Introductions / How did you find sailFar.net?

[chef]

Just a newbie looking in

I'm just a little boater.......and I hide lot.

[Captain Smollett]

Welcome aboard, Chef.  What kind of boat do you sail?  It's not enought to say "little" around here.   ;)

[chef]

I've a wood kit sail boat that I use to learn with. It's 12 feet long, with plywood hull, pine stays.

I did a refinish of the inside and out a few years ago, and I'm going to start doing it again.

Live currently in North east, so it's under the snow right now....

[AdriftAtSea]

Chef--

Welcome to Sailfar.net.  What kind of kit boat is she??

[Auspicious]

Welcome aboard chef! Are you really? We love talking about food here. Can't sail if you don't eat.

[chef]

Dave?

It's Arthur....

LOL.............

[chef]

Chef--

Welcome to Sailfar.net.  What kind of kit boat is she??

There is no marking on her except a tattoo 'Lane 40'. There is nothing else anywhere.

[AdriftAtSea]

I take it you didn't build her then. :)

Chef--

Welcome to Sailfar.net.  What kind of kit boat is she??

There is no marking on her except a tattoo 'Lane 40'. There is nothing else anywhere.

[Auspicious]

It's Arthur....

Welcome Arthur! Good to see you here. Can we see pictures of your little boat?

[Lynx]

Welcome, I like gunkholes as well. There is an art to it that is well shared on this board.

[chef]

As soon as the snow is off it....

[Tamboo]

Hi all.

I came across Sailfar.Net via a posting on cruisersforum.com.

Whilst they have some useful info/discussions, the folk I would consider the 'real world' posters on there seem more often than not downtrodden by the abundance of the big buck bigmouths.

Hopefully, from what I've read so far, this site looks mainly populated by 'real' people and is more in line with my small and simple outlook.


Hope I've not already offended anyone...  ;) ;) ;)



Steve

[CharlieJ]

 ;) Welcome aboard Steve. You'll find the folks here pretty difficult to offend. Takes some work to do it.

I looked at your profile but didn't see anything on your boat or area. Where is ya and what boat are you owned by?

[TJim]

Second Charlies comments....Sounds like this is where you belong...

[Tim]

Ditto,

Welcome  Steve

"Small Boats and Small Egos Sail Far"

[Tamboo]

Thanks for the welcome.

I'm UK East Coast based (the cold North Sea) and will use 2008 to refit my latest sailboat (and one of the shortlist I've always fancied), a Kingfisher  K20+. I believe in low cost trial and error so the bermudan rig may well change  and if it doesn't work, I'll try something else.

The K20's... one of those great, tough '60's boats that just keep slowly going, and going, and going... almost wherever you want to point them.
For a little 21' twin-keeler, they have Atlantic crossings, Antartic visits and who knows, they may well have even done the big circle(?).

[CharlieJ]

one ting you'll find here- we wanna see pictures- always wanting pictures. Many of us have gotten some really good ideas from pictures or even  something seen in the background, in pictures posted here. Also use the members galleries. Ours is labeled CharlieJ and we are quite proud of the boat.

[Tamboo]

one ting you'll find here- we wanna see pictures- always wanting pictures. Many of us have gotten some really good ideas from pictures

Good point; pictures really can tell a thousand words.

I've put a couple of Tamboo (as she was advertised) in a new gallery for general interest.

[AdriftAtSea]

Welcome to sailfar Tamboo.  :)

I've read about the kingfishers, and like what I've read.

[Toucantook]

I found this site by reference by somebody on the Trailer Sailor site.  Good bunch there.

I have two cruisers.  Toucan is a Liberty 28 that I built from a hull and deck, and which I've had as far as Grenada during a 13 month cruise in 1996-97.  Easily the coolest thing I've ever done, followed by a 900 mile loaded bicycle tour around the South Island of New Zealand in 1993.  I've also lived aboard her for almost 30 years up until last June, when my mom had a stroke.  Now she is my brother's back yard on stands so that I can care for mom.

The other cruiser, and my current link to sanity, is Nano.  She is an 8ft dink that has  covered sleeping for one, a one burner stove, and an oven.  She has a 5in cowl vent forward of the mast set up in a Dorade arrangement for ventilation when the canopy is up.  The rig is off a Dyer 10 that I had a couple of decades ago.  This makes her considerably over rigged, so I put two reef points.  Flotation is provided by large pool noodles lashed to the outside of the guwale and a large Watershed dry bag.  She is the consummate gunkholer.

The next foray with Nano will be in a few weeks.  I plan to leave Flamingo and sail across the Bay of Florida to Marathon and back.  But I'm really looking forward to the B.E.E.R. in June.