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On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:41:37 -0500, Gogarty
wrote: In article , åke says... (Snip) Oh please! Does anybody sail for sailing's sake anymore? Or has sailing become just another Facebook substitute? "HEY LOOKIT MEEEEEE!!!!" You object to expanding the experience? Got hemp? What's Facebook? Check those sites I posted. You might learn a thing or too. That is extremely doubtful as, you see, the illustrious Gregory already knows everything there is to know about sailing. Learned all about it reading sailing magazines :-( -- Chers, Bruce |
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:37:11 -0500, Gogarty
wrote: In my "fleet" I have all the cruise ships that use New York (I get an email notice when any of them enters or leaves a port), a party boat from Flushing Bay, Mystic Whaler up in Mystic and a 45 foot catamaran I have tracked from mid-Atlantic to Venezuela. Queen Mary 2 was in New York a couple if weeks ago but is now in the eastern Med. The harbor webcam is especially interesting. It amuses me. ======= I never get tired of watching the boats in NY Harbor. Back in the 80s I had an office on the 9th floor of 111 Wall Street with a great view of the East River going out towards Governors Island. You never knew what you'd see from one day to the next. |
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:02:50 -0500, Wayne B
wrote: We are once again underway for a little boating adventure, and hopefully by this time next month we will be deep into the Caribbean, most probably the BVI or Leeward Islands. From there we'll work our way south to Martinique and St Lucia in the Windward Islands before turning around and heading back north. Some of you will remember that we did mostly the same trip 3 years ago. It was arguably one of the best boating cruises of my lifetime and hopefully this one will be even better. Anyone who wants to keep track of our progress or lack thereof can keep track of us he http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0utTAiadygIUkT4LIXeoYfKADAn2Dkz os Right now we're headed to Key West for a few days of watching my oldest son racing sailboats in the annual Key West regatta, and after that we'll head over to the Bahamas and start working our way farther south as weather permits. We'll have some internet access along the way but not everywhere, so play nice in the meanwhile and try to think more about boating and less about politics, gun control, abortion, etc. ======== We've made pretty good progress so far (presently at Chubb Cay in the central Bahamas), and have had some interesting experiences along the way. On day 2 we were heading SW from Marco Island towards Key West in strong north easterly winds and 3 to 5 foot waves - not exactly idylllic, but since we were headed downwind and surfing the waves, fairly tolerable. Next thing I know an 87 foot Coast Guard cutter with a pair of large machine guns on deck is pursuing us from astern. They already had an inflatable and boarding party in the water so it was clearly not going to be a social visit. The inflatable could not keep up with our sprightly 9 knots so they radioed us to slow down to 5 knots, which we did of course. We were boarded by 5 heavily armed young coasties who announced that they "wanted to see if we were safe out here." The boarding officer was almost apologetic but said that we were the only boat out that they had seen. We've been through this before so all of our equipment was well in order, then they asked for our boat documentation and "identificaion for everyone on board". Since our passports were with the boat doc, I handed them in thinking there could be no better proof of citizenship and ID. It turned out they wanted driver's licenses however so they could run a search on the NCIS database in the hope they could find unpaid parking tickets perhaps? It was tempting to tell them that we didn't need drivers licenses to be out there but discretion overruled that impulse. At any rate we finally got a clean bill of health and were on our way. Yesterday while heading across the Gulf Stream from the Florida Keys, we were startled by the sight of a 25 to 30 inch fish which jumped high in the air, even with the flybridge at about 15 feet, and sailed clean across the boat to the other side. It was the most spectacular jump I've ever seen from a fish that size. The weather has been good so far and tomorrow we are headed south east towards Nassau and he northern Exuma Islands. All systems are go - especially the alternators thanks to Tim's good work. |
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Wayne, Geoff Schultz has developed a means to interrogate the SPOT site to
get continuous data for their maps on his blog (bluejacket). You might want to look at it; right now I'm a bit busy to do that :{)) L8R Skip -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land. - Dr. Samuel Johnson |
