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Forum: General Sailing Forum 17-11-2023, 15:55
Replies: 233
Views: 43,123
Posted By serah
Re: Nicholson 38 sunk on Baja Ha-Ha

I'm the same serah from Sailing Anarchy, who did the Hawaii trip with ray last year.


I can't speak to the details of BBG, but please don't take Ray's commentary as facts. It's one side of the...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 11-05-2018, 22:24
Replies: 58
Views: 34,007
Posted By serah
Re: Living Aboard in Vancouver ?

Just got an email ping on this. We liveaboard in Vancouver, at Mosquito Creek (apologies again to all who have heard my spiel before!) it's a great life, albeit with it's particular challenges. I've...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 21-04-2017, 12:05
Replies: 16
Views: 2,384
Posted By serah
Re: Name that stantion...

On our older boat, we had a custom stanchion whose base weld had come loose and had a bend in the stanchion itself. There were no matching stanchions out there so we just took it to a local welder....
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 20-04-2017, 12:25
Replies: 26
Views: 5,595
Posted By serah
Re: Inmast Furling tips And tricks

Somewhat tangential, but important still. We don't have in-mast furling but we went out with dock neighbours on their first overnight shakedown cruise over Easter on their 45 hunter with in-mast...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 19-04-2017, 16:42
Replies: 38
Views: 4,502
Posted By serah
Re: Electrical Systems - Starting or House?

Everything but the engine starter off the house bank. Everything.

Install an automatic charge relay to charge your start bank first (really, it shouldnt often get that low... Unless you have...
Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean 07-05-2015, 21:16
Replies: 51
Views: 13,613
Posted By serah
Re: Flag Protocol for Bahamas

I thought port spreader was purely for "personal" burgees. (Starboard for official business, such as customs clearing, and club burgees, like a yacht club)

National flags should only be flown from...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 07-05-2015, 21:12
Replies: 221
Views: 31,056
Posted By serah
Re: Importance of Life-raft when coastal cruising?

We coastal cruise year round in Southern British Columbia. In the off season, we may only see one or two other vessels in a day. We do not carry a life raft, nor do most recreational boaters around...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 06-05-2015, 15:14
Replies: 82
Views: 10,262
Posted By serah
Re: What to take, toss, sell or store

As for our knives, we are hoping to mount them on a magnetic block as well (just moved on to the new boat a few weeks ago). Currently, they are in the standard henckels knife block. They were secured...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 06-05-2015, 14:40
Replies: 82
Views: 10,262
Posted By serah
Re: What to take, toss, sell or store

I have been living aboard for 5 years, at a dock granted, but out cruising regularly. Keep some of your nice things on the boat. It shouldn't feel like camping. We have a nice set of heavy stoneware...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 05-05-2015, 18:39
Replies: 38
Views: 6,046
Posted By serah
Re: I removed all the bottom paint, but...

I'm going to go against the grain here. Similar vintage boat, 1976,/not a blister, pre-blister spot of anything when I bought her in 2010. Blisters typically develop in 10, maybe 15 years at most,...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 03-05-2015, 11:40
Replies: 29
Views: 6,135
Posted By serah
Re: Mounting double backstays to the davits instead of hull transom?

I'm not a naval architect, only a cruiser who loves to sail, but this seems like a very, very bad idea. You may not be interested in racing, or windage, but your backstays are a rather integral part...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 02-05-2015, 09:49
Replies: 26
Views: 11,676
Posted By serah
Re: Dogs and companionway ladder

We live aboard our c&c 110, with our (smaller) lab who weighs 65 lbs. I'm only 5'1", so the companionway stairs end at chin height for me. Despite this, our black mutt flies up those stairs,...
Forum: Auxiliary Equipment & Dinghy 17-04-2015, 14:18
Replies: 42
Views: 18,814
Posted By serah
Re: Towing a RIB

We tow our dinghy quite far behind, (~50'?) Which prevents issues such as the dinghy skidding into the big boat. When I was a kid, we were out in really rough choppy stuff (fraser river north arm...
Forum: Auxiliary Equipment & Dinghy 17-04-2015, 08:41
Replies: 42
Views: 18,814
Posted By serah
Re: Towing a RIB

We tow our 9'6" heavy-as-rocks caribe dinghy (which we do love). We have towed it through some snotty stuff in the straight of Georgia. No stress cracks, and rides like a dream... So long as the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 29-03-2015, 08:54
Replies: 143
Views: 16,492
Posted By serah
Re: How Old's Your Ride?

