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EAbrams
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Initially Posted - 05/15/2009 :  06:14:20  Show Profile
Just opened my May 2009 issue of Mainsheet and read Jerry Limoncelli Bill Holcomb and David Bennett's article on Single Handing. Page 12.

Jerry and I share Peconic Bay in NY's Long Island. Way to go guys!
Ed & Michele
Spirit #5644
1987 Catalina 25 WK/SR
Peconic Bay, Long Island NY &
Oriental, NC
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Response Posted - 05/15/2009 :  12:51:52  Show Profile
Yes, an excellent article. Always good to see our boats and sailors highlighted in <i>Mainsheet</i>.
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Response Posted - 05/15/2009 :  13:34:41  Show Profile
Ed - I can't recall if I've already asked you this - where do you tie up?
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Response Posted - 05/16/2009 :  06:23:48  Show Profile
Jerry

I tied up across the bay from you at the Lobster Inn Restaurant. I put Spirit on a trailer for the winter and use the State/Town ramp in Jamesport to put in and take out. The end of my first year Great Peconic Bay Marina (your home port) hauled her out and placed her on the trailer so I could adjust the jack stands etc.

I am sad and happy to say that as of Thursday I no longer call Peconic Bay home. I trailered Spirit to her new home in Oriental, NC. A small town where sailboats outnumber residents by about 3 to 1.

I'm sad because because being a new sailor I never got the chance to sail to Greenport or Three Mile Harbor or the long trip to Block Island. I'm happy because I'll soon be heading to Ocrakoke and Cape Lookout on NC's Outer Banks.
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Response Posted - 05/16/2009 :  07:53:26  Show Profile
As a singlehanded sailor myself, I was happy to see an article on this subject by our own. Good job Jerry, David, and Bill.

When I first got into sailing many years ago, I could hardly contain my excitement and wanted to sail every waking moment. The only problem was finding someone who felt the same way because early on, I never went out alone. Unfortunately, my dragging the family out every chance I got may have inadvertently induced sailing burnout in them and they slowly started wanting to do something else on weekends...Go figure?

Then one day, more than a dozen years ago, when I couldn't shanghai crew, I worked up the courage to go it alone and, lo and behold, my whole perspective on sailing changed forever. Singlehanding not only ratcheted up my passion and enjoyment for sailing by more than a few notches, it relieved the burden I put on my family as crew so that they could now enjoy sailing again on their own level. Now, on those days when my wife and daughters join me on the boat, I generally get up at the crack of dawn then head to the boat with a thermos full of coffee while they leisurely sleep in. After singlehanding for 3-4 hours, they will make their way to the marina at their own pace to be picked up for an afternoon on the water. After a few hours, we return to the marina, they depart and I head back out. I'm happy, their happy, life is good!

Although going out with family and friends is quite fun, epecially with newbie's, and something I try to do as often as I can, for me, sailing solo provides a singular experience that is in a league of it's own and I hope the article by Jerry, David, and Bill, encourages others to give singlehanding a try because it may just open up a whole different world.
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Response Posted - 05/17/2009 :  18:07:25  Show Profile
Ed - all the best in your new territory!
Fair Winds!!
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