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Are Catalina 25 sailors Epicureans?

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pwhallon
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Initially Posted - 12/04/2003 : 18:38:11

Epicureanism Webster..n..The philosophical system of Epicurus, holding that the world is a series of fortuitous combination of atoms and that the highest good is pleasure, interpreted as freedom from disturbance or pain.

I noticed some posts from members needing XXX sizes. Also being an XXX, I wondered if we Cat people are just a bunch of pleasure seekers. Food, to some of us, is a direct conection to pleasure. Sailing is a conection to pleasure as well.

Maybe we should call it the "Catalina 25/250 National Epicurean Sailors Association".

Eat well and be merry,

PW

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1grndslr
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Response Posted - 12/04/2003 : 19:52:06

I think you're on to something there, PW. Being a sailor of the rotund sort myself, I know that sailing and good food are certainly two of my passions. I think the epicurians had the right idea about the highest good

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ppetracca
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Response Posted - 12/04/2003 : 20:03:52

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Are Catalina 25 sailors Epicureans?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Personally speaking, I'm Italian.

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Chip Hunt
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Response Posted - 12/04/2003 : 23:01:35

well im 5 feet 10 inches tall, and i weigh 150 lbs (same as i did when i graduated highschool 13 years ago). i must say that i enjoy food and drink as much if not moreso than anyone i know, it just doesnt stick for some reason!

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deastburn
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Response Posted - 12/04/2003 : 23:10:23

Just wait, Chip...

Age 35-40 the metabolism falls off a cliff.

Age 50-55 it declines further.

Age 60 or thereabouts it does the same as brain activity, and ceases totally.

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Doug
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Response Posted - 12/05/2003 : 03:03:35

Hmmmm... Got the boat about the time I installed the big Viking range. The biggest injury I've ever had on the boat was trying to save a pork roast from rolling off the Magma. The joy I get from a good cruise in decent wind is only matched by the joy I get from other dock mates asking "what is that you're cooking." Our biggest expense for a normal evening cruise? A stop at the grocery for baguettes and cambazola....

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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 12/05/2003 : 09:03:13

I thought there was a connection here.

Good company, good food, good wine, good wind, good everything.

Oh yea, ppetracca, I'm 1/2 Italian. Mamma Mia!.

Aint it grand,

PW

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 12/05/2003 : 09:53:20

"I thought there was a connection here."

Heh heh... Maybe the connection is really the wide companionway on a C25 ???

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Bryan Beamer
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Response Posted - 12/05/2003 : 10:09:33

I guess this is the reason Catalina made the C250 6" wider

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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 12/05/2003 : 11:18:58

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Heh heh... Maybe the connection is really the wide companionway on a C25 ???<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

If companionways get wider with each model, and some of us get wider each year, then, maybe, that's why so many of us move up to 30's.

Good thing Catalina builds a 47.

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jwilliams
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Response Posted - 12/05/2003 : 13:44:03

Epi- Webster..[<Gr. epi, at,on] a prefix meaning on, upon, over, among.
Cure- Webster.. [<L. cura, care] to restore to health.
I- Webster.. [<OE. ic] the person speaking or writing.
-An- Webster.. [,L. anus] suffix meaning belonging to.
-Ism- Webster..[<Gr. ismos] a suffix meaning 4. devotion to.

So with my very best Okie logic, Epicurianisn means "I think, just among us, restoring our health belongs with doing what we are devoted to." ain't that sailing?

Now if it only has to do with food, then what could be better than Vienna Sausage, Fritos and Beer under sail.

Jim Williams
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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 12/05/2003 : 14:20:35

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by jwilliams
 Now if it only has to do with food, then what could be better than Vienna Sausage, Fritos and Beer under sail.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Chex Mix, Cashews and Beer

BTW, Jim, in what part of Oklahoma did you develop your logic? Seems pretty sound to me.

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ppetracca
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Response Posted - 12/05/2003 : 15:23:26

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">quote:
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Originally posted by jwilliams

Now if it only has to do with food, then what could be better than Vienna Sausage, Fritos and Beer under sail.
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Chex Mix, Cashews and Beer<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Green Chili, Corn Chips & Tequila

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RichardG
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Response Posted - 12/05/2003 : 20:04:29

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">what could be better than Vienna Sausage, Fritos and Beer under sail<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Smoked baby clams and cream cheese on water crackers, with beer (though this doesn't necessarily help the inlaws visiting from the Midwest fighting the queezies caused by ocean sailing

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ssteakley
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Response Posted - 12/05/2003 : 23:12:37

Do not need Chex Mix, Cashews , just the Beer will do...and Chip...just wait, it will stick with a vengence and then the only way out is to give up the Carbs...that means give up real beer

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Steve

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MattL
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Response Posted - 12/06/2003 : 02:42:55

All sounds good to me,Oh I'm a XXL too. And Patrick, I'll have to hold on the tekillya, that's what caused our last person overboard drill.

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ppetracca
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Response Posted - 12/06/2003 : 08:14:19

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> that's what caused our last person overboard drill.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

In response to falling lake levels, we have replaced "man overboard drills" with "man walk ashore drills"!

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frankr
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Response Posted - 12/06/2003 : 13:02:51

Since I'm 140 lbs soaking wet - I would need poles and stakes with a XXXL.
PS. I'm 58 am 5' 5.5 " I can stand up inside the cabin on my C250K. Oh well bring on the food.

Edited by - frankr on 12/06/2003 13:07:06

jwilliams
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Response Posted - 12/06/2003 : 16:57:33

J.B. Manley,

I lived in Wapanucka as a babe, that's 19 miles NE of Tishomingo where my Mom and one brother lives now. (At the north shore of Lake Texoma.) Another Brother lives in Durant (pronounced doo-rant). I am the only one of 5 kids that lives in Calif.

The state people let me stay 'cause I learned to say that number that comes after three with only one syllable, I removed expressions like "fixin tuh", "futher" and "ain't fur", from my vocabulary and I quit saying "awl" for oil, "war" for wire, and "winder" for window. Ahh, the benefits of a California education in the 50's when you learned something!

Jim Williams
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