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[Skipper Dave]

Connie,

Saw the pictures of Pixie Dust...Looks Great and bigger than a 27ft.  Oh and that captain is a real hottie too.

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This morning it looked so nice out I thought I'd leave it out.

S/V "Tina Marie" Cal 2-27

[Pixie Dust]

LOL Skipper Dave.  Capt is really a "hottie" during the summers here in FL...no pun intended.    8)
PD is really roomy below.  Allows me to store lots of food and wine.    ;)

[CharlieH]

HI gang,

CharlieH here.  Snowbound on the shores of Lake Erie.

Have a 1983 Holder 17 and a 1974 Hunter 25.  The hunter will be my sailfar vessel, though the Holder has carried me quite far already!

Charlie

[CharlieJ]

Howdy Charlie- welcome to the site, since Kurt is traveling.

Folks- wait'll you see the job Charlie is doing on that Hunter.

[Pixie Dust]

Welcome CharlieH! We look forward to seeing the boat modifications!  Wishing you some warm weather with a melt down soon!   8)

[CapnK]

Hey K3v|n ;) Good to see you here, I remember your name from the CPYOA. Jump on into the fray! :D

CH! Man, I was just up your way for a few days - Man is it ever *cold* up there! :D The bluepoxy Hunter is going to be an admirable boat for you to sailfar in/on! :) Go ahead and make yourself an Album for her in the Gallery if you'd like, then the rest of the folks here can see all the work you've done and will do yet. :D

[triton114]

I recently happened on this forum.  I working on a long term refit on my 1960 Pearson Triton that can be seen at my web site:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jrhensonjr/

The site has not been updated in some time, and it always seem like I don't get to often enough.

Joe

[CharlieJ]

Welcome to the board Joe. Your Triton is one year older than our Rhodes Meridian 25.

Have you found the Triton board as yet- also known as Classic Plastic? You probably have, but in case not here's a link

http://www.triton381.com/forum/

[triton114]

Charlie,

I have been there a couple of years now, but am new to this one.
I have enjoyed seeing the photos of your restoration/refit on the Meridian.  Very nice!

Thanks,

Joe

[CharlieJ]

Thank you sir. We've had fun doing her. The boat restoration is an ongoing project though as I'm sure you'll understand :)

By the way- that looks like extremely nice work on self draining frames on the cockpit lockers. Not an easy job that.

[triton114]

Thanks,

I'm glad to have it behind me.

Joe

[CapnK]

Welcome aboard, Joe! Like me, you have a boat the same age as yourself. This begs the question: Synchronicity? Maybe that we-n-our-boats were born the same year was/is some sort of plan? (Hmmm, stop me from sinking into the metaphysical sea... ;) )

;D

Looked at your site - that's an "interesting" take on the bow pulpit modification that the previous owner had! ;)

Also, saw you are a pilot - lots of those here on SailFar! You are in good company...

[triton114]

Thanks!  I appreciate the welcome.

Joe

[Zen]

I see my mentor has joined the forum here  ;)

s/v Seraphim , Yokuso Bill-san Konnichiwa

[Zen]

Aloha Shakabrah !

Don't be shy just jump right in  ;D ;D

[CapnK]

There's a few new folsk around here lately - Welcome, y'all! Good to hear from you/have you here. :)

[Oldrig]

Hi everybody, I recently found this site through CapnK's reappearance at the renegade cruisers site. (I gleaned some terrific tips from his old Epiphany site, back when I was sailing an 18-foot Marshall catboat with no power or electronics.) It's great to find folks who are fascinated with traveling large distances in small sailboats.

I've got a 1982-built Cape Dory 25D that I moor in a small saltpond on Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Unfortunately, she's not in the water right now, and I left some port holes open to air out the cabin--we've just had a week of rain. I hope everything's OK!

My special interests are: sailing older, traditionally designed boats--preferably smaller ones, finding inexpensive, non-high-tech ways to do that, and just plain sailing.

I've only taken one long trip in my boat so far--60 miles in one day, about 75 miles in two days--in each direction. On that trip I discovered that my old autopilot didn't work, and I realized that I needed to perfect a way to let the boat steer herself under sail, at least for a while.

I guess this means that another interest of mine is sheet-to-tiller steering, since I don't think a windvane system is in the cards for quite a while.

Maybe I'll try to start a thread on that subject in the appropriate section of this board.

--Joe

[Zen]

Welcome Joe!

I think there is a section already on that.

[Coastal Cruiser]

My special interests are: sailing older, traditionally designed boats--preferably smaller ones, finding inexpensive, non-high-tech ways to do that, and just plain sailing.

And what might those traditionally designed boats be? I have that sickness too.  ;)

[AdriftAtSea]

Hi-

My name is Dan, and I sail in the Buzzards Bay region of Massachusetts currently.  My partner is a Telstar 28 trimaran named Pretty Gee, named after the woman I married. 

I am in the process of prepping PG for some longer passages, and post articles about the different projects and trips on my blog.  I invite you all to read it.

I was introduced to the sailfar.net site by Zen, one of my blog readers. Thanks Zen.

Dan