Wow, I wouldn't have expected so many sailors!
 

I, too, am a lifelong sailor. Started out with my very own Sunfish at age 7. Climbed the learning curve on Lasers, Force 5's, Jet 14's, Day Sailers, Thistles, Albacores, etc. Raced all over the US.

Raced in college in Flying Juniors, 420's, Lasers, and 470's. Moved to California after graduation and crewed on a variety of off-shore boats including Shock 35's (and Santana 35s) and Santa Cruz 70's up and down the coast. Did the Neport-Ensenada and Santa Barbara-King Harbor races a few times. I even spent a year racing along the city front in San Francisco... now that was awesome.

My wife and I then decided to campaign our own boat and settled upon the ultra competitive Snipe fleet in SoCal. We're now retired from racing and instead cruise on a Tartan 37. A nice change of pace.

I do miss competitive sailing and will get back to it one day.

It's great to know that so many share the passion for sailing!

George and Dennis:
Forrestal -- World's first Super Carrier (Maybe THAT's what "SC" should stand for) -- very cool; she served well and survived that severe "friendly fire" incident.

I went to the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture undergrad and we did some extensive tank testing for hull blisters on Enterprise. Aviators, it turns out, don't like it when you get a lot of sea spray on the deck or elevators. Fussy bastards.

Suffice to say of the Nimitz class, when they list the speed at "30+" knots, there's a *lot* implied by that "+" and the Reagan is faster still (I'm told, anyway -- probably went to all carbon fiber interior to save weight).

JP

A little, this ones doing some surfing in an 80' schooner, me at the helm, 30' waves :eek:
http://home.nycap.rr.com/wmv/Heavy%20weather1.jpg

This ones at a J24 regatta, we were first at the weather mark, brown boat, that's a 280 rugby player tring to get the spin halyard up the last few feet. The #s literally blew off the sail shortly after this was taken. Yes, we won the regatta :)
http://home.nycap.rr.com/wmv/Canandaigua.jpg

sailing
 

Hello,
i am french canadian sailer, i have a C&C 27 1985
we sail on St-Laurent River the picture is in front of Quebec city
last week we park the boat on a trailer for the winter...
i have no chance for sailing all year long !!!
i will mist it !!:(

George, 88-92 two plant M-div Chief Machinery Operator.. Pac-ex 89, West-Pac 90, Dry dock 91-92.

What squadron, I'll ask my dad which one he was a part of.

Yea JP, that + is kind of neat, but then everything military is subject to that.. Wouldn't want to tell the enemy exactly what we can do now would we;) , well not unless we're the news media!!

I will say this, we could run at flank speeds on one reactor and launch planes, soooo you can guestimate all you want, she's probably more limited by the dinosaur boats that try to keep up, No offense!!

BTW... max torque on shafts was 2.25 million ft-lbs per and that was to maintain an oil wedge between reduction gear teeth!!
Ahh for the days of endless watches and bottomless mugs (in port!!):cool: , not that I'd care to know or remember anything like that:rolleyes:

I've been at the Helm since 76. Started out with a 20 O'Day moved up to a 24' C & C & presently own a 30' C&C which docked on the gulf coast of Carrabelle, Fl.

In 78, my wife and I decided close up the house for the winter and gunkhole along the Gulf coast starting from Tampa heading south. Only instrument we had was a RDF and compass. Took four months of just relaxing. Came back north, sold everything and moved South and haven't looked back since.

Sailing is definitely a way to get away from the everyday stress to just relax. We head over to Dog Island on the weekend (that is when we can get down to the boat), drop the anchor and stay there until it's time head back on Sunday. Lots of times we are the only ones there - talk about having your own private beach.

Steve

If you are following the Louis Vuitton Americas Cup you may be interested in:


www.americascup.yahoo.com/

www.americascup.nzoom.com/

www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,0a7313,00.html

Have fun, Bill.

and lets not forget

http://www.louisvuittoncup.yahoo.com/

Well I wouldn't call myself a 'sailor', but I spend an awful lot of time on boats, including sailing boats.

I'm smack bang in the heart of America's Cup territory, so a lot of my work is out in the Hauraki Gulf where the boats are currently racing in New Zealand.

