Rob, reading tales like that is what helps us get through the winter. Keep them coming. Nice to hear about a 33 sailing offshore. Those have a fairly big flat spot in the hull in front of the keel, did she provide a comfortable ride? We have two at our club and the owner of one told me once how one day in some very large steep waves, typical of Lake Winnipeg, he actually had a transducer punched out of the hull that had been mounted in the flat spot. Poor install perhaps? Too big a hole? It left me wondering. 33-2 is one of my very favourites. Brent Driedger 27-5 Lake Winnipeg
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 7, 2014, at 8:13 PM, Robert Abbott <robertabb...@eastlink.ca> wrote: > > Jake: > > On April 3, 1991, the skipper and I sailed his newly purchased 1985 C&C 33 > II from Lunenburg to Halifax, approx. 45 miles. While the new owner was > finalizing the purchased of his boat on shore, I was removing 1/2" of ice > from the deck with a rubber hammer while the boat sat on a mooring infront of > the owner's home.....I brought my full ski gear including my clear > goggles....good thing to because an hour after we left for Halifax, we ran > into a snow squall as thick as any fog I have encountered. Main up and a > 135% jib and we were sailing....heard some fishermen on the VHF talking about > us leaving Lunenburg harbor in a 'white out', went something like who would > be crazy enough to be doing that! That would be us! > > The list has been talking to Curtis about being safe on his offshore March > sail....here we were, the two of us, taking a boat we had not been to sea on > before, coming up the Nova Scotia coast in winter, no heat other than the > stove/oven (we warmed up pizza in the oven), no GPS, a Loran C which neither > had any experience with, no radar, just paper charts and a binnacle > compass.....8 long hours later we made to the Armdale Yacht Club. > > Dennis, I could tell many stories of how dumb, and lucky, I have been over > the years on the water. Does anyone want another one? > > Rob Abbott > AZURA > C&C 32 - 84 > Halifax, N.S. > > >> Joe, >> >> >> >> I need to move my boat from Hampton to Gloucester tomorrow. It should be >> 16F tomorrow morning when I depart. Hopefully it will only be a five hour >> transit. Sure wishing I had some heat onboard… Hope the beer in the fridge >> hasn’t frozen yet. >> >> >> >> Jake >> >> >> >> From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Della >> Barba, Joe >> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 12:51 PM >> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com >> Subject: Re: Stus-List friggin COLD >> >> >> >> So what is the coldest weather anyone has sailed in? >> >> 19 degrees is my record low for sailing and that was cold enough for me! >> >> >> >> Joe Della Barba >> >> Coquina >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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