forumite spotted actually operating vessel!

[Hughman]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid133/p5656521ed17a1ce65c0b2cb70278d478/f78f1313.jpg

[landlocked sailor]

SHUT UP!! Okay, who is it? Rick tongue.gif

[Hughman]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid133/p8ec10a42a5a48818f88d3980b771ba00/f78efa5d.jpg

Didja ever see such a grin? smile.gif

[John B]

I'd be interested to hear what your weather did/ does over the next few days.

[imported_Steven Bauer]

They are saying the passing hurricane won't affect us. I hope not because Saturday is the Eggemoggan Reach Regatta and a certain smiling individual (see above) has invited me to be crew for the race. :D We might be the smallest boat in the race, but we'll be racing in style! :D

Steven

[JeffH]

If you see the bigger of the two schooners Heron in the race, wave. I'll be crew on her ;)

Jeff

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

May you have fair winds and following seas. ;)
Hope you guys have a blast. :D

[John B]

You have a hurricane? I was looking at the clouds. A bit shredded.
sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they are. Just a weather eye out but you'll have that anyway.

have good sailing. love the pics. Chris is having fun. :D

[ 08-05-2004, 10:15 PM: Message edited by: John B ]

[Hughman]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid132/pc7ffcebc7293d8ebdfd2b92be6fa8835/f796e430.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid133/p5656521ed17a1ce65c0b2cb70278d478/f78f1313.jpg

These two boats, the first built in 1962, the second in 1963, were launched ay Hong Kong's Cheoy Lee yard. The construction details look like the work of same crew.

Both are teak on ipol hulls, copper rivited.

[Hughman]

stop.
Forumite currently sailing "rail down" entering Fox Island Thoroughfare wishing he had another hand to make some coffee. Grin said to be larger than available face.

stop.

[Hwyl]

Hugh, I am presuming that you are keeping in touch via cell phone and lap top. Put them in a lock box and throw away the key. Open them when you get back to your workshop.

How do you expect me to enjoy your cruise vicariously when I know that you are working on being constantly in touch. My vicarious cruise should not include daily updates.

The forum will still be here (maybe)

[Hughman]

Well, I did get the call from Chris via cell phone, but we are trying to organize a rendevous.

I'm still sitting in front of a desktop.

Put them in a lock box and throw away the key. Open them when you get back to your workshop Ordinarily, I agree with this advice. If I had my way, I'd be in my own boat headed East, hence the parody of projection.

[Hwyl]

Originally posted by Hughman:
If I had my way, I'd be in my own boat headed East, hence the parody of projection.Me too, the parody took me in, but I was always a sucker.

Hope to get to your area before the end of the Summer, unfortunately it wll be by car.

What motor do you have in the Cheoy Lee, is it also the same as Chris' (Scandihooligan made)?

[Hughman]

Yeah, MD1. It's not operating yet, which explains why I'm not Eastbound.

I'm trying to find an MD1 enthusiast to make sense on the re-install. These relics don't generally instill a great deal of fondness among boat mechanics.

[John B]

We've just replaced the motor on our winter race boat .. an MD2. The issue with that was primarily the oil pump. Apparently it's common with them that they develop too much clearance on one of the bushes and lose oil pressure.
Worth paying a bit of special attention to.

[Hwyl]

Those Volvo transmissions are not much to write home about. They take EP 90 if I remember correctly. I'd be tempted to sail and scull for the rest of the season and rebuilt the blue monster over the winter.

[Memphis Mike]

Looks like a rat eatin cheese. :D

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid133/p8ec10a42a5a48818f88d3980b771ba00/f78efa5d.jpg

[Thad]

And, why isn't it operating, Hugh?

[Chris Coose]

Chris shoreside at Hugh's in Rockland.

