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I’ve known that there was something wrong with the main halyard sheeve in the top of the mast for a while.. It has been hard to pull the mainsail up and the halyard has been gradually fraying where it goes over the sheeve.. Well we (Richard, BIlly, Breck and I) pulled the mast down today and found that the sheeve is totally gone. The halyard has been being pulled up over the bare stainless shaft of the bolt that went through the sheeve..
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The sheeve that was there was a used one that Richard had around and installed this past November not long before I bought Sea Puppy from Patty. The moral of the story is not to put old used sheeves that you have to modify in as replacement parts.. I bought replacement sheeves for the mast and boom a few months ago and now that the mast is down will replace all of them.
I went out with Orin and Richard today on Orin’s boat La Bon Vie’ a Beneteau Oceanus 39. What a nice boat.. It is smooth as silk.. He has a roller furling jib and in mast furling on the main which made putting sail on and taking it in very easy.
When we first got out on the ocean there was barely any wind… we just sat there and bobbed for a while. Eventually we thought we saw some wind farther out and put the engine back on to go check it out. Still no wind.. Some of the other sailboats out there started motoring back in about then…. wrong choice. About 30 minutes later the wind started to pick up and we spent the rest of the day sailing at 5 to 7 knots in 11 or 12 knots of wind..
I went out on Pirate Girl today with Patty, Cary, and Mike. I was a beautifull day sailing… We went out a few miles and back and on a beam reach in 11 or 12 knots of wind were able to not let Breck catch us in Runnaway. There is definately something wrong with Pirate Girls knotmeter it showed 4 to 4.5 knots top boat speed when we had to have been averaging about 6.5. Breck in runnaway said they were doing 6 to 7.5 and were unable to catch up to us.
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Some days you should just roll over and not get out of bed. You know it’s one of those day when you piss on the cat.
So we have this new kitten.. it’s turning into a wild thing.. it scampers and runs everywhere.. attacks everything and wants to know what your doing all the time ( as well as participate in what your doing).
As a guy I have sort of got my morning ritual down… and one of the early things in that ritual, even before clothes, is to sleeply go and stand in front of the commode and take a much needed and long piss. ( for those of you offended by piss i thought of saying urinate but it just doesn’t cover the feeling you get when you take that first long piss in the morning. So you will have to live with piss) So back to the moment… my bladder is just crying with relief as I start to piss. All of a sudden I hear a galloping sound.. We have raised wood floors that really let you hear a kitten gallop. It’s impressive. It sounds more like a herd of kittens.
So the kitten hears me pissing and goes into overdrive ..hollering “Hey! Whatcha Doing! funny naked human” while running at light speed to see . She arrives at such speed that she jumps for where the closed lid of the toilet normally is instead of running headlong into the base of the toilet at speed. The only problem is that I’m pissing and the lid isn’t closed. You know how you sometimes see what is comming ahead of time but can’t do anything about it.. it’s sorta like one of those nightmares where you run and run and run and just run too slow. I see the kitten running and just know she is going to jump and I’m trying and trying and trying in that fraction of a second that seems to lasts for hours to stop pissing, but it isn’t happening.. My bladder is now in control and its going “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!” while im going “NO NO NO oh shit!!”. About this time one small very interested kitten hits the lip of the toilet bowl.. still at full speed… and realizes “oh shit the lid isn’t there!!!” for one fraction of second you see her trying to stop all that momentum.. unsucessfully I might add.. !!!!splash!!!! dead in the center of the toilet looking up at me in shock and dismay is a now wet and being pissed on kitten. My bladder finaly listened to me when the sound of piss hitting the water went away. Pissing on a kitten just doesn’t have the same sound. I now know this for a fact.
Nancy brought home a kitten friday “just until she can find a home for it”.. however it now has a name “Lucy” and there are kitten toys mysteriously appearing.. so what do you think the odds of a home appearing are?
She has already moved into my territory…
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It was funny this evening.. my mom and sister are complaining that the kitten wont leave them alone when they are eating. it keeps trying to get to the food.. They have been locking up when they eat.. I sat down with a plate of food after they had eaten and the kitten was back out. It made a beeline for my plate.. I growled at it once and it didn’t bother me again. It just told them you have to know how to talk to it.