My work is mostly marine ecology and fisheries, although recently I've been doing invasive species surveys in the Gulf. I just so happened to be taking some samples last tuesday INSIDE the race course, which was pretty cool. We just had to stop our boat and watch (ie, within about 50 metres) of the startline, amoungst the flotilla of observing vessels.
Auckland truly is the City of Sails. If any of you Americans want to watch your cup stay firmly within the capable hands of the Kiwis, you're more than welcome to give me a call and I'll show you around the Cup Village and talk Porsches.......

I sold my sailboat to get into racing. There could be a connection between p-cars and sailing. I don't like motor boats and I don't like rice cars.

I just recently started sailing (3 months) when I bought hubby a Cal 25 for putzin'. It was to get him away from the shop on the weekends we weren't at the race track. He had done some sailing before, I was just a inland powerboat owner. Quite a few friends and fellow racers are into sailing so it has worked out well. We keep it at Dana Point so we can go down after work and relax.

Typical Sailors/Porsche enthusiast; on the way home from Laguna Seca this weekend we stopped at Morelli Performance Sails in Ventura. Tony Morelli, brother of competitive sailor Gino, owns the place and races his Porsche in PCA and TCRA events. We had to talk about a new main sail, but also needed car stuff. Tony custom makes all of our mesh window nets for the race cars.

I hope Evren picks up on this thread. (I'll make sure he does)...
He's e mailed that he sails his boat in some of the most beautiful waters I've had the pleasure of being in...the Gulf of Fetiyeh, Southern Turkey. I've sailed there aboard an old '57' Gaff rigged ketch, also a few weeks in the Caribbean, same boat. Domestic sailing? For years, Cindy & I putted about a local reservoir "high lake" in our little 15' Mutineer...a planing dinghy, in very shifty winds, force and direction, can sure teach one to read the catspaws. The difference between sailing and swimming? Oh, about 20 seconds. ;) Had to give up the dinghy a few years ago for medical reasons...and we sure miss her! From trailer to water was about 15 minutes...very easy to rig. Once, somebody from Eugene brought a J-24 to our little lake. Must have been a (reference to a female dog) to launch that fin keel there. It was with great delight that we smoked it! Local knowledge...plus it couldn't plane. :)

Been a "boater" since I was 4 thanks to Dad. Went to Admiral Farragut Naval Academy summer camp at age 11 and learned to sail. On the Chesapeake I will take a power boat - little winds. On the Caribbean I need sails. We (the Six Amigos) have been bareboating in the Caribbean since the early '80's. 50'+ monos and 45'+ cats. Usually a berth available. Contact me if you want to go early next year. Favorite Caribbean island? Mustique.

I guess I have my fair share of salt in my veins!
I learnt to sale at 7yrs in cadet racing dinghy in S. England , then parents sold house and we lived on a 52 ketch for 3 yrs.
I then worked in Yacht Chandlery's (15yrs old) until my 1st job as a professional yachtsman at the age of 20yrs -in the Mediterranean.
I had my 1st Captains licence at the age of 23yrs (200grt) and upgraded it to 3000grt 4 years ago.
I am now 38yrs old and have never worked outside the yachting industry- ever!.
This industry is the only way for me to afford my porsches/lifestyle.
(hope to sign on one in the next few days!)
I have been windsurfing for 22 yrs and have done it in Maui, Aruba, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, and the Med, to name a few and have Cruised East Coast states, inc. great lakes and Canada, Carib. 3 transatlantics and western Mediterranean.
I am currently Captain of a 95' motor yacht and am overseeing the build of a new 130' motor yacht for the owner which will launch Feb. on the West coast to cruise back to the East coast and beyond!.
I also took up Kite surfing last weekend!
Now if you want a rush- try that!! :)
Sorry cannot include pics due to owner secrecy issues :(
regards Ben

Ahhh, yes.

Porsche 911's and fast sailboats--can they be any more alike and different?? Been sailing since I was 5 years old on everything from a Buzzard's Bay 50 (a Herreshoff transatlantic racer circa 1920) to a Force 5, and much in between. Power is power, whether it's from a 3.2l @ 6500 rpm that's tuned just right or from a tri-radial bullet-proof chute on a broad reach in 20+kts of breeze!

Add a little Jimmy Buffet, and where ever you go, there you are.

.......and the winner for "Gayest Sounding Thread Title on an Automotive Bulletin Board" is!...................:D

I can't believe it took this many posts for Tyson's one!!!

Hellooooo Sailor?

