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04-05-2011, 14:25
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Do You Ever Start a Voyage on a Friday ?
I try to avoid it especially if its offshore. And you?
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04-05-2011, 14:28
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Marathon FL
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
and no rabbit on board and never ever whistle on a sailboat....
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04-05-2011, 14:31
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Palm Beach and the Conch Republic
Boat: Gibson 50', Columbia 8.3, Harbor 20, Hunter 14, Trac 16, Several Lasers
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
No bananas on board.
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04-05-2011, 14:36
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Wherever the boat is!
Boat: Marine Trader 34DC
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
We have started more voyages than I can remember on a Friday with no issues. There have been a few that we started on a Wednesday that were near disasters. Chuck
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04-05-2011, 14:44
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
Hey... its just another day...
Yes... often across the Channel, Poole to Cherbough.. around 85 miles..
Leave 2200 and usually arrive around 10/1100 Sat... else everythings a rush if one leaves it till the next day...
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04-05-2011, 14:51
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Maryland
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When we were working, if you didn't leave on a Friday you would get to sail very few days. Always left Friday after work. Even if we just motored a mile or so to a cove and anchored out for the night. Getting out of the slip was more of a priority than what day we were leaving.
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04-05-2011, 15:23
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
Friday after work for us too. In fact we'll be on the boat all weekend, anchoring in a cove and using the dink to visit friends on the beach!
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04-05-2011, 15:31
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Santa Catalina Island, Ca. USA
Boat: Power Cruiser: Free Agent
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
Nahh, not superstitious here,, it just brings bad luck.
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04-05-2011, 15:31
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: New Bern NC
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
If my "weather window" is on Fri... You're damned straight I'd leave. I read an article once about sea superstitions... There are over a thousand! You can't possibly avoid breaking at least half of them, and I redly ignore the one about, "NO WOMEN ON BOARD"!
There is enough stuff to be scared of out there, without dredging up old superstitions.
M.
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04-05-2011, 15:56
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Johnson
If my "weather window" is on Fri... You're damned straight I'd leave. I read an article once about sea superstitions... There are over a thousand! You can't possibly avoid breaking at least half of them, and I redly ignore the one about, "NO WOMEN ON BOARD"!
There is enough stuff to be scared of out there, without dredging up old superstitions.
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Couldn't agree more. Half the people putting silver dollars under their mast not leaving on Fridays are probably not keeping up a DR plot. Paying attention to things that don't matter, ignoring things that do.
Funny enough the more you plan and the more experience you have the "luckier" you are.
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04-05-2011, 16:00
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: cruising SW Pacific
Boat: Jon Sayer 1-off 46 ft fract rig sloop strip plank in W Red Cedar
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
Quote:
Originally Posted by rebel heart
Couldn't agree more. Half the people putting silver dollars under their mast not leaving on Fridays are probably not keeping up a DR plot. Paying attention to things that don't matter, ignoring things that do.
Funny enough the more you plan and the more experience you have the "luckier" you are. |
Oooh, don't use a silver coin fer crissakes! Think of the galvanic mis-match... we use a 5 Pacific Franc coin... it's aluminium, and ain't worth much either!
Cheers,
Jim
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04-05-2011, 16:04
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: ontario canada
Boat: grampian 26
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
If you don't leave early early on Friday the power boaters get all the good spots.
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04-05-2011, 16:06
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 31,762
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Re: Do you ever start a voyage on a Friday?
Quote:
Originally Posted by perchance
If you don't leave early early on Friday the power boaters get all the good spots. |
Best arguement yet...
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