Introductions / How did you find sailFar.net?

[Frank]

welcome!!   Amazing before/after pic  ;D  Aren't power washers just the greatest!!!

[Frank]

Hello Tench.  Where on Lake Ontario are you??

[Hydroace]

I can see that this site is going to be the source of all kinds of trouble. I'll be wanting to read when I should be working on the boat. Perhaps I can download a batch and read while underway. Hmmm.

I'm planning a trip around the Great Loop beginning in May of 2015, and found the site while researching what others have done in their little boats, and how they did it. I want all my mistakes to be originals! I began documenting preparations for the trip earlier this year at great-loop.us; if any of you get the inclination (and a spare few minutes), take a look and weigh in with your thoughts.

This is a great site, and I'm looking forward to everyone's tales, trials, and tribulations (and perhaps the occasional libation when rafting up).
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Edit: guess I need direction as to how to drag 'n drop smileys. Where'd I go wrong??

[s/v Faith]

Stopping by to introduce myself.  I'm H3LlIoN, I'm just starting out on my pacific seacraft mariah.  I'm currently in St. Croix, bound for Virginia for haul and refit over the course of the next year or so while I finish some things stateside.  I then plan to head out cruising full time.  Heard about sailfar from the guys on the forums over @ cruisingoutpost.

-h3

Welcome aboard!

I was in St. Croix a couple weeks ago (S Cacos right now) and stayed at the mooring feild right off of the. Schooner channel.  Where do you keep your boat? St. Croix marine by any chance? 

[CharlieJ]

Hydroace--For the smilies shown, all you have to do is click them-it'll put them where your typing cursor is sitting :) ;) :D

[Hydroace]

 ;D Got it! The first thing I learned at SailFar - how to insert smileys! Somehow that's appropriate  ::)

[Hydroace]

@ S/V Faith - Thanks for permission to board the forum. Or forum the board. Or something.

I ran across a post on another forum that seems appropriate here:

Major Jones is Satisfied

In case you missed the 70's, a Jones is a yearning. So let's talk yearnings. I'm not going to ask you yours and I'm not telling you most of mine, because then we'd have to lie. You'd have to say something about Mahler and I'd have to respond with Adria. Pish and Tosh. What I want to do is take a risk and tell you about my major jones, no make that Major Jones.

My Major Jones goes back to 1983. I crossed the Atlantic Ocean as crew in a 92 foot, steel-hulled wishbone ketch named Sintra. Life-altering blah blah blah, but there were two effects of that trade-winds cause. One was that I will forever be in love with everybody who made that crossing with me. The other is that I have wanted sailing ever since. Yes, wanted to move across water powered by wind. Waves, breeze, smell, difficulty, craft, strategy. Elementary.

I've owned a couple of sailboats since then, one of them so beautiful that I could cry about it, but neither of them addressed, much less satisfied Major Jones. What the Major wants is a boat on which a man could sail out on big water, go to sleep and then wake up and sail some more. The Major wants a boat that feels just a little bit like home, that smells a little bit like adventure, that shrinks the world and blows it wide open at the same time. A boat where you plot your course, cook your dinner, drop your anchor and pick it up again. The Major wants to be able to go to the boat any time, to sail in the rain or eat a cheese sandwich in the cockpit and not leave the dock on the prettiest day of the year.

Now, like every other unresolved human being, I've got a Jones family. Fortunately, it's a family that shrinks every year. Most of my Joneses now are about accomplishments or wishes for some certain younger souls who - I assume - have Joneses of their own. I don't care much where I live, hardly want any thing or accolade. But the one persistent, monster, Kick-ass, Grandfather Jones is the one about the sailboat.

...

So here she is. A Rhodes22, red-hulled, white-sailed, carefully designed and reworked by a genius named Stan Spitzer to be sailed single-handed by a jonesing old man on medium-sized water in light to semi heavy air.

I met her last weekend in North Carolina and we had a couple of sails on the Albemarle Sound behind Cape Hatteras. She'll be delivered by trailer up to the Jersey Shore next week. What's it like to have Major Jones satisfied? It doesn't look like any of those Olympic gold-medal winner ecstasy fests. In fact, it's not ecstatic at all.

The feeling is more like coming home after a long trip. It doesn't make you want a new Jones to pursue, it doesn't make you want to promote Major Jones to Colonel and go for a bigger and faster boat. It makes you feel that rarest of modern feelings: satisfied.

Oh yum, savor it - satisfaction - not "closure" or any feeling that diminishes someone else, feel free to smack your lips and throw a twenty in the collection plate the next time it comes your way.

The best thing is that having one Major Jones satisfied, makes you inclined to see the rest of your personal Jones family in a different light: a slanted, low-angled, orangey light reflected off brackish water filled with life. Sometimes, the Major says, enough is enough and if the Major is satisfied, maybe you should be too.

