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Foggy
Joined: 01 Aug 2013 Posts: 1524 City/Region: Traverse City; Northern Lake Michigan
State or Province: MI
C-Dory Year: 2014
C-Dory Model: 26 Venture
Vessel Name: Boatless in Boating Paradise
Photos: W B Nod
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Can't go wrong with the posts on www.c-brats.com.
Sometimes you learn something, always amusing,
occasionally hilarious.
Available anytime.
No purchase necessary.
Aye. _________________ "I don't want any cake" - said no one ever.
If someone tells you they don't eat cake, unfriend them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life. |
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hardee
Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 12633 City/Region: Sequim
State or Province: WA
C-Dory Year: 2005
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Sleepy-C
Photos: SleepyC
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Foggy wrote: | Can't go wrong with the posts on www.c-brats.com.
Sometimes you learn something, always amusing,
occasionally hilarious.
Available anytime.
No purchase necessary.
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You are right on the button with that. It's my morning coffee, my daily lunch and my evening desert, when I can.
Harvey
SleepyC
_________________ Though in our sleep we are not conscious of our activity or surroundings, we should not, in our wakefulness, be unconscious of our sleep. |
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RichardM
Joined: 28 Mar 2012 Posts: 96 City/Region: Akron
State or Province: OH
C-Dory Year: 2007
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Pangur Ban
Photos: Pangur Ban
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Let me recommend some books by David James Duncan: The River Why, River Teeth, and My Story as Told by Water. He has written others less water-oriented, too; see his website.
I'm now reading A Sea Dog's Tale by Peter Muilenberg and will review it for The Ensign (the USPS quarterly). So far it's a fun read. |
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AstoriaDave
Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 994 City/Region: Astoria
State or Province: OR
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Ivan Doig's Sea Runners ... fictional tale of three indentured workers who escape a Russian work camp in Sitka (I think) and paddle down the Inside Passage and the outside of Vancouver Island in an open dugout canoe, eventually reaching willapa bay, circa 1790. _________________ Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR |
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Wandering Sagebrush
Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 2772 City/Region: Northeast Oregon
State or Province: OR
C-Dory Year: 2005
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Constant Craving
Photos: Constant Craving
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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AstoriaDave wrote: | Ivan Doig's Sea Runners ... fictional tale of three indentured workers who escape a Russian work camp in Sitka (I think) and paddle down the Inside Passage and the outside of Vancouver Island in an open dugout canoe, eventually reaching willapa bay, circa 1790. |
I like a lot of Doig's early works.. Winter Brothers about James Swan and the settling of thr Port Townsent area is a superb read.
I'm not sure that Sea Runners wasn't based on some type of an actual event, probably nothing like the book...
His early autobiography, This House of Sky is very good as well. _________________ "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln |
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El and Bill
Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 3200 City/Region: Lakewood, CO
State or Province: CO
C-Dory Year: 2000
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Halcyon
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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I am enjoying re-reading our Halcyon Days website. It was written in coves during our years living aboard our C-Dory. We wrote it primarily for folks wondering about living aboard and cruising distances with their C-Dory. You can click on it below.
Now that we have transitioned ashore after years living in a small floating home, it is fun to re-read experiences. It is not a "where to buy gas, where to anchor" tale. More about some great times, and how do you live aboard a boat, without a home, cruising new water all the time. Also, being a geologist, there are stories of geology you might cruise through on your boat. Why, you can cruise right through a meteor impact crater!
Free, sit in your comfy chair, and 'cruise' along on a C-Dory -- and pass a cold winter evening. Even read some kid tales about cruising with folks or grand-parents. _________________ El and Bill (former live-aboards)
Halcyon 2000 CD 22 Bought 2000 Sold 2012
http://cruisingamerica-halcyondays.com/ |
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chucko
Joined: 12 Jul 2011 Posts: 168 City/Region: Davidson
State or Province: NC
C-Dory Year: 1997
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Sea Angel
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hardee
Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 12633 City/Region: Sequim
State or Province: WA
C-Dory Year: 2005
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Sleepy-C
Photos: SleepyC
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Chucko,
That is a great book, true story, and Joe Rantz, one of the main subjects in the story, lived right here in Sequim. It was the main read I took with me on my trip north last summer.
Harvey
SleepyC
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Hunkydory
Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 2673 City/Region: Cokeville, Wyoming
State or Province: WY
C-Dory Year: 2000
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Hunkydory
Photos: Hunkydory-Jay-and-Jolee
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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El and Bill wrote: | I am enjoying re-reading our Halcyon Days website. It was written in coves during our years living aboard our C-Dory. We wrote it primarily for folks wondering about living aboard and cruising distances with their C-Dory. You can click on it below.
