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TCurran
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Initially Posted - 04/30/2013 :  03:31:25  Show Profile
The gang at our Marina decided to take a three day trip this past weekend. Original plans were to sail south down the ICW to Ft Pierce Friday (~9-10 hours), head outside from Ft Pierce Saturday travel north back to Port Canaveral (60 miles), spend the night, and then back to Patrick AFB Sunday via the ICW (~6 hours). After watching the weather forecasts switch from winds 10-15 from the ESE to ENE we decided to reverse the trip. We had four boats head north on Friday, 32 O'Day, 30 Alberg, 43 Morgan, and 33 Rhodes. I couldn't take Friday off and met the boats at Port Canaveral. I was "crew" on the 33 Rhodes, great solid early fiberglass boat, a 1960 Swedish (I think) built boat. Morning forecast was still winds 15-10 ENE, 4-6 waves, 10 second swells, 20% of rain. We left the port turned south...we found ESE winds, our wind gauge was reading 25-27 knot winds, sea every bit of six feet, closer to 4-6 second swells, and we were part of the 20% coverage...again, love weatherman...

I said "crew" because the skipper hardly left his bunk the whole 12 hour run down the coast, spent some of his above deck time leaning over the rail exercising his diaphragm. His boat handled the trip beautifully, with the center board down it draws 7 feet. The only boat related issue was the wind steering stopped tracking so we hand steered (tiller) about ten hours. We hit the Ft Pierce channel right at sunset and was able to navigate the channel with some daylight left. Rafted up at 2100 had one beer, a little stew and crashed. Sunday back up the ICW was great, same 15-20 SE winds, had both sails up and averaged around 6.5 knots.

My other "crew" member and I were a little sore yesterday (Monday), feeling muscles we long forgot about. Didn't run into the skipper, but I imagine his stomach muscles were still sore from his Saturday over the rail experience. It was his first time "outside" and I don't expect him to venture out there again any time soon. Which is a shame, he was really looking forward to the trip and really had his boat ready to go.
Tom Curran
1981 Capri 25 Hull #101 "Dirty Debbie"
1988 Watkins 30
PAFB, FL
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Davy J
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Response Posted - 04/30/2013 :  07:14:41  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">again, love weatherman...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
I know of no other profession where you can be wrong 90% of the time and still get paid......
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DaveR
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Response Posted - 04/30/2013 :  12:14:26  Show Profile  Visit DaveR's Homepage
Come on guys, give the weathermen a break It's tough when you have water on 3 sides. But more than that it's spring and fronts can stall before they project them to or crash us and raise hell. And prefrontal is howling out of the south but 24 hours or less later it's (probably still howling) west to north east. But yeah, when it's wrong it's about opposite and can royally mess up some plans. Sounds like you guys made the most of it.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 05/15/2013 :  05:15:12  Show Profile
http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi?Submit=Go&sta=KTPA&state=FL
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TCurran
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Response Posted - 05/24/2013 :  03:41:31  Show Profile
Great site Ray, thanks
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MegnHrdy
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Response Posted - 05/31/2013 :  00:18:25  Show Profile
http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi?Submit=Go&sta=KTPA&state=FL
We have been to this place weekend very pleasant and cozy environment this place has. I just loved this place.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 06/03/2013 :  10:21:06  Show Profile
AND the ex launch commanders app ( owner of hull #1, sorry I'm blanking on the name ) he found: WindAlert.


It is really cool.. acts as my charts now also.
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