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redviking
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Initially Posted - 11/11/2008 : 07:19:27

So we just got our mail for the first time in awhile and I pulled out my magazines and put fresh ones in the reading room, ahem, I mean the head. The November issue of <i>Sail</i> surfaced and I am looking at the cover like, "I know that boat!"

Then it clicked - That is MY boat! Sans dodger and bimini and radar on a pole instead of on the mast. Big forward hatch for sail handling, Sobstad sails, winches all over the place. Yep that's my boat... Looked on the title page and sure enough, "Spirit, a C&C 39 cruises off Newport RI. Photo by Andrew Sims."

Andrew Sims photographed Lysistrata over a year ago and wanted 800 bucks for the set. I posted my monetary dilemma with that one!

What is wild is that C&C only built 49 39 foot IOR boats, and a lot of them still compete etc. And there are two for sale - not the Landfall - 1971-1973 only. But I have never seen another dark hulled 39. Sadly, Spirit is not a documented vessel, so I can't get in touch with her owners.

In other print related news. Lysistrata was pictured - in the background in <i>Blue Water Sailing</i> this month in the anchoring article written by this guy who was a major pain in the butt in the anchorage in Newport Harbor this summer.

This guy has chain, but decided that he would rather set up an impromptu mooring for himself by dropping two hooks on line and leaving a float attached for when he wanted to go sailing. SO, SV Lysistrata comes into the anchorage at dusk and we see what appears to be a lobster pot in the anchorage. We avoid it and then the next day we find a 44 foot boat hanging on it very close to us.

The fellow waved and rowed off to the yacht club, not to be seen for several days. We moved, but then this guy has the chutzpah to write an article congratulating himself for his "Hurricane Hook!"

So Lysistrata is pictured in the background in the photo showing the bow of this guys boat and the two strings he put down. He claims he had nowhere to go and this is how he set up in preparation. What is funny is that the photo published was taken either before the storm or well after it as Lysistrata rode out the storm in Block Island. Even more incredulously, he claims that there were no good hurricane holes and that all of the mooring balls et al were taken by the Newport Boat Show. If he had just looked at a chart, he would have seen two perfect holes in Mount Hope Bay, just a 3 hour sail away!

Sten

DPO Zephyr - '82 C25, FK, SR
SV Lysistrata - C&C 39 - Wrightsville Beach - going offshore to ST. Augustine! No more DITCH!

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