I too am in Auckland, and I watch the Louis Vuitton boats getting towed out across the water every morning (I'm lucky enough to see the harbour from my office). I'm even employed by a sponsor (I like to think its the bonus I'm not going to get paid which is sailing past).

But I'm not much of a sailor myself (family not into it).

All the well-heeled Porsche and sailing fanatics here should come down to NZ to watch - we need the tourist $$$$ :D :D

Great thread! Another reason to hang out on this BBS!.. :)
I've been having offline discussions about sailing with pwd72s for quite a while now -- not surprising there are quite a few sailors out there I suppose...

We sail a 14m (~42') all wood, two-mast ketch, built in 1968. I'll try to dig up some photos to post. We keep her in the south of Turkey during the summer and Istanbul during the winter. Most of the time we just take her around the Aegean and the bay of Fethiye, but have also been to Greece a few times as well...

if she counts.....
 

In case she counts, Iám one...
Also own a 30' here....

I guess I'm another yachtee as well....

Started racing Lido 14's in '65 (I was 7)
moved on to PHRF in '72
Won the Ensenada race overall in '74 (as crew)
sailed raced 1st Transpac in '77 (also raced in '79, '81, '83)
Raced in SORC in '80
Raced MORC in early 80's (got 2nd in class/4th o.a. in '86 nats)
Raced maxi uldb sleds in Mex races 85-91(LaPaz, Manzanillo,Cabo and Mazatlan, all total about 10 trips and several trophies)

All while racing my own J22 "Stray Cat" in between in local So Cal races, regularly beating up on boats 8-10' longer...got my PHRF Rating lowerd twice as a result !!! Owned the J22 for 11 yrs.

Got bored with sailing in '96, sold the J22......Took a 5 yr. hiatus to spend time raising my two kids, now 11 & 13....

Got back into it last year, now am racing a J80 here in So Cal......but now in between P-car fun tho..

add me to the list, had a catalina 22, american 16, and currently restoring a super sunfish 14, all lake sailing.

Yep, I sail. Liveaboard, too.

I own a Concept 40. Divorced 3 years ago, she got to house and I got the boat (and the pcar.) Love it. Blue water and Porsches are in my blood, you might say.

Sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti last summer. Dream's to circumnavigate the world some day! Any other Alaska Eagle sailors out there?

I sail, but on a windsurf. I love the thrill of speeding over the water.

Like many others on this board, I was introduced to sailing, ahem, windsurfing by my father when I was a kid. He still enjoys it at 66 and goes on one or two trips a year of which I get to go on one of them. The trips are a great way to spend time together and fduring my stay with him, I am his sail rigger. I dread the day that he decides he is too old for it.

One of my cousins in California built a TriMaran several years back that was in the America's Cup race. I think the group/boat ended-up doing pretty good too.

Growing up my family had several boats at the cabin (fishing boats, speed boats, small sail boats) but nothing as large as a lot of these. Now my hubby and I just enjoy having rides in other peoples boats. :)

I cruised on CV-60.

While in port at Trieste, IT, I got to sail with a gentleman that owned a 36' sloop. I thought walking off of a 60 thousand ton boat onto a 36 footer was a transition to the perilous until the owner pointed out a windsurfer with a drysack strapped to the board.

The guy cruised up and down the Adriatic on his sailboard. Made flying off a carrier downright purdent.

Sounds like there's been a few ex-navy posting responses.

I served as Disbursing Officer onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during Gulf War, nothing better than being haze grey and underway!!!

Exactly! The next few threads should involve the construction worker, the indian and/or the leatherclad motorcycle cop.

Seriously, though, a lot of you have some really cool looking boats! Its amazing - you could ask a question on just about any subject, and there are real-life experts here on that subject.

Wayne's a sailor?
 

I just went to click on the "mark this forum read" link and accidentally hit Wayne's profile, and lo and behold, under his "Interests" is "sailing"!

Great thread!! My two favorite passions.

I own a 1984 Cal 24, hull #69 of 72. I get a lot of ribbing because of my mainsail number!!. The gentleman I purchased the boat from runs a Sprite and an old MG in the historics. In fact they had a hillclimb event down by the Marymoor Museum on the Columbia River over the weekend. So I would agree there is a definite connection between sports cars and sailing!!

I sail year around here in the Puget Sound and up to the north end of Vancouver Island. One of the worlds greatest boating spots. If I had to choose between the P-car and the sailboat I,m afraid the boat would win.

Greg

Hot day on cool water - sailing and 911's are both are air-cooled!!!

