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"Joe" wrote in message

What about the fishing?

I think they were shy of the rain.... didn't want to get wet and all. :-)

We saw no marine life at all on Friday... saw whales and seals on Saturday
and Sunday. Didn't fish either of those days though.

CM

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Capt Mooron wrote:
We saw no marine life at all on Friday... saw whales and seals on Saturday
and Sunday. Didn't fish either of those days though.


What test line do you use for whales? What bait? Do you have
to get a special license?

DSK

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"DSK" wrote in message
...
Capt Mooron wrote:
We saw no marine life at all on Friday... saw whales and seals on
Saturday and Sunday. Didn't fish either of those days though.


What test line do you use for whales? What bait? Do you have to get a
special license?

I have a professional hand held Harpoon with 4 metal barrel floats... each
with 100' of 1/2" rope and a detachable harpoon head attached. It's part of
the gear I have in storage from my commercial fishing days. It was used for
marlin etc from the bow of my 30' Cape Islander. I believe it would suit the
purpose..... but I'm not a fan of whale meat and refuse to kill anything
unless I plan to eat it, use it or in self defence.

It is to my knowledge illegal to kill any whale in Canadian waters unless
you are Inuit.

CM

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Capt.Mooron wrote:
"DSK" wrote in message
...
Capt Mooron wrote:
We saw no marine life at all on Friday... saw whales and seals on
Saturday and Sunday. Didn't fish either of those days though.


What test line do you use for whales? What bait? Do you have to get a
special license?

I have a professional hand held Harpoon with 4 metal barrel floats... each
with 100' of 1/2" rope and a detachable harpoon head attached. It's part of
the gear I have in storage from my commercial fishing days. It was used for
marlin etc from the bow of my 30' Cape Islander. I believe it would suit the
purpose..... but I'm not a fan of whale meat and refuse to kill anything
unless I plan to eat it, use it or in self defence.

It is to my knowledge illegal to kill any whale in Canadian waters unless
you are Inuit.

CM

What! You have no explosive tipped harpoon's like the Japs use...?
I thought you clubbed babie seals and put them on a hook squirming to
catch killer whales for Sea World Toranto. Or was that Max....
Joe

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Capt.Mooron wrote:
"Joe" wrote in message

What! You have no explosive tipped harpoon's like the Japs use...?
I thought you clubbed babie seals and put them on a hook squirming to
catch killer whales for Sea World Toranto. Or was that Max....


Consider that Inuit [Eskimo] hunted Right Whales from Kayaks with Hand
Harpoons and floats made of sealskin. Explosive heads are for Americans.

Well I guess not, seein how's all real Eskimo's live in Alaska, and
that is the USA bucko.


Neither they nor the Japs could hit the broad side of a barn while locked
inside. They need the explosive heads.... we don't. No baby seals have been
killed for fur here since the ban was imposed 20 years ago. They now kill
the mothers for the fur houses in Europe, Japan, China and the USA...

Now I've seen you French looking canooks in your bloody baby seal
coats, you aint fooling no-one.

who
despite their protest on the world news ...remain the biggest buyers. Max is
just a frustrated Harrowsmith Reading, Tree Hugging, urban Sprout Head who
is fed his info from his weekly subscription to PETA. He has no informed
opinion of his own.

You mean Aero Smith listening, Tree hugging.....

Joe

CM

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OK ! Enough already, I'm jelious!

Scotty


"Capt.Mooron" wrote in message
news:cB3Cg.80630$B91.37628@edtnps82...
Oh Yeah.... that ocean surge and those swells with
Overproof tracking like
a train downwind.... nuthin' beats that feeling! I didn't
realize how much I
missed it by not launching last year. Then again I had no
time to sail last
year.

I was amazed on Saturday.... upwind and I was keeping pace
with a pair of 36
ft sailboats. Mind you they were reefed in 25 knots of
wind and I was flying
full canvas.

CM

"Scotty" wrote in message
. ..
Kewl !

Scotty


"Capt.Mooron" wrote in
message
news:0BRBg.158881$I61.155990@clgrps13...
Quick Report on Overproof's "Shake-Down" trip to Mahone
Bay

Departed the Bay Landing at 1230hrs in the rain. Did a
45
minute run-in at
various rpms on the auxiliary to assess performance.
Excellent... 6.5kts at
1900rpm. Cleared the bay under power and once satisfied
the diesel was in
good shape, proper drip from the packing gland, belts
tight, battery
charging... set sails and swung to about 180 on to a
beam
reach to get sea
room and clearer winds off shore. We changed heading to
270 at a DDW course
aprox 6 nm off the coast

You know the winds in drenching rain... sorta comes and
goes in waves. the
rain was relentless but the vessel was moving smartly.
Nonetheless... the
crew was geared and the coffee hot. We averaged about
6.7
kts speed in 15kts
DDW, wing on wing with a few short broad reaches to
shave
Peggy's Cove on to
East Ironbound. There we met up with a friend's boat
"Seaswire" who followed
us in to show him the way. We hit better winds behind
East
Ironbound and got
the speed up to about 7.5 to 8 knots. It was about 6
gybes
from East
Ironbound to the entrance of Mahone Bay proper and a
wing
on wing entry at
1830hrs to the mooring field.

We set to a mooring the first night, Seaswire rafted up
to
us and we tied
into the massive supply of beer and rum stockpiled
aboard
both vessels. It
wasn't long before we were dry & drunk with old friends
dropping by to say
hello. Seaswire's crew remarked how nice Overproof
looked
going through the
seas ahead of them.... smooth and powerful. That was
nice
to hear.

