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Trip report - Dec-March
Hello all!
I've been put on notice that the fine folks at rec.boats.cruising have been concerned about the whereabouts of Flying Pig and crew. Well, not to worry. All of us are doing just fine. We've been hanging out at an anchorage close to Volleyball beach in George Town. We haven't done any sailing nor have be gone anywhere for about three months. We are busy working on Flying Pig as usual fixing one thing after another that breaks unexpectedly. We are likely to be here for a long, long time as spare parts all have to be imported with a hefty import duty. Plus, the mail is not the most reliable thing around here either and I think some of the stuff gets re-directed to some needy local for his own boat. Lydia is doing fine and is in Hog Heaven. She spends her days putzing around with a handful of other cruising wives and they gossip and cook and shop and work on their tans. Some of them even manage to stay somewhat sober while doing so but not my Lydia. She's awfully fond of her rum, ya know. And rum is one thing that's cheap around here. I don't mind her staying sloshed, though, because then it's pretty easy to convince her how great a lover I am. Speaking of cheap, WOW! Don't even think about buying diesel here. It's anything BUT cheap! Try seven dollars a gallon. I think I'm going to have to learn how to sail into and out of the harbor as it costs too much to motor like I used to do all the time in the States. Speaking of that, we were sailing out of Elizabeth Harbor the other day for an afternoon sail and, as usual, Lydia went on the wrong side of a channel post and there we were again, hard aground. We did listen to Wilbur Hubbard this time though and departed on slack low water so we only had to wait about a half hour for the incoming tide to lift us off. I always thought Wilbur was something of an ass but now that I've started taking his advice I have to admit that sailing goes a lot smoother. Sometimes we can go for an afternoon sail and not have but five or six things go wrong instead of the usual dozen or so. Like the other day. We went sailing and I forgot that I had taken down the forestay to repair the roller furling. When I yanked the mainsail up and the wind filled it, down came the mainmast. So we had to tie it alongside and use the motor. But it wouldn't start. I traced the problem to a corroded ground connection which I fixed but it still wouldn't start. So I then traced it to a bad battery. So I switched it out for one of the house batteries and it started. But then it quit again. I traced this to a clogged fuel filter which I changed out and it ran long enough to get us back to our anchorage in the cove by Volleyball beach. But we had to stop twice to unwind mast halyards from the propeller. Well, anyway, friends, fear not. Flying Pig and crew are pursuing our dream. We never really were cruising sailors so we don't mind admitting we'll probably be in George Town for years. We might even buy a house as we finally realized we will always be lubbers at heart. L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in The Reluctant Messiah) |
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Trip report - Dec-March
In article , Flying Pig wrote:
[snip] Liar. How dare you impersonate someone who's actually sailing. Your life must be so desperately sad that you find this entertaining. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea. |
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"Justin C" wrote in message
... In article , Flying Pig wrote: [snip] Liar. How dare you impersonate someone who's actually sailing. Your life must be so desperately sad that you find this entertaining. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea. Pretty good impersonation, huh? C'mon, admit it. I know how Skippy operates. Besides, if anything will bring him out of hiding making fun of him will. -- Gregory Hall |
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Pretty good impersonation, huh?