Now that we have transitioned ashore after years living in a small floating home, it is fun to re-read experiences. It is not a "where to buy gas, where to anchor" tale. More about some great times, and how do you live aboard a boat, without a home, cruising new water all the time. Also, being a geologist, there are stories of geology you might cruise through on your boat. Why, you can cruise right through a meteor impact crater!
Free, sit in your comfy chair, and 'cruise' along on a C-Dory -- and pass a cold winter evening. Even read some kid tales about cruising with folks or grand-parents. |
We have done just as you describe several times & know we will again. Your sharing has enriched our lives & we appreciate & thank you for doing so.
Best Wishes,
Jay & Jo-Lee _________________ Jay and Jolee 2000 22 CD cruiser Hunkydory
I will not waste my days in trying to prolong them------Jack London
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Discovery
Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 1240 City/Region: LOA, UTAH
State or Province: UT
C-Dory Year: 2006
C-Dory Model: 255 Tomcat
Vessel Name: Discovery
Photos: Discovery
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:39 am Post subject: |
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I am re-reading "Halcyon Days Cruising America" on the Kindle APP. Great read and prep for a future trip around the "Great Loop". Thanks Bill and El. _________________
Brent and Dixie,
1984 22' Classic sold 2003
2003 24' TomCat sold 2005
2006 TC255 Discovery Sold 2020
2006 CD 22' Angler Sold 2014
https://share.delorme.com/FBrentBetenson
"Free men do not ask permission to bear arms." ~ Thomas Jefferson |
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Montana Kev
Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 318 City/Region: Bozeman/Yellowstone
State or Province: MT
C-Dory Year: 2006
C-Dory Model: 25 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Grace
Photos: Grace
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 10:47 am Post subject: |
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Great Story
Book Title - Living High: An Unconventional Autobiography
NEWLYWED COUPLE HOMESTEAD AMONG SAN JUAN ISLANDS
http://old.seattletimes.com/special/centennial/september/photo/burn.html
June Burn and her husband Farrar enjoying first hand living and not surrendering to the routines of a workaday world. Through the years they had some high and glorious adventures, which included homesteading a San Juan Island, teaching Eskimos near Siberia, and exploring the United States by donkey cart with a baby aboard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojOI4B4mj8k |
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Larry Patrick
Joined: 03 Dec 2011 Posts: 605 City/Region: Dallas
State or Province: PA
C-Dory Year: 2008
C-Dory Model: 23 Venture
Vessel Name: Sea -Jo
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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Reading lifes a ditch about ICW,and two waterway guides Chesapeake and Norfolk to Jacksonville. |
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Rick from Maine
Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Posts: 308 City/Region: No. Berwick
State or Province: ME
C-Dory Year: 2000
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Hunky Dory
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:15 am Post subject: Winter Reading |
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"Into the Raging Sea" by Rachel Slade is a riveting account of the El Faro sinking. The author has included the conversations on the bridge from the 26 hrs before the sinking as well as many interviews. The number of factors involved in the Captain's course decision is mind boggling. The book gives one a new perspective on the maritime industry. |
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Marco Flamingo
Joined: 09 Jul 2015 Posts: 1155 City/Region: Seattle
State or Province: WA
C-Dory Year: 2004
C-Dory Model: 16 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Limpet
Photos: Limpet
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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I just started In the Heart of the Sea, the story of the whaling vessel Essex sunk by a sperm whale (a true story that inspired Herman Melville's ending of Moby Dick). Although the story of the Essex has been written about in the past, there was a recently discovered (1980's) text written by the cabin boy that shed new light on to the months that the few survivors spent in whale boats.
Lots of interesting background and history, but then the story starts out in February of 1821 with a sailing vessel changing coarse off of the Chilean coast to inspect what appears to be an abandoned whale boat. As they pass by, they can see that it is littered with human bones. Not skeletons. Bones.
Just in time for Halloween.
Mark |
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ken35216
Joined: 12 Mar 2013 Posts: 573 City/Region: Destin, Florida
State or Province: FL
C-Dory Year: 2017
C-Dory Model: 25 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Lady Onyx
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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Clive Cussler the Numa Series of books. Adventures aboard a really tricked out ship. _________________ 2007 25 Cruiser 150 Suzuki (2013-2016)
2017 25 Cruiser 200 Yamaha (2017-present) |
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