toyeattoywar Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 nope. i always thought that working for a cruise line would be nice. that guy also told me about a lady that had her husbands possesions left to her and now shes a millionare and cruises to mexico every year. he was saying that she gives boat hobos rides and feeds them and gives them huge amounts of money for working on her boat. crazy stuff. id do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intangible Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 Sailing is only fun when you get people to do it for you, then you sit back with a pina colada and soak up the nice rays of the bahamas....occasionally yelling at the help to get you more drinks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest krie Posted October 12, 2002 Share Posted October 12, 2002 yeah sailing is were its at i do it at school and fukn love the sport. :king: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar Posted October 13, 2002 Share Posted October 13, 2002 Friend of my Dad welded one out of scrap steel Friend of my Dad's was a welder and a heavy equipment operator. Back when the oil companies went bust the second time in the '80s, he bought a whole bunch of scrap steel angle, I-beam, flat bar and 16 ga. sheet steel from a couple of steel yards here in the Houston area, and started building his boat in his back yard. To be fair, he lived on Redneck Row, with big back yards and shitty houses, junk cars everywhere, and his neighbors didn't give a shit what he did. We were over there helping him hang plate with a come-along one night and his neighbor got drunk, came out of his house and shot up his own pick-up truck with a .22 semi-auto rifle. He was behind in the payments and the bank was threatening to re-possess it. Anyway, Terry started off by reading a book called "Steel Boat Building" or "Boat Building with Steel" or something like that. I read it too, just co-incidentally. I never thought I'd ever really use the information though. He bought boat plans from a company for $250, then laid the keel (I-beam) for a 48-foot ketch. It wound up being a 54-foot sloop though. He built the ribs of the boat with it right-side-up (keel down) and then flipped it over using a 3/4 Ton 4x4 and a Ford tractor. He leveled it up, checked to make sure it wasn't bent (it wasn't) and then sheathed it with 16 gauge plate, all stick welded with standard 6010 and 6013 welding rod. He basically built the whole boat with a pawn-shop Sears welder, a cutting torch rig and a hand grinder. He ground all the welds smooth by suspending his grinder on a rope so he wouldn't have to hold it up, and just moving it back and forth. The welds came out great. He wasn't an expert when he started, but five years later he was one hot shit stick welder, let me tell you. He modified the plans himself, and made it longer. I asked him about that, if he thought it was safe, and he said he thought so, but "I guess I'll find out when we start sailin' this bitch." He swapped my Dad an air compressor for a fiberglas day sailer, and blasted and painted the boat in the back yard. Then he welded a couple of truck axles to the bottom, and had it hauled to Chocolate Bayou to launch. He rigged the masts and all that shit down at Chocolate Bayou. Last time we saw him, he was anchored down there, testing his Perkins diesel and his used on-board diesel generator. Next time we came to visit, the guy in the next slip said, "Oh, Terry? He done headed for the Panama Canal, I heard. Goin' to California." The guy had NEVER SAILED ANYTHING BIGGER THAN A DAY SAILER. Haven't heard from him since. Hope he made it. He said something pretty cool that I remembered. I asked him, "Terry, are you worried about the quality of these welds? You ain't a certified welder." And he said, "I may not be a good welder, but I'm a hell of a good boat builder." And he sure was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEE_rase_war Posted October 13, 2002 Share Posted October 13, 2002 This summer I took many boat trips (and sailboater trips) around the san juan, gulf islads, and all the way up to malibu landing in the coast mountains....I love the west coast more and more each time im out on the water... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest seno.oner Posted October 14, 2002 Share Posted October 14, 2002 ubejinxed ...... i sail club....you're definately right about trap....it was a bitch to learn when i first started we were bailing like crazy.....there was a kid who sailed out of my club that was in the snipe world championships....hes sailing on a full ride to tufts right now he was insane on the laser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumPuncher Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 bumpski for ubeski http://www.marine.co.jp/oday/images/23.jpg'> look familiar ? this is where I want to be! / http://www.pacificseacraft.com/images/38T/38tint2.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubejinxed Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 YAYAAYYAYAYAYA for sailing!!!!!!!! i'm so excited. FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE http://www.sailboatowners.com/album/articles/73169446753/73169446753.jpg'> i can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 http://www.3dspline.com/gallery/rahul%20malpure/3main.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubejinxed Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 Originally posted by seno.oner ubejinxed ...... i sail club....you're definately right about trap....it was a bitch to learn when i first started we were bailing like crazy.....there was a kid who sailed out of my club that was in the snipe world championships....hes sailing on a full ride to tufts right now he was insane on the laser i tried sailing a snipe once, wasn't too fond of it. i did go to the international 420 world championships a while back, but i never capitalized on my experience, although i should've. those big regattas are insane! i so miss sailing! club 420 are a lot more common in the US these days. i don't think many people sail the interntionals anymore. but i'm going to be back at it again on a bigger boat. (altough i kinda wish it was a dinghy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumPuncher Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 Originally posted by ubejinxed i did go to the international 420 world championships a while back... was it in Amsterdamn? page2ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr8lover Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 Originally posted by --zeSto-- 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 ? ayo? undertone? just joking.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumPuncher Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 ^ ok then... you can be the cabin boy. jokes. http://www.yale.edu/opa/imagegallery/student_life/image/sailing.jpg'> http://bms.brown.edu/surgery/images/sailing.jpg'> http://www.bsus.org.uk/photos/bmyc2001/sailing%2012.jpg'> http://www.12ozprophet.com/ubb/icons/icon26.gif'> for spinnaker sailing! http://www2.raisport.rai.it/news/eventi/americascup/199910/22/3810693b0649d/spinnaker.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Tesseract Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 http://www.fuckthebuff.com/tesseract/captain.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubejinxed Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 oooh nooo you didn't! ahahahaha i wish the championships were in amsterdam! yay for international 14s. almost all sail!! these things fly! oh the ultimate racing boat! http://www.i14.org/photos/gorge02/Speak0-R2-29.jpg'> http://www.i14.org/photos/gorge02/Speak0-R2-14.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Smart Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 I can't believe I slept on this thread... I learned to sail next to my dad on a Sunfish when I was 5, toyed around in some various stuff, my 'cousins' with the house on the Chesapeak had a Laser that we'd take out 2 at a time, and ALWAYS flip... Later, I started racing Flying Scots (UGH!) and Rhodes 19's... another one design class I raced was Lightnings, I LOVE these boats, you can build one out of plywood in your backyard and they just scream... I also raced a bit of SORC, well, quite a bit... I ran foredeck on an S2 27, an Olson 30, J25, J27, J30 and a Hunter 40... there was another one, I forget but I rember it had a red hull... For a while I had permission to freely use a friend of my father's Hobie 16... which I also flipped everytime I took out, but I'm not complaining... anyway, one day this guy has a party and he gets the idea that he wants to ride with me so I took him out and, I actually too k it easy and didn't flip but... heading back into shore, screaming really, in about 6 feet of water we pitch-poled! It was fucking hilarious, I remeber popping the mainsheet and climbing up to hang my ass off the back of the trampoline while my dad's pal skidded from the back to the front catching himself on the mast with a foot and the stay with his hand... then it all calmed down and fell back but... the sweetest thing is my dad happened to take pictures of it all... Anyway, I used to sail everyday, summer I'd race the one design series and SORC, fall I'd train one design and race SORC, then winter series and training in spring... but, I haven't been on a sailboat in over 10 years... it's sickening, seriously, I think it's had a major effect on my mental health, for the worse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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