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09-16-2014, 08:36 PM
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Guru
City: Sidney BC Canada
Vessel Name: RochePoint
Vessel Model: 1985 Cheer Men PT38 Sedan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,744
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Santa arrives early......
Well maybe I should say "Sarca arrives early".
Today our new Sarca Excel landed in Victoria BC, it replaces our 30 year old 20kg Bruce on the bow pulpit. The Excel is a No.5 weighing in at 22kg and boy is it well built. Now we just have to get out and try it.
Stay tuned for the reviews, I just hope I don't break the pulpit off when it hooks up. It just looks like a mean machine!
Rex and Joy at Anchor Right Australia were absolutely fantastic to deal with, thank you!
Please excuse the last photo for being blurry, even the smartphone was so scared it was shaking in its boots............
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09-16-2014, 08:48 PM
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Guru
City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,276
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Way to go, Mike. I hope when you opened it up you checked to see that it is the northern hemisphere model.
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09-16-2014, 08:53 PM
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Guru
City: Sidney BC Canada
Vessel Name: RochePoint
Vessel Model: 1985 Cheer Men PT38 Sedan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,744
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Don, I really don't care which way it spins going down or coming up..........
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09-16-2014, 09:03 PM
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Guru
City: Kitimat, North Coast BC
Vessel Name: Badger
Vessel Model: 30' Sundowner Tug
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 5,946
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Seeing them side by side in photo #2 is more than interesting...
Care to share some details about shipping options?
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09-16-2014, 09:13 PM
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Guru
City: Sidney BC Canada
Vessel Name: RochePoint
Vessel Model: 1985 Cheer Men PT38 Sedan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,744
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MurrayM
Seeing them side by side in photo #2 is more than interesting...
Care to share some details about shipping options?
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Rex & Joy looked after everything, arrive at the office after a little over a week after ordered.....
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09-16-2014, 09:51 PM
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Guru
City: Kitimat, North Coast BC
Vessel Name: Badger
Vessel Model: 30' Sundowner Tug
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 5,946
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rochepoint
Rex & Joy looked after everything, arrive at the office after a little over a week after ordered.....
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Good thing Santa brought it, because that would be heinously expensive to send air mail
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"The most interesting path between two points is not a straight line" MurrayM
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09-16-2014, 10:11 PM
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TF Site Team
City: California Delta
Vessel Name: FlyWright
Vessel Model: 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 13,728
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Another Bruce traitor in our midst! Mike, I really surprised. I never saw it coming.
Well, at least you switched to a Sarca Excel and not some lowly CQR or Danforth.
What are you going to do with the Bruce?
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09-16-2014, 10:19 PM
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Guru
City: Hotel, CA
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 8,323
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyWright
What are you going to do with the Bruce?
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I'm waiting for him to say turn it into a doorstop
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Craig
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled - Mark Twain
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09-16-2014, 10:19 PM
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Guru
City: Mooloolaba
Vessel Name: Flora
Vessel Model: Timber southern cray boat
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,859
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Mate ,
Welcome to the Sarca family, you are now with a securely anchored group of people.
OK enough crap, you will be suitably impressed after you have hung of it a few times.
Cheers
Benn
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"Get out and do it"
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09-16-2014, 10:22 PM
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Guru
City: Sidney BC Canada
Vessel Name: RochePoint
Vessel Model: 1985 Cheer Men PT38 Sedan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,744
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyWright
Another Bruce traitor in our midst! Mike, I really surprised. I never saw it coming.
Well, at least you switched to a Sarca Excel and not some lowly CQR or Danforth.
What are you going to do with the Bruce?
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Traitor!!!!!!! The Bruce get a well deserved retirement and a place of honour resting next to the 40 year old Danforth in the aft lazerette....
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09-16-2014, 10:24 PM
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Guru
City: Sidney BC Canada
Vessel Name: RochePoint
Vessel Model: 1985 Cheer Men PT38 Sedan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,744
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CPseudonym
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Name is Mike, not M_ _ _ _ ....
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09-16-2014, 10:27 PM
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Guru
City: Longboat Key, FL
Vessel Name: Bucky
Vessel Model: Krogen Manatee 36 North Sea
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,196
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Photoshop!!!
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"When life gets hard, eat marshmallows”.
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09-16-2014, 11:01 PM
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Guru
City: Kitimat, North Coast BC
Vessel Name: Badger
Vessel Model: 30' Sundowner Tug
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 5,946
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This actually brings up a very serious issue; given any thought to your new avatar?
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09-16-2014, 11:13 PM
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Guru
City: Sidney BC Canada
Vessel Name: RochePoint
Vessel Model: 1985 Cheer Men PT38 Sedan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,744
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Sorry, don't have Larry's Photoshop skills so it will have to wait till we get out on the water in the dinghy for a new photo.......but thanks for the reminder..
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09-16-2014, 11:40 PM
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Guru
City: Powell River, BC
Vessel Name: Northern Spy
Vessel Model: Nordic Tug 26
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 4,075
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyWright
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What are you going to do with the Bruce?
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My first thought too.
My second thought was "I'm closer, and in province." [emoticon of a smiling little yellow guy rubbing his hands together]
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09-16-2014, 11:54 PM
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TF Site Team
City: California Delta
Vessel Name: FlyWright
Vessel Model: 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 13,728
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I've got a feeling that Excel is just for show. Sure is purty!! It'll probably never get wet.
That's the job of the Bruce heretofore kept out of sight like an ugly but willing girlfriend in the aft lazarette.
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09-17-2014, 05:19 AM
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Guru
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 22,553
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In X number of launches the Bruce failed Y number of times?
Let us know about the new irons failure rate..
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09-17-2014, 09:06 AM
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Guru
City: Kitimat, North Coast BC
Vessel Name: Badger
Vessel Model: 30' Sundowner Tug
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 5,946
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FF
In X number of launches the Bruce failed Y number of times?
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Our Lewmar Claw has skipped across the bottom and refused to hold a couple times, and we've only been boating for 2 years. Both times meant dropping in 'more problematic' locations; something I hate to do.
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09-17-2014, 10:30 AM
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,743
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Northern Spy
My first thought too.
My second thought was "I'm closer, and in province." [emoticon of a smiling little yellow guy rubbing his hands together]
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Spy,
I tried also to get a Bruce hand me down anchor but failed. I went out and bought a Lewmar. The Lewmar looks very good though and I sharpened the fluke tips up some. Not been wet though as wer'e still on the hard. But Spy I think Mike said it was a 20KG Bruce. Isn't that 44lbs? Very big mama for a 26' boat. I could'a got a 44lb Lewmar but decided it was too big????
Murray,
What size Lewmar Claw do you have?
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North Western Washington State USA
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09-17-2014, 11:21 AM
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Senior Member
City: Valley Springs
Vessel Name: Lollygag
Vessel Model: 1979 42' CHB Europa
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 259
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If you cruise you'll eventually find yourself anchored in a gale or even a bigger blow. When the anchor chain is straight as an arrow you will wonder if you should have bought the anchor off a mothballed battleship. Then you'll wonder if the anchor you have is digging in or pulling out. Then you'll join the dreaded "do I have the right anchor" discussion here.
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