On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:38:35 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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"Jessica B" wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:22:02 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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"Jessica B" wrote in message
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I have no idea where the Florida Bay is... is that on the west side?
I'm guessing, but it seems like there's ocean all around.

Florida Bay is the water between the Keys and the mainland peninsular.
Much
of it is way too shallow except for canoes, kayaks, etc. It has lots of
little mangrove islands. But, closer to the Keys island chain the water is
deep enough to sail and the Intracoastal Waterway runs though it.



Oh... Fort Jefferson... I looked it up and it looks like it's the same
as the Dry Tortugas, which is what I was thinking of...

http://www.nps.gov/drto/index.htm

That looks beautiful! Can your boat go there?


Sure she can. I've never been out there but it would make a nice trip.
Probably would take a couple weeks to do a round trip right.


According to google maps it's about 60 or 70 miles away?

Sounds about right.

Well, if the boat sinks, there's always the dinghy! You could rig it
with a sail for just in case!


I guess you
have to be good at navigation! That would leave me out. :-(

Jessica, you'd make a good fisherman. LOL! Of course you'd never be left
out. I could give you a handheld GPS, chart navigation, private lesson you'd
understand in less than five minutes. All you'd have to do is make the
cursor (boat) follow the line to the waypoint(s). Bruce in Bangkok might
have trouble doing so as he's become somewhat feeble-minded in his dotage
but I'm sure you could handle it.

I had one of those units in my other car... "Turn left in 1.2
miles...." Maybe they should make one for a boat!

Or, you could go due south and go to Cuba! Even I could figure that
out!

I wish the stupid U.S. government would allow citizens to take a sailboat
cruise to Cuba but they don't unless you jump though all kinds of ridiculous
hoops. I've looked at the charts and there is some fine sailing to be had
along the north coast of Cuba. Looks like thousands of little barrier
islands with a bay or sound between them and the big island. Can you speak
any Spanish?

I know... it would solve a lot of stuff if they were exposed to free
enterprise! I guess the Cuban expats are really a strong lobby in DC.

Maybe you can claim to be a journalist? I think there's an exception
for that. I also heard that things are a bit less restrictive these
days, but it might just be for sending money. I don't really follow it
much... wrong coast.

I took it in high school, but it's been a while.

Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:03:40 -0600, CaveLamb
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Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:39:18 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote:

Jessica B wrote:
I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then
you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...)

Hey Bruce!
Send me one of your anchors?

If you really, really, want a Bruce then pick one out:

http://www.viking-moorings.com/Porta...in%20shank.pdf


Cheers,

Bruce

Jeez, Bruce!
Nothing smaller than 500 pounds???


One assumes that the user actually wants to stay where he is hitched
:-)

Freight and shipping is the responsibly of the buyer, of course.

Cheers,

Bruce


That outta do it!

--

Richard Lamb
email me:
web site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb

Try my boat...
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~capri26

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"Jessica B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:13:26 -0500, "Waldo" wrote:

"Jessica B" wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:19:38 -0600, CaveLamb
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Jessica B wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:27:05 -0600, CaveLamb
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Jessica B wrote:
Ok, so I have a sailing question about anchors... obviously there
are
different anchors for different situations, but you don't
necessarily
know what you're going to find when you go someplace? So, how do you
decide what anchor to take with you? Clearly, as you said, you can
take two (or three?) but they must eventually get kind of heavy... I
guess there must be guides, but what if you're going to visit
several
places and they're all different?

Hopefully, this question is good enough for Justin! Sheesh...

Take them all!

And in the end, weight counts.

Hi Richard, Well, I guess I was concerned that it would be alot of
space and weight. Aren't there anchors that overlap as far as use
goes?

Yes on space and weight. The Rodes especially. I have three now -
250 to 300 feet each. AND chain (need more of that still)

That's ALOT of rope!! You must have a pretty big boat! Do tell...


Not really for the overlap...

A Danforth is good with mud and sand.
But it's not great in rocks.

Like Wilbur pointed out, a Herrschoff pattern (and a heavy Navy pattern)
work well in rocky crags.

Fishermen use a mushroom type, but I have no use for that on a sailboat.

I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then
you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...)


Geeze woman. Weren't you paying attention when the guy on rec.boats was
trying to teach you about anchors?

I've only looked at that section. There's way to many posts to sort
through. I thought I was Capt. Wil???


We know you are Nom De plume. If you think you are Capt. Wil, then maybe you
are him too.
Waldo

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:58:27 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote:

Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:03:40 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote:

Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:39:18 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote:

Jessica B wrote:
I was just looking up anchor types... How about a Bruce... but then
you'd have to import it from Thailand! LOL (sorry Bruce...)

Hey Bruce!
Send me one of your anchors?

If you really, really, want a Bruce then pick one out:

http://www.viking-moorings.com/Porta...in%20shank.pdf


Cheers,

Bruce

Jeez, Bruce!
Nothing smaller than 500 pounds???


One assumes that the user actually wants to stay where he is hitched
:-)

Freight and shipping is the responsibly of the buyer, of course.

Cheers,

Bruce


That outta do it!

