Neil, Bill and Gary's Excellent Adventure.

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Neil, Bill and Gary's Excellent Adventure.

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Started 7 years ago by JollyRoger
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JollyRoger
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Currently Neil, Bill and Gary are on a most excellent sailing adventure. Leatherlungs, Jarhead and Mishigama. They launched from Maine. Here is Gary's Spot page.

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0V0ql8SpeXBy4SKyRocvFzZTvDLe35x3v

They have put up many photos and videos on facebook but I can not get to it here from work so will link it later or if someone could help a brother out and link it that would be great. I'm on 12 hour shifts here and they are on the Atlantic or at least were, they are in Delaware Bay now living the life dangit.

Way to go guys! More photos and videos please for this landlubber. Can’t wait to sit down with you guys and here the stories.

Posted 7 years ago #
JollyRoger
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Neil's facebook page where the photos and videos are. They are in the Chesapeake now. I believe it was around a 500 mile trip, they must be getting close to home port.

https://www.facebook.com/neil.calore?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab

Posted 7 years ago #
Jarhead
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We anchored in a beautiful Chesapeake Bay creek Friday night for a much-needed full nights sleep. After coffee at anchor Sat morning we motored a mile or two to the marina where Neil will be keeping the boat for a while.

The trip was awesome: Casco Bay, Portland, Cape Cod, Buzzard's Bay, Woods Hole, Block Island, Cape May, and then Chesapeake Bay. Except for Chesapeake Bay, I had not been to these places despite reading about them in boating mags for years. So the venue was terrific and so was the boat, a Kaiser Gale Force 34--a very serious and beautiful world-cruising sailboat. Most important of all, my companions, dirtbags both, were great fun. They even knew what they were doing, which I could not say for myself.

I still prefer gunkholing and coastal cruising and paddling, but this trip was truly fun and memorable. I'll let Neil share the details.

Posted 7 years ago #
Chekika
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Wow, those names "Casco Bay, ...Cape Cod...Woods Hole, etc. All beautiful places to be sure. And "serious" sailing too. A great change of scenary for us Floridians. My wife, Nancy, & I did some kayaking around Stonington-Isle Au Haut & Arcadia NP. I'm looking forward to hearing/reading your and the crew's stories, Bill.

Keith

Posted 7 years ago #
danceswithmullet
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Awsome trip Jarhead. Mrs. Mullet and I are in Maine now, some day we will sail from Florida to here. You had me laughing at the "Dirtbags". This is an accurate description of some of my best friends. The hardcore unemployed that have the means to show up at your boat as long as there is food and Rum aboard for the leg of the voyage back home. Glad you had a good trip and look forward to more details. DWM

Posted 7 years ago #
BeastOarman
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DWM, you said " the means to show up at your boat as long as there is food and Rum aboard" - but in defense of Neil, I think he has always been more than willing to carry it aboard himself. I think that may be universal in the WT, selfless folks that we be ; )

Posted 7 years ago #
LeatherLungs
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Jarhead covered the details pretty well, except that he knew what he was doing more than he thinks. Every WaterTribe event I participated in made me a better sailor than I was before it, and few have a better 'Tribe record than Jarhead!

The trip was awesome and I could not have asked for better shipmates than those two dirtbags. We sailed/motored around the clock, stopping only three times: Woods Hole, Block Island and briefly at Cape May long enough to refuel and eat breakfast.

577 nm in 6 days, 17 hours and 45 minutes and not one complaint or injury (except my feelings got hurt when Jarhead recited a Limerick he composed of which I was the subject!).

Mishigama, no stranger to bigger boats himself, was very helpful in helping me learn the ships systems, was very adept at dodging large freighters while approaching New York and has revolutionized my dental hygeine while cruising by introducing me to a little gadget called a brush pick.

Those two really took the edge off of buying a new boat and the uncertainties that come with it because I knew they would handle any unforeseen problems that may have arisen. The wrong crew could possibly have been just another problem. I would sail anywhere under any conditions with those two most excellent sailors!

Here's a pic of our track:

LL

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