What do you say when you flip your cat?

Eric,

Is that you? It looks like your boat (from Trixie's), and the story sounds familiar (was it Dave on the NACRA 5.2 who picked up Shavonn [sp.??]?

I remember when we first flipped our 16, Carol was skippering and I told her either to "uncleat" or "spill wind", which didn't register fast enough, as she was "in training", and we turned turtle. This was on a 65 foot deep lake, so there was no damage to the mast. Knock wood, but we've never flipped the 18.

Peter

Yes its me. Are you heading down this weekend? We are. I also have a friend that just bought a H16 so we are going over to ibsp to practice righting the boat. He had trouble last week and ended up floating off of queens ny for a half hour before finally blowing ashore. Hope to see you and Carol soon.

Usually...

"here we go!'
"we're fixin' to get wet!"
or my favorite from the days of sailing with my dad..."Uncleat everything!"

This is too funny!

When I was a kid, my father and his new wife wanted to spend some quality time with me so we all headed out for the mug cup on a Hunter25 (AKA big slow mono...) After a long down wind run, Dad wanted to go forward and get ready to drop the spinaker so he let the wife take the helm and told her "if you have any problems, just turn into the wind" about the time he got to the bow, my step mother asked " which way is that...

Next thing I know, I am hanging from the outboard and catching all the stuff that floated out of the cabin. gotta love an auto righting keel

It was bad enough that he gave up cats for slugs but from then on dad became a stink boat sailor

just one more thing we never saw eye to eye on 🙁

we weren't down this week, since we were tied up with other stuff. Hope to be down Sunday the 14th.

Peter (& Carol)

Scott,

My guess: The ARC22 you saw is Lizzie. Gold-ish sails? That would be her. Queen of Glencoe Beach. She has her own winch, four rollers, and never touches the sand. Fittings look like they could double as jewellery.

By the way, Dan Bower is selling his Hobie 18 (the turquoise one) that's set up on the dock at Trixie's. It's on Craig's List: a little more technical than the 16, but more stable.

pomalley wrote: By the way, Dan Bower is selling his Hobie 18 (the turquoise one) that's set up on the dock at Trixie's. It's on Craig's List: a little more technical than the 16, but more stable.

I know I saw him showing it to a couple on Sunday. I think the plan is to sail the H16 this summer and maybe next. Really get proficient at all sailing aspects, tacking, jibing, sail shape, varying the rigging tension ect. I also want to try a race or two to see if we like the competition side.

After that maybe move up to a Hobie miracle or a Nacra 6.0

Hope to see you down there this weekend. It is going to be a nice one! 😎 😎 😎

The Nacra 6.0 is a beast. I considered buying one since you can pick them up pretty cheap, but it is just too much boat for my wife and I to handle.

Move back! BACK! If that bow ducks under, kick like you're repelling off a clif..OH Sh...gurgle, gurgle

erice wrote: as the gust hit the boat lurched up to around 45degrees and i pushed the tiller hard down to get head to wind and then bolted like a monkey up the tramp to the stay and hung off shouting

down you b*tch, down!

and you know what?

she responded

Haha--same here on the P18-2, except in those situations the best I can manage to utter is "oh-oh-oh-OOOHHH!" while my GF screams.

Her screaming is a great alarm device, it makes me immediately push the tiller down and head into the wind making the cat come down. This has always saved us so far. 🙂

Dan

sailboatguy75 wrote: last fall, there was a break in the storms,of what looked like a couple of hours on the doppler. well i had had a couple of adult sodas, and grabbed a couple of teenage sons of a freind of mine. ten minutes after getting started i knew we was going over. (BOYS DONT LAND ON ANYTHING) then we was in the drink. to bad the water was only 12 or 14 ft deep. muck bottom lake, mast STUCK waaaay bad in the muck. wind coming right against the tramp driving the mast in deeper. we swam to shore and came bact the next day to get her. she was still in the same spot thank goodness. but like above a landwalker called 911. i just said you called em you deal with em. AAHHHHHH good times!

Sorry, just gotta say alcohol and water never mix, drink afterwards not before.

i agree you should NOT drink booze if you have kids onboard. If your crew are adult, they can make informed decisions for themself.

As an adult, i accept the increased risk of sailing and having a drink or 2.

Last time I went over was the first and only time I've ever been over in the N6.0. It was during the onset of hurricane Gustav and we were well inshore on a fresh water lake. So we were clipping along at great speed and I was driving her hard all day loving the speed and having fun with my old sail buddy that happened to get me into the sport a decade earlier on his H16. I was really feeling quite proud of the old girl cause we were in 3-4' chop in the open part of the lake and she was busting waves while flying a hull and didn't even HINT that she was going to pitch us, a feeling that I never get on my H14T unless I need a paddle. Anyhow, I turned the tiller over to my bud and settled in for a great ride on the trap calling out gusts when we started a slow blow over...My buddy looks at me...smiles, and says "later!" and bails backwards of the boat. While I'm cussin' him the boat finishes its fall and I run out of trap adjustment to stay "upright" and do a splat in the sail. In retrospect, the days flying his H16, I remember a fall that found me with one leg on each side of the mast...DOH!! I think I need new friends 🙂

edited by: turtlecat, Dec 14, 2009 - 09:55 PM

My buddy looks at me...smiles, and says "later!" and bails backwards of the boat

hahah! the last time i got wet, my buddy forgot to stay "Deep" when we gybed with the spin out! He went to far upwind and over we went.. i stayed high and dry on the top hull till he needed help pulling on the rightin line...

all i could say was "hahahah"

edited by: andrewscott, Dec 15, 2009 - 10:37 AM