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DaveR
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Initially Posted - 08/03/2007 : 14:23:07

After posting on a thread at the Catalina International Association web site A guy by the name of Bob Jack emailed me and told me how much he enjoyed the post/pictures and that the Ponce Inlet area was his old stomping grounds. Upon further discussion we discovered that both of us had owned C-22's in the early-mid 80's and actually knew of one another's boats at the time. He and my dad used to race the Sunday regattas.

We talked about various adventures on our 22's and how much fun they were. He also told me about meeting his wife here and that they were coming to Daytona for her 30 yr. reunion. "Funny", I said, "mine's coming up too". You guessed it, we were both going to the same reunion. I asked how long it had been since he'd been out Ponce Inlet and he told me he hadn't in a sail boat for a long time. So I invited him to go with me the 21st of July while they were up for the reunion.

So I met Bob at the reunion, drank a few beers and shot the breeze, it was a good time! I was a little worried about the next day's sail though, the weather man called for a 60% chance of showers and thunderstorms. It didn't look to promising.

We met at Adventure Yacht Harbor Saturday (7/21) morning at 9am and readied the boat. Here's a pic of that. You can see Sugar overseeing the operation:)

On our way to the inlet. No messing around with sails, we put the pedal to the metal (OK the plastic to ..... the other plastic) and didn't waist time so as to hopefully get out before it started clouding up

Soon we rounded the last turn, raised the sails and out we went! Here's Bob at the helm

The cool thing was, the sky wasn't showing those early signs of an impending thunderstorm. ALL the fisherman were out fishing the rocks of the north jetty as you can see behind Bob. Please excuse the washed look of some of the pics, my camera was set wrong

Here's a pic of the east end of the north jetty

It was the perfect day, nary a cloud in site, 5 to 1-0 kt. winds, 1 to 2 ft. seas. The bell-buoy (picture) was clanging very mildly. I'll bet it makes a racket on a 6 to 8 December day!

Oh, also on the way out I took a pic looking south and again it's washed out a bit but all those little dots in the water are surfers at the New Smyrna jetty. Probably 50 of them!

Here's a pic looking south west at New Smyrna Beach from a mile or two out.

Ahh, it was a great day but was time to head back in. The fun wasn't quite over though, we were able not only to sail OUT but also to sail back in the inlet and even all the way north back to the marina, a rare thing! Here's a picture sailing back in the inlet

A pic of "Disappearing Island" PACKED with boaters (and the Marine Patrol cruising by keeping an eye on everything)

A pic of the Ponce Inlet Beach Park

A picture of the marina as we approached, my slip is last on the right, next to a Catalina 30.

And lastly a pic of the dock. I'm going over tomorrow to take Bamboo out and back to the private dock where I normally keep her, I'm going to miss having her at the marina, it was great to go down on a week-end night, get a bite to eat at [url="http://www.adventureyachtharbor.com/boondocks.shtml"]Boondock's[/url] and then go sit on the boat with friends, etc. ....... sigh ...... but I'm sure I'll do it again next year.
It was great meeting you Bob, thanks for coming sailing and I hope to get down your way and let you take me saing on you 06 250!

Dave Robbins
PO to*Bamboo*
'89 SR/WK #5877
Daytona Bch., FL

http://bambooc25.weebly.com/

Edited by - DaveR on 08/03/2007 14:33:46

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Response Posted - 08/06/2007 : 15:32:02

Great post Dave,
those 'coincidences' are the best!

Pal.

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Response Posted - 08/07/2007 : 07:32:32

Thanks Pal,
Jesse Camp emailed me from Cape Canaveral and Says he's coming this way in his 1987 SK SR #5150 "Sea Trekker" on the Labor day week end so I'll have more company to sail with. I'll see if I can't get the light level set correctly on the camera this time