- Joined
- Apr 15, 2008
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- Location
- California Delta
- Vessel Name
- FlyWright
- Vessel Make
- 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
You mean this?
You mean this?
seems my bona fides have been questioned. Wire nuts, backing two miles are armature stuff.
how does sailing into the Golden Gate from sea in pea soup fog without radar or chart plotter sound. Fortunately the fog horn on the bridge provided a fix.
seems my bona fides have been questioned. Wire nuts, backing two miles are armature stuff.
how does sailing into the Golden Gate from sea in pea soup fog without radar or chart plotter sound. Fortunately the fog horn on the bridge provided a fix.
Time to 'fess up, Al. It'll do you good. I can hardly look at that picture, and think of that poor mama sturgeon.
Good timing, Moonman!! I'll be enjoying some of this fine specimen for dinner tonight!!
Actually, there's nothing to confess here. If you look at the tail, you'll see a sturgeon tag firmly attached noting this as one of my 3 fish I'm allowed to keep this year. This is #2, I'm holding off on keeping number 3 so I can continue fishing for sturgeon. You can see that this fish was properly tagged and cleaned in a technique that allowed its length to be determined by authorities, if needed.
There is a rule in CA that says you cannot clean a fish until you return to land, so on January 16, 2014, I contacted the CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife about the issue. They confirmed to me via email that in the case of a live-aboard boat, the fish could be cleaned onboard if a cleaning technique was used that would allow identification of the species and it's total length to ensure regulatory compliance by the angler. The implication was that the carcass would need to be retained until the next time the boat reaches a dock or marina.
So, nice try, Moonstruck, but this act fails to qualify me for this Nauti Buoy thread.
I found out that my old onan gen set is most likely dead!! ( not sure i can even get it out of the boat ) so rather than pay huge sums of money to repair or replace, I bought a honda from Craigslist and will just plug in my power cord. It will get me by for the Labor Day week cruise, and it's even quiter than the onan!! Please forgive my cheapness and lack of time. But we will have hot showers and lights for the week!
Although I haven't officially joined, I recommend this for the burgee:
I went to a Jimmy Buffett Concert at the Miami Marine Stadium. This was in 1985, they made a video about it. I can see my boat in some of the footage! I drank a bunch of Rum and Coke, a few beers, smoked some outstanding bud. There were probably 300 other boats anchored in the basin. Lots of people on each of those boats! A bunch of folks had the great idea to use inner tubes to swim right up to the floating stage! I was thinking just how cool that was .......until I figured out how many people had pissed or crapped into that basin!!!!! Astounding hangover in the AM! Last boat to leave.......great time! I don't drink at all now.
How 'bout potato gun stories? I might get a vote here: Had a pig roast/bluegrass band at the boat dock. Late night the spudzooka comes out. Spuds launched into the boat basin. Ran out of spuds, got some apples and bananas. Launched those too. Not too confident in the aiming, and that became an issue.
Next morning, knock on the door. Owner of the boatyard next door (a good friend) asks me if I had been shooting spuds. I look in the yard over his shoulder, and there is a table with spudzooka, acetylene bottle, and all sorts of vegetable peels.
I tell him, "I think I am busted.". He says yep. I go, well which boats do I need to clean?
That was a miserable morning. My friends can't aim worth crap!! Fortunately, apple and banana are easy to spot the next day. I had to clean about four boats. Fortunately again, no damage.
I did nail the birdhouse on one of the dock piles. No birds in it then (I hoped), but it still has a crunch in the side. My aim was good on that shot (a challenge!!).
While the spudzooka end of things clearly puts you in the bad boy camp...as long as you didn't drive past a Walmart and go another 30 miles to a West marine for cleaning supplies.... it is certainly membership material.
Garden hose, brush and Dawn!!! Don't know anything else exists to clean.
My name is Auscan and I have a drinking problem.
A few months ago after consuming a beer, I motor sailed without raising an upside down triangle. I don't know what got into me. It must have been the demon drink that made me do it. If there was another boat within 10 miles, I could have put all our lives at risk.
Since that time, I seem to be slipping deeper into the abyss. Just today, I had several cans of Mythos while being second in command on a boat. This caused me to lose my attention while tying off the stern, when I focused on 2 greek goddess's sunning on a patch of beach between the rocks. Again I put lives at risk, but I tried to make up for it by practicing my knot tying skills several times before swimming back to the boat.
What can I do to redeem myself?
Ok, Ok - This thread has pulled it out o' me! I've come to confesssssss (some of my ways)!!
Often at night I walk to bow with flashlight for visual anchor check. When ya gotta go... ya gotta go! Splashing - trickle/stream over the gunnel has never woken wifie... yet! Of course, she's sound a sleep in rear master stateroom. Also, I have been known to bathe o' natural with a bar o' soap on swim deck; full rinse off by jumping in all soaped up. And, forgive me oh great one! I have experienced a sudden warming of surrounding water while swimming for long duration... luckily the water returns to normal temp rather quickly. :lol:
I cannot tell you about my past life... been counseled to take the 5th. Probably because that was something I too often did... i.e. take "fifths" to their bottom!
Read the meanings in picture of our boat's name anyway you like. Wife and I know exactly what it all stands for... we designed it / drew it... cause we did all that and more in past decades! Taint our first day on the beach... so to say!
I support GG and her five kids! My last post may offend the great ones. Screw this I'm going out to actually use my boat!