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Forum: General Sailing Forum 21-03-2017, 18:30
Replies: 27
Views: 5,505
Posted By mct
Re: 18 year old girl dies in mast fall

Like MarkJ I know the family, and took a call Tuesday PM from the distraught Dad, in Europe at the time.

The picture isn’t her last - she went up the mast many times as part of her work.
...
Forum: Cruising News & Events 21-03-2017, 14:58
Replies: 1
Views: 2,073
Posted By mct
Sad news - Bethany Smith

Bethany Smith, fellow sailor and liveaboard cruiser for more than half her short life ... died last week 4 days days before her 19th birthday, falling from the mast of a classic yacht on which she...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-08-2015, 02:20
Replies: 34
Views: 8,337
Posted By mct
Re: Is It Rude To Tag Along

not dumb at all - you have to scroill to the bottom of all the replies and there's a button marked "new thread" - not easy to find ....
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 26-08-2015, 14:53
Replies: 28
Views: 4,913
Posted By mct
Re: Total noob. maybe dreaming. don't hurt me.

Um, not really? We all have to learn things and sometimes look things up. Definitely with sailing - you have to look things up. But you also have to be intelligent. I think most of us guessed...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-08-2015, 05:38
Replies: 34
Views: 8,337
Posted By mct
Re: Is It Rude To Tag Along

OK, so i've done it a dozen or so times. The ARC is merely a social group thing, makes a very big deal of it, life-changing voyage etc. which might be true for some.

Essentially you set off and...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 25-08-2015, 12:08
Replies: 34
Views: 8,337
Posted By mct
Re: Is It Rude To Tag Along

With the ARC, you leave 3rd Sunday in November. After that time, you could get into Las Palmas marina no problem... and there would be crew hanging about the marina there very ready and willing to...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 25-08-2015, 11:35
Replies: 34
Views: 8,337
Posted By mct
Re: Is It Rude To Tag Along

The ARC is full this year. It's full every year by Easter. There's no problem AT ALL about being a "Narc" (= not ARC). You just follow along. 200+ boats go in various classes... essentially they...
Forum: Crew Archives 10-08-2015, 05:35
Replies: 5
Views: 2,053
Posted By mct
Lanzarote to Trinidad November 2015

Hi there

Looking for crew for a 2013 Jeanneau 57 currently in Lanzarote and waiting here till November to head towards Trinidad. This will be my 12th transatlantic, though my first on this boat....
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-05-2015, 08:26
Replies: 40
Views: 5,756
Posted By mct
Re: Advice for MarkJ routing St Martin - NYC

Go on then, you tell me the story about flies, vinegar and honey. Or actually, could it wait until later, please?

It was pretty clear that I didsn't want it cluttered, wasn't it? How clear do...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-05-2015, 08:04
Replies: 40
Views: 5,756
Posted By mct
Re: Advice for MarkJ routing St Martin - NYC

All correct, thanks Monte

Pls report position of gunboat if available. Is is a gun boat with guns - or a Gunboat catamaran $4million thing?
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-05-2015, 07:58
Replies: 40
Views: 5,756
Posted By mct
Re: Advice for MarkJ routing St Martin - NYC

Thanks for another model, Monte.

Bermuda: not an option ... cos current weather and fcast (next few days) has already meant him holding back from Bermuda with biggish wind+sea there now and...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-05-2015, 07:45
Replies: 40
Views: 5,756
Posted By mct
Re: Advice for MarkJ routing St Martin - NYC

Sigh!

It is not a matter of whether I "like it or not". He's on that route, started Sunday on 40ft boat 5ish knots as sthey all do, all as per OP, with limited ability (emails from satphone)...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-05-2015, 07:16
Replies: 40
Views: 5,756
Posted By mct
Re: Advice for MarkJ routing St Martin - NYC

Ok, sorry for offending you and I didn't want to hurt your feelings.

I recognise that all sorts of things hapened about other boats in other places. But that does not mean that no help should...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-05-2015, 07:01
Replies: 40
Views: 5,756
Posted By mct
Re: Advice for MarkJ routing St Martin - NYC

Um, thanks but .... just to be clear, please, this isn't the usual "chatty" thread: I am looking for input, not to start a discussion about comms, or the various pro's and cons of this/that...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-05-2015, 06:12
Replies: 40
Views: 5,756
Posted By mct
Re: Advice for MarkJ routing St Martin - NYC

Well yes, generally speaking he is wanting any info - who wouldn't? I thought my initial post pretty clear? He's at sea, and this forecast has just turned up on the longer range for those on...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-05-2015, 05:24
Replies: 40
Views: 5,756
Posted By mct
Advice for MarkJ routing St Martin - NYC

So, markJ (doesn't matter who it is really- singlehander on sub-40ft boat) set off from St martin( that's 90nm E of BVI) sailing towards NYC 1400nm NNW last Sunday24th

Latest fcast I have found...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-05-2015, 09:54
Replies: 77
Views: 11,601
Posted By mct
Re: I'm heading out... St Martin to New York

Email from Mark's satfone as below. PM me if you are (fairly) expert forecaster for Hatteras area, or have access to longer range wx. Mark is one day into 12ish day sail st martin to NYC. Matt (in...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 20-08-2013, 13:06
Replies: 40
Views: 7,403
Posted By mct
Re: Stealing the dinghy - some thoughts

But bolt cutters will get though the dinghy fittings, very easily. So no point in kryptonite stuff if you are tying it to dink - they're meant to lock up a motorbike or suchlike which is even harder...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 19-08-2013, 18:28
Replies: 40
Views: 7,403
Posted By mct
Stealing the dinghy - some thoughts

I recently had another dinghy stolen, in St Martin. It was locked up, on a skid, in a marina behind locked gates with the bung removed, but they still carted it away.

Have you ever had to steal...
Forum: Challenges 19-08-2013, 18:00
Replies: 9
Views: 6,795
Posted By mct
Re: Trade Winds Sailing

Um, more like several centuries? The info only became more easily accessible to the great unwashed (ie cruisers haha) as people took to sea in smaller leisure boats.

Google WORLDARC for their...
Forum: Crew Archives 01-12-2012, 11:49
Replies: 15
Views: 2,645
Posted By mct
Re: Cape Town>St Martin December 2012

oops!

barry went to board his flite and they sed not so fast you need a return. So barry backed off and went home darnit.

What barry *should* have done is buy a gold plated fully refundable...
Forum: Crew Archives 30-11-2012, 10:30
Replies: 15
Views: 2,645
Posted By mct
rien ne va plus

thanks all - barry booked his flite and arrives sunday. Phil further up the thread arrives Monday. Special thanks to the MarkJ and kiltym, ace virtual press gang

There is enuf info for people...
Forum: Crew Archives 30-11-2012, 01:15
Replies: 15
Views: 2,645
Posted By mct
Re: Cape Town>St Martin December 2012

barry - yes, i think you could come along. In fact, i bet you’d be really good.

Secretly, I can tell you that these long passages are NOT about loadsa sailing skills - they are far more about...
Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean 28-11-2012, 09:13
Replies: 4
Views: 2,518
Posted By mct
Query: Does A S African Need Visa For St Martin?

i don’t think so... but it would good to hear confirmation from people who know more definitely, please.

TIA

Matt
Forum: Crew Archives 26-11-2012, 03:35
Replies: 15
Views: 2,645
Posted By mct
Re: Cape Town>St Martin December 2012

update - i need just ONE more now - 2phil from further up the thread is coming so that’s 4. Willy and the guy who thinks he’s in Ft Louderdale (!) are not coming...
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