Why I should NEVER have joined this forum

Kermit

Kermit

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Jul 31, 2010
5,669
AquaCat 12.5 17342 Wateree Lake, SC
Honestly, I should never have joined this forum. Y'all jinxed me. All was fine until I read the thread about what to do if your anchor light or steaming light or whatever the heck light craps out while you're away from shore. I thought, "That's all fine and good but mine works just fine." Then it happened. We rafted up last month with several other boats to watch the purple martins fly in to Bomb Island on Lake Murray. My lights were working fine. Seriously. Until I turned on my anchor light. Then I realized the anchoring part of the light that's 352 feet above deck wasn't working. Not to worry. I was rafted up with other boats whose lights were fine. I knew I could motor in because the steaming part worked just fine. Then it was time to go home. We left before anyone else. Something told me to check my front navigation light. Now, I've been sailing this boat after dark for 2, count them 2, years. I realized the daggum lens was on backwards! I have been sailing and motoring at night with my daggum red and green lenses reversed! There was no correcting it over the water. Just couldn't be done. We decided to motor on in while I gave EVERY boat on the water the right of way. I felt like a menace to society. This would NEVER have happened if I hadn't joined this forum.

And now for the worst part. We went to have supper on the boat a week or so ago. Remember the threads about how to keep birds from crapping on your boat? That never happened to me until after joining this forum. Bird crap aaaaaaaaaaaall over my boat. I'm a former raptor rehabilitator and have given untold hours, money and blood taking care of injured birds of prey. I love all birds and especially hawks, owls, eagles, osprey and vultures. And ducks. I had a duck as a child and to this day will not eat duck. I tied a line from the mast to the end of the boom hoping to keep birds from sitting on my boom. But I have no idea how to keep them off of my furled bimini top and steering wheel. Again, no issues at all until AFTER joining this forum.

My biggest fear now is snakes on the boat. And it'll all be because of this forum!
 
Jackdaw

Jackdaw

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Nov 8, 2010
11,386
Beneteau First 36.7 & 260 Minneapolis MN & Bayfield WI
Kermit,

Wanna come up and rehabilitate a Cormorant?? I've got one that needs to change its potty habits PRONTO or things are gunna get ugly.
 
Kermit

Kermit

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Jul 31, 2010
5,669
AquaCat 12.5 17342 Wateree Lake, SC
Jackdaw said:
Kermit,

Wanna come up and rehabilitate a Cormorant?? I've got one that needs to change its potty habits PRONTO or things are gunna get ugly.
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You think he's ugly, you should see his sister. ;-)

SC actually had a season on cormorants this year. I'm not a big fan of that but I do know there's bazillions of them nowadays. Good luck with that. Who knows, it could have been a cormorant that did his business on mine. Oh, you know that white stuff you see all around the big pile of bird crap? You know what it is? More bird crap!
 
kloudie1

kloudie1

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Nov 6, 2006
10,058
Hunter 34 Mandeville Louisiana
Here in Louisiana, the standing joke about things like that is ...."first you make a little roux." implying that the offending critter might end up in a gumbo!.. I have a feeling you'd have to be pretty hungry to eat a cormorant gumbo.. but ya never know! ;~)
 
Jackdaw

Jackdaw

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Nov 8, 2010
11,386
Beneteau First 36.7 & 260 Minneapolis MN & Bayfield WI
kloudie1 said:
Here in Louisiana, the standing joke about things like that is ...."first you make a little roux." implying that the offending critter might end up in a gumbo!.. I have a feeling you'd have to be pretty hungry to eat a cormorant gumbo.. but ya never know! ;~)
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Kloudie,

In 'Sailing to the Reefs', perhaps the best sailing book ever written, Moitessier wrote about often making a curry with them during his long stay in Cape Town. Said it was pretty OK.
 
shemandr

shemandr

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Jan 1, 2006
7,487
Slickcraft 26 Sailfish
Jackdaw said:
Wanna come up and rehabilitate a Cormorant?? I've got one that needs to change its potty habits PRONTO or things are gunna get ugly.
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The best use of a Cormorant is to have someone scare it off the rigging with a low powered bb gun. Then it's just like skeet.
 
Z

Zed

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Aug 19, 2015
96
West Wight Potter 19 Bar Harbor
Hopefully you are running ethanol free gas and blue stabil or you will also experience the dead engine becalmed 3.0 miles out from land as night approaches. And you will have a THREE HOUR TOUR, A THREE HOUR TOUR.....
 
S

SailMaster

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Mar 31, 2012
139
Nord Cantieri 38 St Marys
kloudie1 said:
Here in Louisiana, the standing joke about things like that is ...."first you make a little roux." implying that the offending critter might end up in a gumbo!.. I have a feeling you'd have to be pretty hungry to eat a cormorant gumbo.. but ya never know! ;~)
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Moi di cha, taste like poulet!!!!
 
Kermit

Kermit

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Jul 31, 2010
5,669
AquaCat 12.5 17342 Wateree Lake, SC
Zed said:
Hopefully you are running ethanol free gas and blue stabil or you will also experience the dead engine becalmed 3.0 miles out from land as night approaches. And you will have a THREE HOUR TOUR, A THREE HOUR TOUR.....
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Good pint. And no, ethanol never crosses its lips. We have a station in Sumter,SC and one on the way to the club that sell ethanol-free gas.
 
rgranger

rgranger

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Jan 19, 2010
12,553
Hobie 16 & Rhodes 22 Skeeter Charleston
kloudie1 said:
Here in Louisiana, the standing joke about things like that is ...."first you make a little roux." implying that the offending critter might end up in a gumbo!.. I have a feeling you'd have to be pretty hungry to eat a cormorant gumbo.. but ya never know! ;~)
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.... or.... mais! dems makes a fine gravy, yeah;)
 
WayneH

WayneH

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Jan 22, 2008
1,089
Tartan 37 287 Pensacola, FL
Cooking tips from my southern friends:

Chalk:
When you go to town, stop at all the roadkill and circle it with chalk. On the way back, pick up all the roadkill without a chalk mark. That's fresh.

