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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 03/09/2008 : 00:04:04

I sailed 1688 nautical miles since Daylight Savings time began last year. I did not count days at sea but it is about 170. That is a 10 mile per day average. My average speed is about 2.5 knots over the year but the elapsed time on the GPS is not accurate because I turn it on while still in the slip and sometimes leave it on while anchored.

Just this past week I sailed 50 miles and 17 of those today (Saturday). Its been blowing 10 to 15 all week with a wind shift from NW to NE just after sunset (unusual) and very fun. The sea is as phosporescent as I've ever seen it at night, there are squid and dolphins everywhere.

I've now sailed Indiscipline III 6500 miles in 4 years, almost all single handed, and I estimate 600 days at sea in Indiscipline III alone. Nothing serious has ever broken and at times I've been in some real snot.

Counting Indiscipline 1, 2, and 3 I estimate 18,000 miles at sea, including my year long voyage Milwaukee to the Bahamas on Indiscipline II for a grand total of about 900 days at sea.

Reseting the GPS tomorrow on a quest to sail 2000 miles and log 200 days next year. Yahoo Daylight Savings Time!

Indiscipline III turns 30 this year in October, what a fine vessel. I never had more fun with a boat, nor felt more at ease aboard.

Also beat this:

One evening this week I timed myself after work. I arrived at the boat, changed clothes, put on foulies, put on boat shoes, removed boat cover, removed shore power, hanked on 135% jib, removed mainsail cover, attached autopilot, backed out of the slip under power, got underway, and got all sails hoisted in only 11 minutes.

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 03/09/2008 : 09:14:30

Jim,

Great accomplishment !

I think you are fairly efficient...11 minutes and all that ...and not that I really want to know....however, your posting seems to beg the question ? Let's see how to put this tactfully........How's it goin when you are off the boat ?

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 03/09/2008 : 11:11:14

Jim... For purposes of your record, Daylight Saving Time came a little early this year--you might be able to add another hundred for your one-year period.

Good work! (...although I guess we don't call that work!)

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 03/09/2008 : 16:37:30

Keep this in mind, I go to the boat every single night after work, rain or shine, winter or summer. The traffic office-to-home is so bad I never leave the boat before 7 PM, often 8 PM. If there is no wind I work on board, if it is raining I read or clean the inside. I spend at least one night aboard per week in order to reduce my driving/commute (sometimes 2 nights).

It is so expensive to keep a boat here (minimum $5,000 per year) in order to justify the tremendous expense I've given up everything else. Although I do like attending college basketball and football games and meet my wife and family most every Friday night for dinner out (after sailing).

I spend most every Saturday at home working on the yard and spending time with the family (which is getting harder with kids away in college and a wife who works nights and weekends).

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Response Posted - 03/09/2008 : 17:16:13

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by JimB517
 ...It is so expensive to keep a boat here (minimum $5,000 per year) in order to justify the tremendous expense I've given up everything else.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Jim, an old friend told me that I should own the boat--the boat shouldn't own me.

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 03/09/2008 : 17:44:15

Jim,

Glad you get to see the family ! LOL Actually, I have some similar things as you but I tend just not to get on quite so frequently for sails: First, my kids are grown and my son just bought a house (condo) so he is going to move out this month. Not that we saw much of him anyway since once he enters his dungeon in the basement, we rarely see him again that day or week - kind of nocturnal. My daughter, technically, still lives at home, but she graduated from college last May, has a job and is 80% of the time with her boyfriend. But they do go sailing with me sometimes. My wife has women's tennis and yoga class and so they keep her busy a couple of hours for 2-3 nights each week.

I work just 5-10 minutes down the road from my marina. So, I too can go down to my boat pretty much every day - get out of work on the average between 3-4pm. But I usually go down about 2-3 times a week during the weekdays and 1 day during the weekend - sometimes more and sometimes less. I sometimes will do about 1 hr of maintenance, etc things and go home or wind up going out for a nice sail and stay out for a few hours. I go into work very early - usually in the office before 6am and that means leaving from home around 5am. So I will not spend that long sailing on a weekday night. If I take the day off, then that is another story - go for a much longer sail. I mostly sail solo as you. My wife will join me occasionally for a sail and maybe a sleepover which we have only done one so far. But the good news is that she was already talking about doing one this Spring, so things are lookin up.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 03/09/2008 : 20:11:17

"the boat shouldn't own me...."

Thats what I like so much about this little boat, Indiscipline II was a 40 foot motor boat with twin Cat diesels.

Before I was into sailing I was surfing every day after work so nothing has really changed. This has been my lifestyle for the last 25 years and I have arranged everything (job, money, house, etc.) so I can live the way I want to.

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