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DSK wrote:
Joe wrote:
I have one of thoses cheap credit card size digitals cameras still in
the package, I'll try to get some pics next week.


OK, I want to see the shot where you're zooming past that J-100!

One other cool boat perhaps you can help me ID. It had an emblem of
crossed main sails one sail red one blue, have any ideal what that may
be?


One of these
http://www.v15.org/photos/2004Nation...s/DSC_4284.jpg

Vanguard 15, popular with the recently-graduated college
crowd... in fact I think a few college teams have bought
them too (a mistake IMHO). They are fun boats, they can
plane upwind. Good all-around simple class racer, not
technical and very rewarding of skills with stick, sheet,
and balance. If your boat can beat one of these around a
course, that would be fairly impressive.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Yelp thats it. We ran neck to neck on most tacks.

I'm not really racing these guys on the course, just hang out in the
crowd and race anyone going the same way on anything. Maybe with some
more practice ll head to the bar and sign up. There were so many boats
going so many directions it was wild, almost had a J 24 run straight
into me, I fell off the wind to get out of his way, he started going
down. luckly someone yelled to him to come up and he missed me, I
heard the helmsman say he never saw me. After the races they had the
boats pass in review in front of the bar for pictures then everyone
sortta just sailed around. One boat named " Whine Cooler" had an all
female crew in Pink bikinis :0)

Joe

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No Nutsy,

The "Pile of ****" here on ASA is mainly all yours.

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Hey Oz,

How about the Buchan Family of Seattle. They did pretty well in the
STARS for a lot of years.

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Doug,

Nice Picture! Looks like it was taken in a western location, with all
those mountains in the background How about a picture of a Star, with a
Connecticut Rigged Mast? I think JFK's Star had a Connecticut Rig?
Joe is right. They sure as hell could climb the wind. That jib is
necessary to reduce windward Helm. They don't sail upwind with out it.
In fact they're a pig on Main alone but a great boat for real sailors.

OT

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OzOne wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:08:35 -0400, "Scotty"
scribbled thusly:


OzOne wrote in message


OK. time for a little more name dropping.
Elle is a good friend of my wife and we have three ways
more than a couple of time/year these days.

You da Man, Ozzy!

Hmmmm, now that would be interesting....but I wouldn't live long
enough to bask in the glory :-)

Yeah, but the three nipples would be handy! :0)

Joe



Oh, and I've spent quite a bit of time with DC over the
years when I
was sailing Etchells more competitively and often than I
do now.


What's DC really like, off a race boat?

Quite shy, but will talk sailing till the cows come home if he feels
comfortable with you.
Drinks lemonade most of the time at regattas.

Scotty




Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

more name dropping
 

Joe wrote:
My dad had a house across the street from Ted in the Atlanta area.
I've meet him several times....never meet his wife(not sure if he was
married to her at the time), which is good. You are right, the guys got
crisma.



Long long time ago I was at a big regatta where a bunch of
"names" were invited for promotioanl reasons. Only a few
showed up and Ted Turner was one. During an interlude of
zero wind, the boats were all sitting around in a tight
pack, going nowhere... amny of the skippers stressing about
trying to inch ahead... Ted started telling jokes,
explaining in a fairly loud voice to his crew that this was
a tactic to break up everybody elses' concentration but that
*he* could sail just as well while telling them. But he is
also the man who took his mast down after the first day's
racing, to check on something he thought wasn't quite
right... most sailors would have shrugged it off.


Most famous sailor i've ever meet was Robin Graham.


Sounds like an interesting person. One of the big magazines
mentioned him in their 30 year retrospective, that he'd
become a rancher out West somewhere and had no interest in
talking sailing with any reporters.

DSK

more name dropping
 

DSK wrote:
Joe wrote:
My dad had a house across the street from Ted in the Atlanta area.
I've meet him several times....never meet his wife(not sure if he was
married to her at the time), which is good. You are right, the guys got
crisma.



Long long time ago I was at a big regatta where a bunch of
"names" were invited for promotioanl reasons. Only a few
showed up and Ted Turner was one. During an interlude of
zero wind, the boats were all sitting around in a tight
pack, going nowhere... amny of the skippers stressing about
trying to inch ahead... Ted started telling jokes,
explaining in a fairly loud voice to his crew that this was
a tactic to break up everybody elses' concentration but that
*he* could sail just as well while telling them. But he is
also the man who took his mast down after the first day's
racing, to check on something he thought wasn't quite
right... most sailors would have shrugged it off.


Most famous sailor i've ever meet was Robin Graham.


Sounds like an interesting person. One of the big magazines
mentioned him in their 30 year retrospective, that he'd
become a rancher out West somewhere and had no interest in
talking sailing with any reporters.

He's was in the PNW in 81, I meet him San Francisco.

He was very quiet and I think burned out early with all the fame as a
teen, still married to Patti, the girl he meet in OZ.
..
His Dad, Nat Geo, ect ...all profited more off his adventures then he
did.... I think.

He has a comfortable living on his book royalties, and want's to be
left alone. A buddie on my ship was a close friend and knew I was a
fan of his. I asked him about his cabin fever episode in the doldrums
where he was throwing his sails in the water and almost set the boat
ablaze , and he said it was all true. Maybe he was pressured to hard
at the time and that quenched his desire for any more sailing. I could
tell he was un-comfortable talking about the whole deal. I think if he
had had it his way, he would have stopped in OZ and stayed with Patti.

Joe


DSK

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On 15 Jun 2006 07:10:48 -0700, "Capt. Rob" wrote:


Yeah, my little Olympus is great, slips into a pocket onboard and is
ready anytime.




That's an old camera and not very good. The Pentax W10 is the best
small model around.

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_...optio_w10.html

I have one aboard Heart of Gold, though I'm still using the D70 more of
course. Pentax has teamed with Casio to make very good compact cameras.
Olympus had some nice stuff 3-4 years ago, but they've really lagged in
recent years.

Splashproof is good..
http://www.wareing77.plus.com/movies/IMGP0733.wmv

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Very Good Doug,

I was at a loss on that Emblem

OT

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Goofball_star_dot_etal wrote:


Hey Goofball!

Is that your boat?
Were are you sailing?

Joe

On 15 Jun 2006 07:10:48 -0700, "Capt. Rob" wrote:


Yeah, my little Olympus is great, slips into a pocket onboard and is
ready anytime.




That's an old camera and not very good. The Pentax W10 is the best
small model around.

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_...optio_w10.html

I have one aboard Heart of Gold, though I'm still using the D70 more of
course. Pentax has teamed with Casio to make very good compact cameras.
Olympus had some nice stuff 3-4 years ago, but they've really lagged in
recent years.

Splashproof is good..
http://www.wareing77.plus.com/movies/IMGP0733.wmv