I was out sailing yesterday Neal.

"Capt. Neal®" wrote

Dear Group,
No response? I figured as much.

I've been sailing on and off this month ... even posted pics

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
I was out sailing yesterday Neal.

"Capt. Neal®" wrote

Dear Group,
No response? I figured as much.

No response? I figured as much...

"Capt. JG" wrote
I've been sailing on and off this month ... even posted pics

"Bart Senior" .@. wrote
I was out sailing yesterday Neal.

"Capt. Neal®" wrote

Dear Group,
No response? I figured as much.

"Captain Joe Redcloud" wrote in message ...
| On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:01:26 -0500, Capt. Neal® wrote:
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|
| "Captain Joe Redcloud" wrote in message ...
| | On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:45:42 -0500, Capt. Neal® wrote:
| |
| |
| | "Bob Crantz" wrote in message nk.net...
| | | Glad to hear you thrived under such adverse conditions.
| | |
| | | Well done!
| | |
| | | Amen!
| |
| |
| | The Good Lord created Heaven and Earth that mankind might enjoy the
| | splendor of it all. Girly men such a Bobsprit might quake and quiver and
| | hide from the elements but us real men and accomplished sailors take
| | whatever God has to offer in the way of the forces of the world in stride.
| | God put this whole Earth here for us to enjoy. He never intended for us
| | to quake in fear and to run from the Glory. To run and hide and not partake
| | and enjoy is to rebuke His plan for us.
| |
| |
| | So, How many kids do you have Neal? God must be mighty ****ed at you for not
| | procreating. That was one of his "biggies" on the "To-Do" list. I guess everyone
| | may have something that makes them run, hide and quake in fear. In your case
| | it's women.
| |
| |
| | Captain Joe Redcloud
| | Mohnton PA
|
|
|
| Binary Bill is a good example of one who sails a newsgroup instead of a boat.
| Instead of knowing his folly he attempts to change the subject.
|
| So sad!
|
| CN
|
|
| How many kids, Nelly? God hates you.
|
|
| Captain Joe Redcloud
| Mohnton PA

Apparently you have not read the Bible recently.
How many kids did Jesus have? I suppose, by your logic,
God hates Jesus.

CN

Capt. Neal® wrote:
"Captain Joe Redcloud" wrote in message ...
| On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:01:26 -0500, Capt. Neal® wrote:
|
|
| "Captain Joe Redcloud" wrote in message ...
| | On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:45:42 -0500, Capt. Neal® wrote:
| |
| |
| | "Bob Crantz" wrote in message nk.net...
| | | Glad to hear you thrived under such adverse conditions.
| | |
| | | Well done!
| | |
| | | Amen!
| |
| |
| | The Good Lord created Heaven and Earth that mankind might enjoy the
| | splendor of it all. Girly men such a Bobsprit might quake and quiver and
| | hide from the elements but us real men and accomplished sailors take
| | whatever God has to offer in the way of the forces of the world in stride.
| | God put this whole Earth here for us to enjoy. He never intended for us
| | to quake in fear and to run from the Glory. To run and hide and not partake
| | and enjoy is to rebuke His plan for us.
| |
| |
| | So, How many kids do you have Neal? God must be mighty ****ed at you for not
| | procreating. That was one of his "biggies" on the "To-Do" list. I guess everyone
| | may have something that makes them run, hide and quake in fear. In your case
| | it's women.
| |
| |
| | Captain Joe Redcloud
| | Mohnton PA
|
|
|
| Binary Bill is a good example of one who sails a newsgroup instead of a boat.
| Instead of knowing his folly he attempts to change the subject.
|
| So sad!
|
| CN
|
|
| How many kids, Nelly? God hates you.
|
|
| Captain Joe Redcloud
| Mohnton PA

Apparently you have not read the Bible recently.
How many kids did Jesus have? I suppose, by your logic,
God hates Jesus.

CN

Apparently you haven't read The Da Vinci Code.

"Captain Joe Redcloud" wrote in message
news
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:46:08 -0500, Capt. Neal®
wrote:


