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06-09-2009, 06:12
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#16
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Live Iowa - Sail mostly Bahamas
Boat: Beneteau 32.5
Posts: 2,307
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The previous owner of my first cruising boat said to me:
" A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money"
It didn't take long to know exactly what he was talking about.
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06-09-2009, 08:56
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#17
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: California
Boat: Catalina 30
Posts: 103
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OH, and....Marriages performed be the Skipper of this Vessel are only good for the duration of the cruise.
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06-09-2009, 09:33
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#18
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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"tiller toward trouble"
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cruising is entirely about showing up--in boat shoes.
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06-09-2009, 09:56
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#19
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Hood River Valley, Oregon
Boat: Catalina 36 - Heart Of Gold
Posts: 2
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Turn off the water to the head before you leave the room.
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06-09-2009, 09:57
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#20
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: La Paz
Boat: 41' Custom CC Cutter
Posts: 647
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"One hand for yourself, one hand for the boat."
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"The nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end." ---Aldous Huxley
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06-09-2009, 10:04
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#21
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Moderator Emeritus

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
Posts: 10,405
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BOAT, Break Out Another Thousand
It's more of a definition but funny none the less.
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David
Life begins where land ends.
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06-09-2009, 11:06
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#22
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 211
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During a discussion about who was the stand-on vessel:
"It doesn't matter who's right, it's who's left that matters."
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06-09-2009, 11:20
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#23
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Registered User

Join Date: May 2008
Location: We're technically refugees from our home in Yemen now living in Lebenon
Boat: 1978 CT48
Posts: 5,970
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Never aproach the dock faster than you're willing to hit it.
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James
S/V Arctic Lady
I love my boat, I can't afford not to!
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06-09-2009, 18:42
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#24
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Toronto, Canada on Lake Ontario
Boat: Roberts Offshore 38
Posts: 1,287
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3am is a lousy time to be playing anchor, anchor, who'se got the anchor.
Told to me by a friend after their 32 foot aluminum ketch dragged its anchor in some caribean mooring, causing them to back down on a reef and bending the rudder n skeg.
I've always kept that to heart, with only one exception. So guess what? I went aground. Doh!
Sabre
87 days n a wake up
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06-09-2009, 19:37
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#25
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: ontario canada
Boat: grampian 26
Posts: 1,743
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jibe ho DUCK!
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06-09-2009, 20:10
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#26
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Moderator... short for Cat Wrangler

Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: San Francisco
Boat: Cal 28 Flush Deck
Posts: 5,559
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Red Right Return has always stayed in my mind.... I learned to sail on small boats in the Panama Canal where keeping track of the shipping channel is a constant and critical job, not just for entering and leaving the harbour...
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Sara
ain't what ya do, it's the way that ya do it...
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06-09-2009, 20:58
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#27
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Live Iowa - Sail mostly Bahamas
Boat: Beneteau 32.5
Posts: 2,307
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Quote:
Originally Posted by James S
Never aproach the dock faster than you're willing to hit it.
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That's a great one. I'm going to use that.
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06-09-2009, 22:19
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#28
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 139
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"When in doubt let it out"
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Greg
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15-09-2009, 14:26
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#29
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,819
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when in doubt....let it out
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15-09-2009, 14:43
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#30
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Bahamas/Florida
Boat: Solaris Sunstar 36' catamaran
Posts: 2,686
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The first thing I was ever taught about boating -
Never stand up in a small boat underway.
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