Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 I really miss sailing. I used to do it all the damn time. Every single day was on a boat. ahh.... http://www.torben-grael.com/carreira/2001/jubileo-americas-cup.jpg'> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~mauro/Images/auckcitysails.jpg'> http://www.americascupstore.com/home_files/6_circbg.jpg'> http://www.tallshipadventures.on.ca/images/play97.jpg'> ^^ my old ship. http://www.dinghy-tow.com/Nonsuch30.JPG'> here I come ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effyoo Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 take a trip where sailing is involved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 http://www.puppetartists.com/fantasy/Tsmall%20pirate.jpg'> that would be ideal effyou... however my mom is a total 'landlubber'. She's be ill the entire time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 i've always wanted to, just 'cuz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 the only thinged i've ever sailed: http://www.silver-sands.com/images/sunfish.jpg'> and that was 15 years ago, but it was fun, i would love to be on a big sailboat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 motion sickness medicine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.T Boy Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 fuck you zesto, i want that ship so bad. ive never been real sailing, but its always been a dream to just quit everything for a year and sail around the world and live like jimmy buffet and listen to his albums and drink rum all day morning noon and evening. http://www.usatoday.com/life/travel/photos/2000/buffett.jpg'> http://www.avogadros.com/images/chburgr.jpg'> cheeseburger in paradise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 no... FUCK YOU TT ! sailing around listening to Jimmy Buffet and Drinking bacardi is MY dream! That's MY cheeseburger!! get your own dream! Leave mine alone! :rolleyes: wanna be 2nd mate ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.T Boy Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 yeah id be second mate, but im in charge of the rum. and the cheeseburgers. you can drive, ill just get drunk and swab the deck on occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 Sailing is badass, it's one of those things I never got around to learning. I'm retiring on a sailboat fasho. I'm more of a fishing boat type of guy... Mako 23': http://forgottencoast.home.mindspring.com/images/mako.gif'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 10, 2002 Share Posted October 10, 2002 that's a nice little ship there mamerro. I've got a thing for functional boats like Tugs and Boston Whalers. TT- forget 2nd mate... to much work. You're here-by promoted to COOK. all the burgers and bacardi that you can handle. http://www.boatsafe.com/kids/sailboat.gif'> http://www.charteraboat.com/sailboat.jpg'> http://www.nasa.gov/women/Riblets-sailboat.gif'> http://www.ijet.com/employment/images/sailboat.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InDY_500 Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 yeh i know what u mean...............i miss playin yahtzee man,............i know what ur feeling............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubejinxed Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 I love sailing!!! i started sailing when i was 8 old in an optimist. this small one-design dinghy that looked like a bathtub. great for little kids. http://images.dnr.state.mn.us/publications/volunteer/young_naturalists/dayatthelake/p34b.jpg'> i was so little and they dumped me in a boat and sent me out on the water. i went to all sorts of regattas in this bathtub. then i moved onto the international 420 class(little ironic) a two person one-design racing dinghy. these boats capsize so easily. http://www.420sailing.org/worlds02/420startas.jpg'> http://www.420sailing.org/worlds02/420duels.jpg'> i got to sail in the worlds once. i usually sailed as crew. i miss it so much now. maybe i'll get a laser or a laser radial so i can go out sailing by myself. oh i miss sailing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el barto Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 i took sailing lessons for a while here in hawaii, it was funn but im sketched with the whole capsizing thing. im happy wheni see ubejinxed as the last repy on here, ube you got aim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubejinxed Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 nope, no aim.... too distracting at work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest seno.oner Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 Originally posted by ubejinxed I love sailing!!! i started sailing when i was 8 old in an optimist. this small one-design dinghy that looked like a bathtub. great for little kids. http://images.dnr.state.mn.us/publications/volunteer/young_naturalists/dayatthelake/p34b.jpg'> i was so little and they dumped me in a boat and sent me out on the water. i went to all sorts of regattas in this bathtub. then i moved onto the international 420 class(little ironic) a two person one-design racing dinghy. these boats capsize so easily. http://www.420sailing.org/worlds02/420startas.jpg'> http://www.420sailing.org/worlds02/420duels.jpg'> i got to sail in the worlds once. i usually sailed as crew. i miss it so much now. maybe i'll get a laser or a laser radial so i can go out sailing by myself. oh i miss sailing 420's are the shit especially when you're on the trap...i race those and lasers.....ill get some pics of my badass cat in a sec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilush Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 sailing...keeps me away...nuh nuh nuh nuh.... i forgot the rest of the words to the song.:o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 hmmm.... hobie cat ! http://algheromare.com/lebombarde/imagesjb/cat.