Oct 17 2009
Home safe in San Diego
Speedy motorcycle brought me home again. A quick coast to coast to coast on a motor bike is nothing after sailing around the world, Ha! Actually there were some moments on the highway with rain and wind and big trucks really nearby that were just as scary as anything in the southern ocean and at 80mph the apparent wind was higher. Remember apparent wind? It is mearly the sum of two vectors. Now that I’m back, I’ll be speaking at West Marine (NOT-W.M. cancelled 10-22) in San Diego for the Baja-Ha-Ha group before they leave, so I can talk about how to sail happily down and up the coast of Mexico, something I’ve done countless times. After Oct 19th, I can be found during the week at Pacific Offshore Rigging. If you need rigging work, there is a link to P.O.R. on this site. One cool thing I saw at the Annapolis Boat Show was a Westsail 32′ rigged by SouthBound Cruising Services entirely with Dynema Dux rigging, including dead-eyes rather than turnbuckles. This is a heat treated form of Spectra and replaces wire rigging while costing no more but weighing much less. On the Westsail they claim to have stripped close to 100lbs from the rig. I love technology that encourages Marlinspike seamanship. Speaking of Marlinspike seaman, another cool thing was meeting and hanging out with Brian Toss, world famous rigger from Port Townsend. He is a treat. Thanks to Mike at SouthBound for putting it all together and a big thanks to his family for their hospitality.
Dude, you’re not right.
Damn!
Anyway, I know the motorcycle folks like you know the sailors. Let me know if you need anything.
Pete, the Fedex guy.
Hey, I’ll send another note to your email but this blog sits next to Abby’s on my bookmarks bar! Small world huh, great that you caught up with her, or she you or whatever!
I’m busy re-cutting a 3DL kevlar sail from a Sydney/ Hobart boat, they tore a little bit off the bottom, I got it for free. It was a 50 footer so I’ve now taken another 4 metres off the bottom and it will make a very nice CODE Zero set from my spinnaker halyard. Got my Titanium wrist now and it’s finally getting strong. Working like mad catching up on the last 2 years jobs…back out on my mooring no Constitution Dock boat jail any more! I’ll be heading North by May, definitely skipping winter this year…look forward to next time we catch up, maybe it will be me with sea legs on the bicycle this time! Stay in touch, Grant, Zoetje and Apache
(PS;hope she goes straight round, but if she needs it Abby has a good shore crew in Hobart, wish her fair winds for me!)