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Offline Flying J

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Sailing when im not riding
« on: June 30, 2009, 08:26:59 PM »
Took the hobie cat up to the lake for a regatta this weekend. Regatta is the sailors equivalent to a road race i guess.  And flying a hull is like draging a knee through a corner. My sail boat is the same year as my cb550. 1976. making 4 out of 5 vehicles i own older then i am.


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Re: Sailing when im not riding
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2009, 08:30:23 PM »
Very cool!!!!

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Offline Achmed

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Re: Sailing when im not riding
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2009, 08:36:27 PM »
Awesome. Need to get one so I can sail again. It must take a good breeze to get a cat up on its haunches like that.
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Re: Sailing when im not riding
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2009, 10:04:21 PM »
Great action shots.  My wife is hopeless with a camera so it's always her in the photos.  The first three are from our last trip on Lake Superior from Thunder Bay to the Slate Islands.  We are going back later this summer.  Last two are earlier on Lake Huron.
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Re: Sailing when im not riding
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2009, 11:41:47 PM »
I've spent a lot of time on the water, both professionally (100 ton Inland Masters License) and personally between Juneau and Cabo.  I like the idea of a sailing thread... will post some pics later on.  I do love old wooden boats. 
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Re: Sailing when im not riding
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2009, 11:50:07 PM »
Haven't had a yatch since I was a teenager but I do have a 5.5m Haines Hunter, lovely old boat, heavey as and great for wave crushing when it turn to crap miles from home.
90HP Evinrude on the back, drinks gas like a V16. :D
Hasn't seen the water in 4 months (all my mates with boats are complaining too about the weather) so believe it is suffering from trailer rot. :D
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Re: Sailing when im not riding
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2009, 03:11:04 AM »
great pics
looks like fun
tried to talk the wife into selling the house and buying a sailboat
for some reason she said no
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Re: Sailing when im not riding
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2009, 10:17:28 AM »
Okay, so here are a few shots of sexy wooden boats...

First is of Seawulf and Resolute in Princess Louisa Inlet in the Spring of 2001.  I was the captain of Seawulf (on the left)

Next is a shot from Rockland, Maine and the winter of 2001.  I spent 8 months working on the rebuild of a 150ft schooner... Everything on the boat removed and rebuilt except the main engine.  Ask me about compression fuel fittings.

Just a nice one onboard Resolute, somewhere in the Gulf Islands. 

Setting up the tow line from Westward to Orpheus.  The 1924 yacht with the original Atlas engine (86rpms) towed us from Victoria to Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island to save time!

Orpheus tied alongside Westward once we got there.  We got to be the sailing dinghy!  Shortly after this trip Westward left for a 'round the world trip.

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Offline medic09

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Re: Sailing when im not riding
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2009, 10:49:17 AM »
Very Cool!

Never got beyond Alcort Sunfish and Sailfish, myself.  ::)
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Re: Sailing when im not riding
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2009, 10:52:52 AM »
The small boats are the best sailing!  I'd love to spend some time on either of those fast and fun boats!

Couldn't help post one more, my ride in SE Alaska for a few years. 
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