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02-10-2012, 21:09
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Kamloops, BC
Boat: 1999 Celestial 50
Posts: 44
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Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
Hi there,
I'm new both to sailing (recently heavily, and I believe incurably, addicted to sailing) and to this forum. I live a few hundred kilometres from the saltwater (hence the user name), but my wife and I both love exploring our coast with our kids. We recently became 1/3 owners of a rather crusty old 1968 New Horizons 26 moored in a large lake near here. It has been a wonderful way to get involved and learn to sail, but I have to admit, I'm already dreaming/looking for the "next" boat-- something that I won't mind investing elbow grease into!
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02-10-2012, 21:56
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Saskatoon, Canada & Eastern Caribbean
Boat: Lagoon 420
Posts: 437
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Re: Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
Welcome aboard Kamloops! Yes, a ways from Vancouver, but closer than me. We've chartered from Vancouver on a number of occasions and you should give that a go. Good Luck to you! 
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Wherever we want to go, we go. That's what a ship is you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs. But what a ship is...really is, is freedom. ~Johnny Depp as Capt. Jack Sparrow
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02-10-2012, 22:19
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: BC
Boat: Silverton 42
Posts: 249
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Re: Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
Welcome to the forum!
There's soo much to explore in the PNW. You'll enjoy it all.
Cheers,
Bill
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03-10-2012, 05:23
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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: Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
Welcome aboard! Gorgeous cruising area. Happy sailing!
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03-10-2012, 06:13
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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: 47,082
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Re: Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, saltfree.
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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03-10-2012, 07:47
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
Boat: Pearson 365 Sloop and 14ft.Whitehall pulling skiff.
Posts: 10,245
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Re: Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
Welcome to the forum. In my 20s, hitch-hiked through Kamloops way a lot.
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03-10-2012, 08:51
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Kamloops, BC
Boat: 1999 Celestial 50
Posts: 44
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Re: Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
Welcome to the forum. In my 20s, hitch-hiked through Kamloops way a lot.
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Not what I would have expected from someone in N. Cal! I'm not sure when your 20's were, but things have changed a lot around here over the last few years.
Krafthaus, you're right, I am a smidgen closer to the ocean than you...  . While I am new to actually being involved in sailing, it is something I have been dreaming about/ reading about/ going for sailboat rides (I differentiate being on a sailboat from sailing the sailboat...) for a few years. I do live close enough to the coast that I am already seriously looking into owning a boat, probably with one or two other Kamloops friends, in the near future. I'm just working out a rough cost of how many days of chartering per year the three of us might total, vs. how much it would cost to purchase/maintain/moor an owned boat. My personal favourite from what I've seen so far that would meet our goals is a Cal 29.
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03-10-2012, 12:53
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
Boat: Pearson 365 Sloop and 14ft.Whitehall pulling skiff.
Posts: 10,245
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Re: Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
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Originally Posted by saltfree
Not what I would have expected from someone in N. Cal! I'm not sure when your 20's were, but things have changed a lot around here over the last few years.
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 ...sheepishly, it was 38 years ago I thumbed through Kamloops and a few years after that rode my Harley through there on my way to Ca. I really meant to come back to Canada where I was from but you could buy beer on Sunday, anytime in a 7/11. That was a spiritual awakening for me at the time. Today, life is much calmer but I made a life for myself here.
PS...What changed?
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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow - what a ride!"
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03-10-2012, 20:52
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Kamloops, BC
Boat: 1999 Celestial 50
Posts: 44
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Re: Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
PS...What changed?
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Kamloops would have been about 30-40,000 people when you were here. Now we're closing in on 100,000. All those taxpayer dollars have bought a lot of infrastructure...
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07-11-2012, 20:49
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,192
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Re: Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
Aloha and welcome aboard!
Good to have you here.
kind regards,
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John
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07-11-2012, 21:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,076
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Re: Hello from Kamloops, British Columbia
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
could buy beer on Sunday, anytime in a 7/11. That was a spiritual awakening for me at the time. |
I was born/raised in Reno, I distinctly remember the TRAUMA of seeing a padlocked reefer when I visited Phoenix once. Now that WA got rid of state stores there's vodka in Costco again, and everything seems 'normal' again.
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