Fight Club____for Sailors

[CharlieCobra]

Hmm, Surf, you're attracting new detractors daily. Went sailing after work in some light air and found out today I have pneumonia. I reckon it's time to quit smoking for good.

[MikeGC]

Have not posted anything since I took the sailor test and found out that only am I not a sailor but also I do not sail. This has prompted me to really dig and I think I am about finished with the varnishing and am ready to leave the dock One problem I have fallen in love with boat maintenance so I may just have some rum.

Have really enjoyed reading the thread and all the give and take. I learned today that I may be the number one threat to democracy being one of those right wing Jesus types. I appreciate the comment and will thoughtfully consider my actions to ensure that I don’t cause the total collapse of the nation. I do however believe that the first amendment got it right especially that part about prohibit the free exorcize thereof.

Feel free to have fun with this. For me I have had all the fun that a not sailing sailor is allowed for one day so I will go back to work and contemplate my next sojourn into the world of varnishing wood work.

Yall have fun because I am a gonna

[Dewey Benson]

Originally Posted by MikeGC

I do however believe that the first amendment got it right especially that part about prohibit the free exorcize thereof.

If you truly believe in the first amendment than you are not a threat to freedom.

However if you want to ....uh......"Exorcize" the first amendment. Then you are most certainly anti freedom.

Your Insane Uncle Dewey

[Dewey Benson]

Charlie,

You runnin a high fever? Or do you have that walking stuff?

Whatever; take care of it, like now dude.

Dewey

[CharlieCobra]

I had the fever last night and it feels like it's coming back again. I worked through the entire episode last time but this time feels a bit worse. Gotta go see the Doc and get something for it.

[TrueBlue]

See that doc soon Charlie . . pneumonia could lead to something more serious, like asthma. Two winters ago and three weeks before a scheduled diving vacation in Mexico, I developed congested lungs and a fever. The doc diagnosed it as pnuemonia and I don't smoke. He gave me an antibiotic which cleared up the nasties in 10 days. I had no more congestion and no embolisms, even while at 130 ft.

[kevlarpirate]

This is a very entertaining thread and I commend Surf for his vision. Highly successful! I am new here and have read the first 20 or so posts but then got impatient and skipped to the most recent.
Many interesting stories! So along the lines of dipping a rail, I give you this most recent adventure with our Ericson 46.

We have crossed many times to Catalina Island from Angels Gate LA harbor (22 mi.) mostly with light winds in the AM building to give us some excitement in the last hour, then dropping sail, get our mooring can, blow the dingy up and BBQ into the night on shore. Later we lie on deck under a million stars with the Milkyway climbing high above our heads. Life is good. This last time however, the wind was 18 true out the gate at 9 AM, had been blowing all night with 6 foot seas greeting us. Wind built to 22 true, half way across and nearby seas lumping above the horizon as I stand about 9 feet above the water when driving on the high side. Apparent wind 50-60 deg and 20+ heel Boat speed 8.3+ boat totally dialed in, splitting waves into white water. Occasionally we would dip a rail when we came into a trough then just as quick climb up the face or split a white horse in two. Seas continued to build , after mid channel we had a set of three 12’s go under us and looked up the back sides as they rushed away . I was so stoked I almost unraveled. We shipped a good 4 inches of green water 3 or 4 times on some steep ones, and watched as it rushed back, shot up over the hardware and rained down like diamonds in the sun. I told my wife that she would never see me more excited than this moment!! After we landed and did our BBQ, shot some rum neat (including underway I might proudly add)… as real sailors do and always will.
( despite the bleeding liberal safety minded left wing lectures) .
The excitement of this crossing lasted for days. It was a month ago and I am still smiling and hoping we get another one of those days The excitement took me back 30 years to the SORC off Florida. Wet Decks, I love it and I hope That’s how I go out of this world some day, not too soon.

[MikeGC]

God bless you. You are exactly right the word is exercise not exorcize which is totally different. The list of my short comings continues to grow.

I apologize for digressing from the noble topic of sailing to something so low as politics.

I will now sit down and shut up until I have some input on sailing

[foxglove]

Kevlarpirate

I liked your story. We too have crossed to Catalina but from San Diego in a chartered boat. We never found the excitement that you did. The Pacific was pacified on the times we sailed.

We have, however, enjoyed some 6 to 8's in Lake Erie, famous for building large wave over the shallow western basin. My favorite is to sail beam to the waves as long as thay aren't breaking. You find yourself in the trough and can't see anything except the crests towering over you and then suddenly you are lifted high enough to see for miles. At night, you can see the lights of Clevland, Toledo and Detroit all at the same time from the top of those crests.

Surfing downwind with only a jib flying in 8 to 10's in Lake Huron was the first time that my wife felt truely excited about sailing. The power people don't know what they are missing.

Max

[Dewey Benson]

Originally Posted by MikeGC

God bless you. You are exactly right the word is exercise not exorcize which is totally different. The list of my short comings continu

Nonsense my dear fellow! There is no need to apologise. The occational typo is something most of humanity shares with yourself and I.

Oh, I wasn't pointing out anything. I was asking. Thank you for clearing the matter up.

Dewey