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Great column in the current version of our sponsor. Loved the part about, "Are these floorboards supposed to be floating around down here?"

I'm with Joe - I have bought several pair for around $25.00 each. Always at a marine store like West Marine who is closing out last years models at half price. Make sure they are polarized. It...

Update:

I took out five guys from church today with winds at five knots and two foot waves. One tossed up breakfast over the transom - peaches and not very well chewed up from the look of it. ...

This always made sense to me so imagine my face when I read an account written by Lynn Pardee, she of the globe trotting circumnavigating couple. According to her she typically spends a few DAYS...

Well it happened again. Took a family out; said nothing about possible queasiness and sure enough three out of the four of 'em got r-e-a-l quiet after a bit. Then it was, "Can we go back now?"

I...

Sorry guys, my 'puter kept freezing up whenever I tried to post this thread. It didn't reflect the first two posts, only the third until the third was posted. Then suddenly there were three of the...

I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard as I read that book - hilarious!

At the marina each slip has a pedestal with water and electrical hookup. Many hook up a power cord to their boat to keep the batteries topped off. Many folks also take a dip in the water off the...

At my harbor it is common to see adults and children alike swimming around the boats at their slip. There are, I suppose, two hundred or so and most are plugged in to the pedestal at their slip that...

Thanks for the help guys, I've got my list.

I'm going to drop the "permission to board" one as too formal. I like the pair: "Head up" coupled with "Bear off" as they couldn't possibly be...

All great additions, guys. Keep 'em coming if any are left but my increasingly feeble mind is getting full. I learned the "Ready About" and the "Hard A Lee" commands when in Scouts from an all...

Give me a list here. I'm not formal by nature but when under sail I wonder what the necessary commands would be. Here is what I've got so far:

"Permission to board"

"Prepare to cast off"
...

Sigh... I done been hijacked!

Any others out there? Most states restrict you to seven letters due to space considerations on the plate. That means this one may work:

RDY BOUT

Saw this one:

HRD A LEE

I launched my eleven foot skiff onto a 300 acre lake in winds of 25 knots. I tacked upwind hearing moaning from my creation never heard before. The wood talks to you when under stress like that. I...

His stuff makes me want one of each. They somehow capture the essence of sailing, much like Iain. That would be worth seeing - the two of them having coffee. Imagine...

Saw a '66 Mustang with plates: GDE UP

Saw a snazzy Porsche: NVR NF

NEW SOURCE FOR ABRASIVES:

I have a relative who can be VERY abrasive!

[QUOTE I'm not sure what you mean by "needs to look 'refined.'"[/QUOTE]


Definition of refined is best seen in the lapstrake version of Chebbacco and the sheet ply version.

Only somebody raised in Iowa would bother to correct you and note that in fact they are oxen. Sorry, now about the boat...

Russ:

I enjoyed his book "Notes from a Small Island". It is about an American living among Brits separated by a common language. "Life in a Sunburnt Country" about his travels in Australia is...

How can you tell a blonde has been making chocolate chip cookies? There are little M&M shells all over the kitchen floor.

I read it in three days and had tears of laughter literally running down my cheeks. I'm born and raised in Iowa but his upbringing is universal.

Romilly is a beauty but WAY out of the park money wise. I've looked and drooled over it before but toooo much money. Also the rig is so very tall it would be reefed at all times here in the Windy...

Here is the criteria for what I'm looking for:

Trailerable - around 20 feet or so max.
Daysailor with cuddy
Room for porta potty in cuddy - ladies need the privacy!
Able to take on big seas -...

A beauty is featured in the calendar "Classic Sail" by Kathy Mansfield. I don't plan on changing the month the entire year. Sigh...

CGrant:

Check the post I just dredged up from this summer and there will be your update.

Thought I'd bring things up to date for what I'll install as my new policy on the boat this coming season. Much of this springs from an article that just appeared in Messing About in Boats regarding...

Here is that site (not to be confused with cite!):

www.openboat.co.nz

Start first by deciding what body of water you are going to sail on and see it that narrows your choice any. I've got the Pathfinder plans and they seem detailed enough. Having said that I have...

A guy had spent years in a depressed state and finally went in to see a psychiatrist. After an hour of telling his troubles the patient sits up and says, "Well doc, what's wrong with me?" After...

A guy had spent years in a depressed state and finally went in to see a psychiatrist. After an hour of telling his troubles the patient sits up and says, "Well doc, what's wrong with me?" After...

A guy had spent years in a depressed state and finally went in to see a psychiatrist. After an hour of telling his troubles the patient sits up and says, "Well doc, what's wrong with me?" After...

It's under the thread in Misc. Boat related and is entitled "PFD's - do I still need one if..." Use the search thingy and if my teenager was home he could help me post the link myself but I'm an...

Al:

Today I received two different PFD's from Hamilton Marine. You mentioned one of them in a different post a while back. I got the exact one you mentioned as well as one very close to it but...

This boat is incredibly balanced on most points of sail. If it were up only to me I would figure out how to introduce some weather helm. (How would I do that? Angle the mast back, what?) The...

Sorry, I corrected the spelling in my original post.

I just got done reading "Seaworthy" which details the multitude of ways to die a stupid death while on the water. I am a changed sailor I can tell you. Very sobered by reading it. From now on I'll...

I am nearly done reading a book that has caused me to rethink how I go boating altogether. Mind you this past summer was the first time for me out on Big Water (Lake Michigan) and it was terrific. ...

Guys:

I've been thinking over the past two days and have sobered up a bit. Winter weather can cause one to begin wondering but there is always the hangover of what is realistic. I had thought of...

I know of a fellow that buys and repairs only one specific model car and it needs to have been in an accident. Typically he cherry picks the ones that have been rear ended as nothing by the engine...

Slight correction that makes all the difference. The title is actually "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float". My mouth hurt from laughing so hard as I read this one. Absolutely hilarious.

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the series by Roger Taylor.

Good Boats

More Good Boats

Still More Good Boats

Etc. The fourth one I can't recall.

Reminds me of what the neighbor got his wife a few years ago. Mind you his wife is very cultured, into the art scene and highly educated. He got her a chain saw. And she LOVED it! At this point...

Thorne:

I'm thinking the picture may have a twofold purpose. The floaties the kids are playing with can be used for floatation in a boat. The children alone are reason enought to HAVE floatation...

Windhawk:

Isn't that the boat the fellow was selling six months ago or so? Wasn't it a 23'.... what...

When I see all of the wooden boats we (us forumites) have built since I have been a member the open boats with sealed flotation compartments are in the distinct minority. For peace of mind and...

What is a good one? I like the Opinel but toooo bulky for the pocket. Any other cheap but good ones out there?

[QUOTE I am from northern part of Missouri... [/QUOTE]

Thought you might be interested to know that last week Iowa and Missouri settled the protracted boundary dispute that goes back originally...

Reminds me of how the Vermonter described the seasons:

"Nine months of winter and three months of mighty poor sledding."