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Steve Milby
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Initially Posted - 02/03/2008 : 15:22:19

This year's show was a good one. The boat show is a good place to ask questions of knowledgeable pros, who can explain how to use your new gear. I needed to learn how to rig a cruising chute and a chute scoop, and got answers to all my questions. I wanted to learn about modern laminated sailcloths, and talked with one of the founders of Quantum Sails. I needed to learn how to rig and use my new telescoping whisker pole, and an employee of Forespar taught a 1 hour seminar on that very subject. There were a number of professional blue water sailors who deliver boats and teach courses and write books on the subject. Each discussed his methods of predicting the weather and avoiding storms, described their progressive heavy weather sailing techniques, their man overboard procedures, their watch keeping routines, thoughts regarding seasickness (mostly they said, don't worry about people thinking you're a wussy. Just take the pills for the first 2-3 days.) There was a scholar who studied Joshua Slocum, and who provided a lot of interesting insight into his life that you don't find elsewhere. Also, I was surprised to see the Catalina logo on a Sabre sign. Apparently Catalina bought Sabre Yachts, but maybe y'all have already heard that and I've missed it. Anyway, this is my third year attending the Chicago show, and it's the best yet. I'm mostly interested in the seminars, and they were excellent this year, and, if you haven't been there yet, the seminars are absolutely free. (But the parking lot isn't. We'll have to work on that.)

Steve Milby J/24 "Captiva Wind"
previously C&C 35, Cal 25, C25 TR/FK, C22
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 02/03/2008 : 16:24:19

I wish the weather man hadn't put me off the 5-6 hour drive.

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 02/04/2008 : 08:04:27

As good as the show was, you probably made the right choice, John. I arrived Thursday afternoon and the snow hit that night. Driving from the motel to the Navy Pier Friday morning was really scary. The slush wasn't cleared yet, and it would grab your tires and pull hard at the steering wheel.

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dave holtgrave
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Response Posted - 02/04/2008 : 15:12:12

hey steve milby
i see your from the dayton areazzzzz.

where do you sail a c&c 35??

dave holtgrave
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hard and dry near carlyle lake in southern illinois

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 02/04/2008 : 17:11:28

Hi Dave! During the winter, I live in Kettering, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, and from spring until fall I live on my C&C, about 15 miles north of Solomon's Island, Maryland, and sail on the Chesapeake. Before the C&C, while I still had to actually work for a living, I sailed a C25 on Brookville Lake, near Liberty, Indiana. You sound like you might have had some experience living in the Dayton area?

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dave holtgrave
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Response Posted - 02/04/2008 : 19:44:19

steve
work with a company called lockwwod jones and beal at 3100 research blvd, dayton. they are an engineering company.

sailed remotes with a group called buckeye remote controlled??.
on a small pond in a town park.

great area!

i worked with other companies like miller valentine also.

must be great to spend the warm weather in the northeast.

74 degrees here today, but tonite we are to have severe thunderstorms. tomorrow high aroung 40 degrees.

midwest!!!!!!!

dave holtgrave
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hard and dry near carlyle lake in southern illinois

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 02/05/2008 : 08:14:25

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dave Bristle
 Dave--the Chesapeake isn't the Northeast--it's the Middle Atlatic--hotter, less wind, more bugs, and more thunderstorms in the summer. That's why I picked Mystic over Oxford/St. Michaels.

(Nothing beats a sea-breeze!)
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Only those snooty New Englanders would think of Annapolis as the low rent district!

Dave H - Before I retired, I worked for the City of Dayton Law Department, and advised all the administrative services agencies, such as the Zoning, Housing, Building, Nuisance, and Fire services. I've always thought your name sounded vaguely familiar. I've probably seen it on surveys or engineering reports of some sort from Lockwood Jones and Beal, or perhaps in zoning applications involving Miller Valentine. If you worked for those companies, you must be good at what you do.

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dave holtgrave
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Response Posted - 02/05/2008 : 09:44:59

dave b
sorry about the latitude adjustment.
to be somewhat corrected, the chesapeake runs a long distance by longitude.

i've spent a lot of time in annapolis, cecil county, baltimore, silver springs, and andrews air force base and richmond vi.

dave holtgrave
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hard and wewt today near carlyle
lake in southern illinois

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dave holtgrave
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Response Posted - 02/05/2008 : 14:59:17

dave bristle

by no means am i disputing that you keep correcting me with my directions.
i am aware any of these locations are not in the maine or vermont areas as what i would consider the northeast.

however, today is vote day and as a citizen of the us i can say by the first amendment from my location they are somewhat northeast.

i'd prefer to stop the corrections being added and hope you start to enjoy the forum with more humor.

when i used to fly, we used vectors as highways in the air.
if my memory serves me right.vector 44 (v44)had a compose heading
of 71 degrees form scott air force base.
thought that might help you understand why i would consider this somewhat north.

dave holtgrave
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johnsonp
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Response Posted - 02/05/2008 : 20:03:59

Steve
Sometimes DB forgets to take his medication

paulj

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RCarie
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Response Posted - 02/05/2008 : 21:41:10

Dave,
I've posted a Winter Cruise in your area. See my thread in the Cruising Forum. I've had a lot of fun on Lake Carlyle the past few years and am hoping for a repeat.
Hope to see you there,
Randy Carie

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