"Goofball_star_dot_etal" wrote in message
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:00:42 -0400, "Skip Gundlach"
wrote:

Lydia's experimenting with Picasa. She's put up a few pix of the
passage to Charleston...

http://picasaweb.google.com/lafell/S...h100108100708#

Ed note; corrected URL - Picasa has this nasty trait that if you ever
change anything, it gives you a new URL...


I want to see a video of waves washing loose fenders overboard,
Lydia
"losing it" and the cat ****ting itself.. not inside out lady
fishes.
Wimin!


Not so much waves knocking loose fenders, but bashing into waves
putting mostly white but some green water over the bow. The fenders
are lashed to the rails immediately aft of the pulpit, and, as it
turned out, only one of the lashings, the front one, worked loose.

As a result, it was hidden from view (no way I'm going forward in that
stuff if I don't have to!) behind the PortaBote also lashed to the
rails, but aft of the fenders on port.

So, I fished it back over, and it's now located somewhat differently,
and again lashed to the rails. The fishing pole and reel,
unfortunately, launched, easily, from the tube, unnoticed (not that
we'd have done anything about it as it happened), likely from the
third reef line which, shortened by having the other reef engaged,
hung over the side a bit, in one of the rock-and-roll violences which
were sufficient, sometimes, to put the first RAIL in the water (green
water up to the portholes, securely dogged, thanks for asking, no
water in the boat).
Hm. Having said that, it may have simply washed out, as the mount to
the tube is under the first rail, conveniently providing a
water-cannon effect if it's under water! Lesson learned, ship the
poles in weather or any other time they're not with lines out,
convenient storage or not :{/)

No, we weren't taking photos at the time, sorry...

And, we later realized that Portia peed on the sofa only because the
waves were sufficient to close her potty lid. She's potty trained,
and the forward head's lid was closed due to the extreme heel. She
did the best she could :{)) - but couldn't hold it. Otherwise a very
fine sailor, she is, no barfing or ****ting or other effluvia. She's
good company, particularly for Lydia, who likes to play with her in
the cockpit on her night watches...

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Skip

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