RE: [Cal_Boats] Racing, was crossing the bar (Tom Miller)

Folks, Two questions: Can you sail/motor sail non stop to whereever your destination is and not come into the inlets? Secondly, what is the danger of coming in? That a wave will catch you and broach your boat? I have fond memories of coming into inlets in rented wooden 14' skiffs loaded down with 4 familly members with fishing and picnic gear, powered by our families trusty Golden Anniversery 5 1/2 HP Evinrude Fisherman. I loved it, surfing down the waves, next best thing to a Nantucket Sleigh Ride. On the east coast they don't have detached breakwaters like here in So. Cal. ....how dull! Racing was great this afternoon. 12 boats at the start, and 12 boats rounding the windward buoy together, and two episodes of jockeying the boat in tight quarters, around others to get clear wind and slip ahead. I'm hoping to win this second series! We have 6 series of five races each, each with different courses, in our TNT day light savings to day light saving races, this one is close and broad reaches, and down wind, so my Cal24 is really doing well. It's one buck a race, $30 for the year, and $20 a year to join the club. Can you beat that? And this wind this time of year, Spring time, is the best! Jerry --- On Tue, 5/26/09, Tom Miller <tm… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Tom Miller <tm… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [Cal_Boats] Tom Miller To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 10:55 PM You have to be very careful on the OR coast. I have to admit, I have not been in that many places. I brought my boat down from Seward, AK and I tend to stay out a ways. The hard spots (land) scare me. :) I have a Cal 2-34 already in Brookings but I am buying another boat in Mexico that I will bring up sometime this summer. Tom --- On Tue, 5/26/09, Scott Cyphers <scottcyphers@ sbcglobal. net> wrote: From: Scott Cyphers <scottcyphers@ sbcglobal. net> Subject: RE: [Cal_Boats] Tom Miller To: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 10:46 PM I thought of sailing my Cal 29 up from the San Francisco Bay . I would have to come in at Bandon or the Coquille River . No thank you it has breaking waves all the way across both places on a normal day. I don’t know how the fisherman do it. I hear Newport is also a good place. Let me know how it plays out. When do you think you will make the trip? Scott C. From: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com [mailto:Cal_ Boats@yahoogroup s.com] On Behalf Of Tom Miller Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:38 PM To: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Tom Miller I'm in Brookings. They say it's the safest bar on the Oregon coast. Ha ha, of course safe is a relative term when you're talking about harbors on the Oregon coast. It is a very nice little port though. Tom --- On Tue, 5/26/09, Scott Cyphers <scottcyphers@ sbcglobal. net> wrote: From: Scott Cyphers <scottcyphers@ sbcglobal. net> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Tom Miller To: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 9:58 AM Where in Oregon do you want to sail? I am in Coquille. That is by Bandon. The entries past the break waters are really rough out here. I’ve had to leave my Cal 29 in Berkeley , Ca for now. Scott C.

By the way, somebody used a subject line of "crossing the bar," which alarmed me because it's the nautical euphemism for dying. I was afraid some notable sailor had passed away, to use the shoreside euphemism. Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar. We put Tennyson's words in my Dad's funeral program pamphlet. Chris Campbell

Well, there's Phil Bolger. http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_145224017.html?keyword=secondarystory On May 27, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Chris Campbell wrote: > > > By the way, somebody used a subject line of "crossing the bar," > which alarmed me because it's the nautical euphemism for dying. I > was afraid some notable sailor had passed away, to use the shoreside > euphemism. > > Sunset and evening star, > And one clear call for me! > And may there be no moaning of the bar, > When I put out to sea, > But such a tide as moving seems asleep, > Too full for sound and foam, > When that which drew from out the boundless deep > Turns again home. > > Twilight and evening bell, > And after that the dark! > And may there be no sadness of farewell, > When I embark; > > For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place > The flood may bear me far, > I hope to see my Pilot face to face > When I have crossed the bar. > > We put Tennyson's words in my Dad's funeral program pamphlet. > > Chris Campbell > > > > > > -- Matt Beland ma… [at] rearviewmirror.org

Matt Beland wrote: > > > Well, there's Phil Bolger. > > http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_145224017.html?keyword=secondarystory > <http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_145224017.html?keyword=secondarystory> > Now that's a sad notice. Bolger was one of those guys who kept surprising us and made us rethink our assumptions about design, function, aesthetics, and rules--especially the ones that "everybody knows." I'm really prone to accepting those rules and assuming that they must have been (or ought to be) carved in stone somewhere, so having these gadflies around is an important thing for people like me. We need to have confidence in those rules shaken up. I probably would have been shaking my head in disapproval at the radical innovations in the Cal 40--you know, unsafe things like rudders unsupported by a keel, light displacement, etc.--if I had been thinking about such things back then (hey, I was a teenager, and you know what they think about). It's sad to lose a familiar and productive person, and a bit sadder when it's a chosen end and one that seems