Okay Martin, enough with “when we were young and fit” stories. You’re depressing me. ;-)
Got back last Monday from helping one of my “old” racing buddies and other old race crew deliver his Sabre 426 from Annapolis to Block Island in preparation (Storm Trysail member and PRO) for BI Race week. I was the “young kid” at 63… It was funny though; we picked up 20 knot Southwesterlies off Atlantic City and set the asym. Hoisted that sucker till it was blocked only to see in fall into the water to leeward. Shackle opened up. The offending person, aka The Owner, started up the mast to retrieve the halyard. After banging around at the first spreader he motioned to us to drop him back to the deck. See, with old age comes wisdom… Cheers, Dave Godwin 1982 C&C 37 - Ronin Reedville - Chesapeake Bay Ronin’s Overdue Refit <http://roninrebuild.blogspot.com/> P.S. We moored next to a nice C&C 40. Not Andy’s though…. > On Jun 18, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > If the story teller was "Texas John" then it was the '77 delivery back from > Hawaii following our 1st Transpac as a crew on the C&C 39 "Midnight Special". > > That delivery was one of my favorite of my 4 east bound Hawaii deliveries. > Great weather and crew, reading in the cockpit by moon light, 2 weeks on one > tack, getting ready for night watch by putting on a T-shirt, and teaching the > crew the words to Jimmy Buffett's "Cheeseburger in Paradise". We hit the > dock at Shilshole around dawn on a weekday. By 9AM we were loaded into my > 1969 Ford Econoline van headed to one of the crew's lakeside houses for a > party. It was a great year to be young, single, and hooked on offshore > sailing. > > The one thing that would have improved it would be to know what I now know > about offshore fishing under sail. Back in 77 no one on the crew knew how to > catch tuna and mahi mahi. With what I learned on later Hawaii deliveries we > could have been eating like kings most of the trip back to Seattle. > > Martin DeYoung > Calypso > 1971 C&C 43 > Seattle > > -----Original Message----- > From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew > Burton via CnC-List > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Andrew Burton > Subject: Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories > > Martin, as you may have guessed, my pal describing the event was John > Dennison. Somehow your name came up and he told the story. I thought it too > good not to share! > > Andy > C&C 40 > Peregrine > > Andrew Burton > 61 W Narragansett > Newport, RI > USA 02840 > > http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ > +401 965-5260 > >> On Jun 18, 2015, at 00:44, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Andrew, >> >> Which C&C 39 and year? In the late 70's there was 4 or 5 active 39s racing >> in the PNW. Many of the crews would hang out together after racing and tell >> sea stories. The names "Blackwatch" and "Mistress" come to mind. The >> "Midnight Special" set a Vic Maui record for boats under 40' in either 74 or >> 76 under its original ownership, Steve Crary IIRC. >> >> I did a similar thing sailing a C&C 39 (the "Midnight Special" under its 2nd >> owner) sailing back to Seattle from a Transpac 77. I dove over for a >> baseball sized glass float. I took the crew a few moments to drop the >> spinnaker and turn around. I could not see the boat for about 10 minutes >> but I was young and a good swimmer. We were +- 1,000 miles from dry land. >> >> I have 9 glass floats picked up while delivering boats back from Hawaii. >> That baseball sized one is the smallest, the largest is the size of a small >> beach ball. My wife has them nicely displayed in our home. >> >> The bigger floats always had a "beard" of sea life hanging below the water's >> surface. The big float still had its netting attached which allowed extra >> sea life to attach. When I extended out from the deck to grab the float it >> almost pulled me off the boat. Another crew grabbed my legs allowing me to >> hold onto the float until the boat slowed more. I cut off the netting and >> returned it to the sea. >> >> Martin >> Calypso >> 1971 C&C 43 >> Seattle >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: CnC-List [[email protected]] on behalf of Andrew Burton >> via CnC-List [[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 7:41 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: Andrew Burton >> Subject: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories >> >> So I just had dinner with an old mate of mine and he had a great story about >> sailing a C&C 39 back to Seattle from Maui a few decades ago. Japanese >> fishermen used to have these beautiful blown glass fishing floats that would >> occasionally get away and were highly valued by sailors. >> >> They were reaching along with the kite up when my friend, who was driving, >> and his watch mate saw one the size of a basketball. The watch mate tried to >> grab it but missed. So he called "man overboard!" and jumped in after it. My >> friend stopped the boat by going head to wind as the rest of the guys ran on >> deck. They retrieved the glass ball and then their errant crewman. >> >> Apparently the owner was quite impressed! :) >> >> Andy >> C&C 40 >> Peregrine >> >> Andrew Burton >> 61 W Narragansett >> Newport, RI >> USA 02840 >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > [email protected] > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom > of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com >
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