Perhaps this is relevant to why the SSS is unique: we all recognize this week's "Scuttlebutt video of the week." (www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/media/09/1113/)
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Perhaps this is relevant to why the SSS is unique: we all recognize this week's "Scuttlebutt video of the week." (www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/media/09/1113/)
Max,
I know that time is short, but you might consider contacting a local Ham radio club and see if they offer classes in preparation for taking the Ham license exam. If the instructors are good...
Bill,
But I included the reference to Descartes just for you. He is famous for the dictim "cogito ergo sum."
Paul Woodward
s/v Hesperus
Response to Bill's points, continued.
As to your first point. It is obviouisly true, but not relevant to the current conversation. The proposed added requirement is not (yet) part of the rules,...
Bill,
A response to your posting (this might take two posts as I keep getting logged out before I finish). You begin by claiming that the current thread is a "good discussion." I beg to differ. ...
Bobj,
With respect, I wish to make myself clear. You write as if it is clear that the qualifying cruise requirement needs a recency clause. My point is that that is not clear. You cite no...
Regarding the envisioned changes to the qualifying cruise requirement for the SHTP, I would like to make a few comments. First, since there seems to be a considerable amount of interest in this...
Hesperus is a 2.5 or so at this point. I am hoping to go, but since the I'm 3000 miles from the boat, I'm not actively preparing. Regarding a shore station for comm duties, I believe that it is...
The Pacific Seafarers Net operates on Ham channels, so, if the SSS wanted to use them for check-in, Ham licences would be required.
Just for the record, Hesperus has a series drogue on board. I purchased it as a kit from Sailrite (they offer sail kits, and much other stuff as well). Since Hesperus is so small, I talked them...
To bring up an old topic. For more information about off-shore garbage, go to the PBS web site, scroll down to New Hour topics for information about their report from Thurday, 11-13, about the...
Skip,
I don't believe that we have met, nor have I ever seen Wildflower. I did buy some sails from your brother a few years ago in anticipation of participating in the '04 Single Handed Transpac....
Hi Phil,
I saw no disrespect in your message. I appreciate Alan's words as well. I guess that I am a bit sensitive. Alan is not the first to question Hesperus' worthyness. She was criticized...
Phil,
I'm a pretty irresponsible guy, but somehow, starting toward the middle of July seems too irresponsible, even for me, since I'm supposed to be back in North Carolina for classes by the...
Of course, the late start puts some boats out of the race due to time constraints.
Paul Woodward
s/v Hesperus
We might read the articles as http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7241428.stm or http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5865/948 (for the original source) and consider whether simply...
Good job Alan.
Paul Woodward
I wonder if the race committee would consider awarding a trophy to the competitor who arrives in Hanalei with the most trash collected from the open ocean. In today's Scuttlebutt online newsletter...
Bob,
After the last race (2006) I left my boat in Hawaii and sailed it back to the mainland the summer of 2007. I had planned on doing the same this year, but finding a place for the winter is a...
Hesperus wishes to have number 62. Hesperus also welcomes another North Carolinian to the race, and hopes that Carroll E's interest level increases.
Paul Woodward
Woodward, Paul Modified Kirby 23 Bath North Carolina Interest level 5
Hi Tom,
My boat, Hesperus, was twenty years old when I did the 2006 race, but she tends toward light displacement (the pile of junk loaded on prior to the start not with standing). She was pretty...
I thought that some of the Transpac readers might like to know that Hesperus has returned to the mainland. I flew to Hawaii in June and spent 18 nights in Nawiliwili (where I had left Hesperus after...