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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Initially Posted - 04/05/2002 : 20:17:27

Invictus splashed at 2pm today. Moving her from North Eastern Chesapeake to Green Point Marina on Worton Creek on the Eastern shore across from Baltimore on Sunday!

Hope it warms up.

Rick Heaverly

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Response Posted - 04/05/2002 : 22:52:29

Hard freeze on the Eastern Shore Saturday night, but that's no problem--the C-25 is a tough boat--your bow can break through...

Dave Bristle, 1985 C-25 SR-FK #5032 "Passage" in CT

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Response Posted - 04/05/2002 : 23:11:58

Welcome back to the water Rick. I splashed last tuesday. After a cold and wet trip across the bay I settled into my new slip. Had to deal with two tug boats one with a log boom/raft right in the chanel and under a bridge I had to transit. Put me a little behind schedual but I enjoyed every bit of the trip. Planning to head out Sunday for my first sail. My son skipped out on me and has opted for a summer job as a deck hand on a schooner. Go figure. He has a possable trip to Mexico and then on to Hawaii. I feel abandoned but I realy think its a bad case of blue envy.

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Response Posted - 04/06/2002 : 22:50:24

Hey, Glad your rudder is in the water. I've been feeling kinda guilty about the pictures I've been posting. 'bout the time ya'll start doing some good sailing it'll be hotter 'an hades here and I'll be ready to start doing some SCUBA diving.

PS. take some pics for us and send them up the line.

Safe voyages,
Ben, FL s/v Chick-a-pea C250wk

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Response Posted - 04/09/2002 : 16:44:39

Yes, please send pics of the Bay<img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>. I haven't seen it since I left Baltimore to join the Navy. I hope to sail the Bay when I retire or transfer to Norfolk, or maybe trailer Weeny Bean up for a visit with the folks someday.

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Response Posted - 04/09/2002 : 22:00:36

What do you mean splash? and why haven't you been in the water? There must be some kind of limitation that us Texans do not have to deal with. We sail 52 weeks each year, keeps the CPW down. Come see us at Canyon Lake, Texas, it is a great sailors lake!
Steve Steakley
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Response Posted - 04/09/2002 : 22:11:59

Steve,

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>There must be some kind of limitation that us Texans do not have to deal with. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>That "limitation" is called "solid ice". It's that cold hard white stuff that is generally seen in the more northern climes. It appears that us Northerners are still waiting for Catalina Direct to come up with an "Icebreaker" retrofit for our bows, because the solid ice surface produces to much drag at the waterline.

Don Lucier, Northstar
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Response Posted - 04/10/2002 : 09:49:10

That "limitation" is called "solid ice". It's that cold hard white stuff that is generally seen in the more northern climes.
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Hey! I think I saw that stuff once ... in my icebox ... 'works great for cooling beer! <img src=icon_smile_clown.gif border=0 align=middle>

Buzz Maring, C-25 SK/SR #68, "Freya"

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Response Posted - 04/10/2002 : 13:26:52

Hey Texans - don't rattle the Yankees cages. They already suffer enough.... <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> Let's just be grateful that we live here instead of the cold & frozen North (been there, done that, didn't enjoy it).
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Response Posted - 04/10/2002 : 17:45:29

Yeah sure, but in Texas, don't half your lakes dry up by mid summer?<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

John Mason - Ali Paroosa
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 04/10/2002 : 21:33:42

Just the creeks John - works wonders at cutting down on the mosquitoes! <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>
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Response Posted - 04/10/2002 : 21:38:42

Hey Buzz,

Where do you primarily sail in Texas? ...Oh, wait a minute...that's right...you don't even have your boat in the water yet!

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> Hi everyone ... Freya is going in the water in early May if it kills me. -Buzz Maring<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>

No self-respecting northern sailor would ever have their boat "on the hard" if it wasn't absolutely necessary. Hell, I got my slip today and I will probably beat you to splashdown

Don Lucier, Northstar
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Response Posted - 04/10/2002 : 21:48:23

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
Hey Buzz,

Where do you primarily sail in Texas?

Don Lucier, Northstar
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I'll answer for him... Back and forth, back and forth... (on the lake). <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Dave Bristle, 1985 C-25 SR-FK #5032 "Passage" in CT

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Response Posted - 04/11/2002 : 00:20:20

Not always Dave - we usually have a reaching leg in the race courses on Canyon Lake <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>
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Response Posted - 04/11/2002 : 08:09:40

hey now, us northerners may not get 52 weeks of sailing in, but from may to october we are there..(and appreciate every single day)..DON, loved your answer on the "white stuff", i am surprized that you had to explain that!! and Dave's "back and forth" remark was a riot!!!!!!

