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17-08-2013, 22:56
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 31
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New Forum Member and Live Aboard
Hi All,
This is my first post on the forums. I want to thank everyone for the postings and the wealth of information available here. I have recently purchased a C&C 27 hull number 13. I live aboard. She is a beauty of a boat lavished with love by a previous owner. Her power plant was converted to Yanmar diesel. She was also converted to wheel steer. At 27' she is cozy but she is home. I named her Music after the line in the song "Southern Cross", "I have my ship and all her flags are flying. She is all that I have left and Music is her name. Her home is the Tampa Bay area. Hope to see you all around. :-)
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17-08-2013, 23:43
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Blue Mountains, Australia
Boat: now skippering Syd Harbour charters
Posts: 1,557
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Re: New Forum Member and Live Aboard
Welcome aboard Rob!
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18-08-2013, 04:42
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 49,384
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Re: New Forum Member and Live Aboard
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Rob.
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18-08-2013, 04:50
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lived aboard & cruised for 45 years,- now on a chair in my walk-in closet.
Boat: Morgan OI 413 1973 - Aythya
Posts: 8,466
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Re: New Forum Member and Live Aboard
Rob & Music, Welcome to the community. Keep us posted of your adventures.
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Take care and joy, Aythya crew
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18-08-2013, 10:47
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Ontario, Canada
Boat: Ericson 27
Posts: 75
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Re: New Forum Member and Live Aboard
Welcome! and great choice of song - it's #1 on my Sailing playlist!
pics?
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18-08-2013, 11:38
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cruiser
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Tampa Bay area
Boat: Hunter 31'
Posts: 5,731
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Re: New Forum Member and Live Aboard
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Originally Posted by Panama Rob
Hi All,
This is my first post on the forums. I want to thank everyone for the postings and the wealth of information available here. I have recently purchased a C&C 27 hull number 13. I live aboard. She is a beauty of a boat lavished with love by a previous owner. Her power plant was converted to Yanmar diesel. She was also converted to wheel steer. At 27' she is cozy but she is home. I named her Music after the line in the song "Southern Cross", "I have my ship and all her flags are flying. She is all that I have left and Music is her name. Her home is the Tampa Bay area. Hope to see you all around. :-)
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I named my first boat from a song too -- SILVER GIRL. The third verse of "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" says
"Sail on, silver girl -- sail on by! Your time has come to shine, all your dreams are on their way! See how they shine ..."
And it really was true for me.
I'm renaming this boat, and it might be SILVER GIRL II. The only problem with the name is that since I'm 67 (62 when I got my first boat), everyone thought it was an age reference. But what do I care? I'm not going to fool anyone into thinking I'm 30 unless they're drunk AND blind.
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18-08-2013, 21:04
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 35
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Welcome aboard ..
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19-08-2013, 04:06
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Heathsville, VA
Boat: Gemini 105Mc 34'
Posts: 1,457
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Re: New Forum Member and Live Aboard
Welcome aboard, and congrats!
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19-08-2013, 18:44
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 31
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Thank you all for the welcome. Raku, I remember Silver Girl from the song. That is pretty awesome. I considered the name "White Dove" from Dylan's "Blowin in the Wind" song. I am sleeping aboard Music tonight and a storm has just blown through.. I really feel at home here with her.
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19-08-2013, 19:18
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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Re: New Forum Member and Live Aboard
Welcome to the forum, and congrats on the new boat.
Renaming Hull #13. I'm guessing you aren't superstitious. Still, please don't whistle your boat's theme song while offshore.
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20-08-2013, 22:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 31
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Bash, I lucked out on my #13. I bought her and her stern was bare. For me it is not renaming her....it is about naming her. I found charts where her previous owner(s) sailed her down the east coast from New England all the way to the Bahamas. She has whispered to me some of her stories about water sailing">blue water sailing and exotic ports of call. I want to learn more and share in some of her stories as well. Luck is what you make of it. Bad or good, Ill take what I get and I will be grateful for the opportunity to have rolled the dice. :-)
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20-08-2013, 22:42
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 31
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Music is my first sailboat and she is my first live aboard. I used to race on a J 30 as a crew member and I took two semesters of sailing in college. That was all 20 or more years ago. That was enough to infect me. Twenty years later and it has manifested itself.... Be careful it is contagious...I think I have infected some of my friends, family and coworkers with live-on-a-boatitis. I am going through the downsize my belongings thing so I can live comfortably aboard.
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20-08-2013, 22:42
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Blue Mountains, Australia
Boat: now skippering Syd Harbour charters
Posts: 1,557
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Re: New Forum Member and Live Aboard
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Originally Posted by Panama Rob
She has whispered to me some of her stories about blue water sailing and exotic ports of call. I want to learn more and share in some of her stories as well. Luck is what you make of it. Bad or good, Ill take what I get and I will be grateful for the opportunity to have rolled the dice. :-)
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Nicely put...
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21-08-2013, 11:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 31
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