Happy new year

[Frank]

Hope the crew here has a healthy and fun filled (as in more time on the water...less at work) new year !!

[CaptMac]

Amen to that, and happy new year to all

[Oldrig]

Fair winds, following seas and lots of time on the water to all.

Happy New Year!

[CharlieJ]

Happy New Year from Laura and I, to all our SailFar friends.

[Jim_ME]

Wishing you all a Happy New Year (and a short mild winter).

[Zen]

Happy New Year and Fair Winds to all !

[Zen]

Happy New Year again Mates!! We of the Zen Team wish you the best of New Year !

We went sailing on New Year Day circumnavigated ...the island of Alameda  ;)

We have been living on the Zen II for about 3 months now, adjusting to life in WaterWorld.

I am involved with 2 boats now. One is from Japan and elec.

So far we are still casting off Sept/Oct, No idea where the money is coming from, but I do not know where we came from either, yet I continue.

Swing by the blog if you want details...

I'll be back  8)

[Tim]

Happy New Year Zen, I will have my Cape Dory down at OYC this coming weekend, where are you located? (I tried to go back through the blog to figure out, but got lost  ;D )

[Zen]

Shucks, missed you. I am near by at Alameda Marina!  8)

[Jim_ME]

Happy New Year, Zen, Tim, and all.

[CapnK]

A somewhat belated HNY to you all from myself and the "1 & 3/4 CrewDogs" :D, and thanks for all the good wishes, too!

Go Team Zen! It's life changing, isn't it?  :)

BTW, I did get to speak too briefly with Connie/Pixie dust over the holidays, and she asked me to tell all her sailFar friends hello and Happy Holidays! She was in the States for a couple of days being Mrs Santa for her grandkids. :) Life is going well for her still, she did sell Pixie Dust and her and her fiance have a larger boat now, specifically to entice and accommodate kids and grandkids to visit the islands. :D Pixie Dust is anchored near her, though, and she still keeps an weather eye on her for the new owners.

I hope we all have a great 2012!  8)

[Oldrig]

A somewhat belated HNY to you all from myself and the "1 & 3/4 CrewDogs"

A belated HNY to everybody!

BTW, Kurt, are the CrewDogs OK? (BTW we lost our dry-land-only cat on Dec. 31. He was 19 years old at the time. Very sad.)

--Joe

[CapnK]

Hi Joe! The CrewDogs are doing great, all things considered. Buffett had a cancer appear on his starboard foreleg a few years ago, and cutting it off only worked for a while before it came back. I waited as long as possible because he doesn't have the best 'sea legs' :) but eventually had to get the leg removed this past summer when he could no longer effectively use it. The tumor had grown around and into the muscles, tendons, & whatnot, and his dog doc said the best thing was to remove the whole leg. I was worried about it and how he would cope at the time, but have learned that, as one lady related to me how her vet had put it: "Dogs are born with an extra leg." :) Handy, that! He gets around just as well as he used to, and I refer to him affectionately as "my 3/4's of a dog".  ;)

The funniest thing is the looks I get from dockwalkers, when they ask what happened: I tell 'em I had taken him with me out to go shark fishing one day, when we inadvertently ran out of bait, so he gave it up for the cause.

That people will actually believe that, even if only for a few seconds, is the truly amazing thing...  ;D

[Tim]

Shucks, missed you. I am near by at Alameda Marina!  8)

Dang, I sailed by you more than once  :) I will know next time, I will be down again.

[Captain Smollett]

The funniest thing is the looks I get from dockwalkers, when they ask what happened: I tell 'em I had taken him with me out to go shark fishing one day, when we inadvertently ran out of bait, so he gave it up for the cause.

That people will actually believe that, even if only for a few seconds, is the truly amazing thing...  ;D

And here I figured with the kind tight ship you run, that you'd them some variation of "he didn't set the mainsail when I ordered "Set the Main!"  He does now."