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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 08/24/2005 : 01:07:19

Check out the link below.

Click here http://www.indiscipline.org/cat25/vacation05.html

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398

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Sloop Smitten
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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 01:43:20

Fantastic trip report Jim. Sounds like you had a few rough goes out there. It would have been a challenge with a crew but doing it single handed speaks volumes about the seaworthiness of Indiscipline and your skills as a seaman. Well done!

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Ben
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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 07:38:04

Great stuff Jim. Thanks for sharing.

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Buzz Maring
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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 10:02:58

WOW ... what a GREAT travel log!

Thanks for taking the time to post the photos and write the narrative Jim ... it was almost as good as being there.

COOL!

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 10:21:25

Nice trip! How was the Baja-ha-ha orientation? I hope to be making that trip in another 5 years.

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John G-
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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 10:35:45

I have to say Jim, I love the photo entitled “family life aboard Utopia (5 people on a C25)”.
That looks like a family having a great vacation.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 11:16:06

Single handing this trip was tough, but I learned some things. I came away with a much higher degree of self confidence - both in myself AND in the boat. The little Honda 8 hp ran for about 50 hours including some times 10 hours straight.

Indiscipline is very well equipped and I am somewhat experienced.

my 3, 11-watt solar panels did the job.
my oil lamp did a great job at lighting and warming the boat (along with about 4 candles I use).
my 3 anchors did the job (50 feet of 5/16 chain on the main anchors makes a BIG difference).

I wouldn't go again without :
a tiller tamer or some system in case of autopilot failure,
an extra long shaft motor (25 inch)
5 more gallons of fuel (total of 25).

Although I may have averaged 10 nmpg, at times I got only 5 (strong headwinds, big head seas, tough opposing current).

I took way to much propane and too much food. I carried 10 gallons of water in jugs and that was just right (I used the on board tank for cleaning only).

I did not take enough warm dy clothes. I had 7 pairs of shorts but only 2 long pants. With all that fog and cold I rarely wore the shorts.

I want a real quality pair of foulies.

I had a lot of plans to do the passages at night but I need more night experience in extreme winds/seas and offshore conditions FIRST. Night time offshore is scary.

More experience with single-handed spinnaker in local waters.

I won't say "I won't do it again without a bimini and a dodger" but I have got to figure out some way to get a bimini and a dodger.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 11:29:15

Oh yeah, the Lattitude 38 Baja Ha Ha orientation was entertaining. I got a tee shirt. They told you about Mexico and showed a slide show. If you read the magazine, you didn't learn anything new about the cruise. I really enjoyed the slide show.

I really want to do this, and hopefully I'll find someone I can crew for, either on the way down, or I'd prefer doing the bash back.

I am going to start exploring Baja in my C25. I am becoming a real believer in this little boat. Plus I am thinking alot about doing the Newport - Ensenada doublehanded PHRF and trying for the Frank Butler trophy (fasted Catalina on corrected time).

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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 15:09:10

Hey Jim, excellent pics ! A wee suggestion for a "winter project".. buy a pint of yellow vinyl paint, and put a few coats on your horseshoe buoy. Visibility is a safety feature - I'm not sure one would be able to see your's if it was in a bed of kelp.. (lol) :)

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 15:26:27

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Hey Jim, excellent pics ! A wee suggestion for a "winter project".. buy a pint of yellow vinyl paint, and put a few coats on your horseshoe buoy. Visibility is a safety feature - I'm not sure one would be able to see your's if it was in a bed of kelp.. (lol) :)<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Hey Bob, where do you get vinyl paint for that winter project? Is there a particular brand I should look for? My horseshoe buoy doesn't look so good, and I didn't know it could be painted. Thanks for the tip!

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 22:02:04

Awesome trip, great pics, wishful thinking strained.
Thanks Jim for posting such and influencing report.

Hey Pegs! Can I take the boat out for a while ... back soon

Soooo want to take more than a week off!

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 08/24/2005 : 22:56:34

>"Night time offshore is scary."

Indeed. It is a little known scientific fact that the ocean, does in fact, get bigger in the dark... as do the waves and wind. To compensate for these quantum effects, the boat gets smaller.

I've found that a GPS chartplotter and/or RADAR are very comforting things to have after dark.

It gives one a warm, fuzzy feeling to see the outlines of the 'hard pointy stuff' on a screen rather than just numbers on a GPS. (this is very nice in fog too).

>"I am going to start exploring Baja in my C25"

This was my original dream for the C25 (trailerable)... to island hop around in Baja. Reading the Gaviota logs (Potter 19) is very inspiring. Heck, the C25 is literally the Queen Mary when compared to a Potter.

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Response Posted - 08/25/2005 : 03:11:17

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Hey Bob, where do you get vinyl paint for that winter project? Is there a particular brand I should look for? My horseshoe buoy doesn't look so good, and I didn't know it could be painted.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

We painted the case for our life sling with bright yellow vinyl paint we picked up at our local ACE hardware store. It has held up well for about a year now.

Thanks for all the pictures and narative. They are inspiring. I recently had plans for my first "off shore" passage from Morro Bay to Avila, a baby step to an islands trip, but had to cancel due to work. I suspect I won't be doing it solo when I do get to go. My wife told me later that she is afraid I'll come up with an excuse to leave her home and she wants to make the journey too. Am I lucky or what?

The kids are clamoring for Legoland so maybe next summer we can join you for a few days at Catalina.

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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 08/25/2005 : 09:04:33

What an excellent adventure Jim! Really appreciate your sharing it with us. Is it really cold enough that you need heat at night? It has been sweltering over here. But yesterday there was a 10 mph breeze in the afternoon and I made it to the beer can race which started at 1830. First time I've had a chance to sail since the MUG Race in May. You certainly have a wonderful website!

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Response Posted - 08/26/2005 : 02:28:20

"Is it really cold enough that you need heat at night?"

Although we get warm days ashore, our low water temps in the Pacific cool things down. Currently at Santa Rosa Island the water temp is 63.5 F. A few miles north at Point Conception its 60.0 and the farther north you go the colder it gets. Up near San Francisco it's 57 degrees. The cool temps also cause our June gloom, our coastal fog. It seems like the hotter it gets in the interior valleys the thicker the fog is here on the coast.

Also, I can't speak for Jim, but living on the coast where it never gets too cold or hot due to the huge heat sink we have, I have developed a narrow comfort range. (I'm a wimp when it comes to weather)

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Response Posted - 08/26/2005 : 08:37:24

Jim, looks like you had one great sailing experience...just one question, the next time that you do this...CAN I COME???????

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 08/26/2005 : 11:38:43

I don't want to go alone. I just don't know anybody who wants to come along.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 08/26/2005 : 11:38:46

I don't want to go alone. I just don't know anybody who wants to come along.

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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 08/27/2005 : 05:08:32

BTW, I was wondering how well you did with plotting your position on a paper chart the whole time? When I went to the Bimini Is. I had intended to do my hard copy navigation and found it was difficult to disipline myself to a fix on paper every hour. And how's the captains lic. coming? I had a call from the USCG-Charleston and mine should be in the mail soon.

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