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Some of you will remember that we have owned two
boats for over six years now. When we bought our
Catalina 27 in 2000, we did not want to part ways
with our Maxum 21 powerboat, so we kept it.

Well now we are temporarily a 3 boat family!
Today we signed an agreement to purchase a Irwin
38 sailboat. Although it needs some work, the
previous owner was in the process of getting it
ready to cruise, so has done a lot of what needed
doing already. Hopefully this boat will be a good
step up from the Catalina, and give us something
we can learn with.

Our intentions right now are not to try to use the
Irwin as a blue water cruiser, but to sail her on
Lake Travis while we learn and get used to the
bigger boat. I'm hoping that when we get ready to
head out cruising we will find a little larger
true blue water boat that can accomodate four
people comfortably.

I'd like to say "thanks" to all of the
knowledgable people who hang out on this
newsgroup, because I've learned a lot from reading
your posts. I hope you will bear with me because
you're probably going to be seeing a bunch of
questions from me as I set about re-documenting,
moving, and fixing up the Irwin.

Regards,

Don W.

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On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:44:28 GMT, Don W
wrote:


I'd like to say "thanks" to all of the
knowledgable people who hang out on this
newsgroup, because I've learned a lot from reading
your posts. I hope you will bear with me because
you're probably going to be seeing a bunch of
questions from me as I set about re-documenting,
moving, and fixing up the Irwin.

Congratulations! Eleven feet is a big step up.. If you are half as
entertaining as Skip G. in relating your adventures in outfitting for
the sea, I have no doubt you'll get a lot of good information.

R.

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Congratulations! Eleven feet is a big step up.. If you are half as
entertaining as Skip G. in relating your adventures in outfitting for
the sea, I have no doubt you'll get a lot of good information.

R.

Heh. Thanks for the plug/recommendation. Things continue to move
along; I'll not hijack his thread with my report...

L8R

Skip

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In article ,
Don W wrote:
Some of you will remember that we have owned two
boats for over six years now. When we bought our
Catalina 27 in 2000, we did not want to part ways
with our Maxum 21 powerboat, so we kept it.

Well now we are temporarily a 3 boat family!
Today we signed an agreement to purchase a Irwin
38 sailboat.
....
Our intentions right now are not to try to use the
Irwin as a blue water cruiser, but to sail her on
Lake Travis while we learn and get used to the
bigger boat.

That's an awfully big boat for Lake Travis. I bought
a 30' Catalina from Yacht Harbor 11 years ago and
immediately moved it to Corpus Christi.

We've moved it to Port Aransas, Palacios, and it's
been in Kehma for 2 1/2 years. Having said that,
the drive to the coast is getting old.

Lake Travis is starting to look good. What's the
lake level at?

ron
--
Ron Roberts or Phone (512) 219-0043
Usenet invented "no controlling legal authority."

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662 as of Saturday. Full is 681. Last time I went by, back in March, it
was horribly low, but recent rains have helped a little.

Dennis
a few miles south in Wimberley, TX

"Ronald Hugh Roberts" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Don W wrote:
Some of you will remember that we have owned two
boats for over six years now. When we bought our
Catalina 27 in 2000, we did not want to part ways
with our Maxum 21 powerboat, so we kept it.

Well now we are temporarily a 3 boat family!
Today we signed an agreement to purchase a Irwin
38 sailboat.
...
Our intentions right now are not to try to use the
Irwin as a blue water cruiser, but to sail her on
Lake Travis while we learn and get used to the
bigger boat.

That's an awfully big boat for Lake Travis. I bought
a 30' Catalina from Yacht Harbor 11 years ago and
immediately moved it to Corpus Christi.

We've moved it to Port Aransas, Palacios, and it's
been in Kehma for 2 1/2 years. Having said that,
the drive to the coast is getting old.

Lake Travis is starting to look good. What's the
lake level at?

ron
--
Ron Roberts or Phone (512) 219-0043
Usenet invented "no controlling legal authority."

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Hi Ron,

Ronald Hugh Roberts wrote:
That's an awfully big boat for Lake Travis. I bought
a 30' Catalina from Yacht Harbor 11 years ago and
immediately moved it to Corpus Christi.

You took that _tiny_ boat down to the ocean??!!
(just kidding). We keep our Catalina 27 in Yacht
Harbor--its five minutes from our house.

Remember that Lake Travis is 62 miles long from
dam to dam and more than 100 feet deep in the main
channel. That is a pretty long daysail ;-)
We've lived on Lake Travis since 1991, so we know
pretty well what we're in for.

We've moved it to Port Aransas, Palacios, and it's
been in Kehma for 2 1/2 years. Having said that,
the drive to the coast is getting old.