Wine:
If you have to chase it down, serve with white wine.
If it chases you down, serve with red.

Seasoning:
Onions, Garlic and Bell Pepper make a good start to any meal.

Flavoring:
You don't know how it tastes until you taste it. But some things take a LOT of Tony's to get down.
 
DHaranSailor

DHaranSailor

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Oct 13, 2013
182
Wayfarer Mark I GRP Chicago
WayneH said:
Cooking tips from my southern friends:

Chalk:
When you go to town, stop at all the roadkill and circle it with chalk. On the way back, pick up all the roadkill without a chalk mark. That's fresh.

Wine:
If you have to chase it down, serve with white wine.
If it chases you down, serve with red.

Seasoning:
Onions, Garlic and Bell Pepper make a good start to any meal.

Flavoring:
You don't know how it tastes until you taste it. But some things take a LOT of Tony's to get down.
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Best thing I've read in a month! I know a few relatives in KY that keep chalk in their car...
 
capta

capta

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Jun 4, 2009
4,909
Pearson 530 Admiralty Bay, Bequia SVG
Jackdaw said:
Kloudie,

In 'Sailing to the Reefs', perhaps the best sailing book ever written, Moitessier wrote about often making a curry with them during his long stay in Cape Town. Said it was pretty OK.
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I don't know about cormorants, but what I'm now sure was a seagull my crew bought in Palma de Mallorca instead of a chicken, was inedible. Totally inedible after an hour and a half in a pressure cooker!
 
hewebb

hewebb

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Oct 8, 2011
329
Catalina Catalina 25 Joe Pool Lake
I fly a streamer from the mast and so far no bird stuff other than a few on the bimini after over a year. Don't know if it is the streamer flying or just that there is not a bird issue at our marina. I wiill be sailing tonight so will ask the other guys that come out for tonight's sail.
 
py26129

py26129

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Oct 25, 2011
576
Island Packet IP31 Lake St. Louis, Montreal
After replacing the bow light fixture, a few years ago I also installed the lens upside down. I finally realized when going up the seaway after wondering for a long time why all the commercial traffic had their lights on backwards. Not cool.

Cheers

Matt
 
woodster

woodster

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Sep 15, 2009
6,243
S2 9.2a Fairhope Al
Kermit said:
Honestly, I should never have joined this forum. Y'all jinxed me. All was fine until I read the thread about what to do if your anchor light or steaming light or whatever the heck light craps out while you're away from shore. I thought, "That's all fine and good but mine works just fine." Then it happened. We rafted up last month with several other boats to watch the purple martins fly in to Bomb Island on Lake Murray. My lights were working fine. Seriously. Until I turned on my anchor light. Then I realized the anchoring part of the light that's 352 feet above deck wasn't working. Not to worry. I was rafted up with other boats whose lights were fine. I knew I could motor in because the steaming part worked just fine. Then it was time to go home. We left before anyone else. Something told me to check my front navigation light. Now, I've been sailing this boat after dark for 2, count them 2, years. I realized the daggum lens was on backwards! I have been sailing and motoring at night with my daggum red and green lenses reversed! There was no correcting it over the water. Just couldn't be done. We decided to motor on in while I gave EVERY boat on the water the right of way. I felt like a menace to society. This would NEVER have happened if I hadn't joined this forum.

And now for the worst part. We went to have supper on the boat a week or so ago. Remember the threads about how to keep birds from crapping on your boat? That never happened to me until after joining this forum. Bird crap aaaaaaaaaaaall over my boat. I'm a former raptor rehabilitator and have given untold hours, money and blood taking care of injured birds of prey. I love all birds and especially hawks, owls, eagles, osprey and vultures. And ducks. I had a duck as a child and to this day will not eat duck. I tied a line from the mast to the end of the boom hoping to keep birds from sitting on my boom. But I have no idea how to keep them off of my furled bimini top and steering wheel. Again, no issues at all until AFTER joining this forum.

My biggest fear now is snakes on the boat. And it'll all be because of this forum!
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well look at it this way Kermit if you had not joined this forum you might not have ever met Crazy Dave and some of the others .......
 
Kermit

Kermit

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Jul 31, 2010
5,669
AquaCat 12.5 17342 Wateree Lake, SC
woodster said:
well look at it this way Kermit if you had not joined this forum you might not have ever met Crazy Dave and some of the others .......
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In fact, it goes back way further than the forum. It goes back to 1970 when my family joined Wateree Sailing Club and we 4 brothers took lessons. Sailed a Sunfish into my mid 20s then quit until I took my wife sailing on our honeymoon 11 years ago. She fell in love with sailing so we bought a 12.5' AquaCat. 2 keelboats later we still love sailing and are willing to go through the trials and tribulations known as boat ownership.

I joined this forum before buying our H23 asking for advice. I've gone from truly knowing nothing about sailing with a jib to almost knowing how to fly an asymmetrical spinnaker. We've made lots of friends at 2 sailing clubs. I did meet Uncle Crazy Dave because of this forum. (He's a great guy.) I also feel like I've made several other friends although I'll never meet them.

I blame the forum for my troubles but in reality the good people here who have helped me have made solving my problems possible. Except for snakes. If I EVER see a snake on my boat it will DEFINITELY be the forum's fault.
 
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