"Captain Joe Redcloud" wrote in message
. ..
| On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:01:26 -0500, Capt. Neal®
wrote:
|
|
| "Captain Joe Redcloud" wrote in message
. ..
| | On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:45:42 -0500, Capt. Neal®
wrote:
| |
| |
| | "Bob Crantz" wrote in message
link.net...
| | | Glad to hear you thrived under such adverse conditions.
| | |
| | | Well done!
| | |
| | | Amen!
| |
| |
| | The Good Lord created Heaven and Earth that mankind might enjoy the
| | splendor of it all. Girly men such a Bobsprit might quake and quiver
and
| | hide from the elements but us real men and accomplished sailors take
| | whatever God has to offer in the way of the forces of the world in
stride.
| | God put this whole Earth here for us to enjoy. He never intended for
us
| | to quake in fear and to run from the Glory. To run and hide and not
partake
| | and enjoy is to rebuke His plan for us.
| |
| |
| | So, How many kids do you have Neal? God must be mighty ****ed at you
for not
| | procreating. That was one of his "biggies" on the "To-Do" list. I
guess everyone
| | may have something that makes them run, hide and quake in fear. In
your case
| | it's women.
| |
| |
| | Captain Joe Redcloud
| | Mohnton PA
|
|
|
| Binary Bill is a good example of one who sails a newsgroup instead of a
boat.
| Instead of knowing his folly he attempts to change the subject.
|
| So sad!
|
| CN
|
|
| How many kids, Nelly? God hates you.
|
|
| Captain Joe Redcloud
| Mohnton PA

Apparently you have not read the Bible recently.
How many kids did Jesus have? I suppose, by your logic,
God hates Jesus.

CN

It's a sure bet that god hates you! A weakling who can't even reproduce!!!


Captain Joe Redcloud
Mohnton PA

So how do you account for bubbles?

John Cairns

Captivating post. You are truly blessed, Cappy!

BTW, did you know the bitch (LP) posted that you had died?


--
Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_


"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
...
Dear Group,

It sure takes a sorry bunch of losers and lamers to spend so
much of their time posting here when they could be sailing. I
can understand how those who have no boats and sail vicariously
through those of us who do have boats are caught in this
insidious
trap but I just can't figure out why those who DO have boats
forsake sailing them in lieu of blathering inanities here.

Instead of pontificating in this forum about how great one's
boat
is on paper compared to others' boats and trying to justify yet
another uninformed purchase, would it not be better to be out
sailing
said vessel to ascertain her strong and weak points so the weak
can
be corrected and the strong appreciated?

It is ever a sad state of affairs when those who pretend lead
around
by the nose those who cannot recognize a pretender, is it not?
Sorry
guys, but I, Capt. Neal, am intelligent enough to not fall prey
to such
nonsense. I'd rather be sailing.

My latest sail consisted of a rowdy broad reach up to the
Little
Shark River in the Everglades to ride out Hurricane Wilma. "Cut
the Mustard" and two other vessels ("Harbinger" - an Atlantic
City Cat 24 and "Breakin' Wind" - an Irwin 32 center cockpit)
sailed up from the Keys the Wednesday prior to the storm's
landfall.
We arrived with a couple of days to spare before Wilma (who
hung
around the Yucatan for days) made landfall on the peninsular.
We
sought safe harbor way up a Shark River tributary and on a side
creek of that tributary where the mangrove's grow higher than
anywhere else in the USA. Imaging fifty and sixty foot tall,
thick
groves of mangroves. That's where we sheltered. We tied up to
the
mangroves on either side of the little side creek. Luckily, the
mosquitoes
were nowhere to be seen but, unfortunately, the no-see-ums were
thicker than lies in a Bobsprit post.

We experienced the core of the hurricane and the south eye wall
with sustained winds of well over 120 knots and higher gusts
(Joe,
put me down for riding out without a scratch yet another
storm!).
Have any of you ever experienced 'rain' consisting of crushed
and
shredded leaves? That's what we had. The lush tropical forest
canopy was turned to brown and broken branches by the time the
storm had passed - a period of about 10-12 hours.

Interestingly, we had a two or three knot current sideways to
the
creek when the fifteen foot storm surge rolled in. All three
boats
came through without a scratch or breakage of any sort. It took
me
three hours, though, to clean all the bits and pieces of leaves
and
sticks from my boat. Luckily I had plenty of bleach to
counteract
the tannic acid from the leaves which had stained my light
green
nonskid brown and my white paint on the deck yellow/brown.
Yuck!
But a little elbow grease was all it took to get things
shipshape again.

We three single-handers enjoyed the storm and the company of
real
sailors and even had plenty of rum and ice too keep us in good
cheer. We enjoyed an abundance of good food and music and tall
tales.

After the storm passed we waited a day for the storm surge to
subside and the river current to free itself somewhat of
flotsam
and headed back downriver. We sailed out of the mouth of the
river just as a Coast Guard helicopter passed overhead. They
had
'spotted' all seven or eight vessels that had sought refuge up
the river prior to the storm and had returned to make sure
all was well. I can imagine the crew looking down and thinking
to themselves, "Now, there's three "real" sailors down there!
If all sailors were like them we'd be out of a job."

