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svmoxie
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Initially Posted - 08/25/2003 : 09:42:13

It is a short work week for me this week... I am taking off Thursday and Friday to stretch the holiday weekend out to five glorious days off.<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

The plan: Ocracoke via Cedar Island with a night sail from Oriental to Cedar Island to enjoy viewing Mars.

Alternate plan: ICW down to Beaufort, NC and hop out to Lookout.

It's been three weeks since I was able to sail and I am getting itchy (cranky!) so I am all smiles today.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

So, what's in YOUR wallet? Who is planning an trip this weekend, sail or otherwise. What's going on?

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Clif Thompson
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svMoxie '81 25 sk

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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 08/25/2003 : 11:14:53

Five days AND a coastal cruise...I'm truly envious, Clif. I intend to island hop from Friday afternoon until Monday night. Since I haven't stayed out for more than 24 consecutive hours before, this will be an interesting test of my power conservation abilities and all the electrical upgrades I did this summer (second battery, switch, charger, thermoelectric, stereo, bidata, etc.). My worst case power scenario is probably having to recharge with the solar panel Sunday in order to power the anchor light Sunday night.

J.B. Manley, Antares '85 FK/SR #4849
Grand Lake O' The Cherokees, NE Oklahoma

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 08/25/2003 : 14:07:31

I am planning a big event - deliver Indiscipline single handed from Dana Point to my new slip at Mission Bay. It's about a 65 mile offshore passage, should be downwind. My plan right now is to take Friday off and have my wife drop me off, then sail 25 miles to a guest slip in Oceanside Saturday morning. The family will drive down to meet me for dinner. If the weather is good, however, I am going to skip Oceanside and go all the way.

Assuming I get the guest slip, I will then sail to Mission Bay Sunday, and anchor out in Mariners Basin. Maybe they will drive down to Mission Bay park and I'll kayak over to the beach for a picnic Sunday night. I can up anchor and move into the new slip on Monday.

Since a hurricane is south of us right now (but in the Sea of Cortez) if this makes problems like big seas or south winds I can delay and do the whole trip on Monday.

I'm really excited and a little anxious about this which will be my longest passage in the boat.

<img src="http://www.indiscipline.org/cat25/pictures/icon.jpg" border=0>Indiscipline 1978 FK #398

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MattL
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Response Posted - 08/25/2003 : 14:59:18

Last Friday I got an e-mail from my wife saying "lets go to the lake and get a pizza." We went there and just hung out on the boat. About 6 or so the regular croud came in and we just had a relaxing evening doing nothing. The rest of the week end was a rush of soccer, birthday parties and mowing the lawn. This weekend is our end of the month potluck and sail so we will be out for that, can't wait. Oh the admrial did say to me the other day that she thought it might be cool to get a bigger boat. Not holding my breath, but I never dreamed that she would say that.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Matt/Brigitte Loeffler
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matsche
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Response Posted - 08/25/2003 : 21:21:54

Cliff:

What a great trip! I spent a week last year sailing out of Oriental. Great place, great people. I miss the food at M&Ms. My big plans are for spending Labor Day weekend sailing Lake Norman. Not exactly an offshore adventure, but it unwinds me just the same.

John Matsche 1985 TR/FK #5171

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 08/26/2003 : 08:00:50

Not sure what we will do over the Labor Day holiday. I was thinking of taking the boat up to Lake Tahoe, but fuel prices - both gasoline and diesel - have taken a huge jump in the last few weeks. The cheapest regular in Sacramento in over $2.00 right now, and is expected to hit $2.25 by the end of this week. At these prices, I think I will refrain from enriching the already bulging coffers of the oil companies any further, and just use the boat where she is, at Folsom Lake.

Larry Charlot
Catalina 25 #1205 "Quiet Time"
Sacramento, CA

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svmoxie
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Response Posted - 08/26/2003 : 11:23:09

Oh man John, now you've got my mouth watering. We love M&Ms... the best waitresses in the area (especially Lindy!) and spectacular food.

If you are going during the weekend evening rush, be sure to call ahead and get on the wait list... they don't take reservations but if you are sailing in they will put you on the list!

And nothing to knock about Norman, that is some fine sailing and gunkholing.

Drop me an email sometime John so I can add you to the NC Catalina sailors. We need to work on having a National here!

Clif Thompson
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svMoxie '81 25 sk

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bear
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Response Posted - 08/30/2003 : 12:55:42

Well we waited for a cold front and associated thunderstorms
to clear upstate New York last night. The admiral and myself are heading up to the infamous Great Sacandaga Lake till Monday afternoon, suppose to be in the low 40's tonight and Sunday night. A tradition on the lake is the "ring of fire" on the Sunday night before Labor Day where all the camps on the lake can have a fire on the beach to signify the end of the summer season. Plan on sailing "Brandy" until the weekend of the 20th when my lease for the dock expires. Hope everyone has a fine weekend.
"Bear" on Brandy

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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 08/30/2003 : 18:36:28

Hi,

That painting is "Dazzling", if you know what I mean.

