Keep Up With Me, You Slackers!

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Pat Anderson

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OK, here is a startling (to me) statistic:

Total posts: 1729
[4.99% of total / 2.04 posts per day]

Is it really possible that one out of every 20 posts on this site is from little ol' me?

OK, yes, I post two messages a day...the rest of you need to try harder!!
 
I think it counts each post bold red ink and a large font as two... Also, with both you and Patty posting under one ID, your post count should be divided by two again. That takes you down to still an unhealthy 1.25% of the total.

Roger on the SeaDNA
 
You can pretty much count the posts that start "Patty here..." on your fingers and toes...


rogerbum":24en3bgs said:
I think it counts each post bold red ink and a large font as two... Also, with both you and Patty posting under one ID, your post count should be divided by two again. That takes you down to still an unhealthy 1.25% of the total.

Roger on the SeaDNA
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Pat-

I'm only in fourth place with 1139 posts, but generally only write when there's something technical or informational to comment on.

Don't drop many of the short, social type messages into the mix, but that's just my personal preference. My own "fault", I guess.

Some of the things I have written occcasionally were longer than some of the papers we were required to write in college! It's much easier when you are interested in the subject, but then, we knew that 40 years ago when we were in school.

I enjoy your commments. Hope you enjoy mine. Joe.
 
For those of us recent "joiners" that is a daunting standard to keep up with. If you keep making around 2 posts a day and I (with a grand total of 6 posts) make 3 posts a day, I'll catch up to you in five or six years.

At any rate, with a new C-dory on the way for June or July, I look forward to meeting many of you.

I do appreciate all the information that everyone has posted over the years.

The great thing about C-dory's is the ability to customize them. This is alos the bad thing, as choices multiply. The information contained on this site is invaluable in this process.

Hopefully, we'll have our boat for the Bellingham get together. In the meantime, I'll try to stop "slacking" and keep up!
 
Y'know, there is a lot of patter (no pun intended) that contributes by creating a spacer and buffer, and gives members like me time to coagulate my thoughts into some kind of coherent message (maybe) to pass along or generate. I'm all for input, from everyone, anytime (except for that idiot a couple months back).

Bob Cat
 
Dave the lurker here, in appreciation for all the great info I have pulled off this forum. Yes, a truly good bunch.

I don't own a C-Dory, and do not intend to ... but I'm still hanging around because this is such a great resource for how to tend, equip, and maintain a boat the right way. Never owned a power boat, though I have taken a sea kayak many of the places the folks in the NW cruise, with focus on the coast of BC (including the Charlottes ... a place that is unbelievably underused by the powerboat crowd). And you guys provide a terrific way to absorb the stuff I need to elarn if I plan to cruise a little.

I got here, thinking I might invest in a C-22, but the dollars and my budget did not match, nor did the weight, for the light truck I need to use for trailering. In lieu, I am building an inboard-powered stretched 19-foot Bartender, a George Calkins design the oldsters might know. Bartenders are a double-ended hull, good for sea keeping in rough waters, and the stretched 19 is big enough for a minimalist backpacker-style camper like me to use for overnighting.

My fiancee Becky and I plan to haul our folding kayaks along, and use them for gunkholng the haunts we used to access via sea kayaks alone. With tiring arms, and a need for more comfortable overnight accomodations, the Bartender seems to be a good way to extend our years of exploring into our seventh decade on the planet.

For the curious, here is a site where I've been posting a photo narrative: http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictu ... 2112448943 of the construction process, and here is the Bartender site: http://bartenderboats.com/19-foot-bartender.html
 
Dave-

Wow! What a project! A true Labor of Love!

I guess it's less expensive than a CD-22. if you don't count the cost of your labor and time!

How many hours do you have in the boat so far, and how many do you think you'll have when it's done?

Niced looking boat design. I've heard about them before, but never seen one up close. The inboard well for the outboard is interesting.

Are you building the cabin model? Any modifications to the suggested plan?

Great job so far! Keep us posted on your progress.

You should bring it to a C-Brat Get Together when it's done. Better yet, come to a Get Together as soon as you can, then bring the boat later when it's finished.

Joe.
 
Sea Wolf":av32bgdu said:
Wow! What a project! A true Labor of Love!

I guess it's less expensive than a CD-22. if you don't count the cost of your labor and time!

How many hours do you have in the boat so far, and how many do you think you'll have when it's done?Are you building the cabin model? Any modifications to the suggested plan?

You should bring it to a C-Brat Get Together when it's done.
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Thanks. Yeah, I'll have about $20K in it before I'm done, and maybe 1000 hours or so -- only about 300 so far. Never built a power boat before, just a couple stitch and glue Pygmy sea kayaks. Learning a lot, and collecting tons of splinters!

Might paddle over to Cathlamet in March from Brownsmead (Aldrich Point) to that gathering. Them's my home waters. Bunch of stories here on paddling, mostly the Lower Columbia River: http://www.kayakplace.com/essay/dkn/dkn25.htm (this is getting way out of C-Dory land! :roll:
 
Pat.... keep up your posting, and your overnight hosting for lost indigent Bama boaters, thanks for keep'n us all supplied with beverages for toasting and Christenings :beer , but as far as your other profession, and this ain't confession, .... do not go hunting with politicians.... or we all may be in your unfortunate procession.....

Thanks for the brews, the help on the site, and the overnighter!! Toss Oscar a treat from down south.

Byrdman
 
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