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Forum: Multihull Sailboats 15-02-2013, 04:57
Replies: 48
Views: 14,154
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: Ever Heard of Catamaran losing its escape hatch in a seaway?

Yes, exactly the same happened on a Privilege I was charter crew on, going from St Lucia to Dominica. Same geyser in the saloon, similar repairs with a cupboard door taken off its hinges and spare...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 02-09-2012, 16:48
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

The landcrabs here in the VI's are the ones to watch - if you catch them in your headlights driving along at night they just stop where they are, raise up and challenge your car. Walking along the...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 02-09-2012, 16:35
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Greetings Henry-who-lives-in-freedom! Welcome to the free state of cruisers and the very free state of all us singles! Please note that this very free state is not one of desperation, so you have to...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 17-08-2012, 21:18
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Sounds as though you'd fit in perfectly at one of our local bar's karaoke.....
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 17-08-2012, 17:34
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

and Micah....you are not going to know what we sailin' wimmin REALLY think until you get close up and personal! E-mail doesn't hack it too well.

and Mahaila....you're right, it has to be a...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 17-08-2012, 17:27
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Ahhhh, Nemo, you sound irresistable......
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 16-08-2012, 09:35
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Am in agreement with Zee on all those points and we all ARE individual singlehanded sailors - which means we don't NEED a man to do what we're doing, but it would be nice to have one around as long...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 15-08-2012, 07:02
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

I think I'll stick to my 'circus tent' that shades nearly all the boat when the drop-downs are dropped down - and it catches water, too!!!!
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 05-08-2012, 05:21
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Aaaah, the Solent.....a place where you can meet all sailing conditions in one day! Though the Med always seems to have too little wind or too much, maybe I was just unlucky.

5 years to wait for...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 03-08-2012, 17:31
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Thanks for your interest! We have a plethora of wind and rain right now this evening, but it is forecast for the next 5 days so not sure all of it is connected with Ernesto. Had a great afternoon at...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 03-08-2012, 04:11
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Hey Alphazag, sorry - half my message seemed to disappear....

Yep, Londoner here, away from UK 10 years now and not wanting to go back. Been three-quarters of world, but no actual Pacific crossing...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 02-08-2012, 11:45
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Hi Alphazag.

Yep.
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 02-08-2012, 05:03
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Yeah, you do.....but you guys just love your boats better!

(Btw, us 'wimmin' love our boats like that, too.....)
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 28-07-2012, 05:54
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Thank you for the welcome to the funny farm, Speakeasy! At present I am living in what is termed the largest open-air asylum in the world, St John....I fit in here, so I should fit in with all of...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 27-07-2012, 06:27
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

DOJ? You sidled along here from YBW? Or have I got the wrong person?????
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 27-07-2012, 06:22
Replies: 2,439
Views: 372,734
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: SSSSM - Part Deux

Hi all, just got to Part Deux! (Delay due to entertaining 19-year-old granddaughter, who at midnight announced that she can't keep up with me and is sleeping in for a while this morning!)
...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 26-07-2012, 05:24
Replies: 46
Views: 42,672
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: How much does it cost to live aboard while cruising the Caribbean Islands?

Based in St John, USVI, which is probably the most expensive island to live on apart from Mustique, my budget (one person, eating out sometimes) is around $1200/1300 per month BUT I have also just...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 25-07-2012, 04:45
Replies: 161
Views: 18,493
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: Sailing Commune?

But isn't a society where there are rules, regulations, demands, requirements, limits and restrictions exactly what most cruisers go cruising to get away from....?????
Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean 22-07-2012, 08:04
Replies: 0
Views: 903
Posted By GypsyGal
Haulout in the Virgin Islands

Just HAD to do this....

I recently hauled out my cat at Nanny Cay Marina & Boatyard in Tortola and, for the first time ever, actually enjoyed the experience!

The yard staff there are...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 22-07-2012, 08:00
Replies: 0
Views: 1,145
Posted By GypsyGal
Haulout in the Virgin Islands

Just HAD to do this....

I recently hauled out my cat at Nanny Cay Marina & Boatyard in Tortola and, for the first time ever, actually enjoyed the experience!

The yard staff there are...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 22-07-2012, 05:28
Replies: 161
Views: 18,493
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: Sailing Commune?

As several others have pointed out, cruisers ARE a community...they don't have to live communally with the same people day after day and sail with them too. Sailors often do not have the same...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 22-07-2012, 05:04
Replies: 66
Views: 23,700
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: Woman Living on a Boat ?

The Caribbean is also my home and sailing grounds - I have lived aboard my catamaran for 12 years now, though only the last couple have been as a singlehander (husband/younger woman/ran off story...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 22-07-2012, 04:48
Replies: 5
Views: 1,954
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: working in usvi's realistic?

It depends what skills you have and how reliable you are. There is still work in construction and maintenance for builders and gardening/landscaping, but not much else is going on here unless you are...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 22-07-2012, 04:32
Replies: 422
Views: 85,447
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: Liveaboard Dating

Jassen, you will not have too many problems finding potential cabin-mates - the local liveaboard guys here in the USVI's (unless they are truly weird...) seem to have a fair choice of attractive,...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 29-03-2012, 15:16
Replies: 31
Views: 4,125
Posted By GypsyGal
Re: Single Handling a cat ...

Tried an Aries on a 36' cat (hydraulic wheel steering, so lines and blocks involved) and eventually gave up on it. As someone else commented, lack of clean air due to the superstructure and sails is...
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