I'm going on my icebreaker from Fremantle to west of Heard Is, then
down to Antarctica (Davis Base) and returning to Hobart in March.
Oceanographic research cruise.

ATM I'm just sailing my little toy daysailer on the bay & channel
outside my place here in Hobart, if we're talking about sailboat
sailing. Fun, but hardly worth taking pix. Perhaps I should just so
Bob**** could feel superior. God knows he needs something to boost his
inferiority complex. Of course, I actually own my boat, I don't have to
ask my wife's permission to sail her boat, so he'd have a hard time
overcoming that obstacle.

I decided the daysailer had too much weather helm so got a bigger old
jib off a friend and we've bolted a chunk of 40x40x5mm aluminium RHS on
for a bowsprit, made up a new forestay and a few other bits. Take it
out for a spin tomorrow, see what happens......

Had to laugh about everyone picking on Neal for using a bit of water
pipe to sleeve his boom. When I bought this outrageously expensive boat
- cost me 2 slabs of beer or thereabouts - it had a severely bent mast.
We just cut 100mm out, put in an aluminium sleeve and TIG welded it
back together again. Been out in winds strong enough to have the lee
shroud completely slack but the mast shows no sign of failure.

Sailing off the beach out the front of my place is interesting. There's
400m of shoal water at high tide, same as sand/mud flat at low tide.
Big bar off to port that you can sail over at high tide to about half
tide. A lot of the time there's an onshore breeze so it's a lee shore.
Gotta get away on the port tack and try to get to where you can get
enough c/b down to get some lateral plane. Talk about a c-f some days &
states of the tide.......board up, go sideways. Down, go nowhere. I put
a turning block & pennant on the c/b so it can be adjusted very finely;
when you hear it scraping on the bottom it's time to lift it a bit
more.

Lotta fun but later today I'm off sailing on a friend's boat. Enough
wind to be interesting.

PDW

In article , Scott Vernon
wrote:

Peter, how about some particulars on the blue water sailing? We
desperately need some sail talk here.

Scotty


"Peter Wiley" wrote in message
. ..
Your problems are not my problems. I have 2 weeks, more or less, to
enjoy summer and sailing before I go blue water sailing for 10 weeks
or
so.

Today was a little warm at 31C but the sea breeze was nice. The boat
is
sitting on the tidal flat at the bottom of my yard, high tide is
1.7m
and a nice civilised time tomorrow morning. I think I'll spend most
of
the day sailing - again.

So you're suffering. I should care?

PDW

In article , Flying Tadpole
wrote:

Dear Peter,

On behalf of the deskbound and workbound and housebound and
snowbound who comprise most of this newsgroup...

...I wish you'd shut up about going sailing. I mean, what do you
think this newsgroup's for, hmmmm?

FT

Peter Wiley wrote:

We have a nice 23C day with 5-15 knots of ESE wind. I've just
come in
from a 2 hour sail on the bay :-)

PDW

In article
,
katysails wrote:

We've 10 inches of snow on the ground this
morning....ugh....and I have to
run out for more cream cheese to finish the pumpkin
cheesecake...

"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
...
Joe,

Shucking Oysters!! So was I ! Made a casserole with "Sailor
boy
crackers, 1/2&1/2. butter, nutmeg and powdered mustard" to
serve with
Turkey Gravy.

Also baked 3 pies; Apple, Caramel Apple, and Raisin Pie (
Funeral pie,
Scott)

We have trouble here. FLOOD WARNING! Water already over the
road at my
Son's house, where I'm going tomorrow. That's where the
Turkey is. May
have to use the inflatable canoe to get in.

How that for getting on topic,
Ole Thom