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Sailing Nightwatch | December 14th 2009 by Nightwatch
It is getting close and thing have been busy. I have another part time job in retail, which started the day before Thanksgiving, so I got to participate in Black Friday. That was good. The hours I work are just right, so thing are good. I had bee read more
ITS BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS
Sailing Nightwatch | December 7th 2009 by Nightwatch
Yesterday was the day. I had the outside lights out before breakfast and knew 1-1/2 strings of the line that goes to the top of the masts did not work. The lines are 12 years old and at various times part of them go on and off by themselves. It wa read more
DECISION MADE
Sailing Nightwatch | December 4th 2009 by Nightwatch
There was not a lot of choices this year since I got the chart plotter last year and the auto pilot goes with the system. I therefore put the bucks down yesterday for the Fruno auto pilot. We are going to use the old hydraulic pump and see how that read more
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN
Sailing Nightwatch | November 30th 2009 by Nightwatch
Check the list and see who has been naughty or nice. Auto pilot, wind generator, solar panels, generator, water maker. Well, after getting an email from Boater’s World with a nice price reduction on the auto pilot I need, I contacted my local su read more
DA BLUES
Sailing Nightwatch | November 23rd 2009 by Nightwatch
My, my, my, my, my. It is getting that as many boats show up for this show as during the summer. Could be that it was a beautiful day with no wind until after lunch. It picked up to maybe 12-15 knots, but died off about dusk. The air show was ex read more
IDA
Sailing Nightwatch | November 20th 2009 by Nightwatch
This is November. I have know hurricanes this late, but who needs them? I have set through cat 1’s before, but you still have to get the boat ready for prolonged winds and any surge that may come along. I spent Sunday turning the boat around and read more
GRANDDAUGHTER SAILING
Sailing Nightwatch | November 16th 2009 by Nightwatch
Wahoo, finally got the granddaughter sailing. It was a nice Sunday and my daughter and granddaughter got to do some sailing. She is 18 months old and beginning to really express her dislikes for certain parts of life. One of those is a life jacket read more
OH, YEEEEAAAA, OH YEA, THIS IS SO GOOD, OH YEA, MORE, MORE
Sailing Nightwatch | November 2nd 2009 by Nightwatch
Yep, got to go sailing. Saturday started off rainy, windy and not to good. That was alright, Grandma and the kids went looking for a 6 month home for my want-to-be snow bird kids. I have a kink in my back, and that was slowing me down. Sunday, as read more
DAYTONA
Sailing Nightwatch | October 28th 2009 by Nightwatch
Well, it looks like it rained this past weekend. The pool was overflowing when I got home Tuesday night. I was suppose to be home Monday, but the speed censer gave up the ghost in Lake City FL. Not the biggest town in the world. Had to rent a car read more
I LIED
Sailing Nightwatch | October 21st 2009 by Nightwatch
Yea I did. We got our first cold front of the season for real this past weekend. We had great plans, but 30+ knots of wind is not how you introduce the granddaughter to sailing. She has a hard enough time being restricted to a lifejacket. Therefo read more
GRANDDAUGHTER HINDERS SAILING or SHE’S BACK
Sailing Nightwatch | October 15th 2009 by Nightwatch
Yep, she is back. Her parents are trying to be snow birds. Currently they are here in the area till mid November. With them, everything is always in a state of flux. Therefore, who knows where they will be. This means Grandma is maximizing the t read more
UPGRADE TIME
Sailing Nightwatch | October 9th 2009 by Nightwatch
It is getting that time of year to evaluate what big investments I make in getting the boat ready to cruise. When I looked at things last spring, I was decided on replacing the non functioning auto pilot. I also looked at adding a wind generator an read more
50% BEATS NOTHING
Sailing Nightwatch | October 5th 2009 by Nightwatch
Saturday was forecast to be beautiful and Sunday to have a good chance or rain in the late P.M. They hit it Saturday. It was beautiful, all be it a little light on wind. It took about 6 hours for us to sail from our dock to Red Fish Point. I [... read more
SMALL SAIL
Sailing Nightwatch | September 28th 2009 by Nightwatch
For those of you who have seen me sailing our dinghy, you could not have missed the look of the sail. It was made using a laminate that was touted as the new Sunbrella. It was much lighter and very strong. The problem is that mold grew in the lami read more
INSURANCE II
Sailing Nightwatch | September 25th 2009 by Nightwatch
Well, I did get my coverage back up by $9k to cover new gear. The drop in hull value goes with the economy…, I guess. At least that is what they say. When one looks at used boat prices, I can see where they are coming from, to a degree. I then w read more
FROM THE LAND OF ETERNAL RAINFALL
Sailing Nightwatch | September 21st 2009 by Nightwatch
I once lived in Seattle, WA. It rains there. Not like in the south, but light rain, lots of mist and drizzle. You can actually go out and do things, Lately around here, it rain and rains hard. The rain gage in the yard says about 6 inches in the read more
INSURANCE
Sailing Nightwatch | September 18th 2009 by Nightwatch
It is that time of year when the new insurance policy comes do. With all I added this year I asked for additional coverage. They said wait till the new policy and we can adjust. Well don’t you know the policy dropped the amount for age to equal read more
ANOTHER RACY WEEKEND
Sailing Nightwatch | September 15th 2009 by Nightwatch
From what I herar, this was not a great weekend to sail. Saturday was light of wind and Sunday started that way and ended with some rough weather. For me, it was race weekend at Sebring, FL. For those of you not familiar with Sebring International read more
LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Sailing Nightwatch | September 8th 2009 by Nightwatch
Well the daughter, son-in-law and GRANDDAUGHTER arrived around midnight Friday for the weekend. We were going to play things by ear because the GRANDDAUGHTER is only 15 months old and never been on a boat. The other situation was my beloved being af read more
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