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Sloop Smitten
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Initially Posted - 12/26/2009 : 09:22:59

Santa was good to me . . .

A red, white & blue asymmetrical spinnaker for Utopia.
A copy of "The Pirates Code" (or Guidelines)written by Mr. Gibbs.
And a pair of solar flickering tiki lights for the cockpit when anchored.

Joe Wergers
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Fleet 7/Oceanside, CA
78 C25 FK/SR #381

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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 12/26/2009 : 10:35:29

[url="http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/producte/10001/-1/10001/393216/377%20710/0/antigua/Primary%20Search/mode%20matchallpartial/0/0?N=377%20710&Ne=0&Ntt=antigua&Ntk=Primary%20Search&Ntx=mode%20matchallpartial&Nao=0&Ns=0&keyword=antigua&isLTokenURL=true&storeNum=5003&subdeptNum=14&classNum=12363"]WEST MARINE Antigua 7x50 Waterproof Binoculars with Digital Compass[/url]

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Happy D
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Response Posted - 12/26/2009 : 11:41:21

[url="http://www.tilley.com/thumbnail.asp?catId=13&gender=m&extractBy=CategoryId&id=1"]A Tilley[/url]

And a nuvi

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 12/26/2009 : 12:19:59

A LaCrosse hand-held anemometer for checking the wind before going out. While I can tell the diff between 10 and 20 knots, my favorite wind speed is about 12. I should be able to figure that out now.

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 12/26/2009 : 16:31:07

A Tom Tom 330XL.

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islander
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Response Posted - 12/27/2009 : 09:32:30

A 10 Watt solar panel so I can get off the grid at the Marina!

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 12/27/2009 : 10:29:11

Scott - very cool! Can you add panels easily? How does it mount?

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islander
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Response Posted - 12/27/2009 : 12:08:31

Bruce, Along with the panel, I got a mount for the cockpit rail.http://www.21st-century-goods.com/page/21st/PROD/ICPSG1 This mount fits the panel but is for 7/8in. railings so I will re-size the opening to fit our 1in. rails. It is also fully tilt able in any direction. I also got the charge controller for the panel so the battery wont get overcharged. I only have a single 90 amp/hr battery to keep charged so between the 10 amp charger on the Honda and this panel I shouldn't need the shore power from the marina this year. They started charging $9 a foot last year. I guess thats OK for the big boys running there AC,fridge etc. but all I had was a 6amp smart charger. Not a very good deal for me. By the way, Did you get the logos?

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 12/28/2009 : 14:41:58

Scott
Great minds think alike - I have solar panels for exactly that reason - I didn't need to pay for 30A @ 120VAC just to recharge my Group 24 battery. For a while I used to take it home to fully recharge it, but now with the engine and the solar, the battery is very happy. I continue to use one of the panels w/ regulator through the winter to maintain the battery in the boat.

I want to thank you for an "early Christmas present" in my mailbox. I sent you a thank you message through the forum to your email, but apparently this did not work.

I can't wait for spring to re-do my Poly Glo, replace the lettering and add the Catalina 25 logo to Passage.

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/28/2009 : 15:08:20

[url="http://www.suuntocampaigns.com/Elementum/"]Suunto Elementum Ventus

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piseas
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Response Posted - 12/28/2009 : 16:49:55

I got a pair of SPERRY TOP-SIDER athletic shoes, a waterproof bag for my IPhone, a telescopic fishing net for the stuff that falls overboard, and a 2 step stool to board PiSeas II. its the little things that count.

Steve A.

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JohnP
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Response Posted - 12/28/2009 : 17:07:26

Hey Steve,

Can you catch runaway party balloons out on the Pacific with your net?

Santa brought me a new VHF marine radio with DSC capability. If I can hook that up, it will give me and my crew an added safety margin.

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 12/28/2009 : 18:04:56

John
One thing you need to do before you get too far along with the DSC is give your boat and radio an ID number, called an MMSI. Marine Mobile Service Identity. You have to go to BoatUS to get one.

They ask you your name, the name of the boat and your contact info. They mention that it's not the radio that gets the number, but the vessel. If you swapout radios, you keep the same MMSI.

You enter it at:

http://www.boatus.com/mmsi/

One thing about my VHF Radio is they only give you five tries to correctly enter your MMSI number. If I didn't correctly enter the number, I had to ship the unit back to the Manufacturer so they could reprogram it. I'm not sure whether your's has the same limitation, so you should read the manual.

Another good thing to do is connect up your GPS NMEA output to the input of the VHF radio. It provides the radio and distress call with your Lat/Long. The interface is similar to a serial RS-422 interface, so you have to set the data rate (baud rate) of the GPS and the VHF to match. Some use 9600 bits per second (bps) or 19200 bps. Check your user manuals on how to set that up.

When you connect the two devices, there's a transmit wire from the GPS that connects to the receive wire of the VHF, and a receive wire to the GPS that connects to the transmit wire of the VHF. The ground or neutral wire is also required to make sure both devices share the same ground reference and can communicate. Don't trust "power ground" to make this connection.

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jerlim
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Response Posted - 12/28/2009 : 18:15:43

AAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH ! ! !

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psechrist
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Response Posted - 12/28/2009 : 19:55:53

Where did I go wrong?
Pat Sechrist

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psechrist
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Response Posted - 12/28/2009 : 20:07:42

This is what I ment by where did I go wrong.

Pat Sechrist

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 12/28/2009 : 20:50:49

Hey Pat--looks like you got some New England Endura double-braid! Way to go!

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 12/28/2009 : 21:37:06

The admiral bought a pair of baseball caps, trim is the same as JD and they have 'Joint Decision' above the peak.

Priceless. Very special lady!

Paul

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JohnP
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Response Posted - 12/29/2009 : 09:37:39

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Voyager
 John
One thing you need to do before you get too far along with the DSC is give your boat and radio an ID number, called an MMSI. Marine Mobile Service Identity. You have to go to BoatUS to get one.

They ask you your name, the name of the boat and your contact info. They mention that it's not the radio that gets the number, but the vessel. If you swapout radios, you keep the same MMSI.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Thanks, Bruce.

My radio only allows 2 attempts at installing the MMSI number! Oh boy!

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 12/29/2009 : 11:59:49

No boat stuff this year, but I did get a 46 inch Sanyo HDTV for those crappy sailing days!

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Unsinkable2
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Response Posted - 12/29/2009 : 12:45:53

Santa is giving me and the Admiral a great present this year.

In the words of Billie Holliday "the things that I long for are few... just give me a sailboat and the moonlight and you"

Oh, and a bareboat charter on a 42' Jenneau down in the BVI this April!

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islander
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Response Posted - 12/29/2009 : 14:11:04

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Oh, and a bareboat charter on a 42' Jenneau down in the BVI this April!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

NNNNNNNNIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEE!!!

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 12/29/2009 : 19:47:18

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Unsinkable2
 Oh, and a bareboat charter on a 42' Jenneau down in the BVI this April!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Oh! You gotta take a gazillion pics.

Green!

Paul

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Unsinkable2
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Response Posted - 12/29/2009 : 21:39:26

I'll post all the details! Had to go shovel snow off the tarps of my Catalina tonight. Standing on her deck I can look south over 20 miles of iced-over lake. The BVI seems very far away from this vantage point, lol.

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