"sailirc" wrote

I guess its a matter of size and power but I have often wondered

I think it's got something to with how many blocks of ice from the sky it can
hold.... You know, those ones that global warming freeze up there in the sky?

Cheers,
Ellen

how's Neal tonight

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"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message
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"sailirc" wrote

I guess its a matter of size and power but I have often wondered

I think it's got something to with how many blocks of ice from the sky
it can
hold.... You know, those ones that global warming freeze up there in the
sky?

Cheers,
Ellen

"sailirc" wrote
how's Neal tonight

Are you talking about the world famous mariner Captain Neal?
He's probably doing pretty good. I'm sure a man like that everything
he touches turns to gold. I emailed him a bunch of times as but he never
answers. I even signed his guest book
http://www.homestead.com/~site/Scrip...V=2&H_U=164271
with a link to a photo of me but he never answered. I guess he's out sailing
someplace and his his hands full with his crew. They're prettier than me,
I hate to admit. :-(

Cheers,
Ellen

On Feb 3, 5:02 pm, Mundo wrote:
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:23:36 -0500, sailirc wrote
(in article IX7xh.8816$VY5.5727@trnddc08):



Great Boat. I did to full (back and forth) trans atlantics and up and down
east coast a dozen times. One of my favorite charges... I have only
captained
one other boat I would rather own. Nordhavn 62. I did a delivery to the
V.I's
Last year. Wow. Mini ship!

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What footage is it to be classified as a yacht 60ft?

Don't really care.
I seem to remember that a yacht held a dinghy, a boat held a yacht, and a
ship carried a boat. I'm sure that is wrong but you get the idea.

http://www.naval-technology.com/cont...e/USS-Cole.jpg

Big boat

Joe

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Here's a possible scenario...

He's out there to scatter his mother's ashes. The wind and seas are
relatively calm, so he's likely running on the engine. Perhaps he has the
autohelm driving. Even sunny, it's pretty cold right now, and with the
moving boat, he's definitely wearing a foulie or something for a wind break.
Since he's a careful sailor, according to all the reports, he's definitely
wearing a PFD is likely tethered to the boat. I would be if single-handing
offshore. (I do that in the bay when by myself on a typical day of 15 to 20
kts.)

He has some sort of catestrophic medical event.. HA, stroke, whatever, and
dies or is incapacitated quickly, unable to summon help. The boat continues
under autopilot at say 7 kts. If this happened at 10 nm offshore, about the
max range of a cell phone in that area, and he wasn't reported missing until
20:30 hours, then when they finally started looking say at 22:00, he would
have been 20 x 7 = 140 nm. It would take them several more hours to search
this far out, so he might be 200 nm off. The boat would have something like
40 gals max. So, at 5 miles per gallon (SWAG) that would be 200 nm until the
engine died, but if sails were up, it would still be going. Perhaps he was
able to sail for part of the trip. If so, that would extend the range. The
winds were light, under 10 kts, but that's still enough to make good
progress.

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"Joe" wrote in message
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On Jan 31, 9:54 pm, "
wrote:
Bet it had a keel smile,

Hey Joe... what does that statement mean? As a layperson I'm just
not familiar with that term?

Just google "C&C smile". There is some sort of gasket between the cast
keel and the hull, with filler added.
When you see a C&C just hauled from the water you knowtice the flexing
causes a crack at the joint, when you look at the boat from the head
on the crack makes it looks as if it's smiling. Bobspirt had this
problem with the C&C he had.

Joe



Here's a good link:

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/m...curynews_local

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