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hardee
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Jay, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do a real "hijack". I have enjoyed your photos and posts since I started checking in here some few years back. Your photography is excellent, and your writing here is not just enjoyable but captivating. Maybe it is because I understand the boat and the complexities, and one day hope to maybe do something as remote as you do, but you have the skill and the gumption and I have not worked up to that level yet.
Thank you for your sharing as you have, and if you keep sharing with our C-Brat family I will keep following, and enjoying.
Harvey
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Hunkydory
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Harvey, nothing to be sorry about, as I really respect you & appreciate your compliments. Overall, I enjoy threads that wander around the primary subject.
Jay
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Chuckpacific
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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I'll be at Powell's Monday evening and will be wearing a tan 'Denio Junction' ball cap. If you see me say 'hi'.
Chuck
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hardee
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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I will be there too, wearing a C-Dory Vest. I am really looking forward to meeting Paul too.
Harvey
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hardee
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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Just bringing this one back to the top.
For those in the Portland area, this could be a fun get together. The book is worth the price if only to get some good laughs. It is filled will good humor, and humor experiences.
C U There 4 Sure
Harvey
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thechadmiller
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I’ll be there. I have yet to pick out my wardrobe, but it likely to be covered in dog hair. |
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Chuckpacific
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| Excellent presentation Monday night. Enjoyed meeting Harvey and Chad. |
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hardee
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Chuckpacific wrote: | | Excellent presentation Monday night. Enjoyed meeting Harvey and Chad. |
Chuck, back at you. Nice to get to put a face to the name, and to meet Chad too. I really enjoyed Paul's presentation, and he certainly makes it interesting.
I am still convinced he is lucky in so many ways. He didn't know the boat so he didn't chose it for what it was, and he had very little idea of where he was going or what he would get into. Fun meeting and great book.
Harvey
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ssobol
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Finished this book. IMO, it is much better than the other "C-Dory book". |
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C-Green
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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One chapter to go. Thoroughly enjoyed it so far as I did River Horse also, though it was written in a totally different style with a different personality. The sameness of the two books was the lack of nautical knowledge that each author had; at least Paul had used the boat for some summers in Alaskan waters where Wm., if I remember correctly, just dumped the boat in the water, started the motor and off he went, foolishly in my opinion. How about a CD adventure by an experienced skipper; well, we do have El and Bill, and the Wanders'!
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ssobol
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Still, having the *a**s to go into the Arctic (more or less) multiple times and track down polar bears in the middle of ****ing nowhere without a whole lot of nautical knowledge vs. cruising inland rivers in the US puts the former in a whole different league than the latter.
Based on what's in the book, apparently the author of Arctic Solstice did use his boat in Alaska and along the West Coast for a few seasons before heading to Hudson's Bay. So he is not a complete novice.
IMO, his book would have been better if had had included more of the shots that appear on his website for the trips described in his book. In the book there are a lot of descriptions of things he took photos of. While some appear in the book, there are better photos of these encounters on his website.
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thataway
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| C-Green wrote: | How about a CD adventure by an experienced skipper; well, we do have El and Bill, and the Wanders'!
Jay |
You have the DayDream Blog by Pat and Patty Anderson about the Great loop. DayDream blog
Also The blog by Australian doing the loop in the leased Venture 26. Here
Also Jay and Jolee Alaska and other adventures. ?Starting with 2007 on thru last year. . Each of their adventures is a book in itself.
Go to Great Adventure Forum--and choose one of several hundred. I'll not even attempt to name those which are my favorite- but all are great reads.
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ssobol
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| thataway wrote: | | C-Green wrote: | How about a CD adventure by an experienced skipper; well, we do have El and Bill, and the Wanders'!
Jay |
You have the DayDream Blog by Pat and Patty Anderson about the Great loop. DayDream blog
Also The blog by Australian doing the loop in the leased Venture 26. Here
Also Jay and Jolee Alaska and other adventures. ?Starting with 2007 on thru last year. . Each of their adventures is a book in itself.
Go to Great Adventure Forum--and choose one of several hundred. I'll not even attempt to name those which are my favorite- but all are great reads. |
No offense, but how are the authors mentioned any more or less qualified than the guy in the Arctic? Mostly they are retirees with an abundance of free time. I don't think you can really compare someone who travels around the inland waters of the Great Loop in the US where a phone call to Boat US will result in a tow in about an hour or less to someone who if he activates his EPRIB might simply be SOL if the weather is bad. Not to mention the chance of getting eaten by a polar bear while waiting for the helicopter. |
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thataway
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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To answer ssbol's question:
C-Green posted: | Quote: | | The sameness of the two books was the lack of nautical knowledge that each author had; |
He did acknowledge that "Paul had a few seasons in Alaskan waters".
| Quote: | | How about a CD adventure by an experienced skipper; |
I submit that those who I named are very experienced skippers. For example Derrick Baan has circumnavigated Australia as well as a number of voyages in the Southern Ocean--which takes some considerable skills as well as "cojones". I have boated along side both Pat & Patty Anderson as well as Jay and Jolee, and consider them experienced boaters--as I do many of the others who posted in the "Grand Adventure" forum.
Both Derrick and Jay have been in plenty of waters where there was no cell phone or any tow service/rescue available. I suggest that you familiarize yourself with their adventures.
The question is not if one has the courage to go eye to eye with a polar bear in the water. That is an entirely different subject. I certainly agree that that is dangerous. Some of the risks Paul took with the boat, were not those taken by a prudent boater in my opinion. |
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