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SimonV's Journey to Australia

77K views 576 replies 52 participants last post by  bubb2 
#1 ·
Simon left on his cruise to Australia today at around 11:30 am. On his behalf, I would like to say thanks to everyone at Berkeley Marina for making his stay an enjoyable one. All of your help, guidance, and friendship was very much appreciated. So here is a little video of his trip out under the GGB. Its hard to tell, but that is "Goodonya", "Pura Vida", and "Good Grief". The video is not too exciting, and I don't think I really had much choice in the song.

If there are no communications problems, on this thread I will post updates to his journey, along with his positions so you can plot his course on Google or whatever you like. If you have things to tell him, you can post them here or send them to me, and I will cut and paste them to Simon. Please make the messages short. Also, he won't be back on sailnet for a while, so don't expect responses to your posts too quickly.

Fair winds Simon!

http://i178.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid178.photobucket.com/albums/w241/eastbaylostboys/sailnet08/simonleaves.flv
 
#165 ·
This evening's radio chat logged him at 19º 51'N 129º 16'W. The big news today is he caught his first fish - perhaps a blue fin tuna. The first meal out of him was delish, and there is enough left over for a few more. He said the cockpit looked like a crime scene when he was done with the filleting job.

Greg
s/v Pura Vida
 
#168 ·
That's about right... I got 1300 miles using Google Earth. :)
 
#170 ·
T34C-

I'm not say how far he has sailed. but what roughly what distance he is from SFO. He did go a bit further west initially and had to south to get back on track... so his log is going to show more than his distance from SFO.
 
#174 ·
TDW—

The higher figure of 1390 is from measuring the distance sailed, since he was westing a bit more than optimal, it is a bit higher than the straight line figure of 1300 or so. :)
 
#179 ·
I for one really appreciate you doing this BF...I tried to do something like this with PBeezer but am pretty much all thumbs with computers..
 
#182 ·
Hey, Simon mentioned to me that he had a friend that was taking a USCG Captains License course in Oakland, CA for a unbelievably good price.
Would that happen to be any of you? (BF, KeelH, etc.)
I am looking at this summer (if my wife grounds me on account of her giving birth-nixing my Hawaii delivery scheduled for a month and a half later).
Thoughts? Suggestions? Experiences?

(soon to be Capt'n) Teddius
 
#184 ·
Hey, Simon mentioned to me that he had a friend that was taking a USCG Captains License course in Oakland, CA for a unbelievably good price.
Would that happen to be any of you? (BF, KeelH, etc.)
I am looking at this summer (if my wife grounds me on account of her giving birth-nixing my Hawaii delivery scheduled for a month and a half later).
Thoughts? Suggestions? Experiences?

(soon to be Capt'n) Teddius
Ted, there was a guy on Craigslist a while back. His company comes here every spring and does it for a little over a grand. I will send you the info if I can find it. I spoke to him briefly. Its probably him.

USP-Nice!
 
#185 ·
You can be one funny dude...:D :D :D
 
#193 ·
See...

I knew that there was reality in there somewhere beneath the dodgey details... OK so they don't do the 6pack then... Good to know. I have a friend that teaches the course, but not for $200 even with the good friend discount (he does after all have bosses). So thats why I wanted to make sure. Thanks..
T
 
#194 ·
Report from Simon 4:01pm

This morning I found 3 flying fish and a squid on the deck, 2 fish were about 5 cm and one was 20 cm. All day they have been jumping out of the water in front of my bow and can fly quite some distance, lots of birds flying around and the water temp is 25C and its hot and muggy with lots of little rain storms passing me.
POS 13,07N 129,09W
 
#197 ·
This morning I found 3 flying fish and a squid on the deck, 2 fish were about 5 cm and one was 20 cm. All day they have been jumping out of the water in front of my bow and can fly quite some distance, lots of birds flying around and the water temp is 25C and its hot and muggy with lots of little rain storms passing me.
POS 13,07N 129,09W
A squid on deck?? What was it doing? Chasing the flying fish?? I don't think I have ever heard of anyone finding a squid on deck without actually catching it beforehand. Must be a world-first!.. :eek:

I wonder if Simon knows that larger flying fish are edible (though not particularly tasty)? :)
 
#201 ·
Not exactly the choice of names if you wanted a unique name for your boat. :) I would be that there's at least 1000 of them in the US alone....and probably a few more in Canada, England, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, etc. :)
 
#203 ·
ARIA in Portuguese means:

"A-sailboat-that-is-very-slow-and-motors-most-of-the-time-aimlessly-with-an-old-fart-
inside-that-takes-photos-and-makes-photoshows-with-them-with-hippie-music-like-Earth-Wind-and-fire-
and-Joan-Baez-and-doesn't-bathe"...more or less.....loses a little in translation
 
#206 ·
ARIA in Portuguese means:

"A-sailboat-that-is-very-slow-and-motors-most-of-the-time-aimlessly-with-an-old-fart-
inside-that-takes-photos-and-makes-photoshows-with-them-with-hippie-music-like-Earth-Wind-
and-fire-and-Joan-Baez-and-doesn't-bathe"...more or less.....loses a little in translation
Thats funny, it means the same thing in english!:D :D
(I'm now ducking and running for cover!)
 
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