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Is everyone out cruising?
Is everyone out cruising without an internet connection? Even Wilbur? Amazing. |
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Well, we are :{)) Well, not without connection - you know me better than
that :{)) We're off Fowl Cay National Park between Scotland and Man 'o' War Cays. Booming connection. Log about August in the Abacos in a couple of weeks. Suffice to say we're loving it, despite my faithful, many-years-old wireless comfort keyboard having finally died today, losing the bottom right row of keys (makes it challenging when there's no B,N,M or left-right-down arrows!). Glad it happened before we left Marsh Harbour, so I'm on a cheapie ps2 substitute until a replacement arrives with our next guests... L8R Skip, hoping to do the port side scrubbing on an intentional grounding tomorrow -- 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 hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in Illusions - The Reluctant Messiah) --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:19:15 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote: Skip, hoping to do the port side scrubbing on an intentional grounding tomorrow Good to know someone is still connected. :-) We're back home in SWFL, about halfway through a 52 item "to do" list. The fun just never stops but progress is being made. The trick is to work fast enough that more items are fixed than new issues popping up. Took a low blow a week ago when the aft air con unit in the main cabin went out but fortunately all it needed was a new thermostat. How is the weather in the Abacos? We're getting a lot ot t-storms here but no big rotating stuff yet. What is your get away plan if something gnarly comes that way? |
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From: "Wayne.B" Newsgroups: rec.boats.cruising Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 11:54 PM Subject: Is everyone out cruising? On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:19:15 -0400, "Flying Pig" wrote: Skip, hoping to do the port side scrubbing on an intentional grounding tomorrow Good to know someone is still connected. :-) Killer connection, and even Batelco (usually) cooperates (there are dead times when BTC goes away, and with it the data flow on the still-booming signal). We're back home in SWFL, about halfway through a 52 item "to do" list. The fun just never stops but progress is being made. The trick is to work fast enough that more items are fixed than new issues popping up. Heh. BTDT - our 4-page to-do, list when we were refitting, never got much below 2 full pages. Fortunately, our to-do list runs to single digits now... Took a low blow a week ago when the aft air con unit in the main cabin went out but fortunately all it needed was a new thermostat. Wish they could all be that easy - a cruiser here, using a local mechanic, was troubleshooting a power problem on a 4-154. One injector didn't make any change in the engine sound, so the mech was going to swap two around. Happens I had a full set of injectors... Good thing, too, because the injectors were stuck so hard that two of them left tips in the head. No amont of brute force would dislodge them, even after splitting one of them, so the head's now off, going to a machine shop. Good thing I had the injectors, cuz he's totally out of business, lousy power or not. If Wilbur's monitoring, that's why I carry all this stuff. I even have parts that don't go with our boat, cuz SOMEONE will need it. In any event, what looked like a simple injector swap has turned into something rather more major! Side note on that, when I was researching my notes for how much I had to pay and how much new ones would cost, I found another, VERY different experience, source for new injectors. Now that we have new in ours, of course, we don't need replacements, so getting the new ones won't have quite the urgency our last experience had! How is the weather in the Abacos? We're getting a lot ot t-storms here but no big rotating stuff yet. What is your get away plan if something gnarly comes that way? Great. Light winds at the moment, so we run the fan in the bedroom (only when the wind's under 6 or so). By the end of the week, we'll be back to scoop air only. Highs in the upper 80s, low in the upper 70s. We're staying here because of the variety of hurricane holes. Hopetown moorings have been through several hurricanes, including more than a couple of folks we know who have ridden them out there. White Sound GTC is recommended also, but we've never been in there - thought we'd have a draft problem, but have been recently assured by a couple of folks that we can get in at a normal high tide. Once we get finished with our bottom, we'll dive the reefs around Fowl until we have a suitable wind to go over and check out Treasure Key, said to be something we'd likely find OK, too, and perhaps pay the $10 fee to use the facilities while we're in there. However, that's also been recommended by a couple of different cruisers as, with nobody here, TC is reported to rent two for one slips, and one can tie off with lots of separation, so we want to check that out as well. In any event, there are several choices for us, the reason we're here instead of continuing explorations further south... 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 "Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in boats-or *with* boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not." --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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On 8/20/2010 5:55 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
Is everyone out cruising without an internet connection? Even Wilbur? Amazing. Cruising, but haven't had much to say lately. Just missed Obama at the bookstore yesterday. |
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"jeff" wrote in message ... On 8/20/2010 5:55 PM, Wayne.B wrote: Is everyone out cruising without an internet connection? Even Wilbur? Amazing. Cruising, but haven't had much to say lately. Just missed Obama at the bookstore yesterday. Next time take better aim. |
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"JR" wrote in message ... "jeff" wrote in message ... On 8/20/2010 5:55 PM, Wayne.B wrote: Is everyone out cruising without an internet connection? Even Wilbur? Amazing. Cruising, but haven't had much to say lately. Just missed Obama at the bookstore yesterday. Next time take better aim. Yes. Gun control is being able to hit your target. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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On 8/22/10 8:49 AM, Andie wrote:
wrote in message ... wrote in message ... On 8/20/2010 5:55 PM, Wayne.B wrote: Is everyone out cruising without an internet connection? Even Wilbur? Amazing. Cruising, but haven't had much to say lately. Just missed Obama at the bookstore yesterday. Next time take better aim. Yes. Gun control is being able to hit your target. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- Even *joking* about shooting the POTUS, no matter who he or she is, is way over the line. |
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"Secular Humanist" wrote in message
m... Even *joking* about shooting the POTUS, no matter who he or she is, is way over the line. Agreed. But long-time readers of my stuff know that I was parked (well, grounded, to be precise, due to security preventing me from moving off my low [well, technically high] spot at high tide) in a place where I could very easily have taken out GW during a speech about protecting the rockfish sport industry, in St. Michaels, MD... As much security as he has, the POTUS is always fair game for some nutcase with an imagination... L8R Skip, enjoying the rain off Scotland Cay -- 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 hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in Illusions - The Reluctant Messiah) --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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On 8/22/10 12:01 PM, Flying Pig wrote:
"Secular wrote in message m... Even *joking* about shooting the POTUS, no matter who he or she is, is way over the line. Agreed. But long-time readers of my stuff know that I was parked (well, grounded, to be precise, due to security preventing me from moving off my low [well, technically high] spot at high tide) in a place where I could very easily have taken out GW during a speech about protecting the rockfish sport industry, in St. Michaels, MD... As much security as he has, the POTUS is always fair game for some nutcase with an imagination... L8R Skip, enjoying the rain off Scotland Cay Indeed. As much as I disliked G.W. Bush, I sure as hell did not want him assassinated while in office. That's a horrible thing to have happen in a country like ours. I didn't like Reagan, either, but I was pulling for him to recover fully after that lunatic shot him. |
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