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Are things getting better here?
I'm surprised that none of the anoni-mice have popped up yet to point
out that my 1500-2000 miles of sailing this summer weren't real cruising because, * I have a roller furling headsail. * I have a powerful and reliable diesel instead of a "blue water" outboard bolted on the transom with a rusty bracket. * I failed to properly reinforce my boom by inserting a piece of rusty pipe in it after folding it in half. * My boat isn't painted yellow for better visibility when semi- permanently anchored in front of waterfront Florida dives. |
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On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:23:14 -0700 (PDT), Roger Long
wrote: I'm surprised that none of the anoni-mice have popped up yet to point out that my 1500-2000 miles of sailing this summer weren't real cruising because, * I have a roller furling headsail. * I have a powerful and reliable diesel instead of a "blue water" outboard bolted on the transom with a rusty bracket. * I failed to properly reinforce my boom by inserting a piece of rusty pipe in it after folding it in half. * My boat isn't painted yellow for better visibility when semi- permanently anchored in front of waterfront Florida dives. Awfuly insecure, and attention starved, aren't you. Can't you just enjoy sailing for it's own sake, without worrying about who is really a sailor by some dubious ad hoc set of standards? |
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"Roger Long" wrote in message ... I'm surprised that none of the anoni-mice have popped up yet to point out that my 1500-2000 miles of sailing this summer weren't real cruising because, * I have a roller furling headsail. * I have a powerful and reliable diesel instead of a "blue water" outboard bolted on the transom with a rusty bracket. * I failed to properly reinforce my boom by inserting a piece of rusty pipe in it after folding it in half. * My boat isn't painted yellow for better visibility when semi- permanently anchored in front of waterfront Florida dives. Would suggest you move to the UK where all of these things are totally acceptable! There might be a problem with diesel at $8/gallon but a man of your vast wealth would take it in his stride! Dennis. |
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NIce to know you're still hanging around here.
Roger |
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On Sep 26, 9:09*am, wrote:
Awfuly insecure, and attention starved, aren't you. Can't you just enjoy sailing for it's own sake, Nice to know you are still haning around he If you were enjoying sailing, would you be so cranky? I'm smiling ear to ear even reading drivel like this. Roger |
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On Sep 26, 10:38*am, Wayne.B wrote:
We could reenact the recent spirited discussion about what it takes to do long range cruising. Or we could talk about slips vs. moorings. I decided to just use the mooring this summer since I expected to be away a lot more than I was and was looking forward to having my boat always hanging off on her pendant instead of worrying about fenders chafing the topsides. Wow, was I ever wrong. The tide runs hard through the channel where my mooring is and it seems like the boat is always pushed hard ahead against the ball with the wakes sawing it up and down. I had a line set up at the marina dock such that the fenders hardly ever touched and the gelcoat has gotten more wear in this one summer than three seasons at the marina dock. In addition, the constant wetting of the lower topsides by the constant wake and chop in my rather exposed mooring location have resulted in a nearly foot wide band of green growth above the boot top. I also used to hose the boat down at least once a week and after hard sails at the marina. The effects of the salt sitting on the boat at the mooring are quite evident. The boat looks like she's been ridden hard but I did run 1500 - 2000 miles of water under the keel this summer. Hopefully, I'll only be on the mooring for a couple weeks before and after a summer long cruise next season. If I do end up having to stay close to home, the price of a marina slip is not going to seem as high as it did last spring. |
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"Roger Long" wrote in message ... On Sep 26, 10:38 am, Wayne.B wrote: We could reenact the recent spirited discussion about what it takes to do long range cruising. Or we could talk about slips vs. moorings. I decided to just use the mooring this summer since I expected to be away a lot more than I was and was looking forward to having my boat always hanging off on her pendant instead of worrying about fenders chafing the topsides. Wow, was I ever wrong. The tide runs hard through the channel where my mooring is and it seems like the boat is always pushed hard ahead against the ball with the wakes sawing it up and down. I had a line set up at the marina dock such that the fenders hardly ever touched and the gelcoat has gotten more wear in this one summer than three seasons at the marina dock. That is an interesting comment about moorings. Why do you let your boat get pushed up against the ball due to washes? I was on a mooring when I lived in Uk and always hauled my boat hard up to the ball so it was lifted just out of the water, hanging there just under the stem with a rope through the ring and brought back aboard to make fast. so the rope was pretty tight. I used to put another (loose) line through as well in case of chafe of the first one during heavy gales.. Never had any problem. Slept well ashore regardless of weather.with that setup and the boat always lay head to wind or tide whichever was the stronger and washes made no difference.. Now I am in Norway and most boats here are in marinas but all the ones I have seen on moorings are for some reason tied to the buoy with at least 10' of rope so the boat is forever sailing around its buoy and nobody seems ever to think about the possibility of chafe setting their boat adrift. I think that is crazy but despite the huge washes from the uncontrolled powerboats that abound here I have never seen a boat growing weed above the waterline as you mention. |
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On Sep 26, 1:52*pm, "Edgar" wrote:
I was on a mooring when I lived in Uk and always hauled my boat hard up to the ball so it was lifted just out of the water, hanging there just under the stem with a rope through the ring and brought back aboard to make fast. |
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On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:05:54 -0700 (PDT), Roger Long
wrote: My mooring really isn't in an place appropriate for a mooring but it's off a beach a few minutes walk from my house. In bad weather, I take the boat to a protected cove and stay on it or move it around into town. That's what I'll be doing first thing in the morning, probably in the rain, ugh. It's going to blow 40 knots later straight up the harbor mouth which doesn't happen too often. One of the oldest and most respected clubs on Long Island Sound uses no mooring balls at all. The chain rests completely on the bottom when not in use and the rope pennants are semi-suspended with a small floating pick-up whip. They've been doing it that way for many years and it totally solves the issue with mooring ball chafe on the topsides. The only downside is that if you lose the pickup stick someone has to dive down and retrieve the pennants or grapple for them. |
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