This isn't Alt.liveaboards.ASA.


SV


"katysails" wrote in message
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Hey...now you, me and Barbie are all liveaboards...how about
that?


"Seahag" wrote in message
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Welcome back! Group can't have too many liveaboards!

Seahag

brAT..I hear you have a new friend...


"Scotty" wrote in message
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you were gone?


Scotty


wrote in message
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Hey, everyone. You have all sure been busy posting away here
while I was
incommunicado. We finally got phone service established here
on our boat,
so I'm back to normal emailing. Oh, yeah...I forgot to
mention...we are now
living aboard Chanteuse, escaping the cold winter up in MI
(they've already
had 6 inches of snow and expect 6" nore tonight...too bad, so
sad). Right
now we're in the Pamlico Sound area (some of you know where
exactly...).
We're just taking life esasy for right now and staying away
from going out
into the Atlantic....the weather off Cape Hatteras to Cape Fear
is
frightening....45-50 knots with 20 foot waves. Not what I want
my first
encounter with the Atlantic to be! We've met a bunch of lovely
people,
including one Doug and Kathy King, who are great folks,
interesting to talk
to, and enjoyable to be with. Have also met some friends of
Michael Ortin's
(Schoonertrash) who sail in this area who are very pleasant
people too.
Chopper likes living aboard except that we're always having to
ask him to
move since the aft cabin has become the closet/storage area.
He was a bit
put out at first that we had usurped "his" room for such
mundane stuff as
the printer, clothes, and accesoroes. We are now official
liveabords since
we installed the requisite blue tarp over our boom when we had
a downpour
yesterday...sure makes a difference not having the rain come
pouring down
the hatch. We're also shopping for a new mainsail before
taking off to do
any serious cruising. Haven't decided whether we're going to
go north or
south yet. Plenty of time to decide that later. For right
now, we like it
here and there's lots to explore and lots of places to sail to
in the
vicinity. I brought my fishing gear with me and on a warmer
day will go out
to the beach to surf fish. I caught a 1.5# crappe off the dock
the other
day and cooked it up for dinner. So, that's where I've been
and am....good
to be back.

katy

But it could be...sell your truck....

"Scotty" wrote in message
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This isn't Alt.liveaboards.ASA.


SV


"katysails" wrote in message
...
Hey...now you, me and Barbie are all liveaboards...how about
that?


"Seahag" wrote in message
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Welcome back! Group can't have too many liveaboards!

Seahag

I want to. The boss says not for a few more years.

Scotty


"katysails" wrote in message
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But it could be...sell your truck....

"Scotty" wrote in message
...
This isn't Alt.liveaboards.ASA.


SV


"katysails" wrote in message
...
Hey...now you, me and Barbie are all liveaboards...how
about
that?


"Seahag" wrote in message
...
Welcome back! Group can't have too many liveaboards!

Seahag

wrote in message
...
Hey, everyone. You have all sure been busy posting away here while I was
incommunicado. We finally got phone service established here on our boat,
so I'm back to normal emailing. Oh, yeah...I forgot to mention...we are
now
living aboard Chanteuse, escaping the cold winter up in MI (they've
already
had 6 inches of snow and expect 6" nore tonight...too bad, so sad). Right
now we're in the Pamlico Sound area (some of you know where exactly...).
We're just taking life esasy for right now and staying away from going out
into the Atlantic....the weather off Cape Hatteras to Cape Fear is
frightening....45-50 knots with 20 foot waves. Not what I want my first
encounter with the Atlantic to be! We've met a bunch of lovely people,
including one Doug and Kathy King, who are great folks, interesting to
talk
to, and enjoyable to be with. Have also met some friends of Michael
Ortin's
(Schoonertrash) who sail in this area who are very pleasant people too.
Chopper likes living aboard except that we're always having to ask him to
move since the aft cabin has become the closet/storage area. He was a bit
put out at first that we had usurped "his" room for such mundane stuff as
the printer, clothes, and accesoroes. We are now official liveabords
since
we installed the requisite blue tarp over our boom when we had a downpour
yesterday...sure makes a difference not having the rain come pouring down
the hatch. We're also shopping for a new mainsail before taking off to do
any serious cruising. Haven't decided whether we're going to go north or
south yet. Plenty of time to decide that later. For right now, we like
it
here and there's lots to explore and lots of places to sail to in the
vicinity. I brought my fishing gear with me and on a warmer day will go
out
to the beach to surf fish. I caught a 1.5# crappe off the dock the other
day and cooked it up for dinner. So, that's where I've been and
am....good
to be back.

Welcome to where you are. And welcome back. Things have been a bit more
civil here lately, with the absence of the flonkers. Maybe I've just
killfiled 'em all--I really don't know, but they're gone as far as I'm
concerned.

Have the mussels at Capt. Ratty's--highly recommended.

Max

"katysails" wrote in message
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The house is still there...for now....we're just toying with retirement
and
looking at a bunch of possibilities and I am exceedingly tired of winters
in
MI. We had Chanteuse trucked down here...used American Boat Transport
which
I will recommend to anyone needing a boat shipped. They were reasonable,
on
time, and the boat arrived intact. The boat yard we launched from had an
inexperienced kid, though, who thought boats drive like cars and he ended
up
smashing one stanchion and bending another..they are t a welding shop
getting fixed..all in all a small thing considering...fortunately, I was
on
the boat and immediately gave him a katy earful about how to back a fin
keel
boat...

Forgot to mention--a friend saw your boat leaving town. I told him where it
was going--hope you don't mind. He doesn't post here.

Max

"katysails" wrote in message
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\\I will...we're going out to Oceacoke this weekend...the Right Whales
are
supposed to be swimming around out there

Correct. The Left ones just tend to flounder about with no sense of purpose
or direction. g

and I'm hoping to get some pictures
of them, too, plus some pictures of Cape Hatteras light....

Watch for the ghost of Edward Teach on Ocracoke.

Max

"katysails" wrote in message
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"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
k.net...
I bet that low cabin ceiling is rough on the beehive.

Low cabin ceiling?????You got the wrong boat, there, Bob...my beehive,
although not as impressive as Marge Simpson's, is doing just fine...

Did you see any alligators yet?

No, but there is supposedly one living down the river from here according
to
a lady at the bank...

Keep an eye on the dog. I'm told a dog or two become dinner for the gators
now and then.

Max

"katysails" wrote in message
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Peter,
Please email me your sb addy...I'm using my infernal inferior laptop and
don't have it.

If it will make you feel any better, we're in the midst of a lake-effect
snow here, with a clipper system due in tomorrow. Nightly temps are
supposed to be low teens or single digits. Enjoy NC.

Max

In article et,
Maxprop wrote:
Welcome to where you are. And welcome back. Things have been a bit more
civil here lately, with the absence of the flonkers. Maybe I've just
killfiled 'em all--I really don't know, but they're gone as far as I'm
concerned.

It's amazing, actually.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com