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Heading South
On Nov 5, 12:21 pm, Bart wrote:
On Nov 1, 11:18 pm, Bart wrote: On Nov 1, 12:05 pm, wrote: "Bart" wrote in message oups.com... It looks like I'll be sailing south next week for the Caribbean. It brings to mind my last trip. I must be out of my mind! I can't afford to take two weeks off to move a boat! I really don't like crossing the Gulf Stream, and I hate it when other people eat my cereal and try to use my towel! This time I'm going to have a little chat with the other crew on this trip and explain it advance, before we leave the dock that the answer is no to any requests to eat my food, or drink my personal stash of drinks. I really don't want someone else's candy bars--they are not like gold to me! Lat trip one guy offered me a candy bar over and over again. He was shocked that I didn't want it. Some people never catch on to the fact that not everybody likes the same things they like. You can see some good examples of that among the regulars here on ASA.  I bring enough to last me, I don't plan for the rest of the crews The trips I've made, we've all gone together to the grocery store and bought stuff together; although a few people have "their" stuff, most of the food aboard is communal. Towels... no! Nobody shares my towel, that's very unhygenic. Next they'll want to share my toothbrush.. I did have an interesting experience years ago, when a guy who was on my regular racing crew (in fact one of the best racing sailors I've known) came with a group on a charter to the Bahamas. He & his girlfriend holed up in the forepeak and stole 1/2 the food, hiding it in their personal bags and claiming they didn't know where it was. I had to practically drag him out to stand watch. Weird behavior. Does anyone have a similar experiences? "Scotty" wrote: No, my wife and I learned to share years ago. Towels, too?!? Maybe at the beach.... Fresh Breezes- Doug King One good thing, the lastest weaher charts show what looks like an easy passage. Basically a rhumb line or a passage slightly easter of it. A warm eddy that can only help. Entering the Gulf Stream on the rhumb line shows an easterly current. The only negative I see and it's not a big one, is the winds are presently slightly on the nose. So with a favored starboard tack, that should bring us on the east side of the rhumb line towards the favored side of the warm eddy, and across the Gulf Stream at it's narrowest. It looks like an easy passage. I predict a short stop in Bermuda and pressing on right away. Perhaps we should head north as the latest evidence of arctic warming is due to undersea volcanism. http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrati...cumentation/pr... http://www.bloggernews.net/111447 |
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