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triley
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Initially Posted - 09/02/2002 : 22:17:05

Summers in North Dakota are short, and this one will be shorter than
others for me.
In May, I wrecked my bow on a dock in a 70-80 knot wind that lasted for a day. My own fault, since my spring line stretched considerably in the southeast wind. Laid the bow up when I could during the summer, and got her looking good enough to drill for a new boweye. Then I left for a little real sailing in Maine- crewing Monhegan, having fun with the relatives, using a tight little gaff rigged Buzzard's Bay Sloop, and doing some whale watching on a 48 ft Viking- OK, a stinkpot- with friends. Then back to my little Catalina 25. The whole yacht club was vandalized in early August, nothing stolen, but significant damage to my cabin hatchway and the uppermost companionway board, my keel cable snapped, and, in an unrelated incident, the boat next to me ( a Hunter 26) toppled over from its lift in high winds and took my masthead light and windex with it. So- since I got back to the upper midwest- I winched up the keel with genoa sheets, finally got the boweye in place, putted on over to the deepest launching ramp on the lake, and got the boat out of the water to replace keel cable and turning ball. This last after trying unsuccessfully to use my neighbor's lift to get the boat out of the water to replace the cable. The Hunter has nearly a foot less drtaft than a Catalina, so the winched up keel almost made it as I ran it onto the lift, but not quite.

I think I am taking the boat out a little early, but I have quite a little work top do this fall. Oh well.

BTW, the idea of using a lift was a great one for replacing the keel cable, but remember how much the SK draws with the keel up - 38 inches. It is more than most boats its size. Thank God for a deep launch!

The good things. When the cable snapped, the keel fell into the mud. Saved the boat from sinking. One of the nice things about a shallow berth. Thank God there was no rough weather between cable snap and rescue.

Oh yeah, the Monhegan was a real drifter this year. Our tactics kind of iffy, we didn't luck out with what wind there was. Oh well, most people made it to work on time on Monday.

What a great summer!

Have a great winter!

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Response Posted - 09/03/2002 : 19:19:28

Hi,

If your going out on a stinkpot, a 48' Viking doesn't suck.<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Sounds kinda like the summer I'm having, trying to practically give away my Marinette to get back into sailing. Maybe the Viking guy could buy my Marinette for a tender.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

I'm staying positive though. Sort-of like hitting yourself with a hammer because you know it'll feel good when you stop. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

I was told once that, like a bad meal, all of life's problems will pass.

A great winter to you too,

Paul

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Response Posted - 09/03/2002 : 23:12:29

I've been following your saga, Paul. When I got home last night
I was actually kind of excited that I had the boat up and ready for
winterizing. Just a little pressure wash and then a coat of wax, and three passes with the teak oil, a last flush of the black box, some antifreeze, and taking the engine and batteries home and I am finished for the winter. Sometimes, living up here, I feel a little like the ant who had to pack things away while you southern grasshoppers got to fiddle the summer away!

Oh well.

Take care, Paul.

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Response Posted - 09/04/2002 : 09:39:15

Hey,

I should have known better that to buy a boat named H2O LOU. You know, it's kind of Napoleonic or something like that.

I'm having fun sharing this saga with the forum. It keeps me upbeat about the whole thing.

And to be serious, it's only a boat. My family is healthy and happy. That's a lot more important.

I'll bet it's nice in North Dakota. I imagine beautiful mountain ranges, low humidity, no huge crowds and mountain lions...eeeek! We have 15 foot alligators here....eeeek X2.

Down here it gets very hot and humid. Then the wind stops blowing and you sweat to death while in irons. Then some guy on a Donzi flies buy with a couple of pretty girls on board and I wish for that 48' Viking.

Yesterday in the paper we found out that Georgia's SAT scores are the lowest in the nation. My kids get straight A's. I wonder if their being challenged enough?