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:41:06 -0500, "Flying Pig"
wrote: Wayne, Geoff Schultz has developed a means to interrogate the SPOT site to get continuous data for their maps on his blog (bluejacket). You might want to look at it; right now I'm a bit busy to do that :{)) ==== Interesting, I'll take a look at it when I get a chance. Thanks. Currently anchored at Highbourne Cay, farther south tomorrow. All systems are go, weather warm and windy (15 to 20 kts) out of the north east. |
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:14:49 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:
In article , says... On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:02:50 -0500, Wayne B wrote: We are once again underway for a little boating adventure, and hopefully by this time next month we will be deep into the Caribbean, most probably the BVI or Leeward Islands. From there we'll work our way south to Martinique and St Lucia in the Windward Islands before turning around and heading back north. Some of you will remember that we did mostly the same trip 3 years ago. It was arguably one of the best boating cruises of my lifetime and hopefully this one will be even better. Anyone who wants to keep track of our progress or lack thereof can keep track of us he http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0utTAiadygIUkT4LIXeoYfKADAn2Dkz os Right now we're headed to Key West for a few days of watching my oldest son racing sailboats in the annual Key West regatta, and after that we'll head over to the Bahamas and start working our way farther south as weather permits. We'll have some internet access along the way but not everywhere, so play nice in the meanwhile and try to think more about boating and less about politics, gun control, abortion, etc. ======== We've made pretty good progress so far (presently at Chubb Cay in the central Bahamas), and have had some interesting experiences along the way. On day 2 we were heading SW from Marco Island towards Key West in strong north easterly winds and 3 to 5 foot waves - not exactly idylllic, but since we were headed downwind and surfing the waves, fairly tolerable. Next thing I know an 87 foot Coast Guard cutter with a pair of large machine guns on deck is pursuing us from astern. They already had an inflatable and boarding party in the water so it was clearly not going to be a social visit. The inflatable could not keep up with our sprightly 9 knots so they radioed us to slow down to 5 knots, which we did of course. We were boarded by 5 heavily armed young coasties who announced that they "wanted to see if we were safe out here." The boarding officer was almost apologetic but said that we were the only boat out that they had seen. We've been through this before so all of our equipment was well in order, then they asked for our boat documentation and "identificaion for everyone on board". Since our passports were with the boat doc, I handed them in thinking there could be no better proof of citizenship and ID. It turned out they wanted driver's licenses however so they could run a search on the NCIS database in the hope they could find unpaid parking tickets perhaps? It was tempting to tell them that we didn't need drivers licenses to be out there but discretion overruled that impulse. At any rate we finally got a clean bill of health and were on our way. Yesterday while heading across the Gulf Stream from the Florida Keys, we were startled by the sight of a 25 to 30 inch fish which jumped high in the air, even with the flybridge at about 15 feet, and sailed clean across the boat to the other side. It was the most spectacular jump I've ever seen from a fish that size. The weather has been good so far and tomorrow we are headed south east towards Nassau and he northern Exuma Islands. All systems are go - especially the alternators thanks to Tim's good work. Good deal!! Please repost your tracking URL I enjoy watching your progress! ==== http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0utTAiadygIUkT4LIXeoYfKADAn2Dkz os |
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:39:12 -0500, Gogarty
wrote: There was an incident a few years ago involving a large yacht travelling the ICW and the CG. I forget the details but the yacht was stopped and searched very few miles by yet another bunch of curious Coasties. Finally the owner blew up and got jail and confiscation for his trouble. === USCG has become sensitive to the issue of repetitive boardings. The key to avoidance is to ask for, and save, the so called "yellow sheet" issued after a boarding. If you have a yellow sheet on board showing a clean inspection within the last 6 months, they will let you go unless there is some other probable cause. |
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