Interesting hoppy. Works for me then - I'm in my early 30s, we have an older 1970s boat that I bought as it was affordable in my late-twenties. We just had our offer accepted on a new 1999 boat,...
Forum: Rules of the Road, Regulations & Red Tape 28-03-2015, 11:58
Replies: 451
Views: 38,309
Posted By serah
Re: Do you think recreational boats should be licensed?

I live in Canada where our legislated PCOC is already a joke. I do not want to see further "government oversight" of my chosen activities.

That being said, we keep our boat moored between the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 25-03-2015, 18:27
Replies: 14
Views: 2,025
Posted By serah
Re: Poll: Sea Dog or Land Lubber?

Liveaboard for I think 5 years now. (All at a marina as I was either a student or a working stiff during that time with weekend and vacation cruising only) I worry about the day I have to live in a...
Forum: Our Community 25-03-2015, 18:21
Replies: 1,408
Views: 279,347
Posted By serah
Re: What happens to all the wannabees?

Here's my short story. A failed relationship put the cruising dreams to rest for a few years. I kept the boat, stayed living aboard, returned to school for two years (boat living, even with upgrades...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 25-03-2015, 18:06
Replies: 143
Views: 16,492
Posted By serah
Re: How Old's Your Ride?

Our lovely old girl (Douglas 32) is née 1976 (Annapolis boat show "boat of the year"! ) so that puts her firmly in the decade before I was born... But we just put an offer in on a 1999.

As for...
Forum: Pacific & South China Sea 30-07-2013, 15:57
Replies: 9
Views: 2,584
Posted By serah
Re: Young(ish) sailing couple hoping to meet other young boaters

Teknav - I absolutely agree, and am blessed (in the absolutely most irreligious way possible) to have many many friends of all ages who are interesting, intelligent, and some of them even have boats....
Forum: Pacific & South China Sea 30-07-2013, 14:46
Replies: 9
Views: 2,584
Posted By serah
Re: Young(ish) sailing couple hoping to meet other young boaters

Alas, even Pender Island island is still something like 50 nm away (IIRC) and though I try to make it down there once a year or so, it's unfortunately a long weekend sort of thing. But Pender Bender...
Forum: Pacific & South China Sea 30-07-2013, 12:48
Replies: 9
Views: 2,584
Posted By serah
Young(ish) sailing couple hoping to meet other young boaters

Hi all,

I posted this on my local CL this morning. Figured I may as well try it here too! We are in the Vancouver, BC area and looking to meet new people to cruise with.

Hi,

We are a couple...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 20-06-2013, 13:00
Replies: 24
Views: 25,341
Posted By serah
Re: Boomkicker vs Rigid Vang vs 'Soft' Vang

I know this is an old thread, but I had few comments to add re: addition of a boomkicker.

Overall, I like, but not love it. My objective for installing this was my boat partner at the time was...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 20-03-2013, 08:22
Replies: 48
Views: 18,194
Posted By serah
Re: Tool Kit for cruising

A stubby multi-bit screwdriver. Far too many times that your standard length screwdrivers just don't fit, or force you to work at an angle.

Also a centre punch, and hole saws, though I would...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 19-03-2013, 09:34
Replies: 130
Views: 12,045
Posted By serah
Re: Is a boat a kind of "Man Cave"?

Hear hear. This goes for us ladies as well.
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