The wind was very light out of the northwest as we ghosted
down the Gulf Coast toward East Cape and the yacht channel to
the south. We ran out of daylight near Schooner Bank and
anchored
in its lee in a freshening northeast wind. The wind built
during
the night and the next day we enjoyed a screaming reach down
to the yacht channel markers and Intracoastal Waterway. I
sailed
all the way to Steamboat Channel and put the Irwin and the
catboat hull down. From Steamboat Channel it was a motor
job up to the anchorage off the "OV" - that's short for the
Ocean View Bar and Grill (which sits on the bayside - go
figure) -
where we went ashore for a cheeseburger in paradise. The
skipper
of the "Breakin' Wind" is a real ladies man and sort of a local
legend and he had several women all over him so Catboat Jim and
I had plenty of attention as well dealing with the overflow.

A good boat, a fresh breeze and a woman in every port - it
doesn't
get any better than that. . .

So, let this be a lesson to all of you who think sailing is
nothing
more than a pack of lies and bull**** on a sailing newsgroup.
Get
out there and go sailing. Even a hurricane offers us real
sailors an
opportunity to DO instead of imagining doing. How many of
you reading this can claim over a hundred and twenty miles
of sailing in the path of a hurricane and are able to look back
on it as some of the best days of your life?

No response? I figured as much.

Respectfully,
Capt. Neal
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"none" wrote ...


I sailed a laser through Hurricane Isabel's Pussy.

Sounds like you had quite the adventure Capt.

Its a shame that plastic takes stains so easy.

Did you move closer to where the eye passed ?
Sounds like a good hurricane hole, try avons skin so soft to ward off
the bugs.
That or deet. Do you have screens on your hatches?

Yeah I've never had much use or like of the USCG until they came thru
and did a fly over at my best friends (an X Coasty) funeral on short
notice. Good guys & gals, Its nice to know they are there when you need
them.

I send the aircrew (3 diffrent ones now) a bottle of makers mark every
year in thanks, It's anonymous so they can not refuse it :0) First year
they said they could not accept it and returned it.

Joe

"Joe" wrote in message oups.com...
| Sounds like you had quite the adventure Capt.
|
| Its a shame that plastic takes stains so easy.
|
| Did you move closer to where the eye passed ?
| Sounds like a good hurricane hole, try avons skin so soft to ward off
| the bugs.
| That or deet. Do you have screens on your hatches?
|
| Yeah I've never had much use or like of the USCG until they came thru
| and did a fly over at my best friends (an X Coasty) funeral on short
| notice. Good guys & gals, Its nice to know they are there when you need
| them.
|
| I send the aircrew (3 diffrent ones now) a bottle of makers mark every
| year in thanks, It's anonymous so they can not refuse it :0) First year
| they said they could not accept it and returned it.
|
| Joe
|

It was a fun time and a great adventure for sure.

Yes, I was sixty miles closer to the center and right in the south eyewall
as Wilma passed just to the north. The plastic didn't really stain, rather,
it was the Easypoxy paint that I used that stained. But the stains came right
out using bleach and salt water. But, the non-skid stained too and really
brown and ugly stained but bleach and water cleaned that up as well, so
maybe you're right after all - plastic stains. But, that's part of sailing
a mostly maintenance-free vessel.

Skin so Soft is for women. I'd rather let the no-see-ums have at me than
use womanly skin creams. I found if one sweats really hard the no-see-ums
down before they can bite. It was easy to sweat really heavily when we
went up there because it was really hot and humid and there was no wind
in the thick mangroves.

Yes I have screens but I found burning one of those mosquito coils did
away with all the no-see-ums that managed to get inside the boat as I
went in and out . . .

Yes, the Coast Guard are some good fellows. They put their life on the
line in a more generous fashion than I would be inclined to with respect
to inept sailors who call for rescue in very severe conditions even when
their vessels are in no real danger. They are frightened so they call a
May Day. They don't realize that a rescuer could die in the process of
trying to give them a little comfort when they don't deserve a little comfort
because they put themselves in harm's way.

The Shark river makes a good hurricane hole. But finding that perfect
creek takes time. One should not anchor in any navigable channel because
the current can run up to 18 knots in the storm surge and you don't even
want to face the fines and clean-up fees should you sink and have to be
salvaged by the govt.

We got sustained winds of well over 120mph with some gusts probably
close to 150mph. Substantial tree trunks were snapping like toothpicks
in the thick of it and there was that proverbial roar like an international
airport in the distance which lasted for three or four hours. I suspect
we were hearing the effects of the eye wall.

The good news is we had plenty of rum and good food and no women around
to exude fear and voice complaints. Sailing is definitely a man's thing in my
opinion. Sheltering from hurricanes in the wilderness is a gift from God that
few men experience let alone enjoy and I enjoyed it. We all enjoyed it.

CN