O SEGREDO FROTA

look out on the horizon for the blue ribbon!!!for the ribbon will fly tomorrow!!! o segredo frota sets sail on the waters of iberville...deer island will be liberated!!!the bay of biloxi will be slashed by the slippery pale bananas...life is good!!!!dang...just read the entire post and it said sunday, i guess saturday will be stormy...crudolla...will watch weather...la cinta azul.

edited by: coastrat, Aug 14, 2010 - 12:16 AM

If you see a poorly sailed nacra, that would be me

Golfdad, come up to Canada, before the water gets cold, & we could sail Nacras poorly in stereo! Just think, a Nacra regatta of two! (if we set up 2 courses, we could each be first place)
Shiiiitttt, I thought I knew a fair bit about blo botes from the old led sled & dinghy days. I've had my 5.7 out 22 days now, dumped it 4 times unintentionally, & I'm still playing with mast tuning, diamond wires etc.
My ego builder was blowing by an old fella from down the point today on his Magregor 26, & both him & his wife cheering, & taking pictures of me soloing on the wire. We luff up to chat, he tells me what a (some word in German that either meant great boat, or prick)I have. The old boy has a really good looking Hobie 17 with wings in his yard, the one I have never seen on the water, but his wife won't get on it anymore so he got the M 26.
Damn, these Nacras are fun!

I wish someone could tell me just how to set it up. But even so it is fun.

sunday sunday sunday...monster trucks and funny cars!!!see ya'll on biloxi bay!!!

Hey coastrat if I can get my buddy bearing hammered in I will see you Sunday. I read to pu it in a freezer for a couple hours. I hope that works cause so far no go.

good luck and get-r-done! i had to weld my tiller crossbar after the last trip, my buddy(greenhorn) accidently broke it so i am in repair mode too. but i will definitely be there sunday.

well after no luck with the freezer got my sledge hammer out and took a big swing. It seated beautifully(I think). My daddy always said if you gonna hit hit it with a big hammer.

thats how they do it at the ship yard! sledge-o-matic...

Ok...I'm gonna be a weather wienie.
After looking at the forecast.....
well, I ain't gonna be there.

Maybe next weekend (sigh)

kinda uneventful...really cool lightning storm on the way home...try again next week...

looks like this storm system is camping out for a while...good news for the gulf coast surfers, tomorrow is your day!!

looks like sunday has 10-15kt winds, keeping my eye on weather...winds out of west, could be a ship island day...keeping my fingers crossed, come on wind!

hey Rat...if it looks good what time Sunday you gonna be there??

shoot for 10am, i'd like to be there early, but always seems to be 10 ish. i,m dieing, last week my repaired tiller crossbar broke again just before the wind picked up. my buddy brought down his jet ski last week so we got to play a little but it ain't the same thing! if weather is a factor i'll probably keep it close to shore, i'd really like to hit west ship island but...mayby just a trip around deer island or up and down the bay will do fine.

allright, i'm in for the morning!!!

Hey Butch, the weather was howling. I drove over just to see that P19 running with a spinnaker.

anybody want a teen age boy? I got one....cheap :-/

terry and i were the only sailboats out, the weather was tricky...it would go from no wind at all to all wind back to no wind and all points in between and it blew from every direction! we limped out to the bay then were surrounded by storms so we ran for the osyc and rode it out on the beach...some sailors were getting there boats ready but the crazy storm/calm cycles would stop you right when you think its clear. we finally went for it and shot out of the yacht club like a rocket. there was lightning around but not too close for comfort...some stinging rain and when we hit the spot there were some lovely chocolate skinned ladies from new orleans doing a photo shoot in red white and blue bikinies...made me proud to be an american! then they left right before terry showed up, you'll get 'em next time coach!

Coastrat, which one of these guys has to "catch" their mast when de-rigging? That was a very good catch yesterday, I'm just glad my little boat has a hinge for that particular step in the process. Three Cheers for da Chocolate Skinned Ladies of New Orleans!!!

I caught the mast but I called a fair catch.

hip, hip, horay! and a textbook fair catch...exciting afternoon!

ere were some lovely chocolate skinned ladies from new orleans doing a photo shoot in red white and blue bikinies...made me proud to be an american!

pics or it never happened

I am always looking for a faster way to rig and unrig the boat. This mast catching sound like it might speed up the process. Please describe how this was accomplished and how much time was saved. Would it be possible to reverse the process and toss the mast up. This might save even more time.

yes, it was very patriotic, those nice young ladies inspired us with there hard work and determination to make sure the ole red white and blue was proudly represented on there

lovely young skin...aaahhhh...what nice young people. one girl wasn't as patriotic as the others as she refused to wear her stars and stripes top...i don't know if this was a protest or the top was uncomfortable but she just didn't like that top. naturally forgot the camera. terry missed it by 1 minute. this may have helped pioneer the "new,fast" way to lower the mast. not being familiar with "modern" cats(stuck in the 70's), i was no help at all, i just witnessed a perfectly executed fair catch...as done by a veteran high school football coach. if i had the video, it would be a valuable coaching tool for all kick and punt returners. think of the time we saved! a dozen seconds at least...thinking a big can of aqua net hair spray, a thick steel pipe, a paper towel, a big potatoe, a lighter, and "BANG!!!", instant mast raise!

Coastrat, check you email for documentation of the photo shot. I would upload them here, but I'm too lazy to figure out how to. But, I've seen that you have that ability, if you want to share.

No worries, figured it out. Enjoy

Ok...I'm not gonna say Judy and I will be there on Sunday.
Everytime I have said that, something has happened to
cause us to miss it.

So, I am not going to say that Judy and I will be there on Sunday.

Butch & Judy
P19 w/Spi

Murphy, evidently, is not susceptable to reverse psychology (sigh)