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ICW - Florida to Miami 2000
Wayne.B wrote in
: You can spend a winter there any August you want. :-) When I call back to my boyhood home in upstate NY, I always ask, "What day was Summer this year?" |
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ICW - Florida to Miami 2000
Vic Smith wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:11:43 -0400, Rosalie B. wrote: Vic wrote: I *do* believe that everything breaks, but that was part of my training, and my nature. But many people don't have that training and experience, and many don't have the nature to ever really pay close attention to never making a mistake and always having a backup plan. As you may or may not know, Bob was a Navy pilot (off an aircraft carrier) and as part of that, he graduated from the USN Test Pilot School. He's way better at the helm than I am. But I do most of the planning, and whenever I made a plan, I almost always have a backup or alternate plan in mind. I didn't know that about Bob, but wasn't referring to you guys in my comment above. It's pretty evident you're more on top of things than the average cruisers, if there is such a thing. I was responding somewhat to Wilbur's comments. It's possible my destroyer served as plane guard for some of Bob's flights if he was with the 6th Fleet '64-'67, so tell him I said Hi! We moved from Norfolk where he was on the Intrepid or the Essex to the Monterey California USNPG School in Dec 1964, and in 1966 he went to VX1 in Key West and was there for three years. So probably not unless the Intrepid was it in '64. He really thought he had made the last trip on the Essex, which had the keel broken in the North Sea (in the waves, bits of the ceiling would come down in the ward room and the engineers that flew out to look, refused the offer to stay aboard and flew back home), but apparently it did some stuff after that. As for the throttle cable - I've never heard of another one breaking. It is almost completely concealed inside the binnacle and engine room, so not very accessible. Yes, understandable. It's easy to say that the location and route of every wire, cable, pipe/hose, etc should be known and they be inspected on a schedule, but quite another matter to do that when it requires disassembly to do it, or squeezing yourself into tight spaces. Large people are at a disadvantage. I'm medium in all ways myself, and fairly nimble, but the thought of turning myself into a pretzel in steamy heat no longer appeals to me. But maybe I'm just too used to A/C. When I try to acclimate to the heat by foregoing A/C, it's not bad - but I get no peace from my wife and soon give in and crank it up again. We don't have A/C on the boat, and until about 7 years ago we didn't have it in Leonardtown either, nor did most of our cars have it. Thanks again for the interesting logs. I'll echo Roger's comment by saying cruisers must be a special breed. I really believe Bob suffered less stress while catapulting from a flight deck than he did during some of the incidents you recount. Not sure I could handle cruising - at least if it involves too many marinas. They say single handing is easy as long as you don't ever have to go into a marina. Our problem is that we have a modified full keel - so very susceptible to current, and a lot of windage, and the boat is 37000 lbs so it is quite heavy. If there is a strong current, the two of us together can just about move it a foot or so in a slip. And I'm always a little afraid that if we actually DID run into someone, we would smash the other boat to kindling. |
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ICW - Florida to Miami 2000
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:32:03 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote: Let me be sure I've got this right. People do this for fun? It makes me really appreicate living and cruising in Maine. Ah yes. I distinctly having to change a starter on a boat so we could use it the next day. 10 degrees below zero at 19:00 (but no wind, thank God). One of the many things that convinced me to depart that part of the world. :-) Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) |
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ICW - Florida to Miami 2000
Rosalie B. wrote:
We moved from Norfolk where he was on the Intrepid or the Essex to the Monterey California USNPG School in Dec 1964, and in 1966 he went to VX1 in Key West and was there for three years. So probably not unless Ahhh...well perhaps I saluted him. I was an enlisted kinda guy on the USS Arcadia (AD-23) and we stopped in for a month one winter to support some cans doing an exercise. I worked from 11pm until 7am and took off after breakfast the mornings to run into town, over to the pool for a swim, go to the library, etc. Which would have made me out and about as he went to work. |
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