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TCurran
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Initially Posted - 03/24/2012 : 04:07:57

Another Chamber of Commerce type weekend here, who else has great weather and can take advantage of it? Even if you can't sail, who's taking advantage of the weather and working outside on your boat?

Tom Curran
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Tradewind
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 05:27:48

I plan to be out tomorrow, great weather on the Gulf Coast!

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 06:28:24

We are going to the (new) club tomorrow to meet folks and put in work hours - assembling docs. It willbe nice to meet the folks down there.

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Joe Diver
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 06:31:35

[RAISES HAND]

I have a new motor to install and break in. I have a TillerClutch to install. I have a 150 to try out in the light winds forecast for the weekend. I have a boat that's been sitting in a slip since October! I'm heading to the lake in a couple hours and I may not come back until tomorrow night.

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 06:56:07

No sailing for me this weekend, our granddaughter is getting baptised. Activities planned for today and tomorrow. Forecast today calls for 70% chance of thundershowers, but I'm also missing out on a C-22 regatta at Lake Martin in AL. Oh well...
The C-25 outboard is in the shop getting the low idle jet replaced, oil/gear lube changed in preparation to transfer ownership of Recess to the new owner. Mast is down for the haul-out.

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zeil
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 08:14:28

You're kidding... mountains of yard work ahead before even thinking about the boat... oh... and what about the big trees and hedge don't they need to be trimmed and I've been thinking we should have new bark mulch this year too... on and on... oh well... dream a little longer

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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 08:52:15

We are headed out to get a new dog. We had our last 16 y/o dog put down last winter. Chris said she wanted the freedom of going dog-less. I reluctantly agreed to wait a year max. She was looking at shelter and rescue websites within a month.

It's a terrier/beagle mix and we'll introduce him to boating this summer.

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 09:07:40

Good On ya Dave! Best of luck with the new crew.

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waterbaby
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 09:22:42

Sailing? Not even close..... Sigh.....

New doggie! - now that's one thing I wouldn't mind missing a sailing day for! :) Congradulations!

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 09:27:06

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dave5041
 We are headed out to get a new dog. We had our last 16 y/o dog put down last winter.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Coincidence: After she lost 13-Y-O lab a year ago, my lady-friend's "kids" gave her a rescue dog a couple of weeks ago--a young, obstreperous Australian Cattle Dog. They promised to train her vigorously... Then they left for 10 days (without the dog)... Not the gift my lady (or we) had hoped for.

Back on topic, my cover might come off this week, but I'm blocked in by some other boats in the boatyard.

(I know--you said "sailing"--I'll be doing that with friends soon.)

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Ape-X
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 11:31:36

After home-life oofers an opportunity, the weather doesn't cooperate. cold drizzle on the Great Lakes, not very conducive to working on the hull

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 12:15:34

Here's a pic of the little diva getting baptised tomorrow:

This was taken Christmas Day, being held by the admiral.

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TCurran
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 12:40:02

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Stinkpotter
 Back on topic, my cover might come off this week, but I'm blocked in by some other boats in the boatyard.

(I know--you said "sailing"--I'll be doing that with friends soon.)
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Your right Dave, should have said "boating". Good luck with the dog, the wife took it pretty hard when we had to put my last one down.

Just finished putting a new top on the Jeep, will at least get to the boat tonight to BBQ a few steaks. Tomorrow's different, no "honey do's", and the yard jobs will still be there on Monday...

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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 13:15:14

I've been dying to sail because of the nice weather, but I'm on the hard and blocked in. I had hoped to get in March 31, but the dockmaster told me the guy blocking my in had a lot of work to do, and hadn't started on it, so it would be late April at best. He proceeded to tell me how this guy failed to show up for his October haulout, then showed up in mid-Dec. and demanded to be hauled right away, after the yard was already full, so he ended up blocking all of us in. He said he was getting enough complaints about this guy's slow pace that he would talk to him.

Knowing it would be late April I settled in on a leisurely pace for my pre-launch todo list. Yesterday afternoon I went down to do a few things on the boat, and this guy comes up to me and tells me that the dockmaster told him that I was ready to go in "now," which was probably his own exaggeration (as he has been known to do). I looked up over at my horizontal mast, with cover tented over it, and told him I'd like to get in early, but I would need "a few days notice" before I was ready.

