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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 11/08/2003 : 12:43:48

Before I leave to spend the weekend sailing (and I was out last night, too) here is a quote from Hal Roth "Two on a Big Ocean"

"The relationship between the sea and a man is the same sort of stuff as between a man and a woman. The best parts of it are unspoken matters of the senses and the guts. You can't talk about it because no one is skilled enough. The words don't exist. It is personal and private and if you know it you feel it. If you don't, you don't There is no nonsense with mere words..."

I have spent most of my life with the sea. All of the best parts, that's for sure (plus some of the worst). 10 years surfing every day. 3 boats, always wanting to go back out as soon as I got in. Fishing, swimming, diving, beachcombing, collecting shells. Our year long voyage Milwaukee to the Bahamas was not enough. Now sailing 5 days per week (or more if possible).

This is something I feel and don't share with the mass of humanity here in Southern CA (most of whom have never left the shore). See you out there!

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 11/08/2003 : 14:34:49

I know what you mean...I, too, find it difficult to explain to others, including my family, the pull that the water has on me.

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atgep
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Response Posted - 11/08/2003 : 19:14:17

"the pull that the water has on me"

Isn't that called an UNDER-TOE!!!! I share the same affliction. I am still rocking from todays adventure.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 11/08/2003 : 21:34:46

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by atgep
 Isn't that called an [b]UNDER-TOE
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...as in the stuff that gets between your TOEs? Or did you mean underTOW?

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atgep
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Response Posted - 11/08/2003 : 22:36:02

Can't help it . Too many kids screaming aroung here. At least thats my excuse! I guess smart-A$$es need to be humble......

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 11/09/2003 : 11:16:18

Coming soon - a new tech tip, fully illustrated, on how to raise the mast and launch an 89 wing (at ultra low tide due to the lunar eclipse)!

It's great to have Gary and Susan and Classical Cat in the slip next to me.

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Sunshine Daydream
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Response Posted - 11/09/2003 : 11:55:40

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by JimB517
 Before I leave to spend the weekend sailing (and I was out last night, too) [quote]<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I'm dying here!!! (high and dry for a few more months).

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RichardG
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Response Posted - 11/09/2003 : 12:42:17

That's a great quote!

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">mass of humanity here in Southern CA<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

The sheer expanse of that humanity here makes it somewhat difficult to get out of town and "get away from it all". By car, in any direction it takes me at least 2 hours to get out of town. By plane, it takes about the same time (airport drive, park, check-in, boarding, etc.). I'm always amazed that in only about a half-hour I can be on a boat and peacefully floating all by myself with nobody else in the way of my destiny but me, my boat and Mother Nature

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 11/09/2003 : 22:30:11

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I'm always amazed that in only about a half-hour I can be on a boat and peacefully floating all by myself with nobody else in the way of my destiny but me, my boat and Mother Nature.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Not quite that quick, but close. The middle of the Chesapeake on a nice day, in the middle of fifty million people (NY, Philly, DC, Baltimore) and not a soul in sight. Don't tell anyone....

Oscar
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