"Cruizin' in a 25.5!" series

[Franklin]

tender

I just bought that tender a few weeks ago. Tomorrow I'm picking it up from the repair shop West Marine didn't put the stopper in correctly. It leaked from day one and leaked pretty bad. It didn't ride nearly as well as my old 11' wood floor but it's not bad. I like storing it much much MUCH better. The extra 30lbs lighter is very welcome. The shorter length makes it fit inflatted on the bow so much better...I can open my anchor locker with it on the bow now...ok...it's between the mast and the anchor locker. I hope to use it a lot this weekend as I anchor out in Galveston for the weekend (hoping I don't get hit by a storm like I did this spring). The good thing about it is that it has the same capacity in weight then my 11' tender.

 

[Captain Bob]

I did post a few pics on L&A . . . . . . .

But DID NOT do anything else. We are just enjoying the fact that ladies bathing suits do not take up much room. Even on a H25.5.I can tell you that I posted some pictures of a trip my bride, my daughters, and son took, and a few months later they showed up in an issue of L&A.

 

[Mac]

New to Sailing

Brian and Stephanie,My wife and I are just getting our feet wet with this sailing bug! We bought a 25 Mac and are putting together the necessary parts to get it on the water. I loved your sailing stories and pictures in the Bahamas. Hopefully you can post more. Jerry and Kathy

 

[Napa Ed]

Dink Deploy

Brain, thanks for the info.Ah!, mounting the OB from the swim platform. I can see it is also useful for getting in/out of the dink.Too bad I don't have one. Gives me much to think about.Thanks again.

 

[Brian]

Honestly, I could...

...This may sound funny, Joe, but I actually DO have an answer for you.You would be shocked (as I was) to find out just how many "professionals" (doctors, lawyers...etc.) HATE their job! My recommendation to you is to go to social events where you are the "oddball"... For instance, go to a hospital Christmas party... you will be surprised at how many professionals would rather talk about ANYTHING other than their respective "work-related shop talk". People literally walk around trying to find conversations that involve anything but work... If you are there talking about sailing, or your adventures in your boat, you WILL have an attentive audience and chances are that you will take someone sailing with you for a weekend as a result....it worked for me!Good luck!Brian

 

[Franklin]

Joe

Looks to me like you already have a cutie next to you.

 

[Tom]

The Problem with pretty young Women

Is that they usually prefer to go sailing with handsome young men. Heck , ugly old women prefer handsome young men.... I guess I'd better hold on to my wife. I have a 50 something friend who was complaining about a lack of dates. He was chaseing 30 something women. I asked him why he thought that a 30 something women would find him attractive. He is now happily married to a 50 something woman. Joe try talking to some age appropriate women.

 

[Mike]

Actually, Tom

Actually Tom, I have noticed that pretty young women don't seem to have any qualms about boating with fat, old guys so long as the boat is a powerboat.

 

[Richard Bryer]

All the power boats

that I see, especially the REALLY noisy ones, always have several beautiful young ladies on board and the boat is driven by a young guy with no shirt on.Now it strikes me there is a similarity to the police shows where the bad guys are always out on the street with no shirt on?Maybe the thing to do is NEVER take your shirt off?

 

[Drew]

Age and Boats

Without revealing too much (honey, this is a THEORETICAL discussion), teenage girls will go nuts over guys, a couple, maybe five, years older, that have motorcycles. Women in their twenties will go nuts over guys with boats, up to maybe ten years older.Women in their thirties want guys, I'm so sorry, with RIDING LAWN MOWERS. It's fine to be 10-15 years older, but you gotta qualify. See "lawn mower," above.I'll check back in to the forum should I ever have any insight into what women in their forties want (theoretically, honey!) but hope to God I won't need to know.

 

[Sean]

bikini time???

This conversation's become way too deep... "Boat Babe" would you be so kind as to help this group by dispensing another dose of swim wear. ....you must get some strange tan lines with that "ring shackled" suite..

 

[Ross]

Women over forty want a man that can fix

a leaky faucet, cook a meal from scratch, sort laundry. They are too old ane=d too tired to have to "mother " some needful man.

 

[Drew]

Ross

I could do all those things at age 20. Got no points for it. Besides, all those things come out in the wash, so to speak. The lawn mower will get you the date.....

 

[Danny18925]

You are all blind

Or maybe I am the myopic one.Is that a TATTOO ???Forgive me Brian.......I have sinned.

 

[Landsend]

Drinks and dinner Sunday?

Sunday about 5:30 or 6 is good for us. How about you? Karl & Edith

 

[Warren Milberg]

Boat Babe....

Two observations:1. VERY nice looking cockpit2. Nice looking Ram mike

 

[Peggie Hall HeadMistress]

Too old and tired????

Only a teenage boy or a man who's let himself get so fat and out of shape that HE's become "old and tired" by age 40 could think women over 40 are old and tired!You're right that women over 40 don't want a man who's another child to raise (nor do we want a father figure either)...but it AIN'T because we're old and tired, it's because we want someone who can keep up with us!

 

[Danny18925]

Myopia wins by a length and a half !

OK. I give up. I've got EYESTRAIN. What is it ?Verbal will suffice. Bloodpressure you know. Don'twant to stroke out now.BTW, didn't Brian mention a lazarette tour in an earlier post ?Not to detract from the bikinis, cats, tans & tatts..........But that's a really nice boat, Mr. & Ms. B.p.s. i tried to post this earlier, hope it evaporated into the ether& doesn't appear twice.

 

[Mac]

Wow!!

Steph, how do you keep in shape when on the boat? Do you do pilates on the deck or what? Keep bringing the stories we love them, Jerry

 

[Carlo12726]

New Sailor

Hello Brain & Steph I like to say like so many of your readers I've enjoyed following your adventures. The stories are great and the photo gallery is even better. Those pic's of your boat and the scenery are just fabulous. Oh Steph is definitely an eyeful in those bikinis. Wow need anyone say more.By the way Steph, I think you look really great with your hair longer and darker like your keeping it now. Really nice!I envy you guys. I only wish I had the sailing experience that you have to make such trips. I will someday like to follow in you foot steps and make both those trips. Which trip did you find more challenging? Was it the Bahamas or the Tortugas? I got my boat (Hunter 310) about a year now and I still haven't did anything worth talking about. Someday I'll make those trips.P.S. To Drew, what a fortie year old woman wants, is a guy in his twenties...