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Dave Bristle
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Initially Posted - 02/25/2010 :  20:31:05  Show Profile
My First Mate's youngest son and two other 20-something guys just departed San Diego for the Marquesas Islands and then on to Australia on a [url="http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/boatFullDetails.jsp?boat_id=1602533&checked_boats=1602533&ybw=&units=Feet&access=Public&listing_id=1808&url="]Baltic 46[/url] (link is to a sistership). We're following along via e-mail... First Mate's heart is in her throat! But her oldest son sailed from CT to Cuba and back singlehanded on a 25' wooden Swedish Folkboat, so this passage could be considered tame!

Meanwhile, I'm by a big fireplace watching the Olympics, with a rain/snow storm outside, thinking about when I can paint the bottom...
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Past member and DPO of C-25 #5032
Now on Eastern 27 Sarge (but still sailing) and posting as "Stinkpotter".

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 02/26/2010 :  06:42:51  Show Profile  Visit DaveR's Homepage
Wow, what a beautiful boat. Love that hull.
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OJ
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Response Posted - 02/26/2010 :  07:11:55  Show Profile
A very capable cruiser . . . perhaps you'll share snippets of the ship's log with us.
Edited by - OJ on 02/26/2010 08:01:39
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 02/26/2010 :  07:15:57  Show Profile
I guess if ya <b>had</b> to schlepp off to the south Pacific in the dead of winter, that would be an OK way to do it.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/26/2010 :  09:48:19  Show Profile
The good news is the skipper (a cousin of the son) has crewed on at least one TransPac and skippered the overall winner (under handicap) of the Newport Bermuda race a couple of years ago. The son crewed on a historic skipjack (built to dredge oysters under sail) on the Chesapeake for an educational foundation most of last year, and they raced in the annual bay skipjack race running full sails in 25+ winds with green water over the rails on the 50' flat wooden hull--a YA-HOOO moment!

They should make the Marquesas in about three weeks, depending on how much they bob around near the equator. Last we heard, they were doing an easy 7.5 knots in following seas off Mexico.
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jerlim
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Response Posted - 02/26/2010 :  10:21:17  Show Profile
ah to be young...
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/27/2010 :  09:59:35  Show Profile
I guess they're sailing through the tsunami from Chile, although they'll probably never see or feel it out there. Warnings are out from Russia to Australia as well as all of western S. and C. America.
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