Yeh... but kind of a "cheap shot" by Neale et. al. Especially when he refers to alleged personal issues. I have followed this "Alpha Henry's" posts for at least the past 4 or 5 years... and have no problem with most of his confrational statements relatiive to sailing issues and/or subjects... which he is pretty good at I have to admit. Of course most of us regulars... at least in due time... see through his myriad of sock puppets... which in a demented sort of way are also kind of entertaining. However... getting back to my main grievance... taking a poke at Skip is one thing (which he has done numerous times before) but the other personal inferences are not called for. Best regards to all... Bill Channel Islands Harbor Oxnard, California |
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"Bill Warnock" wrote in message
... Pretty good impersonation, huh? Yeh... but kind of a "cheap shot" by Neale et. al. Especially when he refers to alleged personal issues. I have followed this "Alpha Henry's" posts for at least the past 4 or 5 years... and have no problem with most of his confrational statements relatiive to sailing issues and/or subjects... which he is pretty good at I have to admit. Of course most of us regulars... at least in due time... see through his myriad of sock puppets... which in a demented sort of way are also kind of entertaining. However... getting back to my main grievance... taking a poke at Skip is one thing (which he has done numerous times before) but the other personal inferences are not called for. I assume you're referring to my mentioning Lydia? I suppose you never read her rant where she went off on Wilbur Hubbard and slammed him good? It's not like she's an innocent bystander in all of this. She and Skippy are a team. She likes to play, too. -- Gregory Hall |
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Trip report - Dec-March
On Mar 11, 5:44*pm, "Flying Pig" wrote:
Hello all! I've been put on notice that the fine folks at rec.boats.cruising have been concerned about the whereabouts of Flying Pig and crew. Well, not to worry. All of us are doing just fine. We've been hanging out at an anchorage close to Volleyball beach in George Town. We haven't done any sailing nor have be gone anywhere for about three months. We are busy working on Flying Pig as usual fixing one thing after another that breaks unexpectedly. We are likely to be here for a long, long time as spare parts all have to be imported with a hefty import duty. Plus, the mail is not the most reliable thing around here either and I think some of the stuff gets re-directed to some needy local for his own boat. Lydia is doing fine and is in Hog Heaven. She spends her days putzing around with a handful of other cruising wives and they gossip and cook and shop and work on their tans. Some of them even manage to stay somewhat sober while doing so but not my Lydia. She's awfully fond of her rum, ya know. And rum is one thing that's cheap around here. I don't mind her staying sloshed, though, because then it's pretty easy to convince her how great a lover I am. Speaking of cheap, WOW! Don't even think about buying diesel here. It's anything BUT cheap! Try seven dollars a gallon. I think I'm going to have to learn how to sail into and out of the harbor as it costs too much to motor like I used to do all the time in the States. Speaking of that, we were sailing out of Elizabeth Harbor the other day for an afternoon sail and, as usual, Lydia went on the wrong side of a channel post and there we were again, hard aground. We did listen to Wilbur Hubbard this time though and departed on slack low water so we only had to wait about a half hour for the incoming tide to lift us off. I always thought Wilbur was something of an ass but now that I've started taking his advice I have to admit that sailing goes a lot smoother. Sometimes we can go for an afternoon sail and not have but five or six things go wrong instead of the usual dozen or so. Like the other day. We went sailing and I forgot that I had taken down the forestay to repair the roller furling. When I yanked the mainsail up and the wind filled it, down came the mainmast. So we had to tie it alongside and use the motor. But it wouldn't start. I traced the problem to a corroded ground connection which I fixed but it still wouldn't start. So I then traced it to a bad battery. So I switched it out for one of the house batteries and it started. But then it quit again. I traced this to a clogged fuel filter which I changed out and it ran long enough to get us back to our anchorage in the cove by Volleyball beach. But we had to stop twice to unwind mast halyards from the propeller. Well, anyway, friends, fear not. Flying Pig and crew are pursuing our dream. We never really were cruising sailors so we don't mind admitting we'll probably be in George Town for years. We might even buy a house as we finally realized we will always be lubbers at heart. L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig *KI4MPC See our galleries atwww.justpickone.org/skip/gallery! Follow us athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/orhttp://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog *"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. *You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in The Reluctant Messiah) :{)) Since it showed up as gregh@... it wasn't all that well faked - but entertaining. As the recent posts have shown, we've been busy, sort of, and not all of it was repairs, though there were plenty of those. Also no Georgetown groundings, but the one at norman was just Lydia being out of the channel (and, to be fair, my not recognizing, through the crystal water, the insufficient depth - it all looks like it's 3' deep, when it's 12 or 20 or, in fact, 6, which is about what we encountered there - as I was standing