Show your boat not sailing

[toddster]

I've just been leaving the whole liquor cabinet alone because the bottle cut-outs don't match the stuff I usually drink.

Well, I have been hitting the hot buttered rums this last week, from an unfamiliar-shaped bottle, and they still work.

Is it easier to change my liquor-buying habits or to change the liquor cabinet?
(Not sure whether hiding the water tank gauges in there was supposed to be ironic.) Seems like a lot of wasted space in there.

 

[Bull City]

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I love Flor de Caña.

 

[justsomeguy!]

Wifey in the bosun's chair. She's about 120 pounds, compared to my 165.

 

[MaxSteel]

Stuck ashore for another few months…

 

[OSPREY]

Pulled the main mast new rigging and chain plates

 

[Hale Moana]

Just got this picture from a friend. Hale Moana at anchor off the abandoned salt mines on Isla San Jose. About 60 miles north of La Paz January 2012

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

It’s not my boat, but it’s a “boat not sailing pic”…one that we all want to avoid.

WINDORA, a Kauri pine hull, on the rocks in 60-80 knots on S. Georgia Island. Intense footage. (Shot by other boats that were there but couldn’t help b/c of the conditions.) She made it off —repaired on site— and then to South Africa. Happy ending!

 

[Sail4beer]

As bad as it looks, it’s going to launch in the spring with new topsides paint, bootstripe and bottom paint. Just finished compounding the seams this morning and did some sanding while the snow fell. The decks are in good shape but the toe rails are back to bare wood and I’ll apply 6 or 7 coats of Jamestown Lust varnish in March. The Awlwood still looks good on the cabin trunk after 4 years. Don’t mind the white drip lines, they’re just from rain washing the topsides sanding dust off the cabin top. Water is turned off for the season.

 

[MauiPunter]

It’s not my boat, but it’s a “boat not sailing pic”…one that we all want to avoid.

WINDORA, a Kauri pine hull, on the rocks in 60-80 knots on S. Georgia Island. Intense footage. (Shot by other boats that were there but couldn’t help b/c of the conditions.) She made it off —repaired on site— and then to South Africa. Happy ending!

How the heck did it survive that?? Wow. Steel hull?

 

[justsomeguy!]

Steel hull?

Kauri pine.

 

[Alaris]

She looks good even sitting on the bottom

 

[TheDragon]

Smallest boat, dead center with vaguely blue tarpaulin over the deck. Surprised to see if in Google satellite view, it's only been there four months.

 

[slap]

Smallest boat, dead center with vaguely blue tarpaulin over the deck. Surprised to see if in Google satellite view, it's only been there four months.

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Last year I used Google satellite view to look at my boat in its slip. But the boat was not there and my car was in the parking lot....

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

I worked with a guy who thought google earth was live because he could see his truck in the driveway.

 

[Steam Flyer]

I worked with a guy who thought google earth was live because he could see his truck in the driveway.

You missed your chance to lean over his shoulder and look close, then say "No that's my truck."

 

[PaulinVictoria]

Had to sell my C&C for a move across the country. Picked up this little CL16, should be fun for fucking about on the lake over summer.

 

[Whinging Pom]

That looks like a Wayfarer.

 

[Jim in Halifax]

That looks like a Wayfarer.

It was a Canadian-built fiberglass version of the Wayfarer. They also made a scaled down version at 14'. They were quite popular in the 70s and 80s.

"In the 1950s in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Henry Croce and Ken Lofthouse [the C and L in C&L] were the importers of a sailboat called the Wayfarer which was made out of wood and built in the UK. In the late 60s, there was a strike and the supply of Wayfarers was cut off. Croce and Lofthouse were temporarily left without a business so they created a new 16 foot sailboat in fibreglass to replace the wooden Wayfarer; hence the CL16 was born in all fibreglass construction." - Andy Adams, Boating Industry Canada

 

[Cruisin Loser]

It’s not my boat, but it’s a “boat not sailing pic”…one that we all want to avoid.

WINDORA, a Kauri pine hull, on the rocks in 60-80 knots on S. Georgia Island. Intense footage. (Shot by other boats that were there but couldn’t help b/c of the conditions.) She made it off —repaired on site— and then to South Africa. Happy ending!

A buddy of mine has guided the Shackleton Traverse on South Georgia a couple of times, says it’s the most miserable thing he’s ever done, and he’s climbed Everest 15 times.

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

A buddy of mine has guided the Shackleton Traverse on South Georgia a couple of times, says it’s the most miserable thing he’s ever done, and he’s climbed Everest 15 times.

I can’t believe how easily they let people off these days. Time was that you had to navigate via sextant from Elephant Island in a small, crowded open boat there, in woollen clothing gear and leather boots, subsisting on dried penguin meat. And prospects for making it were very uncertain.

What an absolutely extraordinary photograph. (I’ve seen the others from the expedition in books and at an exhibit at a museum in NYC years ago, but didn’t remember this one —and remarkable that it was even taken (and that the original glass negative —and many, many others— survived).