From Rockland, last week, I headed for Pulpit Harbor on North Haven I. on the way to to the Eggamoggin Regatta.
Next AM the wind was hard out of the NW with the tide headed out. I've forgotten about the tidal velocity as you get further East, so I dropped down to the Fox Island Thouroughfare and passed out to the East Penobscot Bay bound for the Deer Island Thouroughfare.
Met Steven and Gavin B. that evening at the Woodenboat dock and hung out among some massive wood boats of all sorts.
The Regatta was dull due to light air.
After dropping Steven and Gavin back at the dock I headed her back to North Haven to meet the bride and Ella. Got to North Haven at 9 PM and gladly picked up a mooring.
Next day I did some deferred maintanance while waiting for the ferry.

Picked up the girls and traveled out to the NW corner of Vinal Haven to my pal Nipper's - Crocker(?) cove, just inside of Dogfish Is. We settled into the cove and spent the next few days between his barn and the bait shack. (You have to have some idea what a Vinal Haven barn and bait shack might be like. Use your dreamiest imagination and add 20%)Pictures later.

Dropped the bride and kept the kid this AM and headed her for Rockland for shelter from this storm. Last report was 25-30 out of the SE with plenty of rain for tomorrow afternoon.

Now that I have company I must dispense with my agendas and create a cruise that makes sense to a 7 year old. To be near Hugh's clan makes a great deal of sense with the storm knocking us around at anchor. Victoria is cunnin' below but given the opportunity to go to a movie during the worst of it and bouncing on a hook......

After the passing of the storm I'm looking to Isle au Haut as our most Eastern point. If Monhegan Is. works that would be good as we point Victoria back to Portland. After that I'm looking to take a right at Boothbay and spend some time in the rivers.

Thanks to Hugh and family and Steven and Gavin for their kindness and generosity.

[Donn]

Keep a weather eye around the middle of next week.

[imported_Steven Bauer]

Will you still be in Rockland on Sunday? Mary's brother will be here from California and we may come up for the Maine Boats and Harbors Show. If there's a chance of any daysail action on a couple of Cheoy Lee beauties from the early sixties there may be even more of a chance. Weather permitting of course. :D

Steven

[Chris Coose]

I'm returned.
As we passed Hope Island on the way in yesterday my daughter who was on the windward side exclaimed that she got wet from a porpoise spray. I looked behind and saw a water disturbance but no fish. I looked closer to the taft rail and say a small white tail swisshing along just tucked under the transom. The Beluga came up to the side and spouted again and followed us to mooring . about 6 NM. He hung around the mooring for some kyackers too enjoy and when we went to dock to he followed us in and surprised a bunch of turists as well.
This creature has been in Casco Bay a couple of months. A month ago my eldest patted it. Magine that both kids touching a whale in the wild.

I am having trouble uploading from Imagestation.

I'll work on that and a narrative of the trip, but you can well imagine if that was the finale' what discoveries me and the little one made this past month along the Maine coast and the major rivers.

Wood boats are the best!

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

:D C :cool: :cool: L I wanna go sometime

[George Jung]

What Joe said :D ; where do I sign on? Several years ago, I spent a summer in Soldotna, Alaska. Frequently we'd see a pod of Belugas in the Bay at Kenai, where the Kenai river emptied into the ocean. Unfortunately, I was not a kayaker then, and did not have access to a boat (very poor planning on my part, in hindsight). My kids would love an adventure such as you describe. Thanks for the report

[Donn]

Can you believe it?! A RWW posting pics for a LWW.

Anyway, fresh in from Coose. No captions were provided, so maybe an Ahab tale will spin through your heads.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/donnwest/001_24a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/donnwest/004_21a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/donnwest/006_19a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/donnwest/Copy2ofCruise2004010.jpg

:cool: That last one's sure purty. http://media5.hypernet.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif

[Chris Coose]

Thanks a lot Donn.

Is RWW and LWW something about us having differences in wood boat primary propultion?
Or have I been away too long?

Have you read the new "Bounty"?
Hugh got me hooked on Patrick O'Brien books while I was out.

The last one was taken at Pulpit Harbor on North Haven in the Penobscot Bay.
The entrance to this harbor is something to behold. Entrance!!!!!! The entire Pen Bay is dreamy.

