[C38] rendezvous pics???

[Max Soto]

Phil,  Sounds laike you had a great weekend. Can't wait to see the pics and
read the article on Mainsheet. Who's Palancar's owner?? I haven't heard of
that 38 befor.

Regards, Max

2011/9/29 Phil Gay <eyriepg at comcast.net>

> Max and all,****
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> We will write up the rendezvous last weekend at Port Townsend for the
> Mainsheet along with photos.  In the mean time I will give the Listserve a
> brief summary of the weekend.  Four boats, Peregrine, Que Linda, Santa
> Susanna, and Palancar, came from Washington and 2, Gusto and Impulse, from
> British Columbia.  Linda(my wife) greated arriving boats with a welcome bag
> of information and goodies.  Most of us dined out together Friday night and
> Peregrine arrived later at 9:30pm.  All of us saw south winds gusting to 35
> kts on Friday with the WA boat enjoying the wind off their sterns.  The BC
> boats had a tougher time with the winds forward but did well.  Gusto was
> single handed across the Straits of Juan de Fuca.****
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> Saturday was as beautiful a day as Friday and we had an organized “open
> boat” show and tell on Saturday morning.  Several of the boats had wonderful
> customized features.  I saw several things that I wanted for my boat.  One
> of the most interesting was Palancar’s raised aft cockpit locker which made
> room for a large propane locker as well as raising the seat to usable
> level.  Saturday afternoon was informal visit time and sightseeing beautiful
> Port Townsend.  On Saturday night we used the port’s Marina room for a
> delightful pot luck dinner and Steve Smolinske talked about his Trans Pac
> adventure.  I have never met a more congenial group of people and I would
> gladly cruise with any of them.****
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> Saturday night late the shrieking winds to 30 kts forebode the next day and
> we woke up to 15-20 knot winds in the Marina.  The winds while departing our
> slips required great skill on the skippers.  This time boats heading back to
> WA ports had the wind on their bow.  We tied in a double reef in the main
> sail and motorsailed back south in Admiralty Inlet.  There were gale force
> conditions in effect and winds were predicted at 20-30 kts easing to 15-20
> kts.  The water was best described as a washing machine with wind opposing
> current making the waves steep and close together.  Add to that, rips that
> occur near the points of land the trip south were extremely challenging.
> Many times the 3-5 foot waves were at 90 degrees to each other.  Instead of
> easing, the winds increased to 25-35 kts with gusts to 40 kts.  In short the
> WA boats made it safely home or to an alternate port after finding more
> places that water can come into the boat than we ever imagined.  For
> example, even with the main hatched closed we got salt water in our ice
> box.  The BC boats made it across the open water of the Strait with winds
> abaft, but with difficult seas, elected to take shelter at Friday Harbor on
> San Juan Island.  The experience was invaluable and I’m glad that I did it,
> but I don’t ever want to do it again.  We were never in fear for our lives
> and the reefed mainsail eliminated rolling, but trying to steer through the
> confused seas was exhausting.  Even with foul weather gear we took several
> bucket loads of water down our backs.  Fortunately the day was mostly sunny
> with a mild temp in the high 60s. The other skippers have very interesting
> stories to tell but I’ll leave it up to them whether they place them in the
> Mainsheet or on the Listserve.****
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> The rendezvous was a great experience and despite the trips to and from was
> worth every bit of effort.  We plan to do it again year after next.****
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> Phil Gay****
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> C38 049 Que Linda****
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> Everett WA ****
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> *From:* listserve-bounces at catalina38.org [mailto:
> listserve-bounces at catalina38.org] *On Behalf Of *Max Soto
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 28, 2011 6:27 PM
> *To:* Catalina 38 Listserve
> *Subject:* [C38] rendezvous pics???****
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> Somebody please upload some pics on the site from the last rendezvous!!!!!
> ****
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> The ones that have lots of envy for not being there want at least, to look
> at some of your pics!!!****
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> Speaking of envy,  I just bought a complete brand new raymarine speed and
> depht system (displays, tranducers, manuals, wires, etc... for $120!!! how
> about that??? ****
>
> I just need the wind display and I'll be set!!****
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> Regards, ****
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> --
> Max Soto
> C38 #198 ESTANCIA
> Puntarenas, Costa Rica****
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Max Soto
C38 #198 ESTANCIA
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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