On Sep 30, 10:01 am, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
Skip Grundlock asked me to forward his latest cruise log because his
computer has broken down so here it is . . . Good ole Skippy!

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Good day from the captain and crew, Skippy and Myriam of Flying Swine -
my Morgan OutHouse 41. We just got back from a day on the Intracoastal
Waterway on our way back south. It wasn't a very good day, I'm afraid.

(parody snipped)


Skippy and Crew of the Flying Swine
Morgan 41 #20
SV Flying Swine MI4KKKPC
See our galleries atwww.justpickyournose.org/skip/gallery!
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"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to
make it come true. You may have to work for it however. Be sure to carry
a large sledge hammer."
(and)
"There is no such thing as a gift without a problem for you in its
hands. You seek gifts because you need their problems."
(Richard Blech, in The Recalcitrant Messiah)

I know I'm going to regret this g

Nice parody. Aside from the brute force tool (I use something which
is directed, not swung), not too far off our early realities.

Fortunately, the frequency of our visits from Murphy has diminished,
and my electronics repairs have been bearing fruit with only small
pointed tools being employed.

The upper jaw on my spinnaker pole has yet to yield to the PBBlaster,
however, and the heat and minor impacts I've laid on it. Until I get
if freed, I can't take the slider off to the chandlery to attempt a
match for the now-gone nylon edge sliders missing.

We're off to provision and laundry, courtesy of one of the seeming
hundreds of people who have been following our ineptitude, with their
car made available while they work the show setup.

L8R, y'all...

"Skip Gundlach" wrote
Nice parody. Aside from the brute force tool
(I use something which is directed, not swung),
not too far off our early realities.

Classy.
Some folks might have posted a smart reply.
Yours was pleasant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzOIhLJ1C-Y

"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in
et:

Classy.
Some folks might have posted a smart reply.
Yours was pleasant.



You have to meet Skip to understand just how classy he, and Lydia, are.
I've stood for hours watching him fight various problems in his engine
room, at the dock in Charleston, with no air conditioning at 115F, sweat
pouring off the both of us to the point we couldn't see....and seemingly
nothing at all ever frustrates him.

He's so calm, no matter what, it's really scary! At some point, I lose
touch with reality and just explode....Not Skip. He calmly, almost to a
fault, goes on working on the problem until a solution arrives.

Larry
--
After all they've been through, I mean this as a real compliment to them
both. They are both really classy, calm characters...(c;

"Larry" wrote in message
...
"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in
et:

Classy.
Some folks might have posted a smart reply.
Yours was pleasant.



You have to meet Skip to understand just how classy he, and Lydia,
are.
I've stood for hours watching him fight various problems in his engine
room, at the dock in Charleston, with no air conditioning at 115F,
sweat
pouring off the both of us to the point we couldn't see....and
seemingly
nothing at all ever frustrates him.

He's so calm, no matter what, it's really scary! At some point, I
lose
touch with reality and just explode....Not Skip. He calmly, almost to
a
fault, goes on working on the problem until a solution arrives.

But, the more important question might be, "What does Skippy do to AVOID
problems?" In other words, does his whole cruising life consist of
problems that take all his time and energy when he could be using that
energy in an active program to avoid problems, to do what it takes to
see the problems he labors over never occur again? Until he does so, he
is no sailor.

Wilbur Hubbard

"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in message
et...
"Skip Gundlach" wrote
Nice parody. Aside from the brute force tool
(I use something which is directed, not swung),
not too far off our early realities.

Classy.
Some folks might have posted a smart reply.
Yours was pleasant.

Yes, it was! Darn it all! Maybe there's more to Skippy than meets the
eye . . .

Wilbur Hubbard

On 2007-10-01 13:13:15 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
said:

"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in message
et...
"Skip Gundlach" wrote
Nice parody. Aside from the brute force tool
(I use something which is directed, not swung),
not too far off our early realities.

Classy.
Some folks might have posted a smart reply.
Yours was pleasant.

Yes, it was! Darn it all! Maybe there's more to Skippy than meets the eye . . .

Wilbur Hubbard

You got that right.

And the parody *was* pretty funny.

--
Jere Lull
Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
Xan's new pages: http://web.mac.com/jerelull/iWeb/Xan/
Our BVI pages: http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/

On 2007-10-01 13:13:15 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
said:

"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in message
et...
"Skip Gundlach" wrote
Nice parody. Aside from the brute force tool
(I use something which is directed, not swung),
not too far off our early realities.

