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Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 04-30-2013
Replies: 16
Views: 747
Posted By skygazer
Re: Ever back into the slip under sail power?

Excellent!! And very brave to video it.

I met a couple last summer sailing a yawl with no motor at all, well out in the islands of Maine. They were great at using their two masts to maneuver the...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 12-14-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

Selected quotes from an accuweather news article:




You can't fire me, I quit! LOL


Full article at free site with ads:
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 12-12-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

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Quote from Accuweather Premium, a paid service. I'm sure the NOAA administrator step down has nothing to do with Sandy. :rolleyes:

But there have been lots of conflicting and confusing...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 12-11-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

Doesn't the bible talk about building your house on a rock, or on sand? Something like - And the winds came, and the waters came, and great was the fall of it (the house built on sand). Better...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 12-11-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

Very interesting read. The National Weather Service (NWS) computers are only 10% as powerful as the European model computers, with a discussion of other problems within the NWS. One commenter agrees...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 12-05-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

Breaking: NHC Modifies Hurricane Warning Definition in Wake of Sandy

Following the criticism of the National Hurricane Center's handling of Hurricane Sandy and the non-issuance of hurricane...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 11-21-2012
Replies: 115
Views: 7,674
Posted By skygazer
Re: can I afford to continue sailing

Very cool :cool:. I had a somewhat similar experience, I had similar sized boat, and I told my wife I wanted to get another, a larger one, or "maybe a smaller one that she could sail herself to learn...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 11-18-2012
Replies: 18
Views: 1,362
Posted By skygazer
Re: What's it really like out there?

Thank you, I thought I wasn't FADdish enough with my acronyms for my answer to be appreciated.

You are right, the logs slowly sank, but I think they felt that seasoned logs would sink even faster,...
Forum: herSailNet 11-16-2012
Replies: 17
Views: 1,392
Posted By skygazer
DIAMONDS, your diamond, may not be forever

Today my wife lost the diamond out of her ring. She is UPSET! Ladies, check your ring, here is how. A simple eyeball check is way better than nothing, any sort of magnifier check is much better. Each...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 11-16-2012
Replies: 18
Views: 1,362
Posted By skygazer
Re: What's it really like out there?

Also there is a big difference between a fast, clean, high sided sailboat, and a slow, low raft acting like a tea-strainer, letting the water through but staining out the flying fish. Bet they also...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 11-13-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

Chef, I agree with you about the media hype. They aren't really trying help, they just like hype and overtime $$. And repeating and repeating and repeating! I don't follow them.

Thanks smurphy, I...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 11-13-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

ECMWF still showing a miserable looking storm driving wind and wave into the same decimated mid Atlantic area around the 20th, if anything it shows it tightening up. Then it has it hook out around...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 11-09-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

I don't like seeing a repeated pattern setting up with storms hitting the same devastated area. First Sandy, then the nor'easter with wind and snow. Now the ECMWF is showing another seemingly...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 11-08-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

Thanks for that link, since this is a boat forum I'll mention particularly that if you scroll 1/4 of the way down there is a before photo of hundreds of boats at finger docks. The after photo shows...
Forum: herSailNet 11-04-2012
Replies: 70
Views: 3,886
Posted By skygazer
Re: How many women here own their own boat?

Smart move!! Congratulations on your marriage.
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 11-04-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

Thanks, that is a good read, not an accident report but a "painting" in language of one person's feelings and experience of being there.
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 11-03-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

Happy to report that CalebD and his boat both survived the storm. He just got power back.
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 11-01-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
No Hurricane Warning for What Could Be the Most Expensive Storm in History

Saw this on Accuweather today, a video made before Sandy hit. Part of the article:

AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers urged the National Hurricane Center (NHC) to reverse its decision not to issue...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 10-31-2012
Replies: 1,949
Views: 92,908
Posted By skygazer
Re: HMS Bounty in trouble...

I still don't feel that I know what information the captain of Bounty had on hand. While many of you live in the city and have a constant flow of information, I rely on a tiny battery operated...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 10-31-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

I'm delighted to see so many who posted still posting, thus they made it through the storm and have time enough and power to post. Thanks Chef for your updates as the storm came through.

I see a...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 10-29-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

Although this says plan view, it should have said elevation view. It's of a vertical slice north to south through the center of Sandy' GFS solution just off the coast of NJ.

You can see how...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 10-29-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

I agree with you completely, the weather sciences have been making steady and remarkable improvements, I really like and trust them. I merely believe they should share the knowledge in front of them,...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 10-29-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

I'm no expert, but I believe insurance companies are "old fashioned" enough that if it's a named storm, they are with it to the end.

Of course, for a few billion they may wish to modernize. ...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 10-29-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

If the National Hurricane Center and the weather services were not busy playing games with our tax dollars, the Bounty would have clearly known the risks - it was Thursday for heavens sake. They were...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 10-29-2012
Replies: 264
Views: 13,609
Posted By skygazer
Re: Halloween Hurricane

Your you tube really cracked me up, I laughed out loud a lot!

Thanks for the bright "spot" ("come on boy, here spot") in my morning.
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