We're planning a move to Florida ASAP.

good winds,

Paul

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Response Posted - 09/04/2002 : 17:25:08

Paul
H2O LOU is a great name, but I know what you mean.

I have no name for my boat, but I lived in Hawaii for a few years, and thought seriously more than once in the last two weeks about naming it "Auwe". This is a Hawaiian term that is half way between "Uffdah" ( an upper Midwestern term brought here by the Vikings in AD 1300, first written on the Kensington Runestone) and "Oivey",(a term we all know and which I first remember from an old time radio show, The Goldbergs).

I may still do it.

Paul. There are no mountains worth the name in North Dakota, although the Kildeer "Mountains" and Turtle "Mountains" are called that by some people who have never left the state to look at real mountains. The eastern 10% of the state, where I live, is flat as a pancake, and was once a glacial lake bottom. Fargo floods because it is built in the mddle of a natural puddle!

I would love to see a fifteen foot alligator swim by my boat, but I might think twice about getting in the water to sponge any slime off my bottompaint before a race. Cheez!

It is truly beautiful here right now. When a 50 mile an hour south or north wind pipes up out of nowhere for a day or two, though, it can be downright exciting.

Have a great autumn1

Tom

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Response Posted - 09/04/2002 : 18:52:07

Tom -just for us poor unilingual persons, would you translate "auwe" and "uffdah" <img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle>
BTW - I used to go to bowling tournaments in Fargo when I lived in Winnipeg back in the 60's & 70's - nice friendly people in that town.
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Response Posted - 09/04/2002 : 19:12:19

Hi Tom,

as you can tell I'm geographically challenged. I didn't know North Dakota was so flat.

There are some cool polynesian terms defined on the Polynesian voyaging society web page that might make good boat names.

VoHu ka makani (1133) "The winds roars." Said of great speed.

Here is the URL: http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/welcome.html.

I never thought of yiddish slang terms for boat names. I like the idea.

How about this: "Sea shlepper". To carry one on the sea.<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

"OIVEY, enough is too much."

Have a great day,

Paul

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Response Posted - 09/05/2002 : 00:51:17

Dang, and I thought living in a big city was dangerous.

You say: The whole yacht club was vandalized in early August, nothing stolen, but significant damage to my cabin hatchway and the uppermost companionway board.

Whew, scary.

I also thought you guys knew what state you were in by the size of the hills, ridges, and/or mountains.

I know the water is flat all over, but help me out here:

Oivey, shlepper (I thought it was schl...) - too much fun!

Sorry I sold my C25 four years ago for a C34.

What lake are you on again? I'm comin'...

Thanks for a lot of fun reading, and hope all is well.

Best regards,

Stu

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Response Posted - 09/05/2002 : 16:38:20

Uffdah is a Norwegian term - I think. It kind of means something halfway between a big sigh and "S@#t!"-- No, that isn't right. It's like when you get out of the grocery store with a paper bag full of stuff, and the monsoon begins and by the time you find your keys, the soggy paper bag breaks and the 2 quart jar of spaghetti sauce smashes all over the rest of the groceries and onto your newa gucci shoes! if you are Norwegian, you say, "Uffdah".

Auwe is a little different. You say it when the above happens, or when your best friend wipes out on a January Day at Sunset Beach and breaks his board. But you also say it in wonder. There is a place on the trail down the Na Pali ( Na Pali means "the cliffs") coast on Kauai that is 600 feet high and about 2 feet wide with a drop straight down to the sea. It is called Auwekamanu or "Wow,the Bird". You are really up there with them. I saw a frigate bird hover there just beyond my reach. If I had reached, I would have fallen. It almost created a kind of vertigo in my head. It was awesome! So Auwe can mean that, too. In modern Hawaiian it is sometimes spelled "Aue" with a dipthong over the e.

Oh, how different Hawaii is from North Dakota! Got to go to the Polynesian Society page to get a picture of some good names.

My cosuin has a C 34 Mk II on Long Island Sound. Wonderful sailing to Block Island, Orient Point, etc.

