For 2011, may all your destinations be a nice broad reach away. May the Weather Gods be kind to you, giving you blue skies, delightful cumulus clouds, and just enough "salt and pepper" to keep your sailing from becoming boring. May you always have a hands-breadth of water under your keels. Happy sailing gang, and keep the stories and adventures flowing, so that we, who have been forced to swallow the anchor, can partake of them too. Connie & Katrina Benneck ex M-15 #400 LEPPO
Connie, keep your wisdom flowing....we appreciate the old salts who can share their wisdom and experience. I had to be old to realize how little I knew when I thought I knew it all. Let the stories continue to feed our minds and imaginations....90% perspiration....10% inspiration.... or is it the other way around? I need more beer under my keel... Thanks Connie....Larry M-15 Old 189 by Jerry M. born 1981. -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Conbert Benneck Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 6:39 AM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: M_Boats: Christmas Greetings For 2011, may all your destinations be a nice broad reach away. May the Weather Gods be kind to you, giving you blue skies, delightful cumulus clouds, and just enough "salt and pepper" to keep your sailing from becoming boring. May you always have a hands-breadth of water under your keels. Happy sailing gang, and keep the stories and adventures flowing, so that we, who have been forced to swallow the anchor, can partake of them too. Connie & Katrina Benneck ex M-15 #400 LEPPO _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats Remember, there is no privacy on the Internet!
On 12/27/2010 3:44 PM, Hughston, Larry wrote: Hi Larry, Thanks for the kind words. Wisdom grows from experiences. If you've never been aground, you've never gone exploring in uncharted waters (or as you quickly learn in Sweden; Swedish charts lie. The main commercial waterways are fine, but between the islands of the archipelago it's all local knowledge. Why give the Russians, who were constantly probing Swedish Defenses, the key to your back door? My Swedish friend marked up my chart with colored pencils to show where I could get through, and where I couldn't.) We have it (relatively) easy today with excellent nautical charts. Can you imagine the problems of Magellan, Francis Drake or Columbus, or any other of the early navigators and Captains? How deep is the water? When does it shoal? What's out there? ... and can I see it in time to keep from running aground? I've never tried beer under the keel. Once in utter desperation - a sudden Bora in Yugoslavia had caused the Dutch el-cheapo copy of a Danforth that our chartered 35 footer was equipped with, to drag through the soft mud. We wound up hard aground on a lee shore in a small bay. No one to help pull us off anywhere to be seen. In utter helpless frustration I tried warm urine in the water around the boat in the hope hope that the body heat-warm urine would expand the water enough to get us afloat. Forget trying to do that. It absolutely doesn't work. That's when you sit back, drink a beer, and start to scheme. As Larry Pardey said in his wonderful book on building their current boat, you need a "Thinking Chair" when you find yourself in a corner, and don't know what to do. In our case, my solution was to take a hatch board and use it as a shovel to dig a trench and free the fin keel. With a face mask and swim fins, I dove down and after hours of work, I managed to free the fin keel, and dig a trench through the mud back to deeper water. I rowed the anchor out with the dinghy as far as the rode length allowed, and then my crew - two teen age children and my wife, cranked on the genoa winch. Slowly we inched ahead, and eventually we were afloat again, in 3 meters of water. That experience made a firm believer out of me that you never, NEVER, can have too many anchors on board. Two should be an absolute minimum, and if you have a nice bigheavy CQR storm anchor and a very long rode with chain, up forward under the berths, you can sleep much sounder, and the "pucker-factor" is greatly reduced if the wind really starts blowing. At my age I don't think that I'll run aground again, but your beer idea is worth putting into my memory file, ... just in case. Which brand of beer worked the best for you? Cheers and a Happy New Year. Connie & Katrina ex M-15 #400 LEPPO
Connie, keep your wisdom flowing....we appreciate the old salts who can share their wisdom and experience.
I had to be old to realize how little I knew when I thought I knew it all.
Let the stories continue to feed our minds and imaginations....90% perspiration....10% inspiration.... or is it the other way around? I need more beer under my keel...
Thanks Connie....Larry M-15 Old 189 by Jerry M. born 1981.
-----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Conbert Benneck Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 6:39 AM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: M_Boats: Christmas Greetings
For 2011, may all your destinations be a nice broad reach away.