on the bow looking for coral heads to avoid) as we were leaving the first time. And, as before, I compliment whichever personality it was which posted it, as it was entertaining reading. The last parody, where I did that, it really confused Wilbur, and past blasts' responses have had Bob blubbering about gentleman of the month or some such :{)) And, yeah, Lydia's a player. She liked it :{)) Nice touch to use my sig line :{)) - but you'll no doubt notice I'm using one you've not seen for a while, or never if you're relatively (few years) here, now... I'm going back to the boat soon, and we'll participate in a group dinner at Lorraine's in Black Point, Exumas tomorrow. The wind isn't as bad as forecast, so we'll probably leave sooner than we expected, to Staniel and points north, on our way back to SSI GA to deliver Lydia's mom, get grandbaby fixes, see her son in his new posting in Hurlburt as a newly minted, degreed, BMET (BioMedicalEquipmentTech), visiting our uncle who lives in Pensacola at the same time, as we return. L8R, y'all. Keep up the parodies if you haven't heard from us. We'll have the SPOT on if we're moving, and if it disappears in the middle of the ocean, it's a fair tossup as to whether the batteries have died or we sank :{)) Skip and crew, who likewise can't get motzarella to talk to me (501 error), nor aioe. Anyone got a freebie news reader? |
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Trip report - Dec-March
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:36:28 -0700 (PDT), Skip Gundlach
wrote: Like the other day. We went sailing and I forgot that I had taken down the forestay to repair the roller furling. When I yanked the mainsail up and the wind filled it, down came the mainmast. So we had to tie it alongside and use the motor. But it wouldn't start. I traced the problem to a corroded ground connection which I fixed but it still wouldn't start. So I then traced it to a bad battery. So I switched it out for one of the house batteries and it started. But then it quit again. I traced this to a clogged fuel filter which I changed out and it ran long enough to get us back to our anchorage in the cove by Volleyball beach. But we had to stop twice to unwind mast halyards from the propeller. Maybe you should give up sailing and take up gin rummy or something. Casady |
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On Mar 24, 7:36*am, Richard Casady
wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:36:28 -0700 (PDT), Skip Gundlach wrote: Like the other day. We went sailing and I forgot that I had taken down the forestay to repair the roller furling. When I yanked the mainsail up and the wind filled it, down came the mainmast. So we had to tie it alongside and use the motor. But it wouldn't start. I traced the problem to a corroded ground connection which I fixed but it still wouldn't start. So I then traced it to a bad battery. So I switched it out for one of the house batteries and it started. But then it quit again. I traced this to a clogged fuel filter which I changed out and it ran long enough to get us back to our anchorage in the cove by Volleyball beach. But we had to stop twice to unwind mast halyards from the propeller. Maybe you should give up sailing and take up gin rummy or something. Casady :{)) Maybe you should read more carefully. T'wasn't me in that first post, but our local parodist. Nice parody, with lots of inaccuracies about our time, but entertaining, nonetheless. L8R Skip, lying Black Point, soon to be in Staniel Cay, Exumas |
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"Skip Gundlach" wrote in message ...
On Mar 24, 7:36 am, Richard Casady wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:36:28 -0700 (PDT), Skip Gundlach wrote: Like the other day. We went sailing and I forgot that I had taken down the forestay to repair the roller furling. When I yanked the mainsail up and the wind filled it, down came the mainmast. So we had to tie it alongside and use the motor. But it wouldn't start. I traced the problem to a corroded ground connection which I fixed but it still wouldn't start. So I then traced it to a bad battery. So I switched it out for one of the house batteries and it started. But then it quit again. I traced this to a clogged fuel filter which I changed out and it ran long enough to get us back to our anchorage in the cove by Volleyball beach. But we had to stop twice to unwind mast halyards from the propeller. Maybe you should give up sailing and take up gin rummy or something. Casady :{)) Maybe you should read more carefully. T'wasn't me in that first post, but our local parodist. Nice parody, with lots of inaccuracies about our time, but entertaining, nonetheless. L8R Skip, lying Black Point, soon to be in Staniel Cay, Exumas Sorry, Skippy but SOMETHING had to be done to troll you up. These people were having Skippy withdrawal symptoms and some were extremely worried about your well being having not heard word one from you in months. How dare you so abuse your loving audience? Be sure to work you way up to the Abacos in time for Regatta time there. Don't miss it. Wilbur Hubbard |
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On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:03:17 -0700 (PDT), Skip Gundlach
wrote: lying Black Point, soon to be in Staniel Cay, Exumas I think you'll like Staniel. Make sure you snorkel into Thunderball Cave, see the pigs on the beach at Big Majors Cay, and say hello to Carl the bartender at Staniel Cay YC. Renting a golf cart is not inexpensive but it's a lot of fun and a great way to see the cliffs and beach on the east side. They'll take 4 people so you might be able to share with another couple. You can pick up the SCYC WiFi signal on the boat if you anchor behind the reef near the dock. |
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