So now it appears I might actually get in early this year, and I need to seriously ramp up my pace (another excuse to procrastinate on taxes). Today before the rain started I pulled off the cover, ran new halyards, installed some refinished wood pieces, tightened the new gudgeons and reinstalled the lock nuts, and reinforced my homemade mast support, all in preparation for raising the mast in a couple days. I still have several masthead and forestay changes to make before I can raise it. It's faster than I want to do this, but I need to be ready to splash quickly just in case this guy does his boat out of the way.

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islander
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 14:09:44

David, Congrats on the new granddaughter, My own daughter is due in August making me finally a grand paw

Did you try the " Baptism at sea" line?

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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 14:35:06

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by TCurran
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Stinkpotter
 (I know--you said "sailing"--I'll be doing that with friends soon.)
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Your right Dave, should have said "boating"...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Nope--this is a sailing forum--I'm in interloper (and DPO).

Congrats David! Grandparenthood is the best--all the fun and none of the hard work (unless you volunteer yourselves...)

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 17:13:53

Passage is still on the hard up the river in the yard. There's one powerboat on a trailer in front of me. I still have 3-4 weekends of work left to do (add the second LED cabin light, remove the cover, touch up the bottom, replace the compass, run the gas lines and tune up the carb/plugs, clean everything (hull above waterline, touchup poliglow, cockpit, brightwork)).
I've got about 10 days to do all that, then plan to launch on May 5. I'd like to launch weekend before but the tide will not cooperate with me.
I would have scheduled it all sooner given the incredibly warm weather we've been experiencing, but the mooring field does not put the docks in until May 1.

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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 03/24/2012 : 18:47:02

OT How I spent my day: Ben (Obi-Wan Kenobe) Now he needs a PFD, a little smaller than the ones on the Swapmeet.

Edited by - Dave5041 on 03/24/2012 18:52:43

hewebb
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Response Posted - 03/25/2012 : 04:36:26

Had planned to put the boat in the water yesterday and sail this weekend. The Admiral had all the stuff to perform the rename ceremony to appease Neptune. Wednesday I did something to my backside that still has me out of commission to do much. But it is getting better and the boat may get wet this week.

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 03/25/2012 : 06:34:33

I sailed (half motored) my boat back from the marina that did the waterproofing traveling about 10 miles north back to my marina on Friday. I kept checking the weather forecast because I was prepared to make it my first overnighter but the weather prediction was for rain overnight and most of Saturday. Once back, I attended to a few things but as it turned out, the rain held off Saturday morning and so I went back down to the marina and took the morning hour respite from rain to wash the boat and get the boatyard grime off of it.

By the way, I mentioned in the "Blister repair..." posting that when they initially put my boat back in the water last Tuesday, my fishfinder was acting somewhat erractically. On Friday morning, I checked it out again and the fishfinder was working fine and did so all the way back to my marina.

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 03/25/2012 : 19:08:55

I sailed for approx. 1-1/2 hours on Friday evening. Winds were maybe 7 knots. It was nice being out as the skies were clear and the temp was in the low 70's. Spent the night on the boat and awoke to 60's with fog.

I had family things to do in the afternoon so had to head to the house about the time the skies started to clear. High was in the low 80's.

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redeye
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Response Posted - 03/26/2012 : 04:38:51

< raised hand >

Sailed Saturday, worked on boat Sunday. New jib halyard to cabin top.

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Joe Diver
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Response Posted - 03/26/2012 : 06:37:33

Well, I ended up doing alot with the boat this weekend, but no sailing. There was hardly a breath of wind on the lake!

I did get her somewhat cleaned up, ready for the deep spring cleaning of all surfaces. Installed one galley cabinet, I'll have to do some cutting to get the other one in. Ran the new motor for the first 3 hours of break in, went out on the lake and motored all over. Brought home several more pieces of brightwork to take care of this week. My plan for the brightwork is to bring stuff home Sunday evening, refinish it during the week, and reinstall Saturday morning.....enjoy the boat over the weekend....then bring more stuff home for the coming week.

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Sam001
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Response Posted - 03/26/2012 : 07:53:17

I am still doing all the list of things--target middle to end of April for splash.
Took this weeekend off and went to lake house on Lake Murray--flowers and wine...

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PCP777
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Response Posted - 03/26/2012 : 08:03:18

Got a little bit of sailing in, first went out on a friend's newer 310, lovely boat. Took mine out and sparred with a Pearson 30 before the wind totally died. Got REAL sunburnt.

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JohnP
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Response Posted - 03/26/2012 : 10:14:34

Rainy Sat. & Sun. - Next weekend!

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