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Turks and Caicos (locations) Double “D” and Half Mile Reef

Double D
bottom time 54min
max depth 85 ft
6min saftey stop
visibility 100 ft

wall dive

Half Mile Reef
bottom time 48 min
max depth 62ft
visibility 80-50 ft.. got worse into dive

Turks and Caicos (locations) The Anchor and Sand Road

dive one on the Anchor
Wall dive
steve was dive master
same lead and suit.. again good
saw two small rays

was supposed to be a 1800’s anchor from big sailing ship imbeded in coral.. did not see it though… however after looking at pictures I took , I got two excellent shots of it in the cut that we passed through on the way to the wall.
bottom time 51 min
max depth 80ft
5 min saftey stop
visibility 80 to 100 ft

2nd dive
Sand Road

Turks and Caicos (locations) Daves Drop Off and Vincent’s Secret

Daves Drop Off in Turks and Caicos
Wall Dive
bottom under boat at about 35 ft depth.. about 15 yards to wall where it drops off to several thousand feet
max depth 90 ft
bottom time 37 min
visibility 65 ft
4 min safety stop at 20 ft

10lb weights with 3/2 mm us divers suit. was to light and i needed more weight.. salt water body weight 175
took pictures canon s45 no strobe just in camera flash

80 cuft aluminum
2800 psi start
500 psi end

Christmas comes again :)

Well it looks like christmas is coming again. Nancy snuck a christmas
tree in on the front porch 🙂 sigh… oh well I’ll try and not be to
bad a grinch about it.

Another Boat seems to be moving in.

Update spring of 2005 Well this one has needed an update for a
while.. The below boat never did get here. I contacted the folks that
wanted it moved a couple times but they were acting for their parents
or something like that and were all over the country and never really
contacted me back… After calling a couple times and them saying they
would arrange for me to go get it I finally just stopped calling.. It
would have been nice but I don’t think they were serious about it. it would have been nice though 🙂

LBSA Race November 5th 2004

raced with jim on webejamming
little river

Migrated to new server hardware

Well you might have noticed that things were not working for a little while yesterday evening or not working quite right. 🙂

Joe and I moved my websites from one older 128 meg of ram 600 mhz celeron system that they have been running on for the last year or two to two athlon 1400 with 512 megs of ram systems with much bigger hard drives. Everything is running much faster now. However some stuff is still broken or we are finding differences that are affecting functionality. The old system was highly customized and we are gradually tweaking the new servers to match the old configuration while also moving to the latest versions of the various services we are running. A few services are still being run off the old system till we can shift them safely over.

Back from Florida with Gooney Bird

Just a brief update. We got back saturday evening about 11:30 or 12:00 after an uneventfull trip. Best trips are always uneventfull.

I got out this morning put the swing wing rigging back on, extended the ama’s and scrubbed the road grime off of Gooney Bird. I am compiling a list of jobs needed to be done on her so that a material list can be generated and work can get started. I will post a list here later when I’ve had a few days to think about what and in what order I’m going to do stuff.

Traveling and more Traveling :)

Well I am bored and back to write some more. We are on I 95 now about 75 miles from jacksonville and still traveling…

Steve and me have been talking about names for the Trikini 23. According to Capt. Len this boat doesn’t have a name and if it did in the past he doesn’t know about it. Steve came up with what I think will be her name. The “Goonie Bird” she looks sitting on her trailer so awkward and out of her element, with her wings tucked up beside her that she reminds us of an albatros that isn’t flying. With their wings spread they are gorgeous gracefull birds but on land they are awkward and ungainly. I think that with her wings spread out on the water she will turn into a gracefull flyer 🙂

Trikini 23 Florida and back

We are on the downside of our trip to pickup the trikini 23 from Capt. Len down in Cape Coral near Fort Myers, Fl. We are currently passing Lakeland florida on I4 as we tow her back home.

It’s been (so far, knock on wood) a much easier trip than I thought it would be. I had asked my friend Steve to go with me to pick up the boat and we took his Isuzu Rodeo down with us. He is a driving fool 🙂 so far I haven’t driven at all. 🙂 I can’t say that I mind, it’s been years since I loved to drive long distance.

It looks like I’m getting another boat

I have always been fascinated by multihull sail boats. Well it looks like I will be getting the opportunity to own one.

I am a member of the yahoo groups multihull forum
and one of the other members there (Capt. Len) has a 23 ft trimaran (Trikini23) that he wants to go to a good home.

It is a boat he has been restoring for the last few years. (if I understand right he is the designer and original builder of the boat and ended up getting it from the second owner a few years ago. you can see the story of this in the Deja Vue trikini post by Capt. Len) It had been basically abandoned and was sitting in an orchard. I can understand his not wanting to leave it there. Circumstances now are such that he doesn’t have time to finish restoring her and because of damage to his house in Cape Coral, Fl. from one of the recent hurricanes, he needs to have her moved from where she is to begin repairs of his house.

LBSA Race october 1 2004

raced with jim on webejamming
little river