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200+ posts, OMG

Thank you Tom & Alan! It must have been a ride and a story to match in that great bay boat. I haven't seen a Golden Gate on the bay in a long time....

Maybe there was a miss reading or grammatical error in OP. Forgive me. I am severely dyslectic which is often revealed in my silly inquires or...

Another fantasy shattered. Thanks, Skip. :)

Couldn't you just make her mark her shaft, so that the 2 blade is in the shadow of the keel?

Not so! Soft shackles are more of a knot than a splice. I tied one at a Brion Toss workshop half a dozen years ago. The videos in that link show...

Soft shackles. https://l-36.com/soft_shackles.php?menu=4

After years of sailing in an out of Santa Cruz harbor, I never understood why they set that channel so close to dead upwind, . One Tuesday night...

Could I just taste the granola, a small bowl perhaps?

The moon cannot go from 1st quarter to 3rd quarter. It has to pass through Full first. You may have seen the transition of waning gibbous to 3rd...

https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases/usa/san-francisco 3rd quarter refers to the phase, not the amount of light.

8.) 3rd quarter waning.

Good points. I think I will add a PLB in my ditch bag as i prepare for my eventual solo trans ocean run. Cheap insurance that can be stored with...

Great day! Thanks much to SSS and my fellow sailors. see ya at the next one!