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osmepneo
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Initially Posted - 02/08/2004 : 06:23:17

Hey all,

I have recently agreed to sail with Steve and Charlotte Dube at this year's National Championship. We met throught the Fleet 94 dating service which is seeking to bring together "crew wanted' folks (like the Dubes) and "crew available" folks like me.

If you are intersted in coming to Portland this summer from anywhere and can't take your boat - I'm like 3000 miles from Portland and don't have a trailer, this is an excallent tool to finding a ride for Nationals, or for finding a rider.

1. Click on the sticky at the top of the forum web page.
2. Click on the link to the Fleet 94 web site
3. Click on the link to the National Regatta
4. Click on the link to Crewing Opportunities, and follow instructions - email Fleet 94, telling them the appropriate information, and they will list it on the opportunities page.
5. Or, review the listings and contact the people or person you'd be interested sailing with.

Try it, you'll like it!

PS. If I were smarter I'd have given a hotlink directly to the crewing opportunities web page

https://home.comcast.net/~fleet94/crew%20and%20boat%20list.htm

ups, I just figured it out!

Don Peet, C25/250 2004-2005 National Association Commodore
The Great Sacandaga Lake, NY

Edited by - osmepneo on 02/08/2004 06:26:06

Gary B.
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Response Posted - 02/08/2004 : 13:18:00

Don: The headline caught me off guard. I recently got an email from a 48 year old, rather attractive blonde woman (picture enclosed) who is a novice sailor but who wants to play! I thought maybe she had contacted you about being a crew-mate! Maybe someone will need some middle-aged eye candy on his or her boat! Funny topic sentence......just a little "close to home"

Thanks for this...I hope others will avail themselves. I KNOW of folks in my local fleet who will need crew, they just have not posted their needs yet.

It' gonna be GOOD.....

Gary B.
Fleet 94 Captain
Commodore of Vice *it's supposed to be a JOKE!

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Captain B
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Response Posted - 02/08/2004 : 13:19:18

Single white male. 45 years young. Loves sailing. Will crew for Grog.

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Gary B.
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Response Posted - 02/08/2004 : 14:42:53

Cap'n B. Cute, but , no, you put it on the Fleet 94 site where Don directed you. Just got off the phone with a fleet member who will need some experience on his boat. Not listed yet on the website we offer, but don't wait for him!

Gary B
Fleet 94 captain
Vice Commodore

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 02/09/2004 : 08:18:39

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by osmepneo
 Hey all,

I have recently agreed to sail with Steve and Charlotte Dube at this year's National Championship. We met throught the Fleet 94 dating <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Wow, New York State to Portland, OR - that's a long haul for just a weekend event. If a significant number of folks from other parts of the country are going to participate even without bringing their boats, methinks this National Regatta is going to be a smashing sucess.

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svmoxie
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Response Posted - 02/09/2004 : 09:39:13

I will be there, Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Portland, Oregon for the festivities.

No boat, so I will post my own "personal"!

SO come on folks, let's get those vacation plans going and join the party! You too Larry.

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 02/09/2004 : 14:26:48

Larry,

Unfortunatley, alas, I am leaving osmepneo at home, and will sailing with the Dube on their 250. Actually I contacted them after I posted on the Fleet 94 web site, and we agreed to go together.

And, this is going to be a great nationals, so all y'awl come to the NW for a great time - good sailing, good friendships, a good time for all!

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Scott L
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Response Posted - 02/09/2004 : 18:23:29

For those of you looking for a boat to crew on. We are the "other ones" in need at the moment and here's our story.

We bought "Ahti" last summer after having grown up fishing in the Pacific and having our own ocean fishing boat for a few years until we decided that a sail boat would be better for our expanding family. We sailed a few weekends last summer and loved it even though it was a hack job at best.

So, now we are going to the nationals and then onto the San Juans / Gulf Islands for a few weeks (head first is the best way!).

The boat is in great shape now and I ordered a new Mains'l, used 150% and have a 110% and Assym. spinnaker. New bottom paint, running rigging, serviced winches, newly redone rudder, teak all has 6 new coats of teak oil, on and on goes my winter.

I am a carpenter/stay at home dad 36 yrs old, my wife a teacher/librarian (very cute

) and we will be staying on the boat (extra weight, I know, no oven though dang it). We have son, Ty, who will be 1 yr. in May and our daughter, Phoebe, will be 3 in April. Mellow, well behaved, spectacular kids by the way.

The other crew I have coming that will be racing with me is my father in law who used to race Thistles on the Columbia in the '70s, so he knows his way around the sailboats. We are both very excited to race for fun with a capital "F".

When we got the boat, I never would have thought we would be entering such an event, but I gotta tell ya Gary Bruner has made us feel very welcome and we are all excited to join in. We are seriously relaxed people and not out to win so leave your track shoes at home. I am particularly excited to sail with an experienced C25 skipper to gain as much knowledge as possible durring the week.

So....hop on over to the Fleet 94 website and check it out!

That's it.

Edited by - Scott L on 02/09/2004 20:41:52

rclift
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Response Posted - 02/09/2004 : 23:17:42

http://craca.netfirms.com/C25/ColumbiaRiver.htm

For some of you who are visiting the Pacific Northwest and the Columbia River for the first time take a look at these great cruising stories and pictures put together by Dale Mack of the Columbia River All Catalina Association.

Along with the regatta many of us are planning on leading 2 day cruises up or down river depending on the interest of those who come. If you have a real interest in visiting a particular part of the river let us know,someone might be going that way. Remember, Portland is just over 100nm inland which makes it a two or three day cruise to get to Astoria but it's a beautiful 100 miles with lots of places to stop off and take in the wonders of nature.

Edited by - rclift on 02/09/2004 23:19:44

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