On Jul 26, 5:35 am, Skip Gundlach wrote:
On Jul 25, 10:41 pm, Jere Lull wrote:

On 2007-07-24 06:52:12 -0400, Geoff Schultz said:

Cruising is about enjoying where you are. There are lots of nice
places to stop and see, but if you're sailing (motoring) by on the
outside, you'll never know what you missed.

I was going to nastily pan the earlier part of his post, but Geoff then
said the above, which pretty much is the cruiser's creed.
But if you enjoy where you are "that" moment, you're cruisers in my book.

Hi, Jere (and Geoff) (and all),
Point taken. We want to be in NYC in plenty of time to get Lydia's
Mom on 9-1. That's shaking out to our not taking the time to smell
the roses on the way, because we don't want to leave it until so late
that it becomes a "schedule" issue.

POINT TAKEN !? !!? ? !? ?!?

Skip That is exactly what you said BEFORE the crash," we had to meet
_____ on __________."
Obviously you listen and then ignore some very sound advice.


However, aside from keeping out of the cold weather, we, indeed, will
dawdle our way south from there. Her mother's being joined by her
best buddy on Oct2 or thereabouts in the DC area, so we'll want to be
somewhere close to that, but public transport is so easy there that
just being in the neighborhood (of the US) will suffice. Plus, likely
we'll be at the Annapolis show for at least a brief time, concurrent
to that, so in that regard we'll have a "schedule" - but we'll have a
month to get there, too.


Skip, Skip, Skip................. the group needs to read......... "
We will be watching that mid Atlantic Low and when she sends us god
wind will hop along as long as she alows. THat may be a problem for
Lydia's mom. She's expecting us
on 9-1 but we learned a few months ago that mother nature trumps a any
mother-in-law. She'll just have to wait.W'll get there when we get
there. Then we can give her a call to join us."

Meanwhile, as Larry has indicated, we've not done the toursty thing
here in Chas, but will shortly. I want to do an oil change, make the
last of the ER fixes occasioned in the alternator and shore charger
excitement(s), and redo my wifi while in the land of rich open access
points (the marina alone has 5), but we'll spend some time looking at
Chas before we leave. We'll not do it all, however, as our passengers
will want to do that, too, so we'll save a lot for when we're back.

Not to worry...

Dont worry Skip. I wont be on the boat so................


Oh, and meanwhile, we're striking out on the crew, so we'll do outside
to Beaufort NC, inside to Norfolk, and outside to NYC, all easily
managed little lumps.

Humm, the same words you used to describe your fateful trip. "...All
easily managed...unless, your electrics do somthing you are cluless to
cure, weather strengthens and ya'll get sea sick, and the unknown crew
gets sick and flakes out. Skip the planets are aligining.


so I guess we'll do it, after all. Not a fast
passage (see above about "schedule" avoidance), but certainly within a
good safety margin to arrive timely in NYC.

Offer still open on crew!
Skip

No thank you. Maybe a day sail AFTER your boat works. Slow down. Fix
your boat. Learn to sail.

Bob