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Posted By Group9

Re: The Virgin Island's are open for business!!

I guess I forgot for a minute we were talking about the British Virgin Islands not the US Virgin Islands. You're right, a lot of the protections we have don't apply there. I'm okay with that if...

Forum: Multihull Sailboats

12-11-2021, 05:15

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Views: 6,783

Posted By Group9

Re: The Virgin Island's are open for business!!

We've had more opioid overdoses in my state than Covid deaths in the last four years (including my 21 year old nephew, a 4.0 college engineering student in his fourth year).

It would sure be nice...

Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany

12-11-2021, 04:29

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COP26 - the Glasgow Climate Summit

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Posted By Group9

Re: COP26 - the Glasgow Climate Summit

To give a mixed prediction, it sure seems like we are overdue for our next world war, and if it's anything like the last one, it should thin out the population herd a little bit.

So, kind of a...

12-11-2021, 04:26

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Views: 252,217

Posted By Group9

Re: The Reality of Living in Australia and Covid

Ripping through schools? Is it doing that where you live? Not here in the US. Although, our news media makes a big deal of every child who dies of Covid, without mentioning that about four times...

Forum: Multihull Sailboats

12-11-2021, 04:20

Replies: 43

Views: 6,783

Posted By Group9

Re: The Virgin Island's are open for business!!

I'd rather not say. My favorite cruising grounds are getting crowded enough in the last ten years! :biggrin:

Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany

10-11-2021, 15:02

Replies: 1,358

COP26 - the Glasgow Climate Summit

Views: 93,621

Posted By Group9

Re: COP26 - the Glasgow Climate Summit

81,000,000 of them.

Forum: Multihull Sailboats

10-11-2021, 14:50

Replies: 43

Views: 6,783

Posted By Group9

Re: The Virgin Island's are open for business!!

One of my new resolutions, is to only travel to places that act like they actually want visitors. I’m not sure the BVI’s pass that test.

10-11-2021, 14:46

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How long would you feel comfortable leaving your boat on anchor

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Posted By Group9

Re: The Reality of Living in Australia and Covid

I guess it’s all relative. We haven’t had any lockdowns where I live since late 2020 and we’re doing fine. I read the horror stories on the national news, but I still don’t personally know a single...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

10-11-2021, 06:12

Replies: 38

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Posted By Group9

Re: How long would you feel comfortable leaving your boat on anchor

I’m getting old. I forgot I had a boat on a mooring for five years when I lived in Annapolis. I guess I got used to it, although it was close enough to my home that I could check on it with a two...

10-11-2021, 06:08

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Views: 252,217

Posted By Group9

Re: The Reality of Living in Australia and Covid

I was attempting to be facetious.

The social contract of all government and country, is really just an agreement to share risk and support each other in abatement and/or mitigation of those...

Forum: Our Community

10-11-2021, 05:31

Replies: 142

Views: 13,713

Posted By Group9

Re: Warning for U.S. Citizens

State taxes can sneak up on you, too. Before one of our long cruises, we sold our house and all our property in a state, moved on the boat and left. We had a large realized capitol gain the next...

Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit

10-11-2021, 05:25

Replies: 119

Teak decks. Should I run away????

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Posted By Group9

Re: Teak decks. Should I run away????

I watched a neighbor pull the teak deck up on his Grand Banks and repair the damage from leaking screws a few years ago.

Until then, I had always had a romantic love of teak decked boats ( and,...

10-11-2021, 05:17

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SV Bella Dawn missing en route Boot Key to Bimini Bahamas

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Posted By Group9

Re: The Reality of Living in Australia and Covid

Excellent idea. Throw in overweight people, people who don’t exercise, smokers, drinkers, drug users and people who engage in other unreasonably risky activities, and the government could probably...

Forum: Emergency, Disaster and Distress

09-11-2021, 14:20

Replies: 86

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Posted By Group9

Re: SV Bella Dawn missing en route Boot Key to Bimini Bahamas

This is why we carry a SPOT transmitter on our boat.

Otherwise, my wife's sister would be on a first name basis with the Coast Guard, calling them every time we went a day without telling her we...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

09-11-2021, 14:17

Replies: 104

6 people rescued in 60 knots of wind and 20 ft seas 100 miles off California coast. 1

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Posted By Group9

Re: 6 people rescued in 60 knots of wind and 20 ft seas 100 miles off California coas

Yep. Maybe a fresh crew air dropped onto that boat could have pulled things together and got her sailing again, but it sure wasn't going to be that banged up crew.

Everyone has their limit, and I...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

09-11-2021, 14:12

Replies: 61

Are Logbooks necessary?

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Posted By Group9

Re: Are Logbooks necessary?

I still go back from time to time and read our old logbooks. It's funny to read them because all I put in is technical information, (batteries at 13.1 volt, fuel 3/4 full, lat lons, weather, stuff...

Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany

07-11-2021, 06:45

Replies: 161

Whales . . . Should Cruisers Care ?

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Posted By Group9

Re: Whales . . . Should Cruisers Care ?

The only time we came really close to a big whale, was coming up on a mother and her calf, who were just floating on the surface, and appeared to be asleep. The were about 500 yards off our beam,...

Forum: Liveaboard's Forum

07-11-2021, 06:42

Replies: 147

Tips and tricks for minimalist cruising

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Posted By Group9

Re: Tips and tricks for minimalist cruising

Every time we return from a cruise, we find that our biggest expenditures, are the two things that we could have controlled, if we just had the will power.

Namely, staying at marinas, and eating...

Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean

07-11-2021, 06:39

Replies: 19

Cruising plans for upcoming season?

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Posted By Group9

Re: Cruising plans for upcoming season?

We talked about selling ours, but we decided, that as long as we still had the boat, the dream of going cruising, at least one more time, is still alive! :biggrin:

Forum: Our Community

07-11-2021, 06:37

Replies: 142

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Posted By Group9

Re: Warning for U.S. Citizens

That's beside the point. The point is that your rate of return on social security, to use a technical term, "sucks balls".

Everyone, the poor and the wealthy, would be better off if the fund...

Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean

07-11-2021, 05:03

Replies: 19

Cruising plans for upcoming season?

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Posted By Group9

Re: Cruising plans for upcoming season?

We’re just waiting until next year, to see if the craziness starts to wain.

Forum: Our Community

07-11-2021, 05:00

Replies: 142

Views: 13,713

Posted By Group9

Re: Warning for U.S. Citizens

If you want to really get mad, go onto the Social, Security website, take your contribution amounts, and plug them into say, a mutual fund indexed to the S&P 500, then plug the gain into an annuity...

Forum: Our Community

07-11-2021, 04:52

Replies: 142