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Boat Discussion / Re: An old girlfriend just cal...

Last post by Godot - March 31, 2026, 10:49:46 PM

Godot, your Bayfield 29 is a great boat for day sailing or cruising. I love the huge forward head.

Yes, great boat! Personally, I love the shallow draft! So important in the keys or Bahamas! Awesome cruiser

It's a good boat. Quite liveable. Reasonably comfortable. Easy and safe to move about above and below deck. Slow in light air, and not exactly quick to manuever. Shallow draft is great in the Chesapeake. A full keel means I never really worry about hitting a crab pot. If I can't have a head next to the companionway, all the way in the bow is pretty good. I'm not a huge fan of v-berths in small boats (I'm not as spry as I used to be), and it seems like a good place for a head. It is a little bouncy underway, though, which is less than ideal. And if I store wet gear there it means dragging it through the saloon first, right by all the bunks I desperately want to keep dry.

But this thread is about Frank's girlfriend. Perhaps I'll revisit the strengths and weaknesses of my Bayfield 29, now that I've had a dozen (probably more...it's been awhile) years with her in another thread sometime soon. I've got a lot of thoughts.

#72

sailFar.net Discussion / Re: I'm about to buy a GIANT f...

Last post by Godot - March 31, 2026, 10:39:00 PM

I'm always at a loss when it comes to tragedy, bad news, the aft end of life's timeline. It's never easy and sadly non-negotiable. But the end of one story usually means the beginning of another. Best of luck through it all.

If you do youtube it, I can't say you'll make any money or get any recognition, but I'll subscribe. It's a lot of work, so I think you really have to enjoy it to make it worth while. Barry "The Old Seadog" Perrins seems to be doing well with nary a bikini in sight, so you never know.

#73

sailFar.net Discussion / Re: Time….

Last post by CapnK - March 31, 2026, 06:20:25 PM

So, we live on the water and I take little trips to "keep the dream alive".

Makes me think of:

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends"

Friends...and/or, perhaps, his wife, & partner in life. :) Good on ya.

#74

sailFar.net Discussion / Re: Time….

Last post by wolverine - March 31, 2026, 05:55:06 PM

Man dreams, time laughs, and or something like that.

On my wife's and my first date we walked along the Chicago lake front and I pointed out the different sailboats and their rigging. She asked how I knew so much about sailboats. I told her I planned on retiring on a sailboat and seeing the world. We'll be married 48 years this May, I've been retired 7 years, and I'm still not living on a sailboat. Not that she didn't want to, but because she can't. At 29 she had a stroke that put her in a wheelchair for several years. She walks now, but only on level, even surfaces. Moving about on a boat is impossible. So, we live on the water and I take little trips to "keep the dream alive".

[Edit: Didn't work out. Gonna go with the original rig - mostly. :)]

#75

sailFar.net Discussion / I'm NOT about to buy a GIANT f...

Last post by CapnK - March 31, 2026, 04:11:03 PM

Edit: Didn't work out. Gonna go with the original rig - mostly. :)

For a junk rig mast, that is. A 35' composite light pole manufactured by - get this - Shakespeare, the fishing rod company. lol

It's maybe for Katie the Ariel, maybe for Sundance the A-30.

I'm in the process of moving off the I-36, and back onto Katie. Plan to load her up with everything I want to have for 'down the road', and see if, with my interior mods in mind and roughed-in into temporary place, she will work out to have the stowage I need for the long haul. A few weeks of living aboard with all that should tell the tale.
If not - then Sundance.

Right now tho I'm trying to figure out how to get a 35' long - but only 130 lb - pole from near Atlanta to here in Gtown. I have some ideas to do with boat trailers and fetching it myself, but will wait and see if I can get it picked up and delivered by a trucker person instead.

My almost 90 year old mother has come down with dementia and aphasia. She is a few years into it now, but not so bad that she doesn't know who her kids are yet. Our names do escape her at times, and I know worse than that is an eventuality. I cannot leave her until she no longer knows or cares whether or not I am here. At that time, Good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, I'll become as Franks post puts it, someone living their dream again, instead of simply dreaming about it.

Also, my best friend Barque the Crewdog is 13 now and it is telling. It is getting difficult for him to go up/down the companionway, and slippery surfaces are tricky as well. So I know there's a pile of loss in my future to deal with, before I get to cut the docklines...

Still have lots of work to do, either way with either boat. Thinking about Youtubing it. Tho' single old guys with no bikinis aboard don't get the "famousness" of those who do, maybe enough folks would like it to make it worthwhile.

Anyone with a 25'ish foot long trailer happen to be traveling from Hotlanta this way any time soon? I can help pay for your trip... :D

#76

sailFar.net Discussion / Re: Time….

Last post by CapnK - March 31, 2026, 03:50:31 PM

I seen countless dreamers over the years. I've known countless people that have lived their dreams..

I've been both. Thankfully and overall in my life, moreso the latter.
Unfortunately more recently, it seems/feels more of the former... but objectively even tho' my movement slows, it hasn't yet stopped...

#77

Boat Discussion / Re: An old girlfriend just cal...

Last post by Bob J - March 31, 2026, 05:34:44 AM

The Sugerloaf ski area sticker on the bar jumped right out. Pretty cool! Looks like a nice place to hang out :)

#78

Boat Discussion / Re: An old girlfriend just cal...

Last post by Frank - March 30, 2026, 06:27:06 AM

Little Harbour, which is exactly that, is at the SE end of the Abacos. Last stop before "heading outside"
Lots of history there...
Lunch at Pete's Pub is a must..

Sign
Pub
Harbour
Art shop

#79

Boat Discussion / Re: An old girlfriend just cal...

Last post by wolverine - March 28, 2026, 10:38:45 PM

Godot, your Bayfield 29 is a great boat for day sailing or cruising. I love the huge forward head.

Yes, great boat! Personally, I love the shallow draft! So important in the keys or Bahamas! Awesome cruiser

Yes, shallow draft definitely has its advantages. I was driving north summer of '24 to look at an Island Packet 27 with a centerboard. They only draw 2 1/2' with the board up. Unfortunately a semi drifted into my lane and totaled my car. It took 2 weeks to sort that mess out and by then the seller gave it to a relative. 😒

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Boat Discussion / Re: An old girlfriend just cal...

Last post by Frank - March 28, 2026, 06:58:19 PM

Godot, your Bayfield 29 is a great boat for day sailing or cruising. I love the huge forward head.

Yes, great boat! Personally, I love the shallow draft! So important in the keys or Bahamas! Awesome cruiser