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Arlyn Stewart
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Initially Posted - 07/30/2026 :  12:52:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi all,
Haven't sailed my C250 since a Great Lakes cruise in 2003 but kept it in case circumstances provided a return to sailing. It didn't happen and at age 80, it won't now so will be considering what to do with R&R and monitoring here for perspectives.
Arlyn C-250 W/B #224
N/E Texas and Great Lakes

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Response Posted - 07/31/2026 :  06:14:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello Arlyn - good to hear that you’re still going strong! The C25/250 community is still happening, however, there are far fewer people posting here these days. Henk, Steve, and Dave Bristle are still posting from time to time.
I’d like to hear about your Great Lakes cruise sometime, since 2003 is just before I found this forum. So if you’d like to retell the stories I’m sure you’d have some interest. Welcome back.
Bruce Ross
Passage ~ SR-FK ~ C25 #5032

Port Captain — Milford, CT
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Buzz Maring
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Response Posted - 07/31/2026 :  06:40:10  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi Arlyn,

'Great to hear from you! 'Sorry that sailing isn't in your future ... but ... maybe you're still flying R/C airplanes. I doubt you do much sitting around, even at age 80!

Stay in touch!

Buzz
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~~Freya~~
C-25 SK/SR #68
Lake Dallas, TX
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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 07/31/2026 :  11:18:52  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Bruce, thanks for the welcome back. I hauled and cruised my 250 from Texas to Michigan seven years in a row and accumulated 3,500 miles on the water of Northern Lake Huron, the North Channel and Georgian Bay and wrote accounts of most if not each cruise.

Some of them I think were posted to this forum and may still exist here. Others were posted to my internet site that no longer exist, though I still have the stories. I'll do some checking here to see if any exist here and maybe post others if this site still allows.

I also was credited for the cruising time in Sail but would have to dig into a file cabinet to find the issue.

Suffice it to say, fond memories of those cruises remain. Though now 23 years since sailing, that reality seems hard to believe. Sailing spirit seems to be like a first love, a forever thing, eh.
Arlyn C-250 W/B #224
N/E Texas and Great Lakes
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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 07/31/2026 :  11:54:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hey Buzz,
Can you believe the PT-19 you traded for the steering conversion kit remains airworthy and is flown regularly.

Yep, RC building and flying continues with it nice that it is ten minutes to the field rather than 23 hours of driving time to where I liked to sail. I fly usually three afternoons a week with great flying friends.

The post above saying no sailing since 2003 forgot to mention the RC sailboating done at a local city park that helps alleviate the missing of sailing.

R&R was kept thinking the window to sail cruise might open again, but realism is setting that my sailing era is fond memories.

Do stay active with a morning bike ride.

It is fantastic that You, Steve, Dave and others are still active posters here enjoying the good fraternity. Among the local RC guys, too many have taken their eternal leave.

In that regard, my brother in law who was my cruising companion for so many of the Great Lakes cruises, took his leave last fall. Actually I should report that he was more than a BIL as before he married my sister, I had boarded for two summers on his dad's farm and we became life friends.

Hopes and wishes that all is well with you and it was more than nice to get the response from you.
Arlyn C-250 W/B #224
N/E Texas and Great Lakes
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