Seem to enjoy any sport that gets me outside - whether DE's, cross-country car/bike/hike journey's, or sailing/kayaking/open water swimming.

Get the feeling that most Porsche fanatics are just Romantics in the original, poetic sense of the word!!!

Sailing, Flying, P-cars!
 

I grew up in Ventura County too (930Chas; when?). My father had a big, heavy, wood boat, an Alden-Herreshoff cutter, at Ventura Marina since the marina was new. My grandfather was harbormaster there. I used to go fishing from Channel Islands Marina with him when there were 8 boats there, including his, all on moorings just inside the entrance. There are 5,000 boats there now.

I presently have an Ericson 32 in King Harbor-Redondo Beach, that goes on the Newport-Ensenada race every spring, and I did my first Transpac at age 15 (1969). That was followed by the Tahiti Race summer of '70. Got my first of many Captains' licenses (a six-pac) the day I turned 18.

I paid my way thru college driving ferryboats on San Francisco Bay(1974-1978) and then did a 7 year stretch on CV43, with 232 arrested landings in various versions of the F4.

I still fly for a living, but now it's an MD87 and a Gulfstream 4SP.

One of the p-cars is either at the hangar or the marina at all times.

Michael Krebs
'80 911SC SCWDP
'83 944

I grew up sailing on the Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron. Sunfish,
Hobie Cats, Lightnings mostly. Moved to Newport, Rhode Island
after college and have owned a Dragon ( handles like a 911), and
do the Tuesday night races on a Doug Peterson designed 46' that
someone else pays to keep up. I have a day sailer that was passed
along to me from my dad, but it didn't see the water this year...
too many projects. Hopefully next year I'll get to do more kart racing,
boat racing, and maybe a few DEs... Hope springs eternal.

Jeffra - wow, nice boat.

i spent 12 years of my youth sailing with my parents every weekend. hated it at the time 'cause i wanted to be playing football with me mates, but secretly enjoyed it.

my dad owned and built (kit) 3 or 4 boats. biggest and best was about 28ft - can't remember the name now.

we use to sail around the thames estuary - LOVELY, NOT!

his friend sold a car bodywork shop and house a few years ago, and is currently sailing around somewhere in the med with his wife. they email newsletters now and then. what a life! one of the strange things they've found is that they keep bumping into the same people (doing the same thing) over and over - with all that ocean!

I hate to have to say this Sarah, but I think your cousin is pulling yr leg....'cos "trimarans" have never ever been used for America's Cup competition. H'ver back in the mid eighties Dennis Conner used a 80' Catamaran against the NewZealand 120' monohull Challenger. Prior to this from the end of WW2 until then, 12 metre class yachts were used, and after this the International America's Cup Committee(IACC) Dveloped the 75' long, very hi-tech "IACC Class" boat for America's Cup Competition. These have been used ever since.

No BIg deal...But let yr cousin know that he's full of it, and you know it !!!:D

Hoot! John, I remember that "race"...The poor Kiwis...thought they were clever getting away from the 12 meters...built that huge boat...Conner answered with the cat. Boy did he answer! Not even close...:rolleyes:

Conners....never have been a fan of his.

RS - Don't be so sure about that....i'll get more info from my uncle and post back.

I just knew the USN was here.

I did a little time on BB-64, DDG-24, CG-62 and CVN-68 (actually DESRON-21). Jeff, you relieved me in '91 and if memory serves, you folks had some really bad luck heading over. Hated hearing that. Going home we lost 4 crewmen on a CH-46 two days prior to Hawaii.

There's gentleman over on the 914 board that I served with in CVN-68 that has a wicked 914 w/ 2.7 and I think he is an instructor for Wash, DC area PCA. Fine officer.

Go Navy! Beat Army!.................... (but..we won't....talk about last season)

Yup! Big time 5 o's from San Diego to Puget sound and several Swan trips south of the border. Try Mazatlan and of course Cabo.
Try 30+kts, pitch black @2:30 AM, chute up and coming into and off-shore island on the Cabo race.
Ready Jibe !
All hands on deck, safety harness' and clicked in.
So much noise from the hull speed you couldn't hear anything but the freight train you were.
J I B O !!
YO MAMA.

Sorry Sarah but it is true. There was Dennis's catamaran a few years ago but as much as I know about it, that was the only multi-hull used in AC racing. Maybe that your relative helped build the S&S cat though.