Wednesday is Photo Day 2025
- Thread starter Phil
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I'm planning to paint Kolibri's hull a much lighter color late this coming spring. Bahama Blue like this sailing canoe is one color I'm considering.
jssailem
SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
- Oct 22, 2014
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I’m at the marina, last night, sipping rum and enjoying the sunset.
jssailem
SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
- Oct 22, 2014
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Continuing on my evening theme, we went out for an evening sail sharing the experience of Possession Sound with visitors from NC. We were rewarded with 10-13 knots of breeze as SV Hadley bounded forward through the 2-3ft chop. Later sitting at dinner we experienced Mother Nature’s painting skills as the sun set behind the line of clouds.
jssailem
SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
- Oct 22, 2014
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I love the fun when guests are given the helm of a sailboat. There is something in their eyes that lights up.
jssailem
SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
- Oct 22, 2014
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"KIRK AND SWEENEY was a wooden schooner, best known for smuggling rum from the Caribbean to the Northeast during the early years of Prohibition. In 1924, it was seized off the coast of New York with a massive amount of rum aboard. The schooner was subsequently renamed “Chase” and pressed into duty as a Coast Guard trainer, serving until the late 1940’s when it was retired and salvaged. The bottle and the raised cork were inspired by the elegantly squat 18th-century onion bottles, which typically contained rum. These beautiful bottles were sometimes encased with hemp netting which could be used as a handle or to hang the bottle from a ship beam."
Kirk & Sweeney Reserva 750ml
-Will
Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic CT.
A couple of years ago we spent several days at the Marina. It was a wonderful experience.
The mast in the photos below are being built there for a project I'm working on. The stacked lumber in the first photo is half of a $20,000 purchase of Douglas Fir, roughly 1,800 board feet, for the second mast.
That's right. It's the annual Mariner Class Association's Connecticut Rendezvous. We sailed from the Niantic River to Mystic and are staying inside the museum for two nights.
-Will
Seeing the museum at night when there are no visitors or early in the morning before the museum opens is really unique and cool.
The masts are for Ontario, the original masts suffered from rot.
The masts are for Ontario, the original masts suffered from rot.