The lake is Pelican. We have a few of the white ones there, but they mostly spend their summers further west now in North Dakota. Lots of loons, ducks, seagulls and herring gulls.

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Response Posted - 09/05/2002 : 19:59:53

Thomas - thx for the explanations!<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle> I was on Kauai in '74 - before the tourists found it! What a gorgeous island (even dug my own Puka shells on Hanna Beach...) Hanalei Bay in the moonlight...such a romantic place! I'll always be able to sing "Hele on to Kauai"...<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> but what a difference from N.D...
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Response Posted - 09/05/2002 : 21:43:04

Uffdah is a Norwegian term - I think. - Thomas Riley

Yep ... it's Norwegian. My grandparents immigrated to this country from Norway, and we grew up with "uff da" ... here's what it means:

Uff da is ...
- trying to dance the polka to rock and roll music
- losing your wad of gum in the chicken yard
- having Swedish meat balls at a lutefisk supper
- spending two hours cleaning up my room and Mom says "Uff da"
- walking downtown and then wondering what you wanted
- arriving late at a lutefisk supper and getting served minced ham instead
- looking in the mirror and discovering you're not getting better, you're just getting older
- trying to pour two buckets of manure into one bucket
- having a mouse crawl up your leg when you're on a hay load
- eating hot soup when you've got a runny nose
- getting out of bed in the morning with a backache
- getting swished in the face with a cow's wet tail
- waking yourself up in church with your own snoring
- forgetting your mother-in-law's first name
- when two steady girl friends find out about each other
- noticing non-Norwegians at a church dinner using lefse for a napkin
- eating a delicious sandwich and then discovering the spread is cat food
- sneezing so hard that your false teeth end up in the bread plate
- NOT being Norwegian!

Buzz Maring, C-25 SK/SR #68, "Freya"

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Response Posted - 09/05/2002 : 22:16:18

Well, the season is waning on Long Island Sound. September is usually the best sailing--70s and 80s with 12-18 knot SW breezes, but we feel like the weekend days are numbered, and the evenings are getting short.

Our typical daysails are out past the Norwalk Islands and over toward Long Island's Oyster Bay and Huntington Bay. Port Jefferson will be a nice overnight stop--nice reaches each way in Southwesterlies--although this year's trip there was drowned out this past weekend.

As we departed Darien harbor, we were used to seeing the "Big E" and the Twin Towers on the horizon, along with some other hints of Manhattan's skyline... Now, there's something missing--along with a friend who perished there. It's hard to get used to.

We're looking for a new home--some possibilities being Eastern Long Island Sound (the CT River or Mystic/Stonington), the Chesapeake around Annapolis or Talbot County on the Eastern Shore, or the Narragansett Bay. So many choices...

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT

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Response Posted - 09/05/2002 : 22:18:11

As I read these responses for the second time, it dawned on me that I've been to most of the places referenced, with the exception of North Dakota. Bath, Maine...Kauai, Hawaii...Kristiansand, Norway...Israel(yiddish reference)...Florida...Georgia, but not North Dakota. Should I put N.D. on my short list for vacation planning? <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Response Posted - 09/05/2002 : 22:23:09

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
Uff da is ...
- having Swedish meat balls at a lutefisk supper
- arriving late at a lutefisk supper and getting served minced ham instead
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>
Do you mean uff da means "Whew!!" ??

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT

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Response Posted - 09/05/2002 : 22:39:07

Do you mean uff da means "Whew!!" ?? - Dave Bristle

Well Dave, it sounds like you've tried lutefisk! For those of you who haven't had the privilege of trying lutefisk, I've heard it described as "fish jello" ... yum! <img src=icon_smile_dead.gif border=0 align=middle>

Buzz Maring, C-25 SK/SR #68, "Freya"

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Response Posted - 09/05/2002 : 22:39:58

"Uff Da" apparently means something like what we used to say in my Navy days.

