Sailing Bucket List

[Rasputin22]

N2E is an awesome race, Mac race is also awesome ( done both Macs and N2E). Would love to do the Bermuda and Transpac. 

I found a certificate (attached is not the one from my father but exactly the same) that my father received while in the military and crossed over the 180th Meridian.  My father was not a water person, he must have been pretty nervous on that journey.

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     I was awarded one of those before I could even walk! My Mom and I took a steamer from San Francisco to Guam with a stop in Honolulu. I saw the thing recently in her basement, I better rescue it. Actually I crossed the 180th Meridian twice. A year and a half later on an airliner, if you could call the old piston craft of those days a 'liner'. They couldn't fly high enough to go over the tops of tropical thunderstorms and we got into some pretty serious according to my Mom. I was about two years old and had a stuffed puppy dog toy with me and my Mom says I was at the window seat watching every lightning strike as we plowed right through the nighttime thunderheads. She said the nearby passengers got really ugly when I started holding my toy puppy up to the window and say with glee, "Look Goggy, airplane fall down!" 

    I guess I should add that I was dyslexic when I was young...

 

[LTR]

     I was awarded one of those before I could even walk! My Mom and I took a steamer from San Francisco to Guam with a stop in Honolulu. I saw the thing recently in her basement, I better rescue it. Actually I crossed the 180th Meridian twice. A year and a half later on an airliner, if you could call the old piston craft of those days a 'liner'. They couldn't fly high enough to go over the tops of tropical thunderstorms and we got into some pretty serious according to my Mom. I was about two years old and had a stuffed puppy dog toy with me and my Mom says I was at the window seat watching every lightning strike as we plowed right through the nighttime thunderheads. She said the nearby passengers got really ugly when I started holding my toy puppy up to the window and say with glee, "Look Goggy, airplane fall down!" 

    I guess I should add that I was dyslexic when I was young...

That's an awesome story. It's interesting to hear the stories about this certificate. I found it while cleaning up/out the parent's house. Had no clue about it, but found out while researching. 

Definitely need to cross the 180th. 

 

[Matagi]

Towing my lil' one to the Silverrudder sometime occurs in my wildest dreams.

Doing well in the club championship would be a nice next step.

Being among the most beautiful small boats in the Round the Island Race would be great.


Other than that: Germany > Norway > Faroer > Scotland > Caledonian Canal > Tobermory > Manx > Cornwall > Brittany and back.

In another boat, obiously. One day.

 

[Dino]

Transatlantic, maybe shorthanded or even singlehanded 

Atlantic circuit

Cross the Pacific with a stop at Easter Island 

Bring my SB20 to Lake Garda for a Worlds/Euros

Sail a J Class - sailed a regatta on a 140ft schooner and it was epic

Transpac on something quick

 

[Black Jack]

The Barcolana

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me too. I might have to throw all my eggs into the pan for this.

 

[TheDragon]

Speaking of the 180th meridian, I was finally able to begin to complete my bucket list by sailing across most of the Pacific this past southern winter. And when I got to Fiji I crossed the 180th on the way to checkin at Savusavu (and twice more going back east to the Lau Group and back west to Suva). Anyway, my iSailor charts only go round to it, not across, so I had one side on my phone and one side on my tablet. Here's screenshots of us crossing it, iSailor of course switches as one crosses.