On 15 Jun 2006 15:23:27 -0700, "Joe" wrote:


Goofball_star_dot_etal wrote:


Hey Goofball!

Yo, Joe!

Is that your boat?

No. It is a Sadler 34 that's been across the pond and done The Three
Peaks Yacht Race. Come on over, it's sunny now..


Were are you sailing?

Up to Holyhead, Anglesey, about 80nm north.
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=...80004,1.186523

This is Bardsey lighthouse before dawn with some biggish waves rolling
in:
http://www.wareing77.plus.com/images/IMGP0728b.JPG

Cheers!

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

Vanguard 15, popular with the recently-graduated college


OzOne wrote:
Looks like a 420 knockoff.


In some ways, yes... same basic idea. They're a bit more
powerful than a 420. Longer, finer entry, firmer bilge,
higher aspect & bigger rig. The 420s here are mostly open
(always remind me of a bathtub) but the Vanguard 15 is
mostly decked-over... although with typical Vanguard
quality, the deck is not to be walked on by anybody weighing
over 55kg (120 lb).

I think of it as a kids boat, but they are fun. They are
pretty good light air boats. Too light & fragile to be a
club boat or a trainer. It doesn't do anything a Tasar
doesn't do better & faster (although it is simpler), but
that class never really caught on here either.

No such thing as the perfect boat, is there?

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Nice pics..cool boat!


OzOne wrote in message
...
Just one more :-)
I count Sir James Hardy and his lovely wife Joan as good
friends..whom
I've sailed with a number of time on their delightful old
yawl Nerida.

Couple of pics here
http://www.sasc.com.au/gaffers_day_2006.htm


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

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

OzOne wrote:
Just one more :-)
I count Sir James Hardy and his lovely wife Joan as good friends..whom
I've sailed with a number of time on their delightful old yawl Nerida.

Couple of pics here
http://www.sasc.com.au/gaffers_day_2006.htm


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

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

I've got you beat for sure...I've sailed with Maxprop, DSK, Michael
Ortin; I've met Edgar Cove, have Fahd several phone conversations with
Haggie, and have lively Messenger conversations with another personage
of venerableness. There are several others I've met over the past years
who no longer post here for oner reason or the other. And Dawn Riley
wrote me a letter. I have been truly blessed.

Just one more :-)
I count Sir James Hardy and his lovely wife Joan as good
friends..whom
I've sailed with a number of time on their delightful old
yawl Nerida.

Couple of pics here
http://www.sasc.com.au/gaffers_day_2006.htm


A yawl? Where's the mizzen?

When you sailed with them, did you set the jackyard topsail?
There's a beast all right... makes the worst spinnaker seem
very tame & cooperative.

Scotty wrote:
Nice pics..cool boat!

Sure is! I like the flat-top Ranger class boats too.

Some folks may remember the protest Sir James made as an
America's Cup skipper against Intrepid (1970 IIRC... ancient
history... the boats were *wood* fer gosh sake). Watching
the news film of the protest hearing, he was calm and
business like. A lot of the other people were pretty
childish about the whole business (although FWIW I think the
protest was decided correctly).

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

"katy" wrote:

OzOne wrote:
Just one more :-)
I count Sir James Hardy and his lovely wife Joan as good
friends..whom
I've sailed with a number of time on their delightful old
yawl Nerida.

Couple of pics here
http://www.sasc.com.au/gaffers_day_2006.htm


I've got you beat for sure...I've sailed with Maxprop,
DSK, Michael Ortin; I've met Edgar Cove, have Fahd several
phone conversations with Haggie, and have lively Messenger
conversations with another personage of venerableness.
There are several others I've met over the past years who
no longer post here for oner reason or the other. And
Dawn Riley wrote me a letter. I have been truly blessed.

Aw, shucks...

Seahag

Seahag wrote:
"katy" wrote:

OzOne wrote:
Just one more :-)
I count Sir James Hardy and his lovely wife Joan as good
friends..whom
I've sailed with a number of time on their delightful old
yawl Nerida.

Couple of pics here
http://www.sasc.com.au/gaffers_day_2006.htm

I've got you beat for sure...I've sailed with Maxprop,
DSK, Michael Ortin; I've met Edgar Cove, have Fahd several
phone conversations with Haggie, and have lively Messenger
conversations with another personage of venerableness.
There are several others I've met over the past years who
no longer post here for oner reason or the other. And
Dawn Riley wrote me a letter. I have been truly blessed.

Aw, shucks...

Seahag


Hey...I was impressed that you called me in the middle of a raging
hurricane while hanging off a pylon...that's true friendship!

katy wrote:
I've got you beat for sure...I've sailed with Maxprop, DSK, Michael
Ortin; I've met Edgar Cove, have Fahd several phone conversations with
Haggie, and have lively Messenger conversations with another personage
of venerableness. There are several others I've met over the past years
who no longer post here for oner reason or the other. And Dawn Riley
wrote me a letter. I have been truly blessed.

Wow.

Since your dropping legendary important sailors names I will to.

I've meet Jim Cate and the guy who use to do the Bottom Jobs Cartoons!
Top that!

Joe

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:03:26 -0400, DSK wrote:

Don't know anyone famous who sails, most of my friends that sail are
imfamous and borderline crazy, not unlike those that post here.

I was fortunate enough years ago on a delivery to be forced to stop in
Ft. Lauderdale on one of the leg finishes for the Whitbread. One boat
was there when we got there, two came in while we were still there and
we saw one finish when we left to complete our trip. Met a bunch of
the crewmembers. Those guys party pretty good between legs.

Frank

Frank Boettcher wrote:

Those guys party pretty good between legs.

Frank

Scotty made me do it!

Joe