... wish I could write like that - but that was courtesy of Lynn Hoffman, on the Rhodes 22 forum. I will go one step further though. Getting Magic Moments was a major step towards my Jones, but my zen lies in the journey - I have to get in the boat. I don't necessarily have to cast off on any given day or, if I do cast off, I don't have to journey to fabled ports or stay on any particular schedule. My Major Jones is just to get on the boat - and savor the possibilities.  

oh, BTW, Magic Moments is in a hoist hanging over the Detroit River in Gibraltar, Michigan - taunting me just outside the window ;)

[Captain Smollett]

I ran across a post on another forum that seems appropriate here:

That was really cool.  Thanks for posting it!

[dan_s28]

In response to Frank. Power washers are indeed great BUT for any boaters that need to clean plastic / fiberglass or even tile in Bathrooms, there is some
stuff at Home Depot called "Mold Armor mold remover" in a green bottle. It is amazing stuff, and I used it on my blue canvas covers and it did not bleach it out. Tip: don't buy the stuff in the same looking bottle called Mold Blocker by same company - it won't work! A few people at my marina have used it to clean their desks with amazing results also.

The sides are painted with Interlux Perfection Snow White, rolled and brush tipped. I did not paint my deck just pressure washed with cleaner I mentioned above.

-Dan

[oRion2284]

Hello everyone! I initially stumbled across this website when I typed the name of a boat I was considering buying into google. The boat was the Pearson Triton "Deep Blue" owned by the late Phil Prosser. I had found Deep Blue for sale on craigslist not far from where I currently live, and after having spent at least the last two years combing the internet for a good deal on a bluewater boat, I believed at least initially Deep Blue fit the bill. After finding Phil's posts on this website, reading his obituary, and learning that he was a fellow Coloradan I was sold (after of course seeing the boat in person). I typed in his username here and read every one of his post's. They and all of your comments were so educational and inspiring that I thought it would be a mistake not to join. I am much younger than Phil, but am coming up on a time in my life when I will finally be free from land-locking obligations, and am planning on continuing the "Adventures of Deep Blue." No concrete plans as of where, exactly when, or how (with my limited experience), but most likely this fall I will be moving aboard and sailing south.

Fair Winds,
Ryan

[Captain Smollett]

Welcome aboard, Ryan.

That's really awesome that Deep Blue has found a new home with someone passionate about sailing.  I'm looking forward to hearing about her continued adventures.

[CharlieJ]

Welcome aboard, Ryan.

That's really awesome that Deep Blue has found a new home with someone passionate about sailing.  I'm looking forward to hearing about her continued adventures.

Agree completely. I saw Deep Blue when I was in Soloman's Island , but missed seeing Phil. Alas, there was never another chance

[Snapdragon]

Welcome to the forum Ryan. Looking forward to seeing you on the water!

We should all take Charlie's experience to heart and never miss an opportunity to meet fellow sailfarers when they come within hailing distance.

[s/v Faith]

What a great connection.  I am glad you found us, and I also look forward to hearing about your future adventures.

Welcome.

[Waving]

Waving...just waving, not the other thing. Just to say hallo. I found the site - and all you people - just looking for answers and hints on all the little details (devils) I'd like to straighten out as I try to get a 19 footer together to sail along the UK coast a bit. I went to sea as a 17yr old on a cargo ship, later lived on a 28 ft sailboat for some years but not done any long voyages under sail. Much older now and want to simply spend some time sailing. Or spend some time simply sailing. I'm absolutely certain you know what I mean. Which is why I'm here. :)

[Tim]

Welcome, and you certainly are in the right place

[moondancerl]

I was searching for other sailors who sail 29' Bayfields and found someone discussing a purchase of a Bayfield on your forum.  I would like to have a foru,m for sailing info etc.

Looks like a nice group of sailors at this site.

Cheers

Moondancerl 

[Flyer]

My name is Mike Mallory. I met D. Franklin and C. Amos in Grand Turk and they gave me a SailFar sticker.. so here I am.
My yacht is a 28' Bristol Channel Cutter. I bought a semi-complete boat from the factory in 1994  and finished it myself in Bothell, WA. It was christened in July of 1998 after which I took a leave from my job as an airline pilot and sailed to the Bahamas via the Panama Canal. I lived aboard in the Bahamas during the winter for the next 11 years, storing the boat in Indiantown, FL for hurricane season. In 2011 I took another leave and have just completed a solo circumnavigation (Mar 11-Mar 13)

Cheers,
M

[SalientAngle]

My name is Mike Mallory. I met D. Franklin and C. Amos in Grand Turk and they gave me a SailFar sticker.. so here I am.
My yacht is a 28' Bristol Channel Cutter. I bought a semi-complete boat from the factory in 1994  and finished it myself in Bothell, WA. It was christened in July of 1998 after which I took a leave from my job as an airline pilot and sailed to the Bahamas via the Panama Canal. I lived aboard in the Bahamas during the winter for the next 11 years, storing the boat in Indiantown, FL for hurricane season. In 2011 I took another leave and have just completed a solo circumnavigation (Mar 11-Mar 13)

Cheers,
M

I look forward to the wisdom you bring on so many levels, cheers!!!

[SalientAngle]

I have been reading "the book of flyer"... a most excellent blog... bookofflyer.blogspot.com