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23-07-2010, 07:43
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#16
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 10,012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DeepFrz
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No problem catching fish
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Course he may have to sell his goat
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Actually part of this Challenge would be to find the bl##dy goat - he went AWOL during his own RTW attempt (hence the talk of visiting a few pole dancing bars - it's a family thing I guess, errrr...I didn't really say family did I ???  )
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23-07-2010, 08:16
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#17
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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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David, I happen to know that Nordhavn will take trade-ins  They have a part built MS56 that they'd very much like to do a deal on  Mind you, If you had one of those, you probably wouldn't be short handed.
B.T.W., we are passing your way in about a months time and stopping to get some cheap fuel. If you fancy showing us around the night life, we'd be happy to buy you a beer.
P.
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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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23-07-2010, 08:23
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Eternal Member
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Boat: Vancouver 36 cutter????
Posts: 620
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Suggestion 1:
Home
Panama Canal
South Africa
Home
Suggestion 2:
Home
Panama Canal
Gambiers
Australia/New Zealand
South Africa
Home
You could do it in about 10 months but you'd miss 99% of the experience.
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USCG/MCA IV/M.I./C.I. 500-ton Oceans
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23-07-2010, 13:20
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cruiser
Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
Posts: 6,197
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I just hate the panama canal
IDEA: What if we had a single sailors rally? We could all meet in say Cape Town or in any stop along the way - drop in and drop out of the group as needed?
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23-07-2010, 13:29
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#20
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 10,012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SaltyMonkey
IDEA: What if we had a single sailors rally? We could all meet in say Cape Town or in any stop along the way - drop in and drop out of the group as needed?
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Wouldn't that kinda miss the point of the single handed thing?
In any event am thinking shorthanded, not neccessarily solo.
Figure that I have the perfect tool to find a deluded f#ckwit to sign up. The Internet  You interested?
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23-07-2010, 13:51
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#21
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cruiser
Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
Posts: 6,197
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goin' solo. hard enough going solo with my own company...why ruin other people's experiences?
Don't mind idea of a flotilla of solo's out there meeting up from time to time - or a good race to the goats
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23-07-2010, 15:35
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#22
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cruiser
Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
Posts: 6,197
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23-07-2010, 15:47
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#23
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Moderator

Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Cruising North Sea and Baltic (Summer)
Boat: Cutter-Rigged Moody 54
Posts: 35,248
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ram
Slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww downnnnnnnnnnnn and enjoy!
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Right, David. Get real. Stop hurrying. Once you get out on the ocean everything, and I mean everything in the time-space continuum wlll take on a completely different meaning. Once you do a hugely long passage and arrive somewhere, you will want to hang out for a while, as in months or years, and so life will take on a different pace.
Really the only question is whether not you can cut the dock lines. That's the crucial event and the crucial moment. Once you do that then the logic of everything will become evident to you.
Your sailing skills? Give me a break. 13 year old girls (or thereabouts) do it.
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23-07-2010, 15:53
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#24
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cruiser
Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
Posts: 6,197
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Go quick go now, then do it again slow with a goat of your choosing.
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23-07-2010, 15:57
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#25
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Moderator

Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Cruising North Sea and Baltic (Summer)
Boat: Cutter-Rigged Moody 54
Posts: 35,248
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David M
The best places in the world to see have nothing to do with sex. When you get older your old friend Dick leads you around less. 
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What in the world are you talking about?! God help me, that He (my friend, Richard) would ever let me down like that. If I ever get THAT old, to think that there is something good in life not in some way connected with sex -- PLEASE just shoot me, cremate me, and scatter my ashes from my swim platform. Good God, man, you must have one foot in the grave, to talk that kind of harmful nonsense. The older you get, the more important it is, to keep up the libidinous side of life. To quote that great bard Yeats:
"An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress"
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23-07-2010, 16:06
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#26
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cruiser
Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
Posts: 6,197
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Ok Dockhead, first you quote Sterling, now you quote Keats? I think man, you need some Russian literature or something really balsy to wake us up. Dostoyevsky?
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23-07-2010, 16:45
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#27
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Moderator

Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Cruising North Sea and Baltic (Summer)
Boat: Cutter-Rigged Moody 54
Posts: 35,248
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Originally Posted by SaltyMonkey
Ok Dockhead, first you quote Sterling, now you quote Keats? I think man, you need some Russian literature or something really balsy to wake us up. Dostoyevsky?
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Yeats, not Keats, which are two different things, but you were just winding me up methinks.
Forget the literature; imagine the man thinks that we should no longer be guided by our lower heads. God help us! The older we get, the younger the women need to be, and the more scrupulous we need to be, in attending to Richard's needs. IMHO.
Dostoevsky is not really the thing here, 'ballsy' or not. I was in St. Petersburg following in his footsteps just a few weeks ago; white nights are going on there. But he is all about the moral side of life, not the present topic.
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23-07-2010, 16:48
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#28
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cruiser
Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
Posts: 6,197
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Ok my turn you limey:
"Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor too old to dote on her for anything" KENT (King Lear)
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23-07-2010, 16:53
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#29
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Moderator

Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Cruising North Sea and Baltic (Summer)
Boat: Cutter-Rigged Moody 54
Posts: 35,248
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SaltyMonkey
Ok my turn you limey:
"Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor too old to dote on her for anything" KENT (King Lear)
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That's good! Very much apropos the topic!
I'm not a "limey". I'm a native of Nashville, Tennessee, even if my ancestors came to these shores from London a few centuries ago.
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23-07-2010, 17:02
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#30
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cruiser
Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
Posts: 6,197
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Well...thats a baffling situation. Why are you in Solent on a Moody - just picking up a few stray cousins that were left behind? Fascinating.
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