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Andy Greever

Andy Greever

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Just curious really.

How many Sailors do we have on this forum?

My Wife and I have a S2-9.2C that we are in the process of re-furbishing.

Someday (soon I hope!) we will re-launch her in San Diego.

Her name is: "SevenSundays"
 
I have considered sailing to be one of my hobbies in the past but my skill level has atrophied to the point that I am reluctant to still claim to be a sailor. I have a Sweet 16 but the last time I used it, I ended up in the water with the boat turned turtle. I have previously owned a Montego 19, a Petrel, a Newport Calcat, and a Porpoise (Sun Fish type). The weather has cooled off enough here now that I've been considering getting the boat out again.
 
I gave it up for Lent.

USS Saratoga CV-60 1982-1985. The rest was shore duty or reserves. Didn't see any sails on it though.
 
USS Nimitz, Constellation and Ranger; 1976-1885 ... I did take a lap around Mission Bay on a Hobie Cat once, tho ...
 
Used to sail the Chesapeake and Long Island sound. Yes, with real sails! Loved it.
 
Woody said:
Just curious really.

How many Sailors do we have on this forum?

My Wife and I have a S2-9.2C that we are in the process of re-furbishing.

Someday (soon I hope!) we will re-launch her in San Diego.

Her name is: "SevenSundays"
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Once or twice.
 
I had enough of real boats in my first couple of years as a PuddlePirate. Actually, they're nice if you can afford them and don't have to maintain them. One of the nice things about airplane ownership as opposed to boat/home ownership is that I can look at my wife and say "Sorry honey, legally I'm not allowed to try to fix/upgrade/improve that. We'll have to hire a professional."
 
Just sold my 1983 Vanguard Laser a few weeks ago, but still an active sailor and boater. Typically sail on Long Island Sound, but my dad has a 21 ft. bow rider on Candlewood Lake in Brookfield, CT which is where I spend a lot of my summers.
 
Anymouse said:
I gave it up for Lent.

USS Saratoga CV-60 1982-1985. The rest was shore duty or reserves. Didn't see any sails on it though.
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Yeah, I was that kind of sailor too. USS Enterprise 1963-66, 2 Med cruises, twice around the world, Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club.
 
Henning said:
Once or twice.
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Understatement of the week!

As for me I sailed before I flew. All small craft. Penguins, Lasers, Hobies, O'Day. I sold my Hobie many years ago and bought an old Sunfish to teach my daughter. Sailing is flying only in two dimensions.
 
TMetzinger said:
I had enough of real boats in my first couple of years as a PuddlePirate. Actually, they're nice if you can afford them and don't have to maintain them. One of the nice things about airplane ownership as opposed to boat/home ownership is that I can look at my wife and say "Sorry honey, legally I'm not allowed to try to fix/upgrade/improve that. We'll have to hire a professional."
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That's exactly what I DON'T like about certified aircraft vs. sailboats!

I HATE having to get every little thing signed off. Every little part gives Piper another opportunity to fleece me!

Of course I'm a handyman type of guy so I guess that influences my preferances.

Time to go Experimental! :yes:
 
AdamZ said:
Sailing is flying only in two dimensions.
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There is SOO much truth in that. I actually managed to combine them once in a charity schooner race. I was sailing a big old schooner and with the finish line in site, literally a few boat lengths away, the wind just DIED, flat glassy calm (it had been a light air So Cal day anyway) and the tide was taking us backward. Well, my girlfriend at the time was above in her R-22 with a photographer, so I called her on my hand held (I lived on board so all my crap was there)and had her hover off my starboard quarter:D We won! Somebody put up a protest flag (they were trying a 2 anchor kedge job to advance) but nobody cared, it was a freakin charity race with nothing at stake.
 
Henning said:
Well, my girlfriend at the time was above in her R-22 with a photographer, so I called her on my hand held (I lived on board so all my crap was there)and had her hover off my starboard quarter:D
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the ultimate bj ... uh, yeah, never mind ...:rofl:
 
AdamZ said:
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You've obviously never been on a "small" destroyer in forty-foot swells. :)

I saw my share of storms on the Ike and how it made that small city rock and roll. I can't imagine what it did to our escorts!
 
I was in the USN for 22 years cruised on the USS Coral Sea, Ranger , and Indy. I have an ATA in marine tech, and a 100 ton captain license but I never got wet. I don't own a sailboat at this time but are looking for an Ingrid 38 to restore/sail when the F-24 goes away

http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/Ingrid/1

nice boat to do SE Alaska next summer.
 
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Henning said:
There is SOO much truth in that. I actually managed to combine them once in a charity schooner race. I was sailing a big old schooner and with the finish line in site, literally a few boat lengths away, the wind just DIED, flat glassy calm (it had been a light air So Cal day anyway) and the tide was taking us backward. Well, my girlfriend at the time was above in her R-22 with a photographer, so I called her on my hand held (I lived on board so all my crap was there)and had her hover off my starboard quarter:D We won! Somebody put up a protest flag (they were trying a 2 anchor kedge job to advance) but nobody cared, it was a freakin charity race with nothing at stake.
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Was there anything in the rule book that said where the wind had to come from?
 
Anymouse said:
Was there anything in the rule book that said where the wind had to come from?
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No, which is why everyone else laughed and cheered (the race was over, time to go to the club and drink) and the protest was dissmissed out of hand.
 
Used to. Owned a Newport 16, Hunter 21 and a Cal 28.

Honeymooned in the BVI on an Endeavor 34 and returned to vacation with the kids a few years ago on a Jeauneau 43. Still had the skills, but it took a few days to knock the rust off before I attempted docking.

Can't afford both the plane and a sailboat, so sticking to the plane for now. It's a little faster.
 