Classy.
Some folks might have posted a smart reply.
Yours was pleasant.

Yes, it was! Darn it all! Maybe there's more to Skippy than meets the eye . . .

Wilbur Hubbard

I was going to respond to a different post, but I like this one better
so am reusing it.

Saturday, I ignored the small craft advisories (which mean something to
our light-air cork) and blasted down to Annapolis to try to find Flying
Pig. Succeeded, and the trip was worth the beating.

Skip, Lydia and their "Mum" are charming, and Flying Pig has been
wonderfully rebuilt with just about every system a technophile could
desire.

What struck me almost immediately, though, was a reminder of how *new*
they are to cruising -- and sailing. After I sailed around FP and Lydia
tied Xan alongside as if she'd done it a thousand times, she remarked
it was the first time they'd ever rafted up, one of so many "first
times" on this trip.

All things considered, my wife Pat probably has more onboard experience
than they, even though I allow Pat a life of leisure onboard and
single-hand most of the time.

Considering that, it's astounding that they haven't given up in dismay.
Far less severe challenges early-on nearly scared Pat off of Xan and
boating.

In my view, their primary errors were (and this won't be news to them):
1) Rushing. Trying to run before "walk" has been mastered.
2) Having and relying on too many complex onboard systems, particularly
as most were unproven and have since been discovered to be NFG. (clean
version: not found good).

Skip and Lydia are compressing the learning curve of sailing and
cruising beyond I would consider sanity. That they can be as intensely
sane as I found them to be is a wonder.

That Skip can be so comfortable about documenting all of their
beginners errors (so other beginners can learn from their mistakes) and
be so undefensive about the rude remarks engendered is another wonder.

--
Jere Lull
Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
Xan's new pages: http://web.mac.com/jerelull/iWeb/Xan/
Our BVI pages: http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:11:15 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:

That Skip can be so comfortable about documenting all of their
beginners errors (so other beginners can learn from their mistakes) and
be so undefensive about the rude remarks engendered is another wonder.

Agreed.

The good news is that there my be a good book opportunity someday if
collected and edited.

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:11:15 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:

In my view, their primary errors were (and this won't be news to them):
1) Rushing. Trying to run before "walk" has been mastered.
2) Having and relying on too many complex onboard systems, particularly
as most were unproven and have since been discovered to be NFG. (clean
version: not found good).

This may be more common than we may think.

I just spent 3 days in Baltimore inner harbor docked next to a couple
on a very nice 55 ft ketch. They are from the Great Lakes and have
never sailed over night or made an offshore passage of any type.

That said, they are planning to go offshore from the southern
Chesapeake in late October and sail non-stop to the AVI/BVI without
benefit of a stop in Bermuda. From there they are planning to sail
around the world. I just didn't have the heart to tell them what I
thought of the whole idea. Hopefully we won't be reading about them
but you have to wonder.

On Oct 2, 8:44 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:11:15 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:
In my view, their primary errors were (and this won't be news to them):
1) Rushing. Trying to run before "walk" has been mastered.
2) Having and relying on too many complex onboard systems, particularly
as most were unproven and have since been discovered to be NFG. (clean
version: not found good).

This may be more common than we may think.

Hopefully we won't be reading about them
but you have to wonder.



God bless those sent to rescue them.

No, very common I think. At an early age walking on a streach of empty
beach in 1966 my friend Larry and I saw the remains of a sanded in
steel sail boat just up from the nights high tide. It was a story Ive
grown wear of hearing:


Kids gone
Couple retires both 63 PLUS years. Of course comes blood preasure
meds, etc.
They sells everything.
Life dream to sail the world on blissful seas without a care. Wife
says okay.............. sorta.
Buys boat.
Has to leave on XYZ but is a month late because 123.
They leave.
Get sick, get dehydrated, lay on the floor, get knocked around, break
a rib.
They die or get rescued and for the next few years he sits on the boat
having a drinking and dreaming of what could have been.
He gets sick.
The boat sits
He dies.
The boat sits more.
It rots
The wife hates the boat and gets ****ed cause no body will give her
the money she thinks it should be wort. After all, "HE spent TOO damn
much money on it all thoes years, It ought to be worth more than
that!"
The end of a man
The end of a dream
The end of a good boat.

Bob