May the Weather Gods be kind to you, giving you blue skies, delightful cumulus clouds, and just enough "salt and pepper" to keep your sailing from becoming boring.
May you always have a hands-breadth of water under your keels.
Happy sailing gang, and keep the stories and adventures flowing, so that we, who have been forced to swallow the anchor, can partake of them too.
Connie& Katrina Benneck
ex M-15 #400 LEPPO
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Connie, thanks for the reply...since I never was much of a drinker just use the worst beer you can find so no one converts it into urine. The beer is for Mr. Poseidon and Davey Johns...let them fight over it. Maybe then they will be too busy to look your way to cause you any trouble.... Fair Winds Connie....Larry in old 189. -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces+larry.hughston=dgs.ca.gov@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces+larry.hughston=dgs.ca.gov@mailman.xmiss ion.com] On Behalf Of Conbert Benneck Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 1:27 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: Christmas Greetings On 12/27/2010 3:44 PM, Hughston, Larry wrote: Hi Larry, Thanks for the kind words. Wisdom grows from experiences. If you've never been aground, you've never gone exploring in uncharted waters (or as you quickly learn in Sweden; Swedish charts lie. The main commercial waterways are fine, but between the islands of the archipelago it's all local knowledge. Why give the Russians, who were constantly probing Swedish Defenses, the key to your back door? My Swedish friend marked up my chart with colored pencils to show where I could get through, and where I couldn't.) We have it (relatively) easy today with excellent nautical charts. Can you imagine the problems of Magellan, Francis Drake or Columbus, or any other of the early navigators and Captains? How deep is the water? When does it shoal? What's out there? ... and can I see it in time to keep from running aground? I've never tried beer under the keel. Once in utter desperation - a sudden Bora in Yugoslavia had caused the Dutch el-cheapo copy of a Danforth that our chartered 35 footer was equipped with, to drag through the soft mud. We wound up hard aground on a lee shore in a small bay. No one to help pull us off anywhere to be seen. In utter helpless frustration I tried warm urine in the water around the boat in the hope hope that the body heat-warm urine would expand the water enough to get us afloat. Forget trying to do that. It absolutely doesn't work. That's when you sit back, drink a beer, and start to scheme. As Larry Pardey said in his wonderful book on building their current boat, you need a "Thinking Chair" when you find yourself in a corner, and don't know what to do. In our case, my solution was to take a hatch board and use it as a shovel to dig a trench and free the fin keel. With a face mask and swim fins, I dove down and after hours of work, I managed to free the fin keel, and dig a trench through the mud back to deeper water. I rowed the anchor out with the dinghy as far as the rode length allowed, and then my crew - two teen age children and my wife, cranked on the genoa winch. Slowly we inched ahead, and eventually we were afloat again, in 3 meters of water. That experience made a firm believer out of me that you never, NEVER, can have too many anchors on board. Two should be an absolute minimum, and if you have a nice bigheavy CQR storm anchor and a very long rode with chain, up forward under the berths, you can sleep much sounder, and the "pucker-factor" is greatly reduced if the wind really starts blowing. At my age I don't think that I'll run aground again, but your beer idea is worth putting into my memory file, ... just in case. Which brand of beer worked the best for you? Cheers and a Happy New Year. Connie & Katrina ex M-15 #400 LEPPO
Connie, keep your wisdom flowing....we appreciate the old salts who can share their wisdom and experience.
I had to be old to realize how little I knew when I thought I knew it all.
Let the stories continue to feed our minds and imaginations....90% perspiration....10% inspiration.... or is it the other way around? I need more beer under my keel...
Thanks Connie....Larry M-15 Old 189 by Jerry M. born 1981.
-----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Conbert Benneck Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 6:39 AM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: M_Boats: Christmas Greetings
For 2011, may all your destinations be a nice broad reach away.
May the Weather Gods be kind to you, giving you blue skies, delightful
cumulus clouds, and just enough "salt and pepper" to keep your sailing
from becoming boring.
May you always have a hands-breadth of water under your keels.
Happy sailing gang, and keep the stories and adventures flowing, so that we, who have been forced to swallow the anchor, can partake of them too.
Connie& Katrina Benneck
ex M-15 #400 LEPPO
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