Hi Ronnie/Ken/Bob et al!! Good to see you're planning it again, Ronnie... and as for Ken - "Good on yah!" Can't keep a good man down...!
Can I come up from SE/Tahiti across Finish line, if...
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Hi Ronnie/Ken/Bob et al!! Good to see you're planning it again, Ronnie... and as for Ken - "Good on yah!" Can't keep a good man down...!
Can I come up from SE/Tahiti across Finish line, if...
Hi guys!
Lovely to be back reading all your comments! .... and what AlanH has written is so true - you all make up a great group of people who are simply enjoying sailing with and against each other...
Greetings to you all from Cape Town (again - 14 months on...!)
I've found the Hydrovane to be excellent DDW - and I mean DEAD DOWNWIND...! I was 'parked' in sight of Table Mt well offshore for...
Hi Rob!
I understand 'Pakele' is leaving around 22 July (I'm planning to leave 26/27 July, which I hear is maybe 2 days after Ronnie on 'Warrior's Wish'?)
Makes 3 of us headed to Puget Sound (Pt...
Hi Bob!
Can't remember if I've already voted or not....! I have AIS
Regards to you and family,
Jeanne
Guernsey
Happy 4th July to all of you from sunny Guernsey!
FWIW, at least Don knows his EPIRB works....!
I totally agree with Bob and Mark's comments... ACR have kindly donated (!) their all-singing,...
Hi Bob
Thanks for posting picture of my new "Nereida". Maybe I'm biased - but I have to agree she looks lovely!
I'm presently quietly panicking & losing out on sleep, trying to make sure all...
Hi Max!
I 'Googled' the MOM 8 and 9 - looks as though the MOM9, with its separate inflated 'pole', is a poor half-cousin to the Jonbuoy in that it has a raft so person can get out of the water...
Hi, Rob!
Good to hear from you!
Yes - you've located the precise website for all the info - if you follow your own link in detail, all is made clear!
Jonbuoy module has a strobe light which comes...
Just a point here - what if someone has the Jonbuoy module? - which is far better than any pole (ever tried retrieving someone on the end of a pole? - impossible!!) and also way better than the Sling...
Thanks, Bill!
Have to figure out my route .... a variety of options!
Cheers,
Bill
I think that date is going to make quite a few people happy - and galvanize a lot more into action to prepare for the start line!
19th June is the exact day last year that I lost the old...
Ok, Jim.... now pull the other one...!!!
Although we do believe you when you say you're 'serious' about the 'pre-race conditioning program' regarding the bottom work... just like last year! That...
Thanks, Bill!
Sounds as though the Hydrovane could meet most of your requirements (seems to behave fine with auxiliary rudder but no servo-pendulum)... let's hope my experience with it comes up...
Hi, Paul! Is Hesperus back on the East coast - or still in the NW?
Also just for the record, with talk of drogues & suchlike.... I'm NOT replacing the parachute anchor I had on board the old...
I seem to have got onto the Forum when everyone's gone back to their winter sleep after their Christmas/winter solstice relaxation&merriment (dog teams, indeed - give me a break, eh!!).... But I'm...
:)A Very, Very Happy, Healthy, Harmonious, New Year to all of you!!:)
I've also been looking over my photos from time to time .... always with happy, warm, 'fuzzy' (!) feelings, remembering all...
Hi, Bill (and Happy New Year to you and everyone else!)
I'm writing this from sub-zero (C) Sweden! ...I just wondered what was the model of your 'bad' windsteering gear?? I'm about to instal a...
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I just got to read your story - I'm so very, very sorry. What a painful decision for you to have to make. It'll take a long time for the pain to die down - but your happy memories of times on...
As someone who has a watermaker on board, I must say I regard it as a bonus if it's working - which it (unusually) wasn't when I came up the S. Atlantic this year, when I would have really felt the...
John - Your boat is very aptly named! So glad you not only got your dream back.. but are acting it out ... Good luck to you ... & I couldn't agree more with your 'crazy' statement .... people that...
Hi, Tatia!
So far as I'm aware, my trophy is still sitting safely locked away at Oakland Y.C.
Cheers,
Hi, Erika!
Yes - a boat last week went at 15 minutes' notice, 13 days ahead of schedule ..! But had to get Tito from Y.C. here to help with immediate tyres, lines & handlers (paid). I linehandled on...
Hi, John & Sleddog (name?)
Thanks for your replies - but I'm sad to say that one very pale, dehydrated, thin, DEAD gecko was found on board "Nereida"on Saturday.
Obviously, the many flies,...
I'm using the Milltech Smart Splitter on my VHF antenna - works without any problems... so no extra antenna needed.
Either feed it into my AIS stand-alone display or into my laptop Nobeltec software...