Things to do during a pandemic shutdown...

With all those dandelions, why don't you eat 'em? The tender blossoms dipped in a wee bit of batter and sautéed in butter is good stuff, and the greens are great in salads.

Mike
 
Patrick and Wendell, I'm a frustrated ex-sailor. I had four boats from '66-'79. 1) A Philip Rhodes Penguin -- 11'6" cat-rigged day sailor/racer. I owned it a month before buying; 2) a Lone Star 13, an absolutely beautiful little masthead sloop designed by Thomas Faul and Charles Wittholtz that had lever-operated bilgeboards instead of a centerboard. I owned it for about 4 years before letting my wife talk me into a mistake, buying: 3) a 16' Luger Leeward, a kit boat my dad had built and replaced with a 20' Luger kit boat that was much better than the Leeward. My wife wanted the Leeward because it had a little cuddy cabin where she and the kids could get out of the weather. But they didn't go sailing with me very often and the Leeward just didn't sail as well as the Lone Star and certainly never captured my heart the way the LS did. I sold the Leeward to get money for tuition for a continuing education course and then bought; 4) a 17' cat-ketch rigged sharpie that had been designed by John Atkin during WW2 to be built using non-strategic materials. It was different, to say the least, and would have sailed a lot better if I had ever had the money to buy a decent mainsail for it. The one it had had been sewed out of plastic-coated tarp material, was way too heavy, and what draft it had was all in the wrong place and got worse as the wind picked up. Nevertheless, I raced it and usually finished mid-pack on corrected time. As far as I can remember, I always finished dead-last on elapsed time. I finally sold it after living in California for a year with the nearest decent sailing water close to 100 miles away.

Patrick, what is your boat?

Wendell, I just read a good article in "Small Craft Advisor" about three small trimarans -- the Hobie Adventure Island, the Weta, and Windrider 17. They remind me of your kayak -- just with amas.
 
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Phil, You sure know how to make a guy waste his time! I've been sitting here for the longest time watching YouTube videos of those three trimarans and enjoying every moment of it - thanks

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mikesim said:
With all those dandelions, why don't you eat 'em? The tender blossoms dipped in a wee bit of batter and sautéed in butter is good stuff, and the greens are great in salads.

Mike
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My trainer set of inlaws did eat the greens..very nutricious.....they never had the taste I liked. But if you cover anything in butter, bacon grease, glacamole, and sour cream, its pretty good.
 
5 down and two to go. Dug up five stumps and chain sawed them below ground level on my new (moved) path...
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Phil, Erin is a 1981 C&C 32. She was originally sold as a racer-cruiser that sleeps 6 (4 is the most I would do) and has an onboard head, galley with pressure water and a 3- burner stove with oven and refrigerator, a chart table and a dinette that seats 4. She‘s 32 feet long, beam a bit over 10 feet and displaces about 10000 pounds wet. The ballast to displacement ratio is over 40% and she stands up well to a good breeze.

The PO bought new sails - a 140% Genoa on a roller fuller and full- battened main and new B&G instruments including chart plotter and autopilot the year before I bought her. She has an 18hp diesel and cruises at 6.5 knots under sail or power but I have had her over 8 knots under sail in 20+ knots of breeze. I keep her in Muskegon Lake about a 15-minute putt down the channel from Lake Michigan. Muskegon Lake is one of the best sailing lakes in the Midwest: over 4000 acres with great breezes and is a deep water port for Lake Michigan. On any given summer day the sailboats outnumber the powerboats at least 4 to 1.

I paid less for her than the base price of a non-ABS NT in 2010, so I basically stole her. Comparable boats are going for close to the price of a new Gold Wing.
 
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Phil, Erin is a 1981 C&C 32. She was originally sold as a racer-cruiser that sleeps 6 (4 is the most I would do) and has an onboard head, galley with pressure water and a 3- burner stove with oven and refrigerator, a chart table and a dinette that seats 4. She‘s 32 feet long, beam a bit over 10 feet and displaces about 10000 pounds wet. The ballast to displacement ratio is over 40% and she stands up well to a good breeze.

The PO bought new sails - a 140% Genoa on a roller fuller and full- battened main and new B&G instruments including chart plotter and autopilot the year before I bought her. She has an 18hp diesel and cruises at 6.5 knots under sail or power but I have had her over 8 knots under sail in 20+ knots of breeze. I keep her in Muskegon Lake about a 15-minute putt down the channel from Lake Michigan. Muskegon Lake is one of the best sailing lakes in the Midwest: over 4000 acres with great breezes and is a deep water port for Lake Michigan. On any given summer day the sailboats outnumber the powerboats at least 4 to 1.