COLDDUCKS
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Response Posted - 04/11/2002 : 09:42:54

One downside of continual sailing is that we don't get the chance to pull the boat out once a year for a good lookover. I last took my mast down 6 years ago!
Is August in Texas worth the year round sailing? I think it makes us appreciate cold beer!

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Response Posted - 04/11/2002 : 10:14:18

dont get the impression that we dont appreciate cold beer!! but, what do you do about bottom paint? dont you have to pull it to clean the bottom now and then?

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Response Posted - 04/11/2002 : 11:03:13

You're supposed to clean the bottom of the boat?

I learn more things from this forum!

I jest, of course, sire.

The informal consensus around the Dallas area appears to be that the hull should be pulled and cleaned annually, but that most owners seem to get it done every two or three years (and probably have it repainted at about the same frequency). This, of course, holds true for us cockpit potatoes and does not hold true for the rabid racers who, it appears, spend as much time cleaning the bottom as they do the topside. I applaud their dedication, and I raise a toast to their exertations as they sail by.

As to the weather in Texas, you will find that most Texans are really northern transplants who love to rattle the cages, weatherwise, of those they left behind. I, myself, grew up 400 miles north of Toronto, a geographic location I would not return to on a bet -- well maybe a really, really large bet. Both of the native Texans I have met, and even us northland fugitives admit that August in Texas gets "a mite warmish" (one might even say uninhabitable), but the upside, of course, is the winter, which if I recall correctly, was on a Tuesday this past year.

George Seaborn #1190

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Response Posted - 04/11/2002 : 11:10:09

Is that where you sail, Buzz,...Canyon Lake?…

Is this the Canyon Lake that has a surface area of only 12 square miles?…

If it is, then where I come from (Michigan), people call that a “puddle”, not a lake.

The lake that I sail on, Lake Erie, is only the fourth largest of the five Great Lakes and yet, it is 9,910 square miles in size. Now compare that size(9,910) with yours(12) and you get a teeny, weeny puddle. Now, as for sailing year round…yeah, sure, that would be nice…on a real lake! But ask yourself this question, “Would you rather drive a Ferrari from May to November, or drive a 1982 Chevy Chevette year round?<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Don Lucier, Northstar
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Buzz Maring
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Response Posted - 04/11/2002 : 12:01:58

Where did all this mean-spirited stuff come from? I made one comment about ice, and I didn't direct it toward anyone ... 'just made a joke. Now I'm getting blasted from all sides. 'Wish I could delete that post ...

Buzz Maring, C-25 SK/SR #68, "Freya"

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Response Posted - 04/11/2002 : 13:06:08

Buzz,

I don't believe anyone is being "mean spirited", just a little friendly repartee amongst fellow sailors. Most of the posts usually have, a <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> , <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> , or <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> following them, meaning that it's all in jest. I apologize if my statements have offended you.<img src=icon_smile_blush.gif border=0 align=middle>

Don Lucier, Northstar
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Response Posted - 04/11/2002 : 15:54:06

Ya Buzz, get a life! <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle> ----> Evil doers!

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Buzz Maring
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Response Posted - 04/11/2002 : 16:14:47

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
Ya Buzz, get a life! <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle> ----> Evil doers!

Steve Madsen

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Please ... find someone else to pick on ... I don't find this funny in the least.

Buzz Maring, C-25 SK/SR #68, "Freya"

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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Response Posted - 04/13/2002 : 12:00:18

I might as well get back to the ORIGINAL TOPIC!

Moved Invictus last Sunday from Bohemia River to Worton Creek on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. A total of 20+ miles. The wind was right on the nose almost the whole time. Sailed for about an hour and motored for 3 1/2. It was cold 50*, wind chill about 20*, but no ice Dave!!

Rick Heaverly

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Response Posted - 04/13/2002 : 14:59:03

Chesapeake area, huh? I was just reading on the Sailnet.com that you're going to have the Volvo Ocean Race boats come through your bay. That would be fun to see how the rich folks do this sailboat racing thing.

John Mason - Ali Paroosa
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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Response Posted - 04/13/2002 : 17:37:44

The Miami to Baltimore leg starts tomarrow at 1PM. I am hoping to see some of them finish just south of Baltimore on Wednesday or Thursday. I am going to be out of town when they start the Annaplois to France leg on the 28th.

Rick Heaverly

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