Show your boat not sailing

[IStream]

Maybe DQ'd on a technicality. The engine's running but that sail wants to pull.

 

[woahboy]

Me too.

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We just can't get away from the bullrails... Very nice painting, by the way.

 

[SloopJonB]

Cuttyhunk Pond this past weekend.

Sheer perfection.

 

[kdh]

Thanks, Sloop. I keep looking at the mildew in the seams on the main and the Lifesling retrieval line hanging off the transom.

 

[TwoLegged]

Thanks, Sloop. I keep looking at the mildew in the seams on the main and the Lifesling retrieval line hanging off the transom.

First world problems, just a wee bit?  

 

[SloopJonB]

It's kind of like golf - the pursuit of an unattainable perfection.

I'd say Keith achieved it - can't speak to his golfing.

 

[TwoLegged]

It's kind of like golf - the pursuit of an unattainable perfection.

I struggle to accommodate the concept of perfection in the context or golfing clothes.  The trousers alone are a war crime

 

[Cruisin Loser]

First world problems, just a wee bit?  

I believe the photo was taken from the deck of my old boat. Her new owners are lovely people.

Here is mine below, not sailing, at the end of a 30 hour overnight trip to the yard in Brooklin, finishing by dodging lobster pots in cold fog and rain, after only enough time to start a fire and pour rum, cleaning the cabin could wait. That's the wood and paper locker to open to starboard.

 

[TwoLegged]

That's more like it, CL. 

 

[sleddog]

WILDFLOWER at repose in perennial favorite, Pirates Cove, De Courcy Island, BC.  Shortly before entering the narrow dogleg channel into the granite walled millpond, a summer squall with northwesterly gale force gusts had emptied the anchorage.  There was still an umbrella or two in the trees....

 

[kdh]

First world problems, just a wee bit?  

Absolutely, but as far as I can tell I live in the first world. 

Your old boat's looking great, Rob. New owners are taking great care of her.

 

[SloopJonB]

WILDFLOWER at repose in perennial favorite, Pirates Cove, De Courcy Island, BC.  Shortly before entering the narrow dogleg channel into the granite walled millpond, a summer squall with northwesterly gale force gusts had emptied the anchorage.  There was still an umbrella or two in the trees....

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Pirates Cove has long been my favourite anchorage. How did any sort of wind get in there? I've never felt a breath of wind there in all the times I've been there - it's always been like your pic. I figured it was a classic hurricane hole.

 

[Ishmael]

Pirates Cove has long been my favourite anchorage. How did any sort of wind get in there? I've never felt a breath of wind there in all the times I've been there - it's always been like your pic. I figured it was a classic hurricane hole.

The last time we were there it started howling from the NW, the whole line of stern-tied boats on the W shore was sagging badly and anchors were dragging. At least one boat in the basin dragged onto the rocks, guy in his tighty whities in the water pushing it off and the driver in bra and panties. We were in the middle of the W row and suddenly had to also deal with the sudden deflation of one side of our dinghy and had to get it on deck in the middle of the mayhem. Of course, this is as it is getting dark so it was Very Exciting.

 

[Ajax]

The last time we were there it started howling from the NW, the whole line of stern-tied boats on the W shore was sagging badly and anchors were dragging. At least one boat in the basin dragged onto the rocks, guy in his tighty whities in the water pushing it off and the driver in bra and panties. We were in the middle of the W row and suddenly had to also deal with the sudden deflation of one side of our dinghy and had to get it on deck in the middle of the mayhem. Of course, this is as it is getting dark so it was Very Exciting.

Lmao... you never fail to entertain. 

 

[ride2live]

In honor of the coming season!

 

[toddster]

Out for the winter.  Hard to put the toys away when the weather is still so fine, but the lift was available and the cost couldn't be beat. It's only been... SIX? years.



And this kind of not sailing is just around the corner...

 

[Willin']

Slight  thread drift - 'show-the-old-man ( or woman) and-the-sea'. Here is my father, ripping it up at 80. He drove grinning for hours. Couldn't pry him off the helm. 

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So taken by this I had to throw in my own pic of sailing with Mom and two younger brothers circa 1994 or so. The only time we ever sailed with her, although she says she sailed a lot in her youth.

 

[ride2live]

Out for the winter.  Hard to put the toys away when the weather is still so fine, but the lift was available and the cost couldn't be beat. It's only been... SIX? years.

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And this kind of not sailing is just around the corner...

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I sailed on an E35 back in the mid '70s named Arcturus. It is still berthed in Homer, AK.

 

[Cruiser2B]

 

[Bull City]

This is about "not sailing" but still a little off-topic.

My marina is on an inland lake in North Carolina. The lake is managed by the US Army COE. We have floating docks. Between Florence and Michael, the watershed has had quite a bit of rain. The lake level is usually 295' to 300' above sea level. This morning it is at 313' and still rising. 

As a result, part of the road to the dock is flooded, and getting to the dock requires a swim or paddle.