[ 08-28-2004, 05:10 PM: Message edited by: Chris Coose ]

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

I got your email Chris I was reducing them so as to not BLOW them up. But they sure are stunning photos.
Wonderful thread. Thanks for sharing.

[Chris Coose]

Thanks for trying Joe.
BTY, there is still a lot of season if anyone of youze out there can make it to Portland. Sort of like the old days and drinking. I don't need an excuse to climb aboard now that I'm as salty as I am.

I'd keep coming with the photos if I could figure what worm has intersected my photos from uploading to Imagestation. I think it's something in the computer gone corrupt. I'd rather be handling an anchor rode than this keyboard.

[ 08-28-2004, 05:23 PM: Message edited by: Chris Coose ]

[George.]

Uh-oh, Donn, you blew up the thread!

Thanks for the pics. That beluga (never seen one - one of my dreams) has one chewed up tail!!

Better stick to the wind propulsion around them , be it LLW or RRW ;)

[imported_Steven Bauer]

It's political Chris. Left Wing Wacko vs. Right Wing Wacko. :D

It looks like I'll finish the sail rig tonight so tomorrow is first sail in my skiff, weather permitting.

Steven

[Donn]

Didn't blow up my desktop or my laptop.

Chris...try photobucket. Much faster than Imagestation.

[Donn]

The more I look at these pics, the more I marvel. #1 needs a little crop, and print it for the wall. Remarkable.

#2 & #3 side by side in a 2 panel mount, on the wall.

#4 On the wall, and sell a poster.

[Chris Coose]

I liked #1 too Donn. May be the best of the trip.
The strong contrast of the distinct rail and rudder with the varied texture of the whale's tail are pretty.
These photos are on 35mm BTW.

[Memphis Mike]

Nice pictures Chris. I'm glad you all had a good time and are back safe and sound. smile.gif

[John B]

That whale is just amazing. what a great experience Chris.
I see you mention Casco bay. I have one chart of Maine and Casco bay is it.I can't even remember where I got it but I bought it( second hand) because of the dramatic look of the place. It wasn't until I really looked hard that I realised the scale of it. It looks like an incredible area to cruise around in.

[Chris Coose]

John,
Casco bay and most of the Maine coast got chiseled out by some ice about 14,000 years ago.
It made these great fissures that we call lakes and harbors.
I remember as a kid looking at the coastal charts and thinking, " I want that".
I'm glad you have Casco. It covers the area from Cape Elizabeth to Cape Small. There are a million hide outs that are not too built up. (Thank God for the Maine winter).
Take a look at Cape Small and look at the harbor and the entrance. Go up the New Meadows River bit and look at the Basin. There is a small island in the Basin that is owned by the state of Maine for camping etc. There are 3 or 4 summer homes along the shore. It really is quite spectacular and hard to believe that all of this is in such fine shape and accessable to anybody who can move a small boat.
There is a small island about 1/2 way called Jewell. An easy overnight and owned by Portland. It gets kind of busy on the weekends but for the most part it can be a swell retreat.

Just a couple exapmles of the cruising opportunities within a stop sign of my house. The other bays going further east are heaven for the small and large boat.

[John B]

I'll drag it out and have another good look tonight Chris. Thanks for the insight. it's all so different from our cruising and it's difficult to really get a handle on it . I've been speaking to a few people about sailing in Maine recently and they all say " fog" and "Lobster pots". rbgarr was saying a while back that one of the reasons for buying his shields was the keel hung rudder to try and avoid the chance of a hang up on a pot line.
We have no fog ( extremely seldom anyway)
we have no lobster pots. So you get the picture... its all a bit exciting from here. :D

[Chris Coose]

When a person comes to ski in New England they will get worked up about ice and stumps sticking out of the slope. The locals are used to them and their absence in the dry powder in the western slopes actually makes them better skiiers.

Kinda like that with fog and pot bouys. I never think of them as anything but part of the landscape. There are a couple of bays that are thick of em (it)and I guess if it hinders the deluge of turists it is good.

[Hughman]

Thanks for the pictures, Chris. Sounds like you had a whale of a good time!

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Now I gotta go sailin'! smile.gif