Friday, February 17, 2012

Today's Short Sail


View 2/17/12 1:23 PM in a larger map We got to St. Pete and entered into the "No Wind and Misting" zone. We bummed around the area, went over to Progress Field and watched Northwestern lose to West Virginia 4-2 and then headed back to 3Sum - the bird feces dumping ground. That's when we heard the horn and the "No Race" flag from St. Pete Sailing come down and the NOOD fleet take off. We followed them out and ran into minor issues with a fender and a batten, but other than that, had a nice quick sail until it started raining. We dodged a couple Fox 18 beach cats that were racing and these guys were good and fast. Really fast Even more fast when they rounded the mark and through up their spinnakers. It was quite impressive to see these people racing, but hard to see these people racing with the rain and all. We headed back in time to join all our other traffic jam friends trying to eek through Tampa.

race flags

http://www.autohoot.com/race_signals.htm


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Saturday, February 11, 2012

The new Leone Ride

This is one pimped out boat!
Congrats Rose, Mark, Jen and Abby! 

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Some chop at first, then light winds.


View 2/4/12 1:16 PM in a larger map I remember back in the day on Minnetonka when we tacked 11 times in about a 2 mile stretch to get back to the marina. On Tampa Bay, we jibed twice and tacked once the whole day. Ain't nothing beats a nice long fetch. Plus, the winds aren't so finicky.

NOOD Regatta St. Pete Feb 17-19, 2012

NOOD Information

some type of a race

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There probably were over 100 optimius' in a regatta that started at the St. Pete boat thing behind our slip. It was cool to see so many young sailors there.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Not a big fan of google's multi-platform data sharing

I ran into a small issue with some pictures that were posted where I didn't want them, so I suppressed most, if not all, google pics. I don't like the idea that picasa, google+, google docs, google sites, blogger and all share the info. So, if I post a picasa slideshow on a website, people have access to all my pics that are linked to the one I am showing. I need to find another way. This is going to be the demise of the internet - too much info sharing without people knowing it.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

I'm only posting this pic because of the nuts

This picture is from the slapdash blog. They are Canadians sailing a Gemini Catamaran around the world. Someone should tell the Canadians that here in our country, we need to put oil in the gas for chainsaws!
I think these are the nuts and bolts that go to the grabrail. 3Sum has some mighty fine sh*tty screws that immediately popped out when we grabbed the rail. Lisa and I have debated about how to fix it. I want to do it right, but we probably will do it Lisa's way - that is, no holes in the boat! My Mighty Putty patchwork from this summer didn't work so hot. The latenight infomercial convinced me that it was a good product and would do a great job in holding the screws in place. 

Note the Canadian drill that I'm sure doesn't need oil in the gas. This offhanded, non boat-related rant started with me lending  my good Stihl chainsaw to a passing Canadian a couple years ago. He thought it was a Canadian chainsaw and they don't put oil in their gas up there, or so he told me.  My chainsaw that I was going to pass down to my heirs got shredded no thanks to Canada!

If you ever wake up one day and realize you are a Canadian and you stop by my place to borrow my chainsaw, you will get a severe and VERY stern disturbing glance tossed in your general direction and I will probably hurl a guttural racist remark like, "go back to your toquewearing, Moosehead beer drinking, back-bacon eating, chocolate milk drinking country and learn to speak English!" Come to think of, nothing ever good came out of Canada except for Rush, Martin Short, John Candy, Alex Trebek, Pamela Anderson, Canada Dry, back bacon, all Molson products, and that arm thing that was on the space shuttle. That arm thing was cool and wish they had one for home use. It would be quite practical when you are sitting on the couch wanting a beer or some backbacon from the fridge, you pic up your TV remote, hit the big "Canadian Arm Getting Device" button and the Canadian Arm Getting device would get it for you. 
Nowhere in this picture does it state the arm requires oil.


Midweek and no sailing

So, I thought I would post another pic ripped off from the Slapdash blog of them sailing a gemini somewhere in the Pacific (I guess you could call their location in the middle of the nonspacific.