Not as competent as I wish I were...but nothing gets my blood pumping like the view of a mid-sized sailboat under full sail.

I have crewed on Soveral's, C&C's, and a few others. We were '' close to buying an Erickson 35' before I got into flying. I WILL own a sailboat someday...nothing beats the sound of the wind and waves as you cleave threw the water.

Do not get me wrong, I love flying, but sailing, that is almost existential.
 
AdamZ said:
Understatement of the week!
Sailing is flying only in two dimensions.
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Hmm. You need to go to Surf Coxswain School, in Oregon, where you can take a motor lifeboat and do complete rolls in it.

Nothing feels more like eternity than when you're strapped upside down under cold water, counting seconds while you wait for the boat to roll upright. If you don't get the roll you're hoping for in 15-20 seconds, you unstrap and swim.
 
Occasional crew for my mother on her Boston Whaler.

Other than that, I prefer seaplanes. :yes: :D
 
USS Drum SSN 677
During Maneuvering watch if I was not at the helm, I was a lookout watch stander in the subs "sail".
 

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Former Searunner 25 & Bolger Folding Schooner sailor. Currently restoring a couple of El Toro's. One of these days I'll have to try building a real hull -- something with a nice wineglass profile, rather than these hard chine plywood jobs.

Bruce
 
cameronbm said:
Former Searunner 25 & Bolger Folding Schooner sailor. Currently restoring a couple of El Toro's. One of these days I'll have to try building a real hull -- something with a nice wineglass profile, rather than these hard chine plywood jobs.

Bruce
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
 
When I was in the Air Force I got assigned twice to the USNS Rang Sentinel for missile tests. I was very happy to be off the boat when our little cruises were over, especially after trying to out run a tropical storm with 30 footers. The Range Sentinel was a converted liberty ship from WW2. That should have taught me enough about ships. But I was finally weened off of them when I sank in Lake Michigan on a charter boat. We barely got the MAYDAY out before we went down. Thank goodness the Coast Guard had not been completely routed out of Chicago by then and a scant hour later we were found and rescued.
 
Andy Greever said:
Aawww Henning, be nice! :yinyang:
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If you've ever sailed Bolger "flexible flyer" that is nice. A typical cruise:

1) Arrive at the ramp, back the trailer down and float off a 15' hull. Just ignore the strange looks you get for having another 15' hull sitting on top of the one you just unloaded.

2) wade out until you are in about a foot of water, tip the hulls on to their sides and unfold and lock into place - you now have a 30' hull. Add the rudder, leeboards, tip up both masts (the main mast towers a full 12' from the hull) and you are ready to go. If you are short of crew, you can always grab a couple from the crowd that inevitable gathers

3) go sailing -- remembering to push the "tiller" forward to turn to port and pull it aft to go to starboard. You try to stay on reaches for as long as possible; not only is it your best point of sail, but that's where your two hulls have less independent motion (those latches don't do much for rigidity, they are there simply to keep the two hulls in close formation)

4) at the close of the day, reverse steps 1 & 2.

I will note that you get a sense of smug satisfaction from owning a schooner constructed from about $6000 worth of dimensional lumber & epoxy that sits on a single axle 15' fishing boat trailer. It may not be a Cherubini, but it was a blast to sail.

Bruce
 
The timing of this thread is perfect: I just committed to buying my friend's 1/2 share of a Pearson 28. I've been sailing on Lake Michigan for about 5 years now, and when he decided to buy a boat in the Caribbean and move down there (the sonofa... ;) ), I decided it was time for me to bite the bullet and buy a stake in it. The deal "officially" goes through on January 1, so I'm really looking forward to next summer! :D

I can't track down a good picture of Firecracker herself (most of the ones I have show me shirtless on deck and y'all don't deserve that), but here's a sister:

http://www.sailboatspecs.com/sailboatspecs/boatimages/P/pearson28-1981-2.jpg
 
Currently have a 1994 Hunter 23.5, Cougar Pride, that we purchased new. Sail it on Budd Inlet (southernmost part of Puget Sound). Spent so much time out of town this summer that it never got out of its slip. Had an old Coronado 23 before that when we lived in California. And leaning up against the side of the garage is a Lugar Flying Cloud (think Sun Fish with no footwell, built from a kit) that I learned to sail on in the late 1960s. I'm too old and stiff to sit on that anymore, and the water is too cold to think about it around here anyway. But I helped my dad build it, and I probably keep it for sentimental value more than anything.
 
Current boats, a 2006 Hunter 36 with ALL the toys and a 21 foot outboard set up for fishing/diving, a 14 foot canoe. Previous boats; 18 ft bowrider, 10 foot aluminum Jon boats, 21 ft Hunter, 30 foot Hunter. Charter: Hunter 42 and some German-built 55 footer center cockpit sloop.

We had a GREAT sail this weekend! Three of the seven boats in our club were out and all were manned by pilots. One USAir capt., one retired ATP,and lil' 'ol piston putt-putt me. :D
 
ReverendSlappy said:
The timing of this thread is perfect: I just committed to buying my friend's 1/2 share of a Pearson 28. I've been sailing on Lake Michigan for about 5 years now, and when he decided to buy a boat in the Caribbean and move down there (the sonofa... ;) ), I decided it was time for me to bite the bullet and buy a stake in it. The deal "officially" goes through on January 1, so I'm really looking forward to next summer! :D

I can't track down a good picture of Firecracker herself (most of the ones I have show me shirtless on deck and y'all don't deserve that), but here's a sister:

http://www.sailboatspecs.com/sailboatspecs/boatimages/P/pearson28-1981-2.jpg
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Congratulations! :drink:

Looks like you will have a few adventures next summer.
 
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