SoFarrell wrote:
"K. Smith" wrote in message
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SoFarrell wrote:

"HKrause" wrote in message
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SoFarrell wrote:


What's the smallest boat you've ever gone fishing in offshore which I
guess could be defined as out in the ocean out of sight of land?

Carolina Skiff J-14 for me on a calm day out of Panacea Florida into the
Gulf of Mexico.

How about you?

A few miles offshore on the Atlantic side of Florida in a slightly larger
CS, and farther out, 20 miles out, in an 18' SeaPro. But I always saw
lots of guys way way out in what I considered boats far too small,
especially for Florida, where the weather can change quickly.

Panacea? Wow. Ever eat at Angelo Petrandis' restaurant there? First-class
seafood, just before the bridge there. I always wanted to spend a few
days around there but never had the opportunity.



I think I know what restuarant you mean, on the left, right near the
bridge. I never ate there but wished I did.

This is a very strange usenet group with just a handful of boaters, I
guess and a lot of guys who dislike you but most of them don't seem to be
boaters. Strange.

This idiot krause is one of the few NON boaters here, he's never owned a
boat but posted fake photos & histories just as he did for you.

If you get taken in by him then that's your lookout but be careful he's a
nasty bit of work once he figures you might actually check &/or be able to
check on his lies.

As for the question, for me a 32ft steel sloop years ago in the coral sea,
never a problem with the boat's size, it want all over the place over the
years. I did many trips mostly in the galley in those unenlightened
days:-) The longest single leg I did was just over 800 miles, mostly
downhill in the trade winds, after the fist few days you settle down & it
becomes your safety place, funny thing is when you make landfall you get
all nervous about leaving the boat.

Below is a few more of the Krause "I am"



That's pretty cool. The Coral Sea, as in *THE* Coral Sea of World War II
fame? Even cooler! 800 miles in a small boat would make me antsy.

I wish you would stop this Krause stuff of yours. It just makesyours posts
longer and I don't read those parts and I don't think anyone else does
either. Why don't you move on?



That's OK by me gee don't read them at all if it helps but I do always
include a Krause lie:-)

Indeed here comes today's now:-)

K

& the Krause lie of the day is a newie but a goody:-) This idiot has
never been able to even begin to enter any coastal nav thread much less
the many celest ones over the years, yet he recently produced this lie,
well it's another classic Krause lie:-)

Have a read of this I mean it!!! He's a nut case a complete nutter:-)


I took my *first* course, in piloting, with my then best friend, Steve, when
we were about 11-12 years old, by special dispensation of the US Power
Squadron in New Haven, Connecticut. The class was held in the evenings
in the
basement of one of the Sheffield scientific buildings, on Prospect
Street, if
I recall, on the campus of Yale University, across from Woolsey Hall. Our
parents dropped us off and picked us up; the classes were in the evenings.

We were at that time the two youngest enrollees in such a course in the
history of the USPS. We completed the course successfully. It was about 45
years ago, when piloting and navigation were done with hand instruments.

How did we get in at such an early age? Both of us had started yacht club
sailboat racing in dinghies at the age of 8, and by the time we were 11,
were
working individually and as a team, competing successfully in southern
Connecticut junior racing circuits. It also didn't hurt that my father was a
boat dealer and marina operator and also a by-then retired boat racer of
some
fame, and that Steve's dad was a well-known sailboater out of the Branford,
Connecticut, area.

Steve now sails out of the Maritime Provinces.