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Originally Posted by newhaul
he is trying to politely tell you the fact that everyone else already knows.
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Huh? I am the sane one, it is all of YOU who are not!
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Pythagoras
1962 Columbia 29 MKI #37
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24-12-2017, 10:23
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#532
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: puget sound washington
Boat: 1968 Islander bahama 24 hull 182, 1963 columbia 29 defender. hull # 60
Posts: 12,183
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
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Originally Posted by Don C L
Huh? I am the sane one, it is all of YOU who are not!
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I know I'm stark raving mad . But heck the first part is admitting it.
You however are still in denial.
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24-12-2017, 15:48
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#533
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Scotland
Posts: 873
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
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Originally Posted by Don C L
Huh? I am the sane one, it is all of YOU who are not!
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It is good that some people still have enough time on their hands to be bothered dragging up such classic golden oldies , thank you .
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21-10-2018, 13:52
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#534
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2016
Boat: Wauquiez Pretorien 35
Posts: 439
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
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Originally Posted by dwedeking2
According to the NBC report a spreader failed, which if they were inexperienced/not smart and couldn't figure out a way to rig a replacement would prevent them from sailing.
They say they were "attacked" by sharks which seems odd in a boat that size.
From the article: ""I went downstairs with the boys and we basically laid huddled on the floor and I told them not to bark because the sharks could hear us breathing. They could smell us," Appel said."
I don't think it's fishy (as in a scam or something contrived), but Hawai'i collects kooks so I'm not surprised that is where they are from.
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I'm offended I was born and raised in Hawaii, and I'm not a kook...I think...
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21-10-2018, 19:41
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#535
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cruiser
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
Boat: 1963 Pearson Ariel, Hull 75
Posts: 1,111
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
Originally Posted by dwedeking2
According to the NBC report a spreader failed, which if they were inexperienced/not smart and couldn't figure out a way to rig a replacement would prevent them from sailing.
Yeah. What's the polite word? Balderdash!
Their spreaders look just fine. All of their standing rigging looks fine. Maybe they had trouble with their running rigging, like, which "rope" to pull on to hoist the mainsail.
See for yourself:
https://media.gannett-cdn.com/299061...6708234001.mp4
Keep in mind, these lady "sailors" had an EPIRB that they never switched on. Early rescue would ruin the story... and all the attention.
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22-10-2018, 05:00
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#536
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Southern Maine
Boat: Prairie 36 Coastal Cruiser
Posts: 3,127
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
Whenever I need some reassurance that the human race might have a future after all, I check back at their GoFundMe page.
Yup. Still at $40. There is hope.
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22-10-2018, 05:30
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#537
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,306
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
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Originally Posted by Souzag818
I'm offended I was born and raised in Hawaii, and I'm not a kook...I think...
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Well in defense of the post, he didn't say everyone in Hawaii is a kook, they just seem to attract more than their share of kooks.
Not unlike parts of FL (where i live), CA and a few other locations. Maybe it's something about the warm climate. I even had some very nice, normal friends that moved to CA that turned a bit kooky. Maybe it was driving across the continental divide, lack of oxygen or something.
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The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.
Sometimes it's necessary to state the obvious for the benefit of the oblivious.
Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
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22-10-2018, 12:07
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#538
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cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2017
Boat: Retired from CF
Posts: 13,317
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Re: HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months
Cold climates encourage serious productivity, Darwin was pretty ruthless.
The tropics, not so much. . .
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