Our new boat is currently in Palacios, and we can
keep it there as long as we want. I've done the
roundtrip twice in the last three days, and it is
a solid four hours from our house (ugh!) At least
when you get there you have a place to stay :)

Lake Travis is starting to look good. What's the
lake level at?

ron

The lake is fairly low this year for just starting
into summer. A great site for looking at Lake
Travis current weather conditions is the UT ARLUT
test center site. They test sonar transducers or
something like that and have temperature sensors
in the lake down to 60' along with an automated
weather station.

http://wwwext.arlut.utexas.edu/omg/weather.html

They show the lake to be at about 662' above MSL
right now.

Don W.

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In article ,
Don W wrote:
Hi Ron,

Ronald Hugh Roberts wrote:
That's an awfully big boat for Lake Travis. I bought
....
You took that _tiny_ boat down to the ocean??!!
(just kidding). We keep our Catalina 27 in Yacht
Harbor--its five minutes from our house.

I'm jealous.

Remember that Lake Travis is 62 miles long from
dam to dam and more than 100 feet deep in the main
channel. That is a pretty long daysail ;-)
We've lived on Lake Travis since 1991, so we know
pretty well what we're in for.

Beautiful lake. I sailed it in two smaller boats
for years.
We've moved it to Port Aransas, Palacios, and it's
been in Kehma for 2 1/2 years. Having said that,
the drive to the coast is getting old.

Our new boat is currently in Palacios, and we can
keep it there as long as we want. I've done the
roundtrip twice in the last three days, and it is
a solid four hours from our house (ugh!) At least
when you get there you have a place to stay :)

Palacios is only three hours from my house. Closest
gulf access to Austin. We were at Serendipity
Marina and RV resort. Not much in Palacios
except for the Outrigger cafe. Friendly people
though. Docking in Portofino just across from
the Kemah boardwalk is like the anti-Palacios.

http://wwwext.arlut.utexas.edu/omg/weather.html

Good site. Good luck,

ron
--
Ron Roberts or Phone (512) 219-0043
Usenet invented "no controlling legal authority."

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In article ,
Don W wrote:
Hi Ron,

Small world isn't it? Our boat is at Serendipity
Bay, so you may have even seen it while you were
there. How do you like Kemah, and why did you move?

We left Palacious on Labor day of 2004. We were in
slip 53 2/3 rds of the way down the center dock.

We left for two reasons. To explore a different area
and because my 83 year old dad lives in Houston.

Services are a lot easier to come by in Kemah--bottom
cleaning, AC service, diesel repair. One 4th of July,
we had to wait a day to get an Aussie mechanic to
clean the rust off of our starter motor. Nice guy
named Chris, but he worked on tractors not boats.

The people at Serendipity were friendly. Have you
met the deaf South African who solo'd around the
world in a Tartan 38? There's also a canadian
couple who bought a twin Tartan 38 from another
couple who had just sailed around the world.

It surprised me there were such serious sailors
in such a backwater town. Palacios has the
highest unemployment in the state of Texas.

ron
--
Sea Shanty, 1986 30' Catalina tall-masted rig
Ron Roberts or Phone (512) 219-0043
Usenet invented "no controlling legal authority."

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Ronald Hugh Roberts wrote:
We left Palacious on Labor day of 2004. We were in
slip 53 2/3 rds of the way down the center dock.

My new boat was there when you were there. Like
your boat, it went through Hurricane Claudette
back in July 2003. Here is a NWS link which
mentions a F1 tornado hitting Palacios during the
hurricane. Apparently, it was the first hurricane
to hit Matagorda bay since 1971.

http://www.srh.weather.gov/hgx/projects/claudette03.htm

The people at Serendipity were friendly. Have you
met the deaf South African who solo'd around the
world in a Tartan 38?

I didn't meet him, but while I was in the marina
office he walked by and someone pointed him out
and told me about his circumnavigation.

There's also a canadian
couple who bought a twin Tartan 38 from another
couple who had just sailed around the world.

Sharon Ragle and her husband Dave are in that
marina also. I bought a autographed copy of her
book "The Oceans are Waiting" at the marina
office. They circumnavigated in their 37'yacht
"Tigger".

It surprised me there were such serious sailors
in such a backwater town. Palacios has the
highest unemployment in the state of Texas.

ron

It may be that there are a lot of people there who
don't really want to work. Certainly they are
within driving distance (30 miles) of the big
plants in Bay City and Port Lavaca.

Cheers,

Don W.

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In article ,
Don W wrote:
My new boat was there when you were there. Like
your boat, it went through Hurricane Claudette
back in July 2003. Here is a NWS link which
mentions a F1 tornado hitting Palacios during the
hurricane. Apparently, it was the first hurricane
to hit Matagorda bay since 1971.

http://www.srh.weather.gov/hgx/projects/claudette03.htm

Nice photos. Here are some that I took:

http://www.cactus.org/~ronr/images/sail/2003/claudette/

And here's a picture of Sea Shanty:

http://www.cactus.org/~ronr/images/2...typalacios.jpg

Sharon Ragle and her husband Dave are in that
marina also. I bought a autographed copy of her
book "The Oceans are Waiting" at the marina
office. They circumnavigated in their 37'yacht
"Tigger".

They sold Tigger to a Canadian couple.

ron