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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 02/12/2005 : 00:55:33

These photos from my Tuesday 2/8 evening after-work sail show a strange false sun in the sky AFTER sunset.

Click here to see several more interesting shots.

http://www.indiscipline.org/cat25/febsun.html

At times 4 or 5 false suns were visible. Also a cool sailing evening with light air, calm seas, came back in way, way after dark. So late that the offshore breeze started up and I had to tack back IN to Mission Bay.

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398

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gnorgan
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 01:30:47

Awww crud!! I've got to find a job down near the boat in San Diego. Any ideas, Jim? Just looking at the sunset reminds me of how many times we sailed out onto the pond last year. Time for this one to go sailing in the evening. Next Friday would be good but the long range forecast shows rain, rain, rain through Friday.
Well, anyway, we're sailing this Sunday and doing the BBQ on L Dock after. Susie and I bought a digital for our 55th birthdays this month so I can now do downloads when I get home, too!! So now you can see your boat more often.
Sailing again. So much more fun than working.....

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 08:19:16

Very nice sunset Jim...thanks for sharing

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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 08:56:02

Jim,

That sunset reminds me of my days in Monterey back in the early 80's. I was stationed at Ft Ord for 4 1/2 years. The sunsets in the fall and winter months seemed to always have that beautiful purple hue. Spectacular! Thanks for the memory.

Al
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JimB517
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 10:36:46

The photos are not transmitting 10% of the beauty of the evening

Drifting on the pond at 3 knots
Watching the city lights come alive
far enough out that the hum of traffic fades
and is replaced by the whisper of the breeze
and the cry of lonesome gulls

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Midpoint
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 10:53:18

Jim,

As always the west coast sunsets are very beautiful. I'll try to match with an east coast sunset. I just purchased my 83 C25 in St. Petersburg Florida and sailed it closer to where I lived in the Boca Grande, Florida area. The photo is on the ICW just inside the Boca Grande pass at Charlotte Harbor.

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 11:02:44

Another east coast sunset (on it's way to being a west coast sunset)...overlooking the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, FL. Welcome to the forum MidPoint. I like your signature .gif.
Steve

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Midpoint
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 11:11:25

Thanks Steve,

If it was not for your advise it would not be there or the pics for that matter.

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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 11:40:38

Inland lakes have some pretty nice sunsets too!

Good idea for a thread.
Sunsets!

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 12:13:41

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by JimB517
 The photos are not transmitting 10% of the beauty of the evening
...Watching the city lights come alive...far enough out that the hum of traffic fades...
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In a person's whole life, there are a few moments of transcendant joy that are remembered forever. Two of my "sailboat" moments in this category: a winter night cruise on San Francisco Bay in 1994 with my father aboard (on my Catalina 22 "Summertime Dream"), the only day, in fact, that he ever went out sailing with me before his death in 1997. It was a perfectly clear night, wind almost calm, and the sparkling of city lights all around the Bay was spectacular. S.F. Bay at night, in clear weather, has to be one of the most beautiful harbor views in the world.
The other moment that comes to mind happened in July of 2002, on my second San Juans/Gulf Islands cruise. There is a small island two miles southeast of the town of Sidney that has an anchorage on the northern tip, called Sidney Spit. I spent one night there, and the sunset was incredible. The landmass to the west is of course Vancouver Island, which has a mountainous ridge down it's center that catches clouds moving in off the Pacific. There was a big bank of clouds over the island that evening, and the setting sun lit up the whole western sky in colors that even Maxfield Parrish couldn't have duplicated. It was one of the top ten sunsets I have seen in my whole life, I think. And to watch this show from the cockpit of my boat, with a cup of cocoa in hand to sip, was sublime. I just wish I had owned a good digital camera at the time. I shot some photos with my 35mm film camera, but it turned out that that batch of film had a manufacturing defect, or something went wrong during the processing, and none of the photos I took on that roll of film were any good.
In fact, I have been saving my pennies and plan to buy a Canon 20D next June, in time for the San Juans cruise this coming July.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 14:17:23

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Charlie Vick
 Inland lakes have some pretty nice sunsets too!

Good idea for a thread.
Sunsets!
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I think I put this up once before. It is not posterized, it is just the way my Canon S50 handled it.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 15:24:18

Al (ackheart) give us an Upper Michigan sunset from this time of year.

Nothing in this life will ever compare to the joy I felt when Amy was born, followed closely by the feelings when Heidi came into this world. Sailing with dolphins is close behind....

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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 02/12/2005 : 15:37:37

Jim,

I'll try and head down to the Lake Superior shore this evening and get a shot or two. We've had an unusually warm and sunny two weekends. It's beatiful today, blue sky, no clouds, 33 degrees. I think I have spring fever already and spring won't arive for another 2 1/2 months.

Al
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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 02/13/2005 : 11:01:15

Personally I like them all. But as for my own I have this one picture that I took form an Ocean Kyak (sp?) While I was in the Fla. Keys. Some years back I was down there for a week lobstering and we had a house rented on a canal. I got up early on morning and paddled out to the bay with my dive camera. So this is not a digital but has been scanned on the HP 4n1. The sun's rays were so perfectly symmetrical it was almost like the old Japanese battle flag.

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JJM
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Response Posted - 02/13/2005 : 12:34:32

At Anacapa Isle marina in Channel Islands harbor, after a beautiful Southern California day sail, capped with an incredible light show presented free to those whose care to admire. We are the lucky ones!

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PZell
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Response Posted - 02/13/2005 : 17:29:10

Hey Larry,

Interesting that you would mention Maxfield Parrish. You must be an
art buff. Interesting thing happened recently around here. Lady had
a collection of Parrish stuff that got ripped off years ago, and they resurfaced, on e-bay I think. Anyway she got the originals back after all those years

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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 02/13/2005 : 21:57:56

Hurray for our side!

My favorite Maxfield Parish is a print I have in the bedroom of Stars .

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