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To: abuelita who wrote (25049)	3/29/2003 6:45:55 PM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104197

You are correct. That is sick. <g> <ng> -ClaudeBalls

To: abuelita who wrote (25049)	3/29/2003 9:01:56 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104197

clapper- i PMed you and most others here a link to the video "Pensacola to Naples". lurqing dude has his PM feature disabled. NOTE TO LURQER: if you pm me i'll reply with a link for you if you want it. i'm going to answer you here on the board so i don't have to be PMing the same answers to everyone, eh? (you wrote) That half-hour flew by. I didn't want it to end. Seeing those dolphins must have blown your mind. they are beautiful beings. so friendly... like puppies. i think they wanted some peanut butter but i didn't give them any. on the third day there were 10 of them in a group zigging and zagging right in front of the bow. i should have given them my sandwich. i feel guilty now. <g> I didn't realize you spent so much time out at sea. I figured you probably anchored or docked each night. Was the water rough any of the nights? I imagine it's tough to get a solid night's sleep. this was a planned "blue-water" crossing. here's a .gif of the route: mywebpages.comcast.net though some say the gulf is not really blue water sailing it was blue enough for us. none of us had sailed more than 10 miles off shore before. there were a total of four nights that we were sailing all night. the color of the water was the most beautiful color of blue i've ever seen. it was similar to the darker blue at the top of this page in the header except it was like a metallic blue. Were you adrift at night? On auto pilot? Or did someone actually navigate at night? gary's auto tiller wasn't functioning. i tried to fix it before we left but when i took it apart little springs and tiny ball bearings went, "SPROINGGGG." i hate it when that happens. it always happens when i take something apart. we sailed by hand. we did have a tiller lock and sometimes that would hold course for awhile but it doesn't work for long when winds and waves are changing and when someone is walking around on the boat changing the delicate balance. we took turns at the helm. we took one to three hour naps and would usually get six or eight hours of sleep in a 24 hour period. we didn't encounter much traffic out there but someone has to be at the helm all the time in case there is traffic. one night (out of tampa) we had another sailboat within a couple hundred yards of us for the whole night. we talked to him on the radio. he was headed to charlotte harbor and ended up on the very same course as we took - all the way. we hadn't planned to go to charlotte but we were very tired after a rough stormy night at sea and we went in there to anchor for about 16 hours on st. patty's day so we could all get some uninterrupted sleep. on this particular night out from tampa we had two cruise ships overtake us just as we were plowing into a thunderstorm. those floating cities sure get your attention when they're bearing down on you at night in the rain. i thought it might have been captain krash so i was a little nervous. <g> navigating was very easy. we had two or three GPSs on board. gary had a fancy one at the nav station that has built in maps. it shows you a map, gives all the water depths and buoys and all the features you find on a marine map and it draws the boat on the map - you can see it move along as you travel - it's cool. it only cost about $600. I've got a billion other questions and I'll start asking them if you don't tell us more. <g> Here's a few sample questions... Who was the narrator and who owned the boat? (Their faces look familiar from picture's I've seen.) When is the next adventure? the narrator and owner of the boat is a friend who lives in santa fe. we sail together in the summer at cochiti lake. his other boat is a 22 ft. venture. he bought this beneteau 345 over a year ago - found it on the internet. it's been in pensacola all that time while he was repairing things. this was the first time he's had it out on the ocean. it fared very well - like a tank compared to our smaller, lighter boats. we've been planning the trip for six months. one thing that concerned me a little... when we arrived in pensacola and were provisioning for the trip he mentioned that the boat had been caught in a tropical storm or hurricane in pensacola a few years back and had sunk after beating itself up against some dock pilings. i jokingly said, "oh. well that's a good omen... i don't know of too many boats that have sunk TWICE." my next adventure is june 2. going to charter a catamaran with two other couples in belize and hop around their turquoise waters and white sand islands for a week. they look like this: mywebpages.comcast.net -bly

To: abuelita who wrote (25049)	3/30/2003 6:37:34 PM
From: altair19	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104197

Rhoeuze, That was really funny....I must be sick. Altair19@stupidpettricks.com