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Gloss
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Initially Posted - 12/18/2002 : 21:35:57

Dear Santa,

Please bring me a C470. That is all, I'm not greedy

Frank

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 12/18/2002 : 21:49:08

Dear Santa,

Please bring me the health, the time, the weather, and the means to enjoy my C-25 with my family. That's not all... Please make the world alot safer so that all of us can enjoy our Catalinas, Ventures, MacGregors, Hunters, O'Days, Hinckleys, dhows, junks, and dugout canoes. That'll do for now.

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 12/18/2002 : 22:31:42

Dave,

Are you sure Santa is the right object of your "prayer"?

Don Peet
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The Great Sacandaga Lake, NY

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MattL
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Response Posted - 12/19/2002 : 04:37:17

Sure aint GW, but that's another thread for another site<img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>

Matt/Brigitte Loeffler
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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 12/19/2002 : 07:24:58

I think Daves prayer will get to all the right places.

Amen Dave

P

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Kirk McKay
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Response Posted - 12/19/2002 : 10:21:05

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Dear Santa,

Please bring me a C470. That is all, I'm not greedy

Frank

Frank
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Gee Frank, that won't leave any room for me and my little boat in the Bay!

Kirk

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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 12/19/2002 : 10:35:37

Hey Dave,

Could you add Marinette to your prayer as well?

Maybe we could make her an inductee to the association and then I'll bring her to the nationals for use as a committee boat or floating party barge.<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

Val could help me put a mast on her too.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

P

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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 12/19/2002 : 13:43:50

Don: Amen, amen, amen!

Dave: Amen, amen, amen!

Pwhallon: Remember what happens when you assume, especially with regard to prayer.

Frank: Remember that the size of a boat is inversely proportional to how often it leaves the dock.

To everyone: a Blessed Christmas, wherein we all remember that grace is born in the midst of the poor and the forgotten. And, a Happy New Year, with long warm days of fair winds and following seas, thankfulness for what we have, and amnesia for what we don't.

Brooke

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 12/19/2002 : 16:29:41

Frank - I'd like a C310

Dave & Brooke - Amen

Merry Christmas to everyone! May we all in this hectic season find time to stop, count our blessings, & remember those less fortunate. I'm soooo lucky to have been blessed with a wonderful husband & a wonderful life which includes sailing with that wonderful husband (of course if Santa would bring me an autohelm I"d feel even luckier!!)

Cathy
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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 12/19/2002 : 17:14:11

I personally struggle with the Christmas season because of the commercialization, and the lack of focus. Everything seems to focus on gimme attitude for many people, and in addition to everyday life we have the added stress of the season. It was good to Dave's prayer for the season, I appreciated it, and also the concerns for world gone toppsy turvy.

Sailing is great, but our world needs some help.

thanks for listening!

Don Peet
c25, 1665, osmepneo, sr/wk
The Great Sacandaga Lake, NY

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Todd Frye
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Response Posted - 12/19/2002 : 18:56:09

Each year at this time, I remember a Christmas Eve back in 1967, in Cu Chi, Vietnam. That night, the deafening roar of 105 howitzers going out went quiet and we had no incoming mortors. The pilots came to join the crew chiefs in a unique celebration of appreciation for one another. We all experienced an event of "peace on earth" that night. I ponder with each Christmas eve... if we could have peace on earth for one day under those conditions, why not always. Todd Frye

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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 12/19/2002 : 19:00:52

Daves heart is in the right place.

That's all it takes.

It's not an asumtion that the prayer will get through. I just will. God doesn't care about the routing.

Yea Don I understand. It's too money oriented.

As I come off of a very tough year, I find myself at peace as I liquidate all the material stuff I don't need. It's almost a relief. It's so easy to get caught up in the mentality that owning "stuff" is going make you happy.

I've known for some time that change was on the way. Now it's here and I'm okay with it. I'm broke and still feel great.<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

That is what is so cool about sailing. Whether on a Hinckley or on one of our humble little Catalinas, the conection to greater powers in our lives is still there. It's a spiritual thing that transcends the dollar value of or sexiness the boat. The joy is in the spirit not the ego.

I think that's what makes sailing so special.

If I may be so bold as to share something with you.

Today is a gift, yesterday is history and tommorow is WIDE open.

Happy holidays and good posting to all of you.

Paul

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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 12/20/2002 : 08:12:18

pwhallon: it was a joke! :-)

Brooke

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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 12/20/2002 : 08:22:42

Hey Brooke,

I'm not that smart.:-)

P

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Gloss
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Response Posted - 12/21/2002 : 10:44:56

Hi folks

My letter to Santa requesting a C470 was intended as a joke. Lighten up folks.

Frank

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 12/21/2002 : 16:45:48

Hey Frank... We're not dissin' ya--I just figured if Santa could deliver a C-470, he could deliver ANYTHING--maybe even world peace! But that might be a reach--maybe I'm a little greedy. With a daughter and son-in-law in Africa, I tend to dwell on those things...

Best wishes for fair winds in 2003!

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT

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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 12/21/2002 : 17:54:01

Hi Guys,

I'm sorry for getting so serious. The mood just hit me.

Let's talk about why Hunters suck or something.<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

P

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 12/21/2002 : 18:25:59

Dear Sanata - I've just rebedded my port aft window (for the 4th time). Could I please have a leak-free boat for Christmas?
Derek

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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 12/21/2002 : 18:44:03

Derek,

This is Santa.

I'll send you a new roll of duct tape ASAP.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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John V.
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Response Posted - 12/25/2002 : 20:07:27

Dear Santa, Ditto that leak free season, and while you're fooling with my boat could you get my swinger to go all the way down. And thanks for keeping Canada customs cool last summer. I'm sure it was you that let us through with out being boarded.

John V. Nin Bimash II
77 C25 sk/sr #153 (on the hard in my yard)

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