I paid less for her than the base price of a non-ABS NT in 2010, so I basically stole her. Comparable boats are going for close to the price of a new Gold Wing.
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Kazoo... Keep it up, you're fixin' to acquire a new house guest.... from Colorado...

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Mike
 
Patrick, if you had been a better negotiator, you probably could have gotten the previous owner to pay you to take it off his hands! Sounds like an incredible bargain. I never sailed on a boat bigger than 24' long until '13, when I paid about $20 in Lunenburg to sail for an hour or so on an Abeking and Rassmussen ketch that had been built in the late 40s. It was a flush deck that had back-to-back benches where most of the passengers rode. I sat in the cockpit and got to steer for about 10 minutes. The only other passenger who said that they wanted steer was a five or six-year old girl. She was awesome! She was responding to gusts by luffing up like she'd been sailing for way more years than she'd been alive. I always though it looked like and sounded like (from what I read in "Sail" and "Yachting" that C&C made really good boats. Yours looks like proof of that. What's the sailing season like there?

This is me -- first time I'd ever sailed without a tiller.
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This is the little girl who'll probably be a top racing skipper one of these days.
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Here's a link to their website: https://www.novascotia.com/see-do/tours/sail-lunenburg-star-charters/2255
 
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A few years ago, my son and I took an evening dinner sail on the schooner Zodiac from Bellingham, WA. It is a sailing historic schooner built in 1924 for the Johnson family (Johnson & Johnson). They have various sailing excursions and lengths. It was great fun and interactive (if you choose). Do not let the Captain trick you into manning the helm during a change of tack. The helm is strictly mechanical. The 147 tons of 160 foot boat does not have power steering and does not come about as fast as you would think. 😋 --> 😓

https://schoonerzodiac.com/
 
Phil, the sailing season up here is pretty weather dependent; usually early May to mid October. I spent the weekend getting Erin ready to launch and hopefully will have her in the slip this week.

The Covid-19 problem has people at the boatyard and marina a bit anxious. Quite a large number may not launch at all because of the chance of a second round of infections. The current rules allow boating but only with members of the same household. That order expires May 15th and hopefully the infection rates here will be improved enough that the restriction can be eased a bit more.

I’m not sure how well it’s going to work. On Saturday I saw a dozen groups of motorcycles with 20 or more riders in each group headed north and the beach in Muskegon was fairly busy on Sunday. Humans can be stubbornly stupid sometimes.
 
KazooST said: "Humans can be stubbornly stupid sometimes."

Patrick, you've sure got that right. I did a grocery pickup yesterday and the store employees were wearing masks, but I'd guess that no more than 10-15% of the customers going in and out of the store were wearing masks. I will be absolutely amazed if we don't have a big second (and probably third!) wave of the Covid-19.
 
I finally did get a nice 170 ride in on Sunday, most of the time not been on bike for a long time. I not sure what is the cause of little riding on my part, weather, pandemic, chores, or just age. Usually I have hundreds of miles by May, this year maybe 400 miles. I guess the fact that all the hamburg stops are closed, make it less likely to ride.
 
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KazooST said: "Humans can be stubbornly stupid sometimes."

Patrick, you've sure got that right. I did a grocery pickup yesterday and the store employees were wearing masks, but I'd guess that no more than 10-15% of the customers going in and out of the store were wearing masks. I will be absolutely amazed if we don't have a big second (and probably third!) wave of the Covid-19.
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I like the movie CBS news showed tonight of people having a street dance party in Chicago. and the huge house parties in West Chicago...what could possibly go wrong? And people in many states showing up on their state capitol steps protesting.
 
Chris, you may be interested in my "arseneal". A Marlin Mounty lever action .22.m, serial number indicates 1953. An Iver Johnson 1940-1950 .410 that I found under the seat of a junked car. I had to make a forearm for it. It is also mid 50's. A High Point Sport King .22 pistol.
Have added a Ruger 9mm, Ruger LCP .22 and a NAA .22LR.
The new guns are boring. The older ones are fun. I have had them for over 50 years. The Marlin is a treasure. Dead on accurate. It is a better rifle than I am a shooter. It is so "tight" that you have to bang the end of the barrel on something to take it aparm (says so in the instructions.) Amazing for something made before CMC machines.

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