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest seno.oner Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 http://www.fortunacatamarans.co.za/is1.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubejinxed Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 Originally posted by seno.oner 420's are the shit especially when you're on the trap...i race those and lasers.....ill get some pics of my badass cat in a sec lasers are nice. i can't hold them down on a windy day though cuz i'm too small, but i think a laser radial would be just right. i love the trap except if i have to fly the chute on a downwind reach, it's hard to hold the lines and stay out and keep everything trim. it'll fuck you up too if you capsize while on the trap or if there is a wind shandow and you get dunked in the water or sent into the jib. i used to get so many bruises! do you sail international 420s or club 420s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubejinxed Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 seno is that your cat? crap. nice i haven't sailed them at all. the closest i got was a trimaran we sailed through the carribean. very stable it was great for shallow water and rougher seas, less up and down sicky feeling. i like dinghys though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 yeah... small boats are way more fun. http://personal.inet.fi/private/muu/hau200.jpg'> ^^ imagine that !! http://www.eastlandyachts.com/33sailing.jpg'> my dad used to have one of these. I loce cat-rig sail boats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 Coolest Thing About Sail Boats NO RENT NO GAS EXPENSES NO STOPPING YOU FROM SAILING WHEREVER YOU PLEASE YOU CAN BUILD A SAILBOAT YOURSELF YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANCHOR IN A "MARINA" THAT COSTS MONEY AS LONG AS THERE IS WIND, YOU ARE GOING PLACES I had an acquaintance in San Francisco that built a sailboat out of a WWII 60-man Navy lifeboat. He bought it for $500 from a junk yard down on Third Street. Managed to get it sealed up, and turned it right-side-up with a forklift, then moved it across the junk yard to a canal that connected with San Francisco Bay rolling on telephone poles, the same way they built the pyramids. They launched it with a pick-up truck. Then, using long ropes, they pulled it, from wharf to wharf, until they got on the north shore of the Peninsula, not too far from the Marina District. They wanted to sail it across the Bay, so they rigged up a pole and a sail made out of a tarp, but it wasn't big enough to provide enough weigh for the rudder to function, and they drifted out into the Bay, dead in the water. They had no motor, and no oars long enough to row. Finally a power boater took pity on them, threw them a line, and towed them across to the marshes on the Sausalito side. There, they pulled the lifeboat ELEVEN MILES through the marshes along the bay shore, to get to an anchorage in the Upper Bay. He was paying $50 a month to dock there. That summer he decked over the boat with steel plate, creating a houseboat, and lived on board. It took about four or five years, but he eventually outfitted the lifeboat with a sloop rig using hand-shaved telephone poles as masts. He built a huge "lathe" out of scrap steel, and "turned" the phone poles the same way they built masts 150 years ago, shaved them down with a draw knife. It had a wood-burning stove, bunks, a galley, a chart room, fo'c's'le, sail locker, the whole deal. Last time I saw the boat he was considering adding a lead-filled keel, because it did not handle well at all with the original lifeboat keel. He sailed it all around San Francisco Bay, as long as the weather was okay. Last time I saw it, it had no engine at all, but he was considering adding a Perkins diesel, because the propellor shaft and packing nut and shaft bearings were all still good. I love sailing and sail boats. I say we all quit our jobs and sail to the Bahamas. And drink Captain Morgan for breakfast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 that story ended up so promising, kb, and the ending was a big let down, yet I like the story. That was cool how he got a piece of history and modernized it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 What? You don't like rum for breakfast? Dang, homes, I thought you were a sailor. Even Marines like rum for breakfast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 rum is disgusting. spice, that clear shit - all putrid. what's wrong with some oak aged good stuff. i'd rather drink a wine cooler mixed with rye than a mickey of rum. but i'll still drink it and enjoy it if it's free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 If you'll pardon my pun, "That's the spirit!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyeattoywar Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 this reminds me of a guy that i met once while traveling. he was on the road as well and he was telling me about biking through california to the coast and hitchhiking all the way down the coast on boats into mexico. i had never thought about this before and have never heard of it since. im thinking it may be an interesting trip but i dont know if id try to hitchhike that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 A THREE HOUR TOUR... http://www.bradyworld.com/cover/minnow.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 Ever see the movie, "Captain Ron"? I knew a guy in the Marines that did that very sort of thing for three or four years before he joined the Corps. He would hire out as a deck hand or a navigator or whatever on privately owned sailboats sailing in the Carribean. It doesn't pay much, but there's nothing like a vacation in the Islands. It takes more that two or three people to sail on open seas, especially where there are lots of cargo lanes. You could wind up like PT 109. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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