Great sail today, went out for about 4 hours. Unfortunately, my batteries
were completely dead when I went to motor back into the marina. Fortunately,
the wind was blowing out of the E-NE, the entrance to the marina runs
east/west, was able to sail up the channel, drop the main several boat
lengths before the turn into my row, coast right into the slip. Not quite
the same as sailing right in, but I was getting quite a few stares as I
sailed up the channel. Under the circumstances, it seemed like a good idea.
Waiting for a tow in might have taken several hours, the wind was blowing in
the right direction. I didn't have much time to gloat, one of my sailing
neighbors was quick to point out that marina rules prohibit sailing in the
marina. Good practice, though.
John Cairns

All you have to do is hail them and tell them you're coming.
We've had to do that a couple of times when we had similar
problems. The harbor master never had a problem with it.

"John Cairns" wrote in message
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Great sail today, went out for about 4 hours. Unfortunately, my batteries
were completely dead when I went to motor back into the marina.
Fortunately,
the wind was blowing out of the E-NE, the entrance to the marina runs
east/west, was able to sail up the channel, drop the main several boat
lengths before the turn into my row, coast right into the slip. Not quite
the same as sailing right in, but I was getting quite a few stares as I
sailed up the channel. Under the circumstances, it seemed like a good
idea.
Waiting for a tow in might have taken several hours, the wind was blowing
in
the right direction. I didn't have much time to gloat, one of my sailing
neighbors was quick to point out that marina rules prohibit sailing in the
marina. Good practice, though.
John Cairns

I might be missing something but with out batteries doesn't that knock
out the radio? Who do you Hail to?

OT

Use your handheld... you should have one as a backup.

"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
...
I might be missing something but with out batteries doesn't that knock
out the radio? Who do you Hail to?

OT

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:19:29 -0700, "Jonathan Ganz"
wrote this crap:

Use your handheld... you should have one as a backup.


Better yet. Use your cellphone.




Ave Imperator Bush!
Bush Was Right! Four More Years!

That's stupid. Other boats monitor 16, which gives them
a heads up about what is going to happen.

It's a good idea to have a cell phone, but not for stuff
like this.

As usual, you demonstrate no understanding about
sailing, boat handling, or common sense.

"Horvath" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:19:29 -0700, "Jonathan Ganz"
wrote this crap:

Use your handheld... you should have one as a backup.


Better yet. Use your cellphone.




Ave Imperator Bush!
Bush Was Right! Four More Years!

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:51:59 -0700 (PDT), a team of surgeons from
alt.sailing.asa removed the following benign growth from Thom Stewart:

I might be missing something but with out batteries doesn't that knock
out the radio? Who do you Hail to?

HAIL TO THE CHIEF, of course.

Are you unpatriotic or something?

--
PJR :-)
mhm34x8

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:45:32 -0700, a team of surgeons from
alt.sailing.asa removed the following benign growth from Jonathan
Ganz:

All you have to do is hail them and tell them you're coming.

Or you could just scream "Oh God! Yes! Yes! Yes!"

We've had to do that a couple of times when we had similar
problems. The harbor master never had a problem with it.

Is he a pjervert too?

--
PJR :-)
mhm34x8

one of my sailing
neighbors was quick to point out that marina rules prohibit sailing in =
the
marina.

Probably a motorboater....there were those types at our previous marina =
( I will give it , though, that if you were in trouble and radioed in, =
they would come get you rather than have Sea Tow come out). Muskegon =
Yacht Club has no such rule...it's am every day occurrence since many of =
the boats don't even have auxiliary engines.

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