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Last Activity: 06-11-2023 09:07

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  • About OldSailors
    Vessel Make/ model
    Stamas44
    Vessel Name
    Wild Rose
    Location
    St Marys, GA
    Occupation
    Retired
    Biography
    I have been a sailor since 1958 (yes, 1958). I started as "jr" crew for an older brother in buoy races on Texas lakes. From the month I turned 13 until I left for the college and the Navy (Navy paid), I worked for a sailboat shop as general labor, glassman, parts and boat sales, sailing instructor and broom pusher. After college and the Navy, working and odd hobbies (like raising kids) took time away from sailing, but I still managed some time on the water.

    I bought a 42' ketch while living near Lake Michigan and sailed the Lakes for years. I sailed the Chicago to Mackinac Isl. Solo Challenge (solosailors.org) in 2005 (first in class), 2006 and 2007. When my wife and I retired and moved to coastal GA, I sailed my ketch solo from near Chicago, IL through the Lakes, down the Seaway, down the St Lawrence R., across the Gulf of St Lawrence, out the Canso Strait, south across the Gulf Stream, and south east to Cape Lookout. Great trip!

    My current boat is a 44' ketch. Wild Rose is in the water on the GA coast.

    I have also sailed the US Atlantic coast from the Keys as far north as Plymouth Bay. I do have some (limited) experience crewing on the ICW. I am also experienced with deliveries, having crewed a few times and skippered a couple of deliveries.

    I still remember enough to stand a few watches. I did learn celestial navigation, but don't count on my sextant skills - I once used my sextant to locate my position when I was 2 days out of Block Island, and pinpointed my location within the city limits of Norman, OK. I am sure the sextant was broke, or something.

    Otherwise, I really have used RDF, LORAN, lat/lon coordinates on real charts, chartplotters, Ipads with nav apps, and even dead reckoning to get from here to there. I can hand and reef, use roller furlers or hank on sails, slab reef and furl, pump manual windlasses (I prefer electric!), harden or ease a boom vang, fly a spinnaker, and set storm sails. I can lie ahull, sail a full gale, balance sails to steer with a disabled rudder, fother a hull leak and bung a broken seacock. I have even encouraged obstinate diesels to turn over and push.

    In short - I can sail.

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