Saturday was a beautiful day for sailing with winds at
15
kts in the am to
25kts in the afternoon. We set full canvas and headed
out
at 1200hrs. Once
we passed and cleared the other boats we struck out for
Big Tancook
Island.... sailed-up to the Bluenose II then went to
Prince's Inlet past
Bachman's and returned to Mahone Bay at about 1800hrs.
We
pressed Overproof
hard on all points to see how the rigging was holding
out
and to fine tune
the tension, etc. The boat performed remarkably
well....

The Classic Boat Festival was a great time. Lots of
American boats in the
bay. Lots of shore activities. Lots of wooden and
classic
style boats for
sale. Many people dropped by to compliment and inquire
about Overproof. The
schooner races were on, we had deer steak BBQ, the
burning
of the Teaser on
Sat night and I got a Great Tan!! It was a 5 star
weekend.

I've been onboard since Thursday night and just got
back
here about 2 hours
ago.

CM

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"Capt.Mooron" wrote

I have a professional hand held Harpoon with 4 metal
barrel floats... each
with 100' of 1/2" rope and a detachable harpoon head
attached. It's part of
the gear I have in storage from my commercial fishing
days. It was used for
marlin etc from the bow of my 30' Cape Islander. I believe
it would suit the
porpoise.....

or Dolphin.

SV

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Sounds excellent- glad to hear 'Overproof' is in such good shape.


Capt.Mooron wrote:
3 weeks of knuckle bruising labour to get all systems overhauled. Way more
work then I anticipated.


That's always the way.

OTOH it is the only way to ensure your vessel is 100% right.



Did you adjust anything? If you have it all set up right, did you take any
measurements? Very useful info.


Yup I keep a baseline of numbers for rigging tension and have a caliper to
measure loads on the sheets and halyards. It provides a great indicator of
if a particular area is suffering extra loads due to a variety of factors
[ ie: sheave lubrication, wear on the sheets/halyards, mast alignment /
rake/ shroud & stay tension balanced / etc.]



It was primarily rake & tension that I was thinking of.
Measuring sheet & halyard tension sounds like a great idea;
what about the shrouds? What about measuring the rake?


You got a tan in 1 weekend?


Yeah!.... what's odd about that?

I guess it's the latitude. Down here your skin would peel
off in scorched chunks and leave shiny pink scar tissue. Not
healthy.






Looking forward to hearing some more sailing adventures!


Well I just got seconded to a large project so I only have the weekends and
the job is 5 hours away. I'll try and post if I get a bad sailing weekend.
(Is there such a thing?? :-)


Not really.
If you're racing, a bad weekend is when you finish poorly
and don't have a good excuse. Cruising is much simpler.

DSK

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Nice to see a post from a real sailor. Kudos.

Bart

"Capt.Mooron" wrote
Quick Report on Overproof's "Shake-Down" trip to Mahone Bay

Departed the Bay Landing at 1230hrs in the rain. Did a 45 minute run-in at
various rpms on the auxiliary to assess performance. Excellent... 6.5kts
at 1900rpm. Cleared the bay under power and once satisfied the diesel was
in good shape, proper drip from the packing gland, belts tight, battery
charging... set sails and swung to about 180 on to a beam reach to get
sea room and clearer winds off shore. We changed heading to 270 at a DDW
course aprox 6 nm off the coast

You know the winds in drenching rain... sorta comes and goes in waves. the
rain was relentless but the vessel was moving smartly. Nonetheless... the
crew was geared and the coffee hot. We averaged about 6.7 kts speed in
15kts DDW, wing on wing with a few short broad reaches to shave Peggy's
Cove on to East Ironbound. There we met up with a friend's boat "Seaswire"
who followed us in to show him the way. We hit better winds behind East
Ironbound and got the speed up to about 7.5 to 8 knots. It was about 6
gybes from East Ironbound to the entrance of Mahone Bay proper and a wing
on wing entry at 1830hrs to the mooring field.

We set to a mooring the first night, Seaswire rafted up to us and we tied
into the massive supply of beer and rum stockpiled aboard both vessels. It
wasn't long before we were dry & drunk with old friends dropping by to say
hello. Seaswire's crew remarked how nice Overproof looked going through
the seas ahead of them.... smooth and powerful. That was nice to hear.

Saturday was a beautiful day for sailing with winds at 15 kts in the am to
25kts in the afternoon. We set full canvas and headed out at 1200hrs. Once
we passed and cleared the other boats we struck out for Big Tancook
Island.... sailed-up to the Bluenose II then went to Prince's Inlet past
Bachman's and returned to Mahone Bay at about 1800hrs. We pressed
Overproof hard on all points to see how the rigging was holding out and to
fine tune the tension, etc. The boat performed remarkably well....

The Classic Boat Festival was a great time. Lots of American boats in the
bay. Lots of shore activities. Lots of wooden and classic style boats for
sale. Many people dropped by to compliment and inquire about Overproof.
The schooner races were on, we had deer steak BBQ, the burning of the
Teaser on Sat night and I got a Great Tan!! It was a 5 star weekend.

I've been onboard since Thursday night and just got back here about 2
hours ago.

CM

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Many years ago I visited in Seattle. It rained every day the first
two weeks. I asked a kid I saw on a bicycle if the sun ever
came out.

He said, "How would I know, I'm only six!"

"DSK" wrote

Surely you tough Arctic types aren't going to complain about a little
drizzle?