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09-12-2018, 10:13
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Afloat
Boat: Fountaine Pajot Helia 44
Posts: 24
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See the time melting off the clocks ...
Good morning CruisersForum folks!
I'm TD, Captain of La Vie Dansante - a Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 sailing catamaran on which my wife Barbara and I are launching the next chapter of our lives. My wife is a beautiful dancer, and our life together has taken on many of the dreams and attitudes represented in the song by Jimmy Buffett, so her name was an instant fit.
I learned how to sail decades ago as a midshipman at the US Naval Academy, but forgot more than I remembered. Barbara and I did some ASA certs with Captain Dick Dawson on Keremeos back in 2016, then adventured off the Caribbean coast of Panama with Eduardo and Adrianna on Tikai in 2017. Everything we've learned since then is from asking a lot of questions and experiencing sheer terror since we purchased La Vie Dansante a couple of months ago.
Although I retired from the Navy as a Captain, but I was a shore-based flyer on P-3 Orions, so I'm accepting any and all advice and counsel as I stimulate those salty brain cells back to life from my early training!
We have a blog that's just emerging at sailinglaviedansante.wordpress.com , and I'll endeavor to keep it up to date.
Fair winds and following seas,
TD
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09-12-2018, 10:27
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Long Beach, CA
Boat: Tayana Vancouver 42
Posts: 2,804
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Welcome aboard TD and thank you for serving our country. I learned to sail by trial and mostly error on a Sunfish type boat right in front of the Naval Academy. Talk about an intimidating audience.
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09-12-2018, 11:09
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Afloat
Boat: Fountaine Pajot Helia 44
Posts: 24
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Yeah, but they were all learning too! Thanks for the welcome Tayana.
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09-12-2018, 12:27
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: aboard, in Tasmania, Australia
Boat: Sayer 46' Solent rig sloop
Posts: 29,892
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Welcome aboard Cf, La Vie Dansante. Your evocative title made me think of Salvador Dali paintings, and something my husband Jim says, "How fast we get old; how slow we get smart."
We're a mixed bag of folks here, hope you enjoy your stay.
Ann
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09-12-2018, 12:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Where ever the wind blows - Currently in Nantucket
Boat: Hanse, 400e - 40ft
Posts: 433
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Welcome aboard!
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09-12-2018, 13:08
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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: 21,536
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
G'Day TD, and welcome aboard CF. I reckon that if you can fly an Orion you likely can sail a FP, so start clocking up those hours... your personal clock is always running, but it goes slower at sea.
Enjoy your boat and CF, too.
Jim
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Jim and Ann s/v Insatiable II, lying Port Cygnet Tasmania once again.
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10-12-2018, 06:31
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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: 51,665
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, TD.
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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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10-12-2018, 06:59
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 31,202
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Welcome to CF.. 
Like you I also learnt the basics in the Royal Navy back in the 60's and did not do much more after joining ships and none in civvy street till the mid 80's when a m'bike accident made me unemployable for a couple of years.
I bought an old abandoned timber boat for 500 quid and slowly brought her back as the full grp leg cast permitted. Have not looked back since..
Take it slow and stay in your comfort zone.. nothing to prove to anyone.
Its all monkey see monkey do in the main and soon becomes second nature..
Joining CF was a good idea as its just about the best all round sailing resource going.
Enjoy..
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10-12-2018, 17:35
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 1
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Beat Army, TD!! Fellow former Mid here, too (Off shore sailing team, Bermuda Race -- '86 nav on "Semper Fidelis", etc) New member.... this is my first post here 
Good to know there are others like me ...
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10-12-2018, 18:47
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Afloat
Boat: Fountaine Pajot Helia 44
Posts: 24
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Oh, yeah, man. '84 here.
BEAT ARMY, indeed! ... there's always next year ...
Welcome aboard, from one FNG to the next.
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[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante
On the night wind that takes me
just where I want, That's all I want
La Vie Dansante
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11-12-2018, 05:25
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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: 51,665
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Stovebolt.
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Gord May
"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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12-12-2018, 19:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Used to be Cruising the US East Coast
Boat: Fountaine Pajot, Orana 44
Posts: 167
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Welcome Barbara and TD!
Hey, how do you know if there's a Naval Aviator in the room?
He'll tell ya!
One of my best friends (a retired Navy O6, S3 pilot) told me that one, so just passing it along.... 
Congrats on the Helia and starting the new life...you are in for a blast. So many great people and experiences on the water await you and as all have said above, this is a great forum and a super resource for any question you might have.
Michelle and I have been enjoying life on JADE, our Orana that is just two production numbers behind KEKEMEOS for a couple of years now, sailing the east coast and Bahamas.
Hope to see you out there someday soon!
Pat
USCGA '79
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12-12-2018, 19:38
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: So Cal
Boat: Lancer 44 Motor Sailer
Posts: 560
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Re: See the time melting off the clocks ...
Welcome to the forum. Best of luck with the new boat.
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