I usually don't get all that interested in other people's cruising web sites
but this one is an inspiration and a testament to just going out and doing
it.

http://www.Donnalange.com

Surviving the conditions that killed Ken Barnes' boat and dream makes her
look pretty good but that's probably just a matter of the big 44 footer
hitting one of those oddly shaped waves that are out there. She's living the
dream with a fraction of the boat, money, and experience that most of use
would consider the bare minimum for sailing to Bermuda in the summer, let
alone Cape Horn.

She can sing too. We should all buy her CD to support this fellow traveler.

http://www.donnalange.com/images/02_...er_Is_Wide.mp3

(Scroll down to the bottom of the homepage)

What a contrast to the folks like the one who clogged up the Ken Barnes
thread with contemptuous comments after whining to all of us about how
difficult single handing around Maine was in a bigger boat than this lady
has taken trans Atlantic and to the great southern ocean.

--
Roger Long

"Roger Long" wrote in news:45a16ef5$0$7651
:

She can sing too.

Pop over to alt.binaries.hdtv and download the high definition video of
the Pussycat Dolls latest video in .ts 1080i format. Play it with VLC
(freeware) from www.videolan.org.....

See the chicky in the TINY peach satin shorts with the Adidas 3-stripes
down the front? I never heard her sing solo and I DON'T CARE!...(c;

Beautiful Girls, even if you're not into their songs of love. SOMEBODY
is very lucky, indeed....

I think I'm more in Lust than in Love...hee hee.

BTW, today is my first day on this website. The HDTV files are HUGE but
the picture quality is simply amazing as is the 5-channel stereo sound of
the .ts HDTV files. These are DIRECT, uncompressed video files, not mpeg
or avi or DivX. Most impressive on my 21" LCD monitor at full
resolution.

We're gonna need another cache of DVD+Rs. Luckily, Circuit City has
NexTech DVDs on SALE! A 25 DVD spindle is $3.99 with no apparent limit.
The guy in front of me is another addict. He bought $90 worth...(c; I
only bought $50. Bandwidth is our FRIEND!

On Usenetserver.com's beasts, Xnews tells me we're 23,450,445 messages
UNREAD. It's gonna be a long week on HDTV....(c;

ONE HDTV video music song is 300MB... up to 600MB of data after decoding!
It plays about 5 minutes...

Larry ,, I love you man.

All these goofballs going on and on about some nut who gets his yacht sunk
and you are true to the cause...

I don't see old Larry sailing off around the world alone .. no way. I see
you knocking on the door, the door of a lost sailor ..whose boat just sunk..
and the beautiful lady of the house answers and old Larry says "I'm here to
offer my support at this difficult time" as you place the 4 bottles of wine,
the cd "love poems" and your arm around this sobbing beauty.

Larry the Sailorman...

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"Larry" wrote in message
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"Roger Long" wrote in news:45a16ef5$0$7651
:

She can sing too.

Pop over to alt.binaries.hdtv and download the high definition video of
the Pussycat Dolls latest video in .ts 1080i format. Play it with VLC
(freeware) from www.videolan.org.....

See the chicky in the TINY peach satin shorts with the Adidas 3-stripes
down the front? I never heard her sing solo and I DON'T CARE!...(c;

Beautiful Girls, even if you're not into their songs of love. SOMEBODY
is very lucky, indeed....

I think I'm more in Lust than in Love...hee hee.

BTW, today is my first day on this website. The HDTV files are HUGE but
the picture quality is simply amazing as is the 5-channel stereo sound of
the .ts HDTV files. These are DIRECT, uncompressed video files, not mpeg
or avi or DivX. Most impressive on my 21" LCD monitor at full
resolution.

We're gonna need another cache of DVD+Rs. Luckily, Circuit City has
NexTech DVDs on SALE! A 25 DVD spindle is $3.99 with no apparent limit.
The guy in front of me is another addict. He bought $90 worth...(c; I
only bought $50. Bandwidth is our FRIEND!

On Usenetserver.com's beasts, Xnews tells me we're 23,450,445 messages
UNREAD. It's gonna be a long week on HDTV....(c;

ONE HDTV video music song is 300MB... up to 600MB of data after decoding!
It plays about 5 minutes...

Roger ,, I remember reading about Donna Lange some time ago.

In her biography section of the web page it mentioned a bad auto accident in
which people died.

Did she cause the accident? It almost seems like she has a death wish.

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"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
I usually don't get all that interested in other people's cruising web
sites
but this one is an inspiration and a testament to just going out and doing
it.

http://www.Donnalange.com

Surviving the conditions that killed Ken Barnes' boat and dream makes her
look pretty good but that's probably just a matter of the big 44 footer
hitting one of those oddly shaped waves that are out there. She's living
the
dream with a fraction of the boat, money, and experience that most of use
would consider the bare minimum for sailing to Bermuda in the summer, let
alone Cape Horn.

