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atgep
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Response Posted - 07/06/2004 :  23:47:25  Show Profile
I spent the 4th landlocked as my POS OB is still at the shop! It all brings back a fond moment though. July 4 1976 and I watched the fireworks on my parents Grampian 26 off the coast of Ft Lauderdale, Fl. THAT is my earliest memory of sailing.
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sterngucker
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Response Posted - 07/08/2004 :  05:50:52  Show Profile
My kids and I watched fireworks while anchored out in San Diego Bay. It was quite spectacular! There were three shows going on around the Bay at the same time, all shooting off the same colors and effects in perfect synchronization, with us sitting right underneath one of them.
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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 07/08/2004 :  08:51:38  Show Profile
Heh.. I guess we were close enough to the display here in Eureka... and I paid the price for the good seats... had to scrub quite a bit of ash and other assorted debris off the boat in the morning.
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 07/10/2004 :  20:05:10  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Hey Oscar
Lima, Peru?????<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Yep....leave Newark NJ at 2 something pm, get there ten pm ish, leave Lima 11 ish the next evening, and got to Newark at seven am......(after 5 hours of flying you are over Nassau, Bahamas watching the sun rise over the Atlantic).

Got home and went straight to the yard and spent the next four days there putting a bottom on LK-3......42*14*.85 = about 500 square feet.....mix up a batch of Interlux 2000E, 20 minutes induction time, hour and a half to roll it on, do it again.....four more times, then two coats of ablative paint, sixteen hours apart.....then move the stands and do the spots under them.....seven coats. Spent the nights on the boat....alarm set for five am every morning.

PO was a gadget freak.....chart reader, GPS, LORAN, wind speed depth and two computers....(did not come with the boat..) And EVERYTHING WAS CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER......with miles of cable stuffed into the electrical panel.....took me hours to rip it all out and clean it up.....doctors...bah!

But, got the water working again, and the refrigerator.....the list is down to two pages...

Splashing Tuesday.

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Response Posted - 07/10/2004 :  23:10:37  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Oscar</i>
<br />Splashing Tuesday.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">It's about time! True, you can't paint the bottom or spit-shine the hull, but just about all other work is, for some strange reason, more pleasant in a slip than on the hard. ...except for the obligatory offerings to King Neptune--crescent wrenches, machine screws, clevis pins, or whatever. Some say if you don't make your offering, the King will treat you accordingly...
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Douglas
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Response Posted - 07/11/2004 :  11:30:52  Show Profile  Visit Douglas's Homepage
Sorry we missed you out there Doug. We went out for a sunset sail and fireworks on Commencement Bay. Great show hundreds of boats but mostly on the log boom. Sad day though as we witnessed two homes on the shore go up in flames. One on Marine View drive near Browns Point and one in the Proctor district in Tacoma.
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