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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
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I'm looking for something like this, I think:
Speaking of fishing, I've never been salmon fishing. ;~)
We're gonna have to fix that.
I think there's some spring Chinook. Aprilish, iirc.
Makes sense to me! And I can see why a sailboat would not be a very good fishing boat. *grin*
Not being in any way an expert on boats, I can only comment on their appearance and gadgetry.
I do love telling folks that I was out in the middle of the Sound in a small bass fishing boat. They just stare like I'm crazy or something. They all know about my water phobia, so they're just amazed. LOL!
I'm looking at the evil clock now and it's saying "gotobed" o'clock. *stretch*
I'll see you tomorrow, Ramius! Be good and drive careful!
Niters... :-)
Bass??? hehehe... nevermind. Good night...
has recently entered the inventory around here (it's parked at my uncle's). Aluminum, 19 feet long, a good 40" beam, technically a canoe with a squared stern for mounting a small motor, seats three with gear or up to five (pushing it) without.
Good evening, everybody...we survived the holidays!
Most excellent. Looks really wide for a canoe shape. Very stable, I'm supposing.
There's a funny follow-up story to this that I should have included above. It was almost *not* floating a few weeks ago.
I'm up in Bellevue and I get a call on my cell phone... its the Marina. "Your boat is maybe about to sink..."
The Catalina 22 has one very serious design flaw. While the cockpit has drains for rain or splashwater in the deck, if those drains plug (like leaves or something covers it) it can sink, merely from rainwater. The cutout for the cabin door is lower than the cutout for the tiller over the transom. This means that if the footwell of the cockpit fills up with rainwater, it will flow into the cabin before it flows overboard. Really dumb, that. This weighs down the aft end of the boat first, until the cutout at the transom hits the water, and then ... bloop... down she goes.
It only takes about two days worth of hard rain to make it happen.
Fortunately, it is a well-known issue with Catalinas. The marina called and said that the drains were plugged, and there was only a couple of inches before the footwell would start dripping into the cabin... and did I give them permission to board the boat and clear the drains.
"Please do... and thanks." [sigh]
It was VEY calm here today. I crossed over Lake Quinsagamond taking Clare to school and coming back and each time it was as slick as glass!
Gesundheit. :-)
I've never liked sailing because I don't like the thought of not having complete control over where you're going and when you get there! ;o)
Are all of your houseguests gone, now?
Well... you do have pretty complete control. You can sail in pretty much any direction you want, except *directly* into the wind. But you *can* sail upwind.
But it is a difference in mission. In sailing, it is all about getting there, not being there. The fun is in the voyage. With motorboats, it's more about being at the destination and getting there is merely time taken away from that.
I've been both a sailboater and a motorboater and I like both of them for what they do best.
I've always felt at the mercy of a fickle wind or idjit motorboat drivers when I've been in a sailboat. I can imagine it being very peaceful out on open water, it's the getting out there and getting back that give me the willies!
Well... there are a lot of idjit motorboat drivers, this is true.
But it is also true that sailing is mainly something you go out and *do* rather than something that you often use to get someplace. While it certainly is possible to use sails to get you someplace, it helps to be willing to settle for someplace else on the way there, and to not be real picky about when you get there. :-)
But then again... if you wanna go around the world... it had better be in a sailboat. Sailing really still shines in the open-ocean sort of boating. Don't gotta worry about how much gas you brung with ya, only gotta worry that the rum don't run out or the crew will get testy. :-)
So true!
Well I gotta go finish up in the kitchen and then get to bed! G'nite!
G'nite here too! Last battery going down quick.
Niters!
Speaking of rum...
We (the bridge gang on my cutter) were always bugging the Captain to reinstate the rum ration. Seems that according to a strict reading of the Coast Guard regulations, nobody had ever bothered to remove the section where sailors were once upon a time allowed to choose whether to take their days' pay in either gold pieces or rum.
He never did go for it, but I think we had a pretty good case. Footnotes and everything. :-)
The last of the houseguests departed yesterday. The "Guest Room" is once again the "Master Suite", and the air mattress has been emptied and stored until "next time".
The holidays were good, and so is their end...of course, now I need some time off :)
Looks like I missed a few things up-thread. It's review time...
It's good to be "back".
Good Morning - we gots power so far, a bit of flickering but so far so good. Treated Interstates appear good and primary roads okay. Untreated, well, think skating rink. We'll see how the day progresses.
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