Years ago there was a little, sort of unofficial, marina started up at
Langkawi, Malaysia. As the "marina" was on the west side of the island
and pretty well open to the west the blokes that started it cast up
some 1 meter cubes of concrete with a big metal ring on the top.
Considerable effort was expended to cast these things and get them all
arranged in the anchorage. At Last! Typhoon proof moorings! However,
as soon as the first guy drug up his anchor and paid the tariff to
moor to one of these titanic blocks the problems started.

It turned out that the one meter moorings were set in about 4 meters
of water.... in an area with 2.5 meter tides. As most of the ocean
going cruising boats draw at least 6 feet there was a bit an
interference when the tide went out. The solution was to hire a big
water pump and spend a couple of weeks jetting the blocks deeper into
the mud, and of course that costs money... so they raised the price to
moor which caused an immediate exodus.


Cheers,

Bruce

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:59:11 -0600, CaveLamb
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Try my boat...
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~capri26


In that movie you list at the bottom of the page. Are you the lead
boat or the one that was doing the filming.

If you were logging 6.6 K how much wind did you have. The lead boat
seems to have only the main and genoa up but there doesn't look like
there is much in the way of swells.

Cheers,

Bruce

"CaveLamb" wrote in message
m...

Try my boat...
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~capri26



IMPRESSIVE AND A WELCOME SIGHT . . .

That is indeed, a well-kept little yacht. Pride of ownership in apparent. I
particularly like the way you mounted the instruments so they swing out to
be viewed from the cockpit. The name and graphics are very fetching. The
exterior brightwork is outstanding. The cleanliness is superb. The
organization is well above average. Cabin-top traveler is practical and
functional.

Things I don't like a

1) excessive beam for the LWL (must have a very choppy ride and a bit slow
to weather)

2) some of the more valuable space in the boat taken up with the head (I'd
gut it and make a library/chart table/storage out of it. A porta-potti is
legal for that size boat and bathing can be done in the cockpit. Why
allocate some of the most valuable space in a boat to a place one only uses
once or twice a day?)

3) no mast steps (it shouldn't take a committee to ascent to the masthead)

4) inadequate/poorly placed anchor cleats (actually they are dock line
cleats)

5) useless roll-up headsail (no reason for roll-ups on a 26-footer)

6) that household faucet/electric pump is just plain out of place in a small
yacht. You should toss it overboard and install reliable hand pumps. Lose
the pressure water system.

7) that one photo with the powerhead almost under water indicates that you
need a motor with a longer shaft mounted higher on the transom.

8) vang is upside-down. It would be better to have the line along the deck
instead of hanging from above where it is more likely to tangle or snag.

9) oversized self-tailing winch is strictly for show and totally unnecessary
for small sails.

10) you'd better actually measure the length of your mast. A forty-foot mast
on a 26-foot boat is not even believable. Try about 30-feet and you'd be
closer to the mark.


But, I suppose I need to view your fine little yacht more in light of her
purpose which seems to be week-end cruises on a lake. I suppose many of the
items mentioned above can be forgiven for a little yacht in that venue. The
dislikes are more a criticism of the yacht were she a coastal cruiser or
occasional ocean-voyaging vessel like mine.

Wilbur Hubbard

Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:59:11 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote:

Try my boat...
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~capri26


In that movie you list at the bottom of the page. Are you the lead
boat or the one that was doing the filming.

If you were logging 6.6 K how much wind did you have. The lead boat
seems to have only the main and genoa up but there doesn't look like
there is much in the way of swells.

Cheers,

Bruce

Hi Bruce,

Yeah, we are the lead boat. That's my sweetie. (If you can find a
copy of the current Mainsail, check the 26 section!)

My friends, Tracey and Charles are in an old Hunter 27 and Tracey was
doing the video with a Blackberry. (She loves that evil little thing)

They called out the speed from their Speedometer (mechanical) so the
6.6 K claim MAY be taken with a mechanical grain of salt.
Or it may have been spot on. I've seen 6.8 on GPS a couple of times.

I kept heading up to keep some room between us (they were brand spanking
new sailors then) and not run away from the camera.

As I recall, the wind was about 12 to 15 - pretty steady.

We sail Lake Texoma, on the border of Texas and Oklahoma.
This is a flood control lake on the Red River Valley.
Lakes, even 90,000 surface acres, don't have much swell.



--

Richard Lamb
email me:
web site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb

"Jessica B" wrote in message
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Don't know who Harry is or what he knows, but he sure is rude.



More accurately stated - he's an asshole.(Please excuse my French.) And, he
knows NOTHING! He's a motorboat week-end warrior, PUTZ! LOL! And, what's
worse, there are TWO of them. You have the original asshole and then you
have his little butt-buddy frogger.

How sad to emulate Harry Krause. Somebody SURE needs to get a life.


Wilbur Hubbard

"Jessica B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:09:20 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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Probably "date" has a different meaning for her than for older folks.
Didn't
you say she was still pretty young?

Yeah, she just a baby... early teen going on 38. I should put a pic of
her on myspace... she's so amazing really. The absolute sweetest
person.

I saw that you put her pic there and your handsome brother. . . He looks
pretty tall and one wouldn't want him smacking you with a baseball bat for
sure. I guess you're going to end up being an old spinster. LOL!