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22-09-2010, 07:37
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#196
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Liverpool, UK
Posts: 266
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Originally Posted by MarkJ
Fortunately up the bum
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Originally Posted by surfmachine
Thats flamin poetry man!!!?
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Hmmm?
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22-09-2010, 07:57
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#197
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ohio
Boat: Now boatless :-(
Posts: 11,580
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You can bet we are all totally psyched about your first long solo. Well done and tip a few on me. I'll pay you back on lap 2...
Just don't start talking to hallucinations on those lonely night watches...
Glad to hear Nic is settling in well.
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22-09-2010, 10:34
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#198
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 31,081
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Nice One..................
Both of ya....
Keep the info flowing...
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Self Defence is no excuse for Genocide...
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22-09-2010, 10:57
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#199
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 107
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Glad to hear all is well.....for both of you.
You sure you couldn't see that big Rock? At least the monkeys? 
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22-09-2010, 11:12
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#200
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Fr. Poynesia
Boat: Southern Cross 35' Cutter - FrPol & H-boat 26' - Sweden
Posts: 245
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@ Mark
My sincere Congtatulations!!
Youv'e become a 'true single-hander' now I reckon, baptized and all...
Seems this thread will be an on-going real time thing, still doing your blog?  
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22-09-2010, 11:39
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#201
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Full time on the boat
Boat: Beneteau 473
Posts: 89
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Good Luck
I just saw this thread as I have been away for a while.
Mark,
I have followed your adventures since you set off. I chartered your boat the year before you bought her in St. Martin. I just recently purchased a 2001 Beneteau 473 to eventually retire on and cruise. When all the "experts" tell me. "You can't do blue water on a Beneteau", I point to you and Nic. I wish you the best and hope to see you continue to post here.
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22-09-2010, 11:51
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#202
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C.L.O.D
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: UK
Boat: Kalik 40
Posts: 8,264
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Originally Posted by GordMay
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Ahhh. See, you learn something new every day, even at my fresh young age. I was wondering what emeritus meant. I'd assumed it meant something like "full of wordly wisdom and links". Not so.
The link gives a definition followed by a thesaurus suggestion.... old - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"
See, I learnt something new!
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22-09-2010, 11:52
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#203
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C.L.O.D
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: UK
Boat: Kalik 40
Posts: 8,264
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Mark - great to hear you're both OK. If you see Gjalt and Corinne while you're there, give them my love!
When does hurricane season pass?
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24-09-2010, 19:02
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#204
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Panama City, Panama
Boat: Islander Freeport 41' Ketch
Posts: 426
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Lets add a name to that list:
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Originally Posted by GordMay
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I believe we are leaving someone out here.
How 'bout God, Noel Edmunds, GordMay. Not sure about the proper order.
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25-09-2010, 02:19
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#205
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,820
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Originally Posted by jmo64
You sure you couldn't see that big Rock? At least the monkeys?
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No, but I could smell 'em!!
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Originally Posted by Tayzach
I just recently purchased a 2001 Beneteau 473 . |
I like that 473!
I went on a 2 cabin version when I was in Tonga and the lazarette it a huge one, walk through from the galley. Talk about storage!
The 473 will be a great boat for you. I think its the perfect size for this job and like that, and in the new range, the 46.
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Originally Posted by Saucy Sailoress
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Dunno, Kate. I will put a question up.
Mark
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25-09-2010, 12:58
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#206
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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spozed to end nov 1.
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25-09-2010, 14:04
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#207
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: SW Florida
Boat: FP Belize, 43' - Dot Dun
Posts: 3,823
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Originally Posted by Saucy Sailoress
When does hurricane season pass?
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Nov. 30th
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25-09-2010, 14:16
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#208
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Wash DC
Boat: PETERSON 44
Posts: 3,165
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I like nov 30 I got nailed in a nasty mid november TS years back. It didn't matter if it was called a huricane or not at the time we saw winds exceed 80 mph and it blew us for several days massive confused seas. I would go later rather then early I think I read the water is warmer this year too.That would lean tword a later run as well Then again whats a few weeks.
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25-09-2010, 14:31
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#209
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: At the intersection of here & there
Boat: 47' Olympic Adventure
Posts: 4,892
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According to NOAA:
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Hurricane Season DatesHurricane season in the Atlantic begins June 1st and ends November 30th. The Eastern Pacific hurricane season begins May 15th and also ends November 30th.
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25-09-2010, 14:37
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#210
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C.L.O.D
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: UK
Boat: Kalik 40
Posts: 8,264
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So it looks like it'll be a long wait in the Canaries, then! What's the entertainment like there? Or are you sitting on your boat turning into one of those surly old men who growls at anyone have fun...???
Darn - this is a (not so) quick reply, so I can't add a smiley to show my intent is in jest.... Talking of which, I haven't seen the 'rude' thread for a while!
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