Whiskey...Tango...Foxtrot, over! <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>

I can picture myself saying this after each of Buzz Maring's uff da examples!

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Response Posted - 09/05/2002 : 22:47:26

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
Well Dave, it sounds like you've tried lutefisk!
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>
Ah-Yop!

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT

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Response Posted - 09/06/2002 : 03:19:18

In modern Hawaiian it is sometimes spelled "Aue" with a dipthong over the e.

I thought a dipthong was an overweight white dude in a speedo swimsuit.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Response Posted - 09/06/2002 : 09:37:13

Great translation.

Next time my wife calls me a FatA#$#$, I'll tell her, "no dear, It's dipthong"<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> Or maybe dissapearingthong.<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

Is there a polynesian word for speedo?

P

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Response Posted - 09/06/2002 : 10:33:58

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Yesterday in the paper we found out that Georgia's SAT scores are the lowest in the nation. My kids get straight A's. I wonder if their being challenged enough?<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>

Paul your concern may be real. My brother's roommate at the Naval Academy was a straight A student from Atlanta. He admitted that he had a hard time keeping up academically at there. But then again, the Academy is not suppose to be easy.

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Response Posted - 09/06/2002 : 14:30:06

Dave:

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> We're looking for a new home--some possibilities being Eastern Long Island Sound (the CT River or Mystic/Stonington)<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>

You may also want to check out Niantic River, in East Lyme. I lived there for a few years after college.

RichardG 81 C25 SR/FK "Sanity"

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Response Posted - 09/06/2002 : 15:09:39

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
You may also want to check out Niantic River, in East Lyme. I lived there for a few years after college.
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Richard: Yes, we considered the Niantic area--might even be able to get a waterfront home shaded by the cooling towers at the Millstone nuclear plant... I wouldn't need no steenkeeng running lights--I could just stand up in the cockpit! <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT

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Response Posted - 09/07/2002 : 01:09:26

Tom...Fargo?
Do you know my cousin, Larry Hanratty and his wife Julie? We had a big family reunion last July 14 up in Medford, OR. Hadn't seen him in 38 years. If you see him say "hi!" for me. Or maybe I am thinking Fargo is not as small as I'd imagine....<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
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Response Posted - 09/12/2002 : 14:50:49

Wow. I have been offline for a few days- actually working- and am amazed at how the conversation has filled in. Buzz. Do you have any relations up here in ND? I know some Marings who graduated from NDSU.

Larry, I loved Kauai. I ran archaeological excavations up at Ke'e beach at the Beach Park there, back in 1978 just after Taylor Camp had been cleared out by the cops. What a place that was. I had 28 students working the excavations 14 from the University of Illinois and 14 from the University of Hawaii-Manoa. It was great.

Niantic is where my cousin's C 34 MkII is moored. It has a good, old fashioned marina there- cheap and pretty good, though the guys who own the marina are not as full service as they advertise.

North Dakota is absolutely beautiful at this time of year. The temps are high 70's to low 80's, though last week it was abnormally hot- high 80's. Good winsds, wonderful people, and I always blame the vandalism on Minnesotans - Pelican lake where I keep my boat is in Minnesota. Oh yeah- One other woe added to the summer. Got elected, if that's the term, Vice Commodore of ur little club, and someone toldf me we are going to try to host a second real regatta next year!Oh No!

Tom

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Response Posted - 09/12/2002 : 21:50:50

Buzz. Do you have any relations up here in ND? I know some Marings who graduated from NDSU. - Tom Riley

Hi Tom,

I don't know if I have relatives in N. Dakota or not. I do have a bunch in South Dakota around Mobridge ... they are all named Salverson. I'd like to hook up with some Marings ... we've lost track of that half of the family.

Thanks for asking ...

Buzz Maring, C-25 SK/SR #68, "Freya"

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Response Posted - 09/14/2002 : 20:29:57

I don't know the Hanrattys, but I do know they live in the south end of town.

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