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Forum: General Sailing Forum 17-04-2014, 01:20
Replies: 607
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Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

Oh, Boatie,

"HTF will I survive?" Jim and I say to each other all the time, "what can POSSIBLY go wrong?" Sort of the same deal.

What really happens is that stuff happens, and one does one's...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 01:38
Replies: 607
Views: 71,767
Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

For Mark J:

The utility of a windvane for a boat depends on a whole lot of different variables. If you regularly attain the 17 knots you mentioned once, a windvane would not suit the use of your...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 15-04-2014, 21:26
Replies: 607
Views: 71,767
Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

Can't fix in those condx. Requires compete removal of hatch. Duct tape will not stick then the waves are breaking onto the cabin top. Water was comin in between the frame and the deckhouse top.
...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 14-04-2014, 14:19
Replies: 607
Views: 71,767
Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

Delfin asked, "how the heck does a 36 foot fiberglass HC become unsound enough after 9 days half becalmed to ship water with every wave? Something unanticipated before leaving shore, I have to...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 13-04-2014, 21:44
Replies: 607
Views: 71,767
Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

Part of Rebel Heart #1's contribution has been like a beginning course in in what the internet can be. I wonder if the positive shall outweigh the negative?

A.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 12-04-2014, 20:35
Replies: 607
Views: 71,767
Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

Ken,

With all due respect, and in spite of temptation to respond point by point:

1) We do not know enough of what specifically occurred,
2) how many jerry jugs or buckets the RH carried;...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 12-04-2014, 16:36
Replies: 607
Views: 71,767
Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

"1. SOME forms of Salmonella are spread through feces, it is called typhoid fever.
2. You (nor I) know what illness the baby had when Eric punched out.
3. Did Charlotte sterilize the sink after...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-04-2014, 22:29
Replies: 607
Views: 71,767
Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

Hi, everyone,

FWIW, part of what I think has gone agley here is that we have not made an effort to hold ourselves back from reading the blogs, and perhaps lost track that blogs are imperfect...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-04-2014, 18:19
Replies: 607
Views: 71,767
Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

Delfin,

You may be right, but I have to call them as I see them, and I've found Mr. Weber's posts to all be slanted towards dirt digging. I may be wrong. Time will tell.

Ann
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-04-2014, 17:30
Replies: 607
Views: 71,767
Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's contribution to the cruising community

Sorry, Mr. Weber,

This reads to me as an almost libelous accusation, redolent with assumptions, if not an out an out troll.

Ann
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-04-2014, 15:09
Replies: 607
Views: 71,767
Posted By JPA Cate
Re: Rebel Heart's contribution to the cruising community

Deckofficer:

I don't think it'll make very much difference. Most successful cruising lifestyles are based on years of trying to accumulate capital and a suitable boat. As the "middle class"...
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