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22-05-2011, 09:18
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: San Francisco
Boat: O'Day 37 Center Cockpit "Namaste"
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Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
Perhaps this should be under "Sailor's Confessional," or "Destinations," but thought it might be interesting to communally note where we were while waiting (or not) for the Rapture.
Myself, bellied up to the bar at South Beach YC, San Francisco (and then later the Bay View Boat Club), looking out onto perfectly enticing, sunny South Bay watersv, winds about 10 to 12 kts. Drink at the time: Guinness.
Best,
Lorenzo
"Namaste"
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22-05-2011, 09:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: ontario canada
Boat: grampian 26
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
Looking for the exit or to quote Lt. Ripley "who do I have to F#@K to get off this planet"?
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22-05-2011, 09:33
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
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Originally Posted by boatman61
... But then... a thought.. what time did the Eruption in Iceland begin....
Could that be the 'Begining of the End'?
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Not certain the exact time of eruption; but:
“... Iceland's air traffic control operator ISAVIA said the Keflavik airport, the country's main hub, closed down at 0830 GMT (4:30 a.m. EDT) for the day ...”
➥ Icelandic volcano flings up ash, shuts airport - Yahoo! News
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22-05-2011, 09:41
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Seaman, Delivery skipper
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
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Originally Posted by GordMay
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled all domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air.
The eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano was far larger than one a year ago at another Icelandic volcano that upended travel plans for 10 million people around the world, but scientists said it was unlikely to have the same widespread effect.
University of Iceland geophysicist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson said this eruption, which began Saturday, was Grimsvotn's largest eruption for 100 years.
"(It was) much bigger and more intensive than Eyjafjallajokull," the volcano whose April 2010 eruption shut down airspace across Europe for five days, he said.
"There is a very large area in southeast Iceland where there is almost total darkness and heavy fall of ash," he said. "But it is not spreading nearly as much. The winds are not as strong as they were in Eyjafjallajokull."
He said this ash is coarser than last year's eruption, falling to the ground more quickly instead of floating vast distances.
The ash plunged areas near the volcano in southeast Iceland into darkness Sunday and covered buildings, cars and fields in a thick layer of gray soot. Civil protection workers urged residents to wear masks and stay indoors.
Going back to the 'Prophet' however...... it was amusing listening to 'followers' comments on the News today... and the reports that he's disappeared...
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22-05-2011, 09:43
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Wash DC
Boat: PETERSON 44
Posts: 3,168
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Anchored in one of my favorite end of the world/hurricane holes. Seems to have worked pretty well even though I used an old Bruce no snubber. I was thinking I didn't want to be to attached to something that was going end.
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22-05-2011, 09:44
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: San Francisco
Boat: O'Day 37 Center Cockpit "Namaste"
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
Ok, but the question is: Where were you?"
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22-05-2011, 09:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
Boat: Ketch, Hardin 45
Posts: 440
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
Was Rouse's Gocery Store... A new opened a few days ago down the street from my office...
Nothing unusual happened.
No One ascended to heaven.
No One decended to Hell.
Just normal every day events... But the Michigan University women's Softball team in the 5th inning came from 5 runs down to even the score, in the 6th they scored another run and beat the Norte Dame Irish team.
Otherwise a normal day
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22-05-2011, 10:00
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Solent, England
Boat: Moody 31
Posts: 17,515
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
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Originally Posted by boatman61
A friends 47th Birthday party in Portugal eating Chanfana, salad and Broa accompanied by a palatable red wine....  |
Sounds like "the last supper", were you expecting something 
Still, if its going to happen being around friends with great food and wine is probably a good way to go.
Pete
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22-05-2011, 10:04
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Nova Scotia until Spring 2021
Boat: Custom 41' Steel Pilothouse Cutter
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
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Originally Posted by Pete7
Still, if its going to happen being around friends with great food and wine is probably a good way to go. |
It is traditional...
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22-05-2011, 10:05
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Northern British Columbia, part of the time in Prince Rupert and part of the time on Moresby Island.
Boat: 50-ft steel Ketch
Posts: 1,884
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
I was at home on the boat, relaxing, and watching Dr. Who.
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22-05-2011, 11:17
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 10,012
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
The next Rapture date has already been set by The World Atheist Council - Sept 19th.
The WAC predict (and guarantee) that.............nothing at all will happen
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22-05-2011, 11:23
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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
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
on my boat ANCHORED in mazalan laughing my sox off, and taking pix of the beautiful sunset......
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22-05-2011, 11:32
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: La Ciudad de la Misión Didacus de Alcalá en Alta California, Virreinato de Nueva España
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
Having an Armageddon BBQ replete with apocamole and 'Foretaste of things to come' salsa. We asked people to show up early, didn't want them going to judgement hungry.
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22-05-2011, 11:35
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Location: Gabriola Island & Victoria, British Columbia
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Re: Where Were You at 6pm, er, 1800 hours?
Moderating the last thread on the subject <sigh>
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