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23-10-2020, 21:16
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Vancouver
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Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
Hello!
My name is Kevin, and im looking to get sailing any way possible! I am a 29 y.o. scientist who grew up sailing in San Diego and recently moved to Vancouver. My most recent experience is on Hobie 16s (have an old 70s Hobie on a beach bar in SD), but grew up helping my dad on a little 25 ft sloop. Never had any official training, but recently passed the Sail Canada Basic Cruising standard and looking to get out on the water any way possible.
Im happy to help scrub the boat (im a marine biologist, SCUBA certified and have the gear), as well as climb the mast, literally anything needed in payment for getting out.
If you're looking for someone to help clean the boat and bring a 6-pack along, tell you useless biology facts, or just need someone else to go out with, feel free to message me!
Thanks,
Kevin
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23-10-2020, 23:04
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Vancouver B.C.
Boat: Peterson 25T / Sabre 362
Posts: 33
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
PM sent
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23-10-2020, 23:07
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2008
Location: cruising SW Pacific
Boat: Jon Sayer 1-off 46 ft fract rig sloop strip plank in W Red Cedar
Posts: 17,184
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
Good intro, Kevin. If we were in your area we'd be happy to help, but it's a long commute to Tasmania!
Good luck in your quest... I think your attitude will get you a ride soon.
Jim
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24-10-2020, 00:01
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kelowna , British Columbia
Boat: Corbin 39 Pilot House, Tayana 42
Posts: 251
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
Hi Kevin! if you ever happen to visit Kelowna, I have a 25 footer on the mooring here on Lake Okanagan. You can take her sailing even for a week if you like.
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24-10-2020, 02:22
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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: 39,244
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Kevin.
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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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24-10-2020, 04:20
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: La Ciudad de la Misión Didacus de Alcalá en Alta California, Virreinato de Nueva España
Boat: Cal 20
Posts: 11,891
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
Welcome.
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A house is but a boat so poorly built and so firmly run aground no one would think to try and refloat it.
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24-10-2020, 14:40
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 6
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
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Originally Posted by Jim Cate
Good intro, Kevin. If we were in your area we'd be happy to help, but it's a long commute to Tasmania!
Good luck in your quest... I think your attitude will get you a ride soon.
Jim
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Thanks Jim!
Be careful, I might take ya up on that offer if I ever get down to Tasmania. Would love to visit!
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24-10-2020, 14:41
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 6
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
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Originally Posted by henryk
Hi Kevin! if you ever happen to visit Kelowna, I have a 25 footer on the mooring here on Lake Okanagan. You can take her sailing even for a week if you like. |
Hey! Haven’t made it out that Far East in BC yet, but maybe next summer. I’ll keep in touch for sure. Thanks!
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24-10-2020, 14:53
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 6
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
Appreciate the warm welcome from the forum! Thanks everyone!
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24-10-2020, 15:54
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Junior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Bonaire & Calgary & B.C.
Boat: Moody 45DS & Catalina 270
Posts: 23
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
Welcome!
Great attitude, like hk I have a sailboat (Catalina 270) moored on Kootenay Lake each summer. It is coming out this next Wednesday and stored inside my hanger at the Creston airport for the winter. But it will get wet again in the spring of 2021. If you are out that way drop me a PM. Plus if you happen to find your way to Bonaire in the winter months I would be very happy to take you out on our Moody down there. Being a SCUBA dude my guess is Bonaire is on your list somewhere. We also have a seaside house with the reef maybe 25M from our shoreline. You can actually sit on the edge of my deck and look down into the water and see the Parrot Fish feeding. Cheers and good luck.
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24-10-2020, 16:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Edmonton/PNW
Boat: Hunter 386
Posts: 1,218
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
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Originally Posted by kgsoloman5000
Hello!
My name is Kevin, and im looking to get sailing any way possible! I am a 29 y.o. scientist who grew up sailing in San Diego and recently moved to Vancouver. My most recent experience is on Hobie 16s (have an old 70s Hobie on a beach bar in SD), but grew up helping my dad on a little 25 ft sloop. Never had any official training, but recently passed the Sail Canada Basic Cruising standard and looking to get out on the water any way possible.
Im happy to help scrub the boat (im a marine biologist, SCUBA certified and have the gear), as well as climb the mast, literally anything needed in payment for getting out.
If you're looking for someone to help clean the boat and bring a 6-pack along, tell you useless biology facts, or just need someone else to go out with, feel free to message me!
Thanks,
Kevin |
We've often said we should hire a marine biologist to accompany us. Its just so hard telling those darn starfish apart 
Season's done but maybe next year. Be prepared to give detail lectures on undersea flora though 
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25-10-2020, 14:16
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 6
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Re: Hello from Vancouver! - Looking to get out any way possible
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Originally Posted by Macblaze
We've often said we should hire a marine biologist to accompany us. Its just so hard telling those darn starfish apart
Season's done but maybe next year. Be prepared to give detail lectures on undersea flora though |
If ya seen one, you've seen em all. Bacteria and viruses are the real puppet masters of the sea!
If thats what it takes, im in!
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