St. Pete New Year 2012.

First view of 2012. 

Coast Guard and 50 caliber on bow is convincing evidence to pull over.

Laminate sails.

3Sum at night.

Tiki Bar Boat

A MacGregor with a 70 hp motor. 

I'm thinking the owners must be a lot of fun.'

Fresco's near Pier was excellent!

9 pm fireworks.

Lisa making a delicious and nutritious breakfast in our spacious galley.

Fresco's

Southern Cross is for Sale at $147,000.

Hunter 23 in background ready to go out for a sailing lesson. I could use some brush up points. 

78 foot monohull folded in half.

 A fitting shirt for our former neighbor, Bob The Man  Herman. 

Whole lotta watta and notta lotta wind.

Lisa's cutesy pic. 

And, some photo pushing via piknik.

Old fart thinking he is cool.

Albert Whitted airfield. 

Me taking a picture of a guy taking a picture. 

Not sure why this is posted here. Just a boat on the water. 

2012 New Years in St. Pete

View for start of 2012

Mn to have drizzle turning to snow. Cloudy.

Hope we have a decent wind here or I will get all pouty.

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Sailing by a sailboat

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Oops. Coast guard has big ol scary machine gun.

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Don't think I can outrun or ougun them, so I better out smart them

Today's Sail.

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Hunter 45. on our port, yet we are upwind. who has right of way?

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3 k of wind. Screaming like a lil girl.

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MN Viking Sailing and Internet radio

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Heaving to

Bandaid billboard on side of Hospital

This is kind of a creepy piece of artwork. Notice the bloody bandage.

I stole this from another sailing blog website

Politicians are the same everywhere

Short sail in the Bay

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Nice sail with little wind in the early going, but more at the end of the sail. I could have stayed out quite a bit longer, but we had to get home. Someday, I just want to keep sailing and not stop - kind of like Forest Gump when he took up running. We did stop at the local Publix down in St. Pete and made some sammichs since we didn't want to buy gas station quality grub at the marina. The marina sells a flavored tea that pushes the boundaries of taste. I think the brand is called Tradewinds and we have pretty much had all the varieties and not one of them tastes that good. The birds attacked 3Sum and she looked like a Taco Bell bathroom after Free Burritos night.

Map of our Sail today

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Gemini

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Actions are more important than stuff

A Walk in the Woods by  Bill Bryson. Bill  is a travel writer and is one of my favorite. He is from Iowa and lived in England for 25 years and worked for the London Times, or some other such newspaper - it was written in English, I know that. He wrote this book and mentioned how he didn't like people who talked ad nauseum about their "stuff." He met a guy who droned on about how he selected his backpack and the fact it had a see-thru pouch so he could see stuff inside said pouch. I feel that same sentiment. Rather than talking about stuff, how about doing stuff?

Our Sail today

Got to see some pretty cool big ships.

The Admiral jauntily steps to the bridge, takes command  of the helm, ship and fleet. "Get my sailing jacket and half of a sandwich - AND BE QUICK ABOUT IT OR I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD!! AND THERE BETTER NOT BE ANY MAYO IN THAT SANDWICH!!" The Master and Commander wanted no part of the mayo.

Topped off at 8.2 knots for the day. Kind of choppy so it  killed our speed. Plus, we were lazy and didn't remove  the lazy jacks or remove the topping lift.

A Ship behind Lisa's head.

These guys look like they have fun.