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Oscar
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Initially Posted - 10/23/2003 : 21:49:38

There are many, tonight I found another. Lady Kay is parked right outside the garage, instead of down in the backyard, as I have been performing numerous upgrades and mods over the last few weeks. She is plugged into "shorepower".

Tonight after dinner, my 11 year old daughter and I crawled aboard. The temperature inside was pleasant (outside it was 45F....thank you Pelonis). As she did her homework, I made my night time herb tea, and sat on the settee reading up on Colregs in Chapman. My public radio station was broadcasting the Brazilian music show. We had a very, very nice time. The only thing missing was the gluck-gluck of the water slapping against the hull. Other than that, we could have been tied up in a marina....I promised her we'd sleep on it soon. Not tonight though, I have to go to work early tomorrow.

Life is good.

Oscar
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Lady Kay IV, Dragonfly 25 # 54 Former C30#618-C250WB#618-C42#76

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 23:01:28

Someone at work today asked me if I would ever sit on my boat while it is in my driveway. He had seen someone doing that and thought it was very odd. I smiled at him, started to explain and stopped. You get it, I get it, people who have never had their boat at home may have a hard time getting it, people who do not have a boat will never get it.

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coach
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Response Posted - 10/23/2003 : 23:33:45

Well, I never thought of it like that. I guess if you take it home, it would be like having an addition to your house. I mean, it is another room or two!

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MattL
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Response Posted - 10/24/2003 : 09:33:10

Coach,
No it's not like having another room. That is, unless your talking about that special room you had as a kid like the closet where you use to pretend you were a spaceman off to adventure some where in a distant galaxy. Or perhaps a smuggler evadint....

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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 10/24/2003 : 10:14:30

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">...night time herb tea, and sat on the settee reading up on Colregs in Chapman. My public radio station was broadcasting the Brazilian music show...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
You're like my long lost brother, man.

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Life is good.

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Amen, brother. Even when it's bad, it's good.

Edited by - Sea Trac on 10/24/2003 10:17:31

coach
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Response Posted - 10/24/2003 : 11:08:19

Is there something wrong with a 32 year old "sailing" in the driveway? lol

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 10/24/2003 : 13:02:21

It would be great fun to sit in the boat, on the driveway, with all the chartbooks, cruising guides, and catalogs, planning next year's cruises.....

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/24/2003 : 20:39:36

Boat in driveway...
Today I got the cabinet, countertop, and bulkhead between the galley and port berth out. I am routing a hole in the countertop to access the old cooler area. I wired a new outlet on my galley power wall, installed my charger, vacumned a little, cleaned a little, stored the boom, stored all four sail bags, and some other stuff. Oh yeah, my new halyards are here so I stripped the old halyards and dressed the shroouds and stays to the mast for winter. I worked today too. And no its 7:30 and I am getting ready to route that counter. Hmmm, I like having my boat at home. When I couldn't because of covenents at my last house I sold my boat.

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 10/24/2003 : 22:24:29

"The only thing missing was the gluck-gluck of the water slapping against the hull."

Agreed. I enjoy the boat nearly as much at home as I do in the water. I run a cord out to the shorepower inlet, plug in a little heater and a light. It makes a wonderful place to sit, read and dream... and listen to the rain falling on the deck.

(However, I'm still in the water... and having wonderful weather here in NW Calif... near 70 degrees and 10 kts of NW wind today, supposed to be warmer tomrrow)

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 10/25/2003 : 01:03:27

Whats realy funny is seeing someone either in a camp ground or a highway rest stop spending the night abord while trailering to their destination. Too cool

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/25/2003 : 10:55:19

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Douglas
 Whats realy funny is seeing someone either in a camp ground or a highway rest stop spending the night abord while trailering to their destination. Too cool
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I have slept in my old Merit 25 on the trailer at regattas, when you get to a club in the middle of the night you climb aboard and crash.

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 10/25/2003 : 11:54:14

"you climb aboard and crash."

Going up an 8' stepladder in the dark, you just might do the latter...

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OJ
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Response Posted - 10/25/2003 : 12:04:48

We point OJ toward the street and turn on the running lights during the xmas holidays. Unlike retailers, however, we wait until after Thanksgiving to display these . . .

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bear
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Response Posted - 10/25/2003 : 14:36:07

Oscar,
I agree with you, but even better is when you have the northern
winter doldrums and can climb aboard in the middle of winter and do something or just sit there and listen to the wind blow. "Brandy" sits in my back yard covered with a tarp tied down to the trailer. Access can be gained going up the rear ladder and under the tarp. Temperatures are usually much warmer inside the boat, especally if the sun is out. There is always something you can do to break up the "blahs". "Bear" on the hard in upstate N.Y.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/25/2003 : 21:06:07

All of this gets back to a comment I made in another thread, I can't imagine not having a trailer. Being held hostage by a marina and not having the boat at home would really change sailing (boat ownership) for me. Last night I finished routering my counter top to regain access to the cooler area that had been covered over by the PO. I used a Dremel for the first time. I used the cutter that is a drill designed to cut like a saber.The little sucker wanted to wander all over the place and as hard as I tried to measure I was still a little off, my son has declared it very gehto, I declared it a hoot!

No the cuts are not straight, It is off by 1/2 inch but hey it's my boat.

Tomorrow I hope to replace my bow stem, I will attack the project with the dremel again, after all, what could go wrong!

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 10/26/2003 : 13:17:26

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">"All of this gets back to a comment I made in another thread, I can't imagine not having a trailer. Being held hostage by a marina and not having the boat at home would really change sailing (boat ownership) for me." -Frank and Martha<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Frank and/or Martha,

I have the opposite feeling, the feeling of being set free now that I don't trailer and simply cradle at a marina.

One of the best things about storing at a marina is gathering with other sailors. Every spring all of us sailors are down at the marina prepping our boats, exchanging stories, offering and getting advice, showing off our Christmas gifts...etc. I liken that time to this forum where everyone gathers to discuss all things sailing. Can you imagine what it would be like if everyone here at the forum could gather in person with their boats at the marina?

That is what it's like at the marina in the spring and I look forward to it every year.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/26/2003 : 21:20:52

It would be wonderful to live somewhere where a marina like that exists. Our marina is a stink boat dock with a gas pump. We do have a lot of fun at the sailing club and those with 28s and up work on them there is the club yard. It is good company. We did the stem fiting to day and I should have gone up on the boat before telling my son to drill. It is not as straight as it should be, but we had a great time.

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