PW

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 09/01/2003 : 12:28:43

Just came back from the San Juans a week ago and had to force myself to go out again this weekend. Asked the wife and to my surprize she said why dont just you boys go. (Yeeee haaaw) So my son and I stocked up the boat and headed to Oro Bay in South Puget Sound. I don'r get to spend a lot of time with my son so it was nice to relax and talk guy things. We got a lot worked out. He likes Weinhard's Hefeweizen and I like Pacifico. Did some crabing, visited with others in our club and relaxed. Ran a movie on the DVD Run Silent Run Deep an old classic. Generaly got back in touch and just relaxed. He is rather active with his friends and cars so I thought he might be boared. But when I asked him he said no and that it was nice to get away from it all for a while and enjoy the peace and quiet. There is hope for him yet. <img src="http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/4db31d91/bc/San+Juan+Trip+03/San+Juan+Trip+03+174.jpg?bcEf3U_AAcqJz3lY" border=0>

Doug&Ruth
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Tacoma Wa.

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 09/01/2003 : 17:15:45

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it was nice to get away from it all for a while and enjoy the peace and quiet. There is hope for him yet.
Doug&Ruth
Triska (Alberg 29)
Tacoma Wa.
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That is why I named by boat "Quiet Time". We had a nice cruise on Folsom Lake over the weekend, wrapping up with a delicious barbeque dinner with friends in my favorite spot in New York Cove.

Larry Charlot
Catalina 25 #1205 "Quiet Time"
Folsom Lake, CA

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svmoxie
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Response Posted - 09/02/2003 : 09:37:26

Home again after a wonderful sail to Ocracoke, safe, sound and tan!

What a great trip and a personal victory for me! I have been trying to make this trip for some time and this time everything fell into place.

What about JimB? Did your delivery come off as planned?

Clif Thompson
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svMoxie '81 25 sk

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 09/02/2003 : 20:06:45

Hi, my 65 mile, single handed delivery is in my wake. Everything went great. On Saturday my family delivered me to Dana Point, we loaded the boat, had an Italian Ice, and then went to an early dinner. They went home, I got everything ready for sailing (everything but hoisting the main) and was in bed by 9:30.

Sunday morning I was up at 6:30 and outside the harbor before 7. It was tough saying goodbye to my friends on the slip across from me. They were going on an epic fishing trip (Catalina and San Clemente Island). The seas were calm, the skies grey. For the fisherman it was a "go anywhere" day. For me, I motored 15 miles south east, about 5 miles offshore. It was so flat and calm that I sat up on the bow (with my tether on) while letting the tiller pilot do the work. I had a great encounter with numerous humpback whales (but failed to get a decent picture). I was trolling a 3 line set but failed to get any fish all day. The ocean is a strange dark green color (some kind of algae - not good for fishing).

About noon I was south of Oceanside and was finally getting enough wind to sail. The main was up all day, but now I unrolled the genny and found that I could make 4 to 4.5 knots on a beam reach. With the wind, the seas were getting a little bumpier. I was getting a 3 foot west swell directly on the starboard beam. I kept the motor running to keep the boat up to 6 knots. Being on the starboard tack, 5 - 10 degrees of heel, with 3 foot starboard swells, and a port motor mount meant that the motor was getting nearly dunked on the bigger waves.

It was now too rough to sit on the bow! I watched Del Mar drift by and was constantly worried about my course to La Jolla. It is disconcerting to realize just how far east the coast trends in this area. You think you have to go south but the GPS says steer 140 and still you seem to be heading out to sea! Trust your instruments - by early afternoon La Jolla was in sight - it was sunny and bright and I was 6 miles from the waypoint when I could first see it.

Little did I know just how far offshore the La Jolla kelp extends. I was 3 miles off and trying to sail around the stuff and I still got fouled. The rudder was wrapped, as well as the engine. I eventually got free and hand steered around the worst of it with the genny furled and finally got out.

By 4 PM I was sailing into Mission Bay. This is the roughest bay entrance I've seen - large waves building up on the bar combined with many wakes from high speed power boats, sailboats tacking out, jetskis, and an outgoing tide. I came in no problem but seemed to take a little water into the engine. I had the old problem of fouled idle jet and the Honda would not run at idle (just 1/2 throttle or higher).

I made my way to Mariner's Basin anchorage (at high speed) and dropped the hook for the night. I have a 13 lb danforth, 50 feet of 5/16 galvinized chain, and 300' of 1/2 rope. The anchoring system is solid. I pulled the jets and cleaned them with B-12 Chemtool. The motor was running great again. I may try to fit some kind of oiled, foam air cleaner to prevent this problem. Or maybe a big rubber tube snorkle that sticks up 5 feet and connects to the backstay!

Karen and the kids came down and I kayaked over for dinner at Belmont Park (roller coaster - games, etc). It was Sunday night and the place was a zoo due to the holiday. But we had fun aand a great Greek meal. They went home and I slept aboard. Even with my confidence in my anchor I had lots of funny dreams about the anchor dragging. But it was a perfect calm night, no winds at all and no swell. I checked things 2 or 3 times through the night - there were boats everywhere.

Monday morning I got the anchor up and motored over to find that my new slip was still occupied. After many frantic phone calls I got a temporary slip. Karen, kids and dogs came down again and we spent the day exploring Mission Bay. It's really different from Dana Point and I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun here.

Today (Tuesday) I went down at lunch time and moved to my permanent slip and helped a bunch of other people who were juggling boats around. It's great to be so close I can mess around with the boat during lunch - not to mention sailing after work.

<img src="http://www.indiscipline.org/cat25/pictures/icon.jpg" border=0>Indiscipline 1978 FK #398

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 09/02/2003 : 21:16:40

Jim,

Enjoyed your log of moving Indiscipline...

Arlyn C-250 W/B #224
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