She can sing too. We should all buy her CD to support this fellow
traveler.

http://www.donnalange.com/images/02_...er_Is_Wide.mp3

(Scroll down to the bottom of the homepage)

What a contrast to the folks like the one who clogged up the Ken Barnes
thread with contemptuous comments after whining to all of us about how
difficult single handing around Maine was in a bigger boat than this lady
has taken trans Atlantic and to the great southern ocean.

--
Roger Long

Roger Long wrote:

I usually don't get all that interested in other people's cruising web
sites
but this one is an inspiration and a testament to just going out and doing
it.

http://www.Donnalange.com

Agreed. An amazing story.

Don w.

Yes, these stories and sailing expeditons by Donna Lange are very
compelling
and its clear she needs more support. I've sent some via Paypal and
hope
many other sailors will also donate &/or purchase her good music.
Other ideas/ ways to support her? Also, Roger Long- you're great to
read!
good sailing, John Reeves lower Ches., Va.
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Roger Long wrote:
I usually don't get all that interested in other people's cruising web
sites but this one is an inspiration and a testament to just going out
and doing it.
http://www.Donnalange.com
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Don w. wrote: Agreed. An amazing story. Don w.

Charlie,, is this any way to speak to a fellow sailor.

With your bad attitude, you should be off single handing around the world.
This way, you could only annoy yourself.


I'd rather speak with Larry. He lives by the sailor code; "if this boats a
rockin, don't come a knockn".


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"Charlie Morgan" wrote in message
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On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:13:39 GMT, "NE Sailboat"
wrote:

Roger ,, I remember reading about Donna Lange some time ago.

In her biography section of the web page it mentioned a bad auto accident
in
which people died.

Did she cause the accident? It almost seems like she has a death wish.


No. It seems like you have a "stupid" wish.

CWM

NE Sailboat wrote:
Charlie,, is this any way to speak to a fellow sailor.

With your bad attitude,

Attitude? Huh? Wait a minute, let me get his right. You're talking about
attitude? You mean like respect for doing things light years beyond what
you whine about being difficult?

"Fellow sailor". Hmm, I've got to thing about the meaning of that term a
bit.

It reminds me of something I heard of a flight examiner saying once after a
flight test. "Son, there are pilots and there are aviators. Here's the
piece of paper that says you are now a pilot. Don't go out and kill
yourself now thinking that you're an aviator."

--
Roger Long

Heavy,,, very heavy.


================
"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
NE Sailboat wrote:
Charlie,, is this any way to speak to a fellow sailor.

With your bad attitude,

Attitude? Huh? Wait a minute, let me get his right. You're talking about
attitude? You mean like respect for doing things light years beyond what
you whine about being difficult?

"Fellow sailor". Hmm, I've got to thing about the meaning of that term a
bit.

It reminds me of something I heard of a flight examiner saying once after
a flight test. "Son, there are pilots and there are aviators. Here's the
piece of paper that says you are now a pilot. Don't go out and kill
yourself now thinking that you're an aviator."

--
Roger Long

"NE Sailboat" wrote in
news:gkhoh.3663$1h.712@trndny09:

All these goofballs going on and on about some nut who gets his yacht
sunk and you are true to the cause...

I think they were, initially, trying to figure out how to SALVAGE the
boat, to hell with Barnes. You couldn't see it direct, but you could
feel it.


I don't see old Larry sailing off around the world alone .. no way. I
see you knocking on the door, the door of a lost sailor ..whose boat
just sunk.. and the beautiful lady of the house answers and old Larry
says "I'm here to offer my support at this difficult time" as you
place the 4 bottles of wine, the cd "love poems" and your arm around
this sobbing beauty.

Nobody died, except one ego, so no harm done. I wonder who pays the bill
for the rescue, which probably cost a hundred grand or so. They'll be in
court for years trying to force the insurance company to pony up for the
boat. I've never seen a policy with a stupidity adventurer clause.

Me, I follow a very important rule:

"It is far, far better to be standing on the dock, wishing you were at
sea.....Than to be at sea, pukin' your guts out, wishing you were
standing on the dock."

I've been to both and the former is where I don't mind being....at my
age.

I've always been concerned with stupids putting to sea, alone, for these
adventures. You just KNOW they're in DIRECT VIOLATION of internation
laws concerning "keeping a sharp watch" on duty 24/7 while underway.
They are NOT omnipotent while the boat is sailing off on its own while
they're asleep. But, for some stupid reason, the world lets them all get
away with it and even ENCOURAGES it! Remember, Charleston is where lots
of Around Alone races started, with all the promos and spam-coated boats.

I cannot feel sorry for someone who does something THAT stupid....no
matter how much money he has or spends on it....