--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: E1ER3046 Date: 01/10/97 From: JIM RODENKIRK Time: 10:50pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: VOLVO NEEDED I'm in need of a Volvo Penta 15 hp 2 cylinder gas motor. My boat is a 1979 so I'm sure the motor is about the same. If anybody has this or knows who does or who deals in used sail power please leave me a message. thanks, Jim --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: E1F00000 Date: 01/09/97 From: DAN CEPPA Time: 07:54pm \/To: GENO DELLAMATTIA (Read 1 times) Subj: General question... -> On 08 Jan 97 04:14:00, Geno Dellamattia got back to Dan Ceppa DC> Put it this way: I'm crazy enough to go! GD> Good point. :) BTW, are you going to be a the Thrash Race(s?) at the end of March? One of the guys down here is planning on heading up there. Hopefully, he'll have his bottom cleaned by then! It's got great potential, if he'd mow it a bit closer. DC> mentioned that light-air marvel. If not, give me 6 or 8 DC> screens to extol it's virtues!) GD> What are Big Red's measurements? Not really sure, but Mike thinks it used to be a main from a Thistle or some such boat. It's strange looking when we flew it, as it's luff was no where near large enough for Dandelion's foretriangle. However, it would fill when the other sails hung limp. It's best race resulted in us beating an A-class boat across the finish line. The A-boat had a 10 minute head start! GD> The last couple of Swiftsure's I've done have produced the greatest GD> urge to sle drifting around in the rain.... :) ---> ^^^ Not quite sure what you mean by that... DC> ! Origin: The Northest Corner of Nowhere (1:123/67.5) GD> Nice origin line. It's my all-purpose origin line, as it does describe quite well where I'm located. I think I changed it back to one about sail selection for this Echo. ... Home port is just the starting point to adventure.... --- OMX/Blue Wave v2.12 * Origin: The Northest Corner of Nowhere (1:123/67.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: E1F00001 Date: 01/09/97 From: DAN CEPPA Time: 07:56pm \/To: GENO DELLAMATTIA (Read 1 times) Subj: Sailing -> On 08 Jan 97 04:24:00, Geno Dellamattia got back to Dan Ceppa DC> I'd comment on that, but the esteemed Moderator of the Echo is DC> from Canada as well. :) GD> That's right Dan, stay in the shallow end. :) Well, I get myself in enough trouble with Sharon Stevens as it is. Besides, I get it twice as I also log onto her BBS every so often in Quesnelle. ... As we sail off the edge of the world. --- OMX/Blue Wave v2.12 * Origin: The Northest Corner of Nowhere (1:123/67.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: E1F00002 Date: 01/09/97 From: DAN CEPPA Time: 08:01pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Winter Series Looks like the Sequim Bay YC is trying to push the opening day of racing season up a bit: The first race of the Frostbite Series is scheduled for January 18th. The actual venue hasn't been decided, though I suspect it will be a buoy series inside the Bay. There's talk about perhaps having an outside race, though. There will be one race per month over the next 3 or four months, when the Spring Duck Dodge gets back into gear. I'm going to give it a go. Hopefully, I'll have enough clothes, gloves and boots to stay dry and warm. More on that after the race, and if my fingers are able to type! ... Winter's here, so I may as well dream of warm waters & sandy beaches --- OMX/Blue Wave v2.12 * Origin: The Northest Corner of Nowhere (1:123/67.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: E1H00000 Date: 01/10/97 From: TERRY SMITH Time: 11:38am \/To: LEE LESTER (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Quiz TS> Do you think that our Feds will remove the intentional errors from TS> GPS any time soon, so that its local repeatability finding coastal TS> references won't be so much lower than LORAN previously set way TS> points? LL> I don't believethere are any intentional errors built in, just that the LL> accuracy is not as fine. However, that has now been overcome through the LL> advent of differential GPS units which compensate for the downgraded LL> accuracy factor. Of course, they cost more than ordinary GPS but can be LL> expected to fall in price fairly rapidly as with most other electronic LL> goods. LL> * S2S Toronto, Ontario (416) 975-1547 Whether you want to believe it or not, the US Dept. of Defense does control the satellite GPS transmissions, and has admitted to intentional random error offsets. Private sources have confirmed these by watching fixed points periodically "move", while other private sources are selling correction info. The errors aren't "built in" to the hardware, but are in the way it's been operated. As a Canadian, you perhaps are a secondary beneficiary, with less direct say in the arguments where our military is being pressured to end the practice of inducing errors. Terry --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Terry's Tavern! Derby, CT 203-732-0575 (1:141/1275) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: E1H00001 Date: 01/13/97 From: RICHARD WHEET Time: 04:23am \/To: JOHN WEISS (Read 1 times) Subj: Got a compass? > Shotgun would work better -- more holes per round! Less range.... if they are ahead of you, you need the range.. if behind you.. who cares --- * Origin: Starboard ... STARBOARD! (crunch) (1:388/13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: E1H00002 Date: 01/13/97 From: RICHARD WHEET Time: 04:29am \/To: GENO DELLAMATTIA (Read 1 times) Subj: General question... > Race instructions here on the We(s)t Coast specifically exclude alcohol > from th (your message got chopped) In Texas... you need the beer to keep hydrated.... it wasn't until a few years ago that it was make illegal for a driver to have a cool one while cruising down the road I figure it will take them another 30 years or so to get around to boats --- * Origin: Starboard ... STARBOARD! (crunch) (1:388/13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 254 SAILING Ref: E1H00003 Date: 01/12/97 From: AUGUSTIN HENRIQUES Time: 07:20pm \/To: TERRY SMITH (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Quiz Season's Greetings Terry, TS> Is Canada making noises about discontinuing publication of paper TS> charts as the US is doing? There's talk of needing a navigational TS> computer to find references even on small craft. ------------------------ Canadians NEVER make noise! :) I don't mind electronic charts, but what will we run them on? Computers? My notebook's batteries last for 2-3 hours during which time, it'll freeze or do something strange at some point... just enough time to go far out and get lost! AH> and the fairway bouy. Although I think lighthouses usually have an AH> isophase or occulting light. TS> "Coven rituals ahead". TS> You mean occluded light? ------------------------ He-he-he, I better not make that mistake over channel 16 or they'll send out the X-Files to do a SAR! TS> The state of CT is in the midst of a 5 year phase in of boat operator TS> licenses. They claim it's to help control drinking and accidents, TS> though it appears to have a lot to do with raising revenue.