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Just me and Cary took Sea Puppy out sunday and it was a beautifull day.. the temperature was in the high 80’s and there was a nice breeze till late afternoon.. The seas were very low.. maybe 6 inchs to 1 foot of swell and just the cats paws that the wind rasied on the water.. We were one of the first boats out on the water. We got out and sailed about 2 miles from the inlet and then turned around to go mess with Breck in Runaway his Cabo Rico 38.
(ive been calling it a Cabo Rico 39 but he told me its actually a 38.. lol even though its 40+ over all including the bowsprit.. oh well boats are weird)
Well I got my mom and sister to come out with me to race. I also had Cary on board as crew… it started out as a great day. We got out on the ocean and the breeze was at about 10 knots. It was decided to do a leeward windward race to the sherman a wreck 6 miles away.. I got a great start and we poled out the 155 and just started shooting for the mark at about 4.5 knots… the only boats ahead of us were an S2 and Tarten 10 everyone else was falling behind 🙂
then disater… my sister started getting queasy….. 🙁 well she said she could tough it out so we kept going.. then my mom went below for a second to use the head… she enver made it that far.. she popped back into the cockpit saying that being below started to imeadiatly make her queasy to… then it went down hill till she was looking really grim…
I went out sailing on sea puppy today with Cary Huhr. The motor out and back in on the waterway was brutal. Against the tide both ways with the current running 2 knots. Then add in 4th of July traffic and crazys..
We actually ended up saving a jet skier that fell off his jet ski and was having problems getting back up on it or his girl friends jet ski. I saw him fall off and his jet ski was 20 yards away by the time he was even able to look away with the wind and current carrying it faster than he was able to follow. I throtled down just a knot or two and when it became obvious that he wasn’t going to be able to get on his girlfreinds jetski with her motored over and threw the ladder down and let him climb up on Sea Puppy.. Even though he had only been in the water for a couple minutes he was out of breath and we had to help him up the ladder.
We took Pirate Girl out today. Han’s his sister Lisi, Cary, Patty and me. It was a nice day sailing. Maybe 11 knots of wind and low seas. Everyone else was out also. 🙂 Jerry on LC Marie with Richard crewing, Orrin had La Bon Vie out, Diamond Girl was out and also Lickety Split.. Later as we were coming in we saw Achilies Heel anchored out at waities island.
The only excitement of the day was that we thought we had an engine problem at the end of the day..We started the engine and the warning buzzer stayed on and the voltage and oil pressure warning lights stayed on. We killed the engine and Patty went below to see if there was anything she could see on the engine that was obviously wrong. The wind was going pretty good and we were approaching the inlet so it was getting bouncy. I took in about 2/3 of the Jib and about half of the main.. (the main did not want to go into the mast again.. I took and put a little more tension on the main halyard and then pulled it all the way out before trying again and it went in then.
Ok so Patty starts talking shit to me after two glasses of wine.. I just want everyone to know that she forced me into this bet so that when I take her money no one thinks I took advantage… She hounded me for 10 minutes and even called me a sissy… so here are the three bets.
First bet was that Jeb bush would win the next election. Patty is convinced the fix is in and he will run and win.. So the bet is that she thinks he will be next president and I say he won’t. amount of bet $5.00
actually I doubt he will even run.
I finished running the wires for the GPS sounder.. The GPS antenna wire from the transom took a hole in the transom and then one in the bulkhead at the back of the chart table to run.
The cable from the Depth Sounder transducer took three holes through the galley cabinates to run beside the battery cables. I ended up mounting the transduce inside the boat just ahead of the older thru hull sending units for the depth finder and knot meter.. I just took 2 part epoxy and glued it down.. it seems to be working fine. Gives a very clear bottom line. 🙂 I need to read the manual a couple more times though to learn how to set all the options and use them.
After getting all the electrical system put back together and the GPS sounder installed I cleaned Sea Puppy out and then went sailing 🙂 Hans, Neylla, and Lisi, han’s sister went out with me…
Just an afternoon sail off the coast 🙂
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