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25-09-2010, 15:09
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#211
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,076
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Hey Mark,
Glad to hear you did and enjoyed your first long solo!! Great job!! I heard the Canaries were cool to chill in.. Keep us posted on all of it, with photos of course.. and can't wait to hear your thoughts and exposure to your next huge solo!!
Cheers
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25-09-2010, 15:29
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#212
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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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markj i like yer avvie -- is a good one. maybe soloing is appropriate after a splitting of the sheets. mother nature seems to understand and sends beauty. also hard work. keeps the mind occupied, which is a good thing.
smooth sailing-!
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26-09-2010, 03:47
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#213
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saucy Sailoress
surly old men who growls at anyone have fun...???
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Don't be so ignorant on the internet! Don't drive that dinghy so close! Turn the music DOWN. You knocking on my HULL? Anchored too close! TOO FAST! TOO CLOSE! GETOUTAMYANCHOARGE! I'M-CALLING-THE-COAST-GUARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FAST, way too FAST! I SMELL that SOMKE you DRUGGO!
Yeah, dats me 
Too close *******!!!!!!!!! I'm watchin your anchor!
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26-09-2010, 17:49
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#214
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkJ
Don't be so ignorant on the internet! Don't drive that dinghy so close! Turn the music DOWN. You knocking on my HULL? Anchored too close! TOO FAST! TOO CLOSE! GETOUTAMYANCHOARGE! I'M-CALLING-THE-COAST-GUARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FAST, way too FAST! I SMELL that SOMKE you DRUGGO!
Yeah, dats me
Too close *******!!!!!!!!! I'm watchin your anchor! |
i can hear your dog farting,pal--- yer waaaaay toooo close......
omfg--perfect match!!!!! LOL...... 
they are fun to watch, tho....
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26-09-2010, 18:06
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#215
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: New Mexico, USA
Boat: International Etchells USA 125 Black Magic, Santana 20 475 Ghost, Hobie 33 3100 Bruja, dinghies,
Posts: 1,118
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Courage! amen
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26-09-2010, 19:11
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#216
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Smithfield Va.
Boat: '72 Tanzer 28 "Her Idea"
Posts: 320
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkJ
Don't be so ignorant on the internet! Don't drive that dinghy so close! Turn the music DOWN. You knocking on my HULL? Anchored too close! TOO FAST! TOO CLOSE! GETOUTAMYANCHOARGE! I'M-CALLING-THE-COAST-GUARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FAST, way too FAST! I SMELL that SOMKE you DRUGGO!
Yeah, dats me
Too close *******!!!!!!!!! I'm watchin your anchor! |
Seriously...get of my lawn. 
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1972 Tanzer 28 "Her Idea"
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26-09-2010, 19:31
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#217
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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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ROFLMFAO--I LOVE IT!!!
curmudgeons arise and gripe!!!! hooooyaaahhhh!!!!!
now, get out of my kayak!!!
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26-09-2010, 19:38
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#218
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Wash DC
Boat: PETERSON 44
Posts: 3,165
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mark is trying to be the first single handed curmudgeon around the world. Next thing youll know he'll have sponsors and pals that pay with accounts and then disputes will happen.
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26-09-2010, 19:56
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#219
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: South coast of England, moving around a bit.
Boat: Long range motor cruiser
Posts: 750
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It getting clearer, what you need is a business manager Mark. For a mere 15% (plus taxes, deductions, additions as I think of them) I can set you up with a account for people to put money in just for the privilege of witnessing a curmudgeonly passage across the Atlantic. Think of it, book rights, movies, fame again. What do ya think?
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The message is the journey, we are sure the answer lies in the destination. But in reality, there is no station, no place to arrive at once and for all. The joy of life is the trip, and the station is a dream that constantly out distances us”. Robert Hastings, The Station
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26-09-2010, 20:09
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#220
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Gabriola Island & Victoria, British Columbia
Boat: Cooper 416 Honeysuckle
Posts: 6,933
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$10 ???? What the hell are you talking about. I'd pay a buck for that. Here, I got 50 cents ... take it or leave it.
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“We are the universe contemplating itself” - Carl Sagan
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26-09-2010, 20:40
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#221
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: anywhere AK is
Boat: Hitchiker, 35' 'Absolutely Knot'
Posts: 13
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No, we didn't know Mark & sorry to hear  Plse keep in touch XX W & E
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Eddie & Wendy
SY Absolutely Knot
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26-09-2010, 21:45
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#222
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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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EVERYONE needs a business manager--- just some of us cant afford to pay them..>LOL..
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26-09-2010, 21:55
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#223
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Salt Spring Island, BC
Boat: Drascombe Lugger 18.5 ft Delphine
Posts: 6
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Thrilled admit it!
You are thrilled, admit it. Sad, stunned, but great you had your time with her, all the love and life shared, but now you can give all that love and companionship back to yourself. Hang on for the chance in a lifetime. Without compromises! You wrtie like you smell it. You sound like you've got guts and the love of life. Congrats for stepping up to the plate. You are never alone if you are true to yourself. See you out there...
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27-09-2010, 03:33
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#224
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Moderator and Certifiable Refitter
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: South of 43 S, Australia
Boat: C.L.O.D.
Posts: 21,393
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey
Is it too early to ask for her telephone number? |
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Originally Posted by MarkJ
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A good run for a first solo trip.
It sure was long enough! Plenty of calms and not much wind and some really strong bits too! That Gibralter bit got me at over 40 knots for the 4 hours that boatman61 suggested I'd get. Fortunately up the bum. Before that I was becalmed for 2 days in the approaches (Alborian Sea) watching Dave MaxingOut's current flows.
In the straits I saw neither the Rock of Gib or the Moroccan side as it was misty then night. Of course I got the tides exactly correct and then was becalmed for a whole tide so got the contray one! LOL.........
Nicolle supplied me with weather SMS’d to the satellite phone daily.
She is doing fine, got a house in Brisbane, got a job with a big company, re-enrolled in University to complete her degree. She will take all those things she has learned from the boat and make them part of her background traits: commitment, tenacity, resilience, and most of all something thats lacking in this modern world and few women in 'normal life' exercise: courage.
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OK, let me see if I have understood this thread correctly.
You have just completed your first long off shore solo; Nic is doing fine in Brissy; she has phone; DOJ doesn't have her number.
So I guess now is a good time to ask for her number - before those east coast blighters cotton on to the above facts.
Seriously it is great to hear that the first solo passage went well, wishing you many more of them. 
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangereous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence
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27-09-2010, 16:55
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#225
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: W Florida
Boat: Still have the 33yo Jon boat. But now a CATAMARAN. Nice little 18' Bay Cat.
Posts: 7,083
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Mark,
In Cruising World this month, "George Pike, a former organizer of the Bermuda One/Two and the OSTAR events, tracked the finishers. He pointed out that ""about 3,500 people have climbed Mount Everest, but less than 500 have singlehandedly sailed the Atlantic."""
So I guess that would be pretty cool.
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