20 days in the Caribbean!
 

The deal has been made.

Soon I'll be off to the Caribbean for thee weeks!

I'm teaching a Bareboat class, racing in a major regatta, and
then cruising for 10 days.

I'm thinking I may try out one of those IC-24's for a few days
too. Has anyone tried one yet?

Bart

20 days in the Caribbean!
 

Bart wrote:
The deal has been made.

Soon I'll be off to the Caribbean for thee weeks!

I'm teaching a Bareboat class, racing in a major regatta, and
then cruising for 10 days.

I'm thinking I may try out one of those IC-24's for a few days
too. Has anyone tried one yet?

Bart


Noce....and by the time you get back the weather should have moderated
back to a nicer mode,,,,have fun...

20 days in the Caribbean!
 

On Feb 6, 8:15 am, katy wrote:

Nice....and by the time you get back the weather should have moderated
back to a nicer mode,,,,have fun...

No kidding katy. It has gotten cold here. We had a mild winter
so far. Now the temps are below freezing and likely to stay
that way for a while. What is it like down south?

20 days in the Caribbean!
 

On Feb 6, 12:22 am, "Bart" wrote:
The deal has been made.

Soon I'll be off to the Caribbean for thee weeks!

I'm teaching a Bareboat class, racing in a major regatta, and
then cruising for 10 days.

I'm thinking I may try out one of those IC-24's for a few days
too. Has anyone tried one yet?

Bart

Cool deal Bart. If you get near Tortola stop in and say hi to our
good friend Capt. Louise. She's running a sailing school there but I
don't recall the name of it right now.

She's the cutie in the middle.

http://www.sailinglinks.com/images/IMG_0170.jpg

Barb
s/v Arabella
www.sailinglinks.com

20 days in the Caribbean!
 

On Feb 6, 10:16 am, "Bart" wrote:
.. What is it like down south?

It's 70 f and sunny...thanks for asking.
Knock back a few rums for me ya lucky *******.

Joe

20 days in the Caribbean!
 

Bart wrote:
On Feb 6, 8:15 am, katy wrote:


Nice....and by the time you get back the weather should have moderated
back to a nicer mode,,,,have fun...


No kidding katy. It has gotten cold here. We had a mild winter
so far. Now the temps are below freezing and likely to stay
that way for a while. What is it like down south?



We're in the teens...frigid frigid...but no precip so that's fine...my
daughter called me last night and said that they ahven't been able to
get the snow off the foads for the past 3 days up in Grand Rapids and
that people are using their snowmobiles to go to the store!

20 days in the Caribbean!
 

"Bart" wrote:
The deal has been made.

Soon I'll be off to the Caribbean for thee weeks!

I'm teaching a Bareboat class, racing in a major regatta, and
then cruising for 10 days.


Your timing is perfect, weather wise.

I'm thinking I may try out one of those IC-24's for a few days
too. Has anyone tried one yet?


Yes. Significant ergonomic improvement over the old J-24. Otherwise
it's the same boat, a bit less powered up by a crew willing to suffer
to get weight outboard of the rail; the builders claim they are
lighter & stiffer than the old arched-deck design but I noticed the
deck & cockpit had approximately the same amount of flex and they seem
to sail exactly the same.

-signed- Injun Ear (formerly known as Eagle Eye)

20 days in the Caribbean!
 

"ladysailor" wrote
She's the cutie in the middle.

All three people are old and fat.... Cutie means young and fit. Duh!

Cheers,
Ellen

20 days in the Caribbean!
 

katysails wrote:
We're in the teens...frigid frigid...but no precip so that's fine...my
daughter called me last night and said that they ahven't been able to
get the snow off the foads for the past 3 days up in Grand Rapids and
that people are using their snowmobiles to go to the store!

I hate when they can't get snow off my foad. But then, in general, I
don't hang my foad out in the snow anyway.

As for driving to the store in a snowmobile, been there done that.
Only I didn't have one of those fancy snowmobiles with the Rotax
engine, ski steering & tracked drive... I used a tractor instead.

-signed- Injun Ear

20 days in the Caribbean!
 

On Feb 6, 11:03 am, "Ellen MacArthur"
wrote:
"ladysailor" wrote

She's the cutie in the middle.

All three people are old and fat.... Cutie means young and fit. Duh!

Cheers,
Ellen

Hahaha....

I will admit that she a quite a few years younger than the old farts
on eiter side of her. At the time she was the Captain of a 65' Swan.
Nice ride!

http://www.sailinglinks.com/images/Mehitabel.jpg

Barb
s/v Arabella
www.sailinglinks.com