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Larry wrote:

I just got off Skype-to-Skype directly with Lydia in the hotel on her
laptop....Here's the latest news from Flying Pig.

Flying Pig is afloat. It has no holes in the hull.

FANTASTIC! Hope all the news is better than it sounded at first.

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Jere Lull wrote in news:jerelull-A435B7.21014607022007
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FANTASTIC! Hope all the news is better than it sounded at first.



Lydia did report to me the hull "flexing" was causing the table to rise and
fall in the waves....which can't be good news. Everything was "moving"
that should have been hard mounted to the hull. The stress cracks probably
came from that. The hull took quite a hit laying on its side on the reef
all night, don't you think?

Nothing was said about sailing rigging damage.....

Larry
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

Second-guessing the choice of routes -- is Flying Pig too tall for the
Okeechobee Waterway? There's a couple of 55-56 foot fixed bridges at Fort
Meyers, is that why they didn't take it? Seems to me that it would have been
the obvious choice for heading from St. Pete to the Bahamas. I'm assuming
that draft isn't a problem.

"Larry" wrote in message
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Jere Lull wrote in news:jerelull-A435B7.21014607022007
@news.bellatlantic.net:

FANTASTIC! Hope all the news is better than it sounded at first.



Lydia did report to me the hull "flexing" was causing the table to rise
and
fall in the waves....which can't be good news. Everything was "moving"
that should have been hard mounted to the hull. The stress cracks
probably
came from that. The hull took quite a hit laying on its side on the reef
all night, don't you think?

Nothing was said about sailing rigging damage.....

Larry
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

"KLC Lewis" wrote in
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Second-guessing the choice of routes -- is Flying Pig too tall for the
Okeechobee Waterway? There's a couple of 55-56 foot fixed bridges at
Fort Meyers, is that why they didn't take it? Seems to me that it
would have been the obvious choice for heading from St. Pete to the
Bahamas. I'm assuming that draft isn't a problem.


They may have said something to me about picking up grown children, but I
honestly don't remember. There was a family reason for going to Marathon.

Larry
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:50:59 -0500, Larry wrote:

Second-guessing the choice of routes -- is Flying Pig too tall for the
Okeechobee Waterway? There's a couple of 55-56 foot fixed bridges at
Fort Meyers, is that why they didn't take it?

Absolutely. There's a 53 ft bridge at Cape Coral where I live, and a
49 ft railroad bridge on the east side of Lake O.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:50:59 -0500, Larry wrote:

Second-guessing the choice of routes -- is Flying Pig too tall for the
Okeechobee Waterway? There's a couple of 55-56 foot fixed bridges at
Fort Meyers, is that why they didn't take it?

Absolutely. There's a 53 ft bridge at Cape Coral where I live, and a
49 ft railroad bridge on the east side of Lake O.


Thanks, that makes sense. Flying Pig is a pretty big boat. Friends in the LA
harbor had a Morgan 42, and it was huge compared to our CT-41.