I wish I could go to Portland and see the film festival and share a pint with you, but I'll be hanging my legs over the side of 'Gaucho' a Ross 930 sailboat racing in the Puget Sound Spring Regatta this weekend.
Any sailors here that would like to race? We have found ourselves at this late hour short 1 crew! No Racing Experince Necessary but some Sailing Experience Perferred. Have Foulies and a Good Attitude.
8:30 a.m. Shilshole 'U' dock Slip#36
I'll check here for pm's after the Mariners baseball game tonight.
bott
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:34 pm
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fuck.
thats really tempting, but i need to use the weekend to get *my* boat sailing... it looks like i'll finally get some good weather windows to do exterior work.
I'm working, at work, and on Bott's boat as well. Otherwise I'd help too. Maybe Raz?
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coupdegrace
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:16 pm
Joined: 01 Nov 2006Posts: 168
Thanks for the replies. I do understand the priorities of boat ownership!
It sounds like we got a piece of rail meat for this regatta.
See you on the water or on 2-wheels.
sekai
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:58 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 1466Location: on the lake
hey, any of you have a chart book i could borrow to make a couple copies? I found some charts online but they don't print well. I'm looking at Blake Island.
coupdegrace
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:20 am
Joined: 01 Nov 2006Posts: 168
I don't have a book, but I probably do have the chart. I will have to look and see. It has been long time since I have owned a boat and used my charts on a regular basis. I just sail/race on other folks boats now!
If I have the chart you are welcome to borrow it. I'll let you know tonight.
rlotz
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:41 am
Joined: 23 Jan 2006Posts: 311Location: Capitol Hill
I want to go on some .83 sailing soon, I'd even be happy with just in Lake Union. I'll bring beer and a vague memory of sailing skills that haven't been exercised since junior high school.
sekai
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:56 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 1466Location: on the lake
wW found out last week that we can clear the University and Montlake bridges, that opens up Lake Washington to us, stoked!
Anyways, we might be able to get a small group together. We broke the main sheet block on Tuesday so we got to replace that, but we could do an evening soon.
I don't need a chart for Blake Island, but it would be nice.
Razi
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:48 pm
Joined: 16 Dec 2005Posts: 866Location: Seattle
way late to this thread (I know I vanished. I still exist!)
If peeps wanna sail, I am your man.
I am on the water 7 days a week these days. Teaching at CWB and at UW, plus sailing all over town.
If you wanna sail, PM me. Getting to salt water is sorta tough, but I have run of either lake. We can sail on wooden boats or glass, leadmines or dinghies, monohulls or catamarans...seriously.
And Sekai, a NOAA chart of Puget Sound is <$20. No need to buy a book. Charts are essentially disposable. Besides, the only things to worry about between the locks and Blake Isl. are Restoration Pt. and Blakeley Rocks. Both are pretty easy to avoid (although I know more than 1 vessel that has run aground on the point...) Also watch for a tug hauling a log boom that runs around Manchester, log booms are hard to see and getting between a tug and its load can get really hairy really quickly. Also, why does clearing the bridges matter? The bridges raise if you ask them nicely.
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 1466Location: on the lake
Razi wrote:
way late to this thread (I know I vanished. I still exist!)
If peeps wanna sail, I am your man.
I am on the water 7 days a week these days. Teaching at CWB and at UW, plus sailing all over town.
If you wanna sail, PM me. Getting to salt water is sorta tough, but I have run of either lake. We can sail on wooden boats or glass, leadmines or dinghies, monohulls or catamarans...seriously.
And Sekai, a NOAA chart of Puget Sound is <$20. No need to buy a book. Charts are essentially disposable. Besides, the only things to worry about between the locks and Blake Isl. are Restoration Pt. and Blakeley Rocks. Both are pretty easy to avoid (although I know more than 1 vessel that has run aground on the point...) Also watch for a tug hauling a log boom that runs around Manchester, log booms are hard to see and getting between a tug and its load can get really hairy really quickly. Also, why does clearing the bridges matter? The bridges raise if you ask them nicely.
We got a chart. I don't really know how to read the damn thing but we have one anyways.
Clearing the bridges matters because of the rush hour closures. The PM closure is just about when I'm able pull off the dock.
I'd be interseted in sailing on a cat, on a windy day.
Razi
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:23 am
Joined: 16 Dec 2005Posts: 866Location: Seattle
I'd be happy to teach you a thing or two about piloting in exchange for a pint of beer or some tiller time (I like sailing diff. boats than the 15 or so I normally skipper).
Buy a copy of Chart #1. This is a book that explains every single symbol you will ever find on american charts. It runs maybe $20 at fisheries and is absolutely essential.
Cat sailing is the shit. My on the water record was set in about 15-18kts of breeze on a Hobie SX18, where at one point GPS read that we were going 21kts...a good three or four knots faster than the true wind. The pitchpole that resulted was pretty violent and painful, but worth every moment of that day.
Y'all realize I work at the best book and nav store in Seattle. I can scrounge up used copies and shit. If you are REALLY nice, I'll extend my employee discount. I get charts for 15$ (usually 20). We've got nearly every sailing book you could hope for and enough nav equipment to getcha there.
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coupdegrace
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:17 pm
Joined: 01 Nov 2006Posts: 168
Its a beautiful thing when you can head out thru Admiralty inlet in a thick late August morning fog and cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca dead reckoning and arrive on the otherside with Cattle Point or Smith Island or Bellingham channel or wherever you were pointing at right in front of you without the aid of electronics! Sure it's a little scary especially when you hear things like freighters but oh so satisfying. navigate!
90% of the jerks that come into my shop would be SOL if there GPS batteries ran out.
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bobhall
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:28 pm
Joined: 28 Jul 2006Posts: 460
Cassnasty wrote:
Learn celestial and dead reckoning!
90% of the jerks that come into my shop would be SOL if there GPS batteries ran out.
That's what this is for! :)
Razi
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:21 pm
Joined: 16 Dec 2005Posts: 866Location: Seattle
henry wrote:
Chart 1, yes!
Also, Chapman Piloting. Find a used copy somewhere and soak it all in.
I prefer Annapolis Book of Seamanship. Chapman is a wonderful resource to be sure, but Annapolis is intended for use by sailors, while Chapman covers both sail and powered craft.
I think they run about the same price. Either will do really well. I imagine Chapman is easier to get on the used market though.
Colregs is important too, but holy fuck is that shit boring. I think you are legally required to keep a copy on your boat though, and if you ever have problems sleeping, reading some colregs (esp. the running light diagrams) works in a pinch!
I wish I knew celestial. I am an allright pilot, but offshore nav is a skill I have yet to pick up. I readily admit that taking a sight with a sextant looks way more awesome than catching a bearing with a handheld compass. Too bad Puget Sound is so damn tiny that celestial is pretty much useless.
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