Jane and Connie the Volunteer

Jane all keyed up. CTV is convinced Jane should not be in such a "crowded marketplace." Like we were in a faraway marketplace in crowded Tangier. 

We took Jane with us to go sailing and found no wind, so we decided to get something to eat across the street at the street market set up in the Progress Energy Ballpark's parking lot. We got there when the vendors started to put away their stylish ashtray and antler hats they had carefully crafted. As we were heading out, Connie the Volunteer (CTV) consulted Lisa on dog behavior and was really quite concerned about Jane's mental well-being in this "crowded" marketplace with well over 50 people in a 1 block radius parking lot. Jane just wanted to lick some sweaty legs and maybe eat some kid's fallen ice cream on the ground. Lisa basically told Connie the Volunteer (CTV) to walk away and seek some more psychological medication. CTV then decided I would be more understanding and listen to her concerns about Jane. She talked at me in a concerned, and quiet voice while lightly brushing my arm in a concerned pat about her concerns over Jane. Jane, all the while was just walking away from CTV and just wagging her tail while checking out all the neat mental and smell stimulations. I thought CTV was joking at first and played along with her until I realized CTV's glazed look indicated she clearly had been a heavy user of chlorpromazine and we needed to get out of there quickly before the powerful antipsychotic medication wore off CTV.

One other bit of weirdness in this general area - as we were drving down this 30 mph street doing about 18, a guy steps out between a couple cars with little kids in tote and yells at us for speeding near the "crowded marketplace." I surmise this freakish behavior is caused by leaks coming from the Salvador Dali Museum a block away.

Yesterday's Sail

View 3/10/12 12:19 PM in a larger map Bit of a chop at first and a bit rolling, but leveled off after a bit to the point the wind died.

Sailing with the Suburbs

More breaking news on the 14 foot catamaran that was found 40 miles from where they launched

Three people rescued from capsized catamaran off Cedar Key shore | Ocala.com

Three people rescued from capsized catamaran off Cedar Key shore | Ocala.com

That could have been us if I could ever talk Lisa into going out in winds and seas like that.

Gunboat 60 - This is just sick!

NOOD Regattas - St. Petersburg | Sailing World

NOOD Regattas - St. Petersburg | Sailing World

Master among masts - Tampa Bay Times

Master among masts - Tampa Bay Times

NOOD racing article from the Tampa Bay Times.

NOOD Regatta Fox News story

NOOD Regatta sets sail in St. Pete


"It is hailed as a floaty thing with a stick and a sheet." I love these kinds of basic stories.

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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01: Chapter 1 — Introduction, San Juan Islands

01: Chapter 1 — Introduction, San Juan Islands

The new Leone Ride

This is one pimped out boat!

Congrats Rose, Mark, Jen and Abby! 

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.

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.

We're not sailing today, but we were Sailing Oct 08

Have the outlaws coming today, so I thought I would post a sailing pic anyway.

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.