[Rhodes22-list] Nightmare

Sat Feb 19 13:53:38 EST 2011

Lee--

I agree with you about Slocum's humility, though the annotated version points out how he sometimes phrased boasting to read as humility.

Slocum's no-hands sailing reminded me of going out with you from Kent Island and how beautifully At Ease tracked with the tiller "lashed." And that reminded me of the Starks. (Of course I meant "Trade Winds," not "Gulf Streams"!)

Jimmy S wanted to make a movie of the trip. Since my father was in motion pictures, he gave Jimmy lessons before they left and offered suggestions as J sent cans of film back. J was very unsure of himself, repeated the same takes again and again, and finally gave up. I remember what seemed like an hour of a Polynesian wading along with a spear trying to get a fish. But the mid-Pacific footage was vivid and the way the Starks lashed the wheel and just let the Vixen sail itself impressed me a lot, since I'd never heard it was possible (and even standard). 

When they got back J edited what he did shoot and showed it outside one summer night in my home town. There was a loud soundtrack and lots of Polynesian dancing. Some neighbors thought he was showing porno movies and called the police.

P

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From: "LELAND KUHN" <LKUHN at cnmc.org>
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 3:21:58 PM
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Peter,

I'm more of a nonfiction action thriller kind of a reader but I thoroughly enjoyed Slocum's book.  Talk about humility--he made the impossible seem like no big deal.

If I tried sailing around the world with my wife I think she would choose throwing me overboard before divorce; probably before we left the Chesapeake.

Lee

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From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org on behalf of peter klappert
Sent: Fri 2/18/2011 10:03 PM
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First, thanks to everyone who has written about boat covers. I've got a bug that's going around here & will reply individually soon.

Second, Lee's nightmare reminds me: I just finished a new, annotated edition of Joshua Slocum's SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD, a great Winter read if you don't know it already--or if you do. Slocum was the first guy to do it, on a boat he largely built himself in the 1890s. Anyway, his boat sailed itself a great deal of the time, and not just in Gulf Streams. It gave him plenty of time to sleep, read, cook, write a book, whatever. I just wish his book was even longer & more detailed.

When I was a teenager we knew a couple--Jimmy & Jean Stark--who sailed around the world on a 34' yawl (I think). Took three times longer than they planned. Came back to Connecticut and got divorced.

P

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From: "LELAND KUHN" <LKUHN at cnmc.org>
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 3:27:44 PM
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This really doesn't qualify as a sailing nightmare but it's the first
time it's ever happened to me and definitely got my heart racing.  I
fell asleep on my boat yesterday.  Lack of sleep and alcohol were
contributors, but I had gotten sunscreen in my eyes and had closed them
until the burning went away.  I couldn't have been out for more than a
few minutes but it's surprising how far a slow sailboat can go in that
time.  I certainly learned my lesson:  if you have to sail tired take
plenty of amphetamines, and protecting your boat is more important than
protecting your skin.

Lee

1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE

Kent Island, MD

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[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Caesar Paul
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:37 PM
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John,

It's good to know that this sailing nightmare experience is not unique
to me.

Unsure of my anchoring skill, that was tested by tide and current in
Puget

Sound, I had a fun but restless sleep while over-nighting on the hook
last

summer.  Woke up at 3.00am and noticed the boat was closer to nice
little Tug

that was on a mooring; I went out side and adjusted my rode.  It turned
out that

the shift in position was because of a 3 hour fall in the tide.

Chris could have alerted me to that development, but I guess he was a
little

lethargic by the sumscious dinner we enjoyed together.

Caesar

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From: John Shulick <jsbudda at verizon.net>

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Sent: Thu, February 17, 2011 6:44:52 PM

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Hail Caesar, (bet you get tired of that)

The first year I had recurring dreams about the boat being driven ashore

while sleeping at anchor. Sometimes the dream could end up with the boat
1/4

mi or so from the shore. When sleeping aboard now I always set at least
2

anchors regardless of wind and have a 3rd if I think a storm will blow

through overnight.

John S

Caesarsailor wrote:

>

> Have you ever dreamt that you lost your boat, or that it was stolen,
or

> that it

> sank, or some such thing?

>

> I dreamt last night that my boat was at some new sailing destination
in

> the

> water, and I arrived with motor, anchor and rode to ready it for

> departure, only

> to be told by someone that he gave it away.

>

>   Imagine my shock and horror! Was I glad to awake this morning and

> realize that

> I was dreaming.  So realistic was the dream.

>

> And please don't ask what I had for dinner last night. 

>

> Caesar

> Gentle Breeze

> 1986 recycled 2008

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