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pastmember
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Initially Posted - 09/06/2008 :  19:29:03  Show Profile
I finally have a few of shots of my new boat "Cheap Seats" on the water. It was the friend's first time on a catamaran, it was blowing nicely, most keelboats were sailing under single sails and or reefed. Most of the fiberglass cats on the lake were on shore. I love heavy air and one of the reasons I chose the Getaway is its reduced performance, (had a fast, cat, don't want another).








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frog0911
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Response Posted - 09/06/2008 :  20:31:45  Show Profile
Very nice Frank, I especially like the sail colors. Everyone will sure know your are out on the lake.
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Response Posted - 09/06/2008 :  21:46:23  Show Profile
What a blast! I love what Hobie is doing for just plain fun sailing!
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 09/06/2008 :  23:39:24  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Nice! I love sailing catamarans!
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josgood
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Response Posted - 09/07/2008 :  09:12:14  Show Profile
Bur where do you mount your grill and Bimini? lol
sure looks like fun!
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piseas
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Response Posted - 09/07/2008 :  09:20:41  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
Frank, thanks for the pics. Very nice Cat and I love your photographer. Glad to see a smile on your face and that you have a new adventure in your life to enjoy. I hope you continue participating in this forum and cross my fingers Hobie doesn't take you away.
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redviking
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Response Posted - 09/07/2008 :  10:13:32  Show Profile
Frank,

Is that a mini roller furler I see? Nice boat! I am assuming those long blue things are berths? Where does the boom tent attach and the porta pottie go?

Sten

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pastmember
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Response Posted - 09/08/2008 :  06:55:18  Show Profile
I will post photos of my new berth soon, 2000 E-150. As for going potty, well the girls do the old "swim" thing and guys can be as brave as they like! Or it is never very long to the club at these speeds.
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stampeder
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Response Posted - 09/08/2008 :  21:04:54  Show Profile
We've heard lots about re-naming ceremonies for boats. Is a ceremony required for re-naming members?
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JohnP
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Response Posted - 09/09/2008 :  11:46:28  Show Profile
Yeah - - - 'pastmember" is so dull and boring.

How about "ShipJumper" or "BoatHopper"?

Just for a laugh.

It is only fitting that Frank go through the PROPER renaming ceremony! It probably starts with capsizing and climbing back aboard. Then there's probably the offerings and libations!

What else?
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pastmember
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Response Posted - 09/09/2008 :  12:07:11  Show Profile
My friends had a surprise birthday party for me last Friday. It was a Pirate party. I think I may have possibly been renamed at some point in the evening. "Pirate's Poop" rings a bell.
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smoken
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Response Posted - 09/09/2008 :  21:33:05  Show Profile
Frank, the new boat looks like fun and better yet you really look like your enjoying it!!! Congrats!!!
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ilnadi
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Response Posted - 09/12/2008 :  09:32:31  Show Profile
I like "boathopper" but then it is hard to retract drunken promises.

Frank, I am jealous in the sense that you get so much enjoyment out of every new boat in such short order while some of us fret and fix and plan for the promise of a sail someday.

Now, you seem to be much nicer to your friends than mine are to me. My first experience on a hobie cat went something like this: a friend buys a hobie cat; his wife wants to have nothing to do with it (justifiably, after my experience), my friend (the adrenalin junkie) wants to try it out on a howling day. Calls me up while I am trying to see it I have a small enough sail for my windsurfer and says "you have a harness, right?". So there we are, his second time and my first time out on a hobie, I am standing on my tiptoes on the back corner of the wing, hanging from a trapeze he "thinks he hung correctly", trying to keep the thing from pitch-poling (a word he had heard that became a concept after the first time we did it) while he is fumbling with everything and we are flying hull against our wishes. It was a blast but made me appreciate my windsurfer as it did not try to kill me every thirty seconds (except when I went head-first through a sail). You may want to show this to your friend so they'll never complain about your sailing.
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pastmember
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Response Posted - 09/12/2008 :  14:08:28  Show Profile
Thanks, I love to sail. On my first sail with the new boat I lashed the tiller and began rerigging things at about 10 knots. I am having fun.
My friend sails a Mac 26D? before they got big outboards but still a WB. She hates to heel and kept repeating that she would never have gone with anyone but me. She had no idea we were in as big a wind as we were in because the boat stayed flat. She has ridden with me in big wind on keel boats and always says the same thing... "only with you". I guess the Mac 26 has convinced her that her husband does not know how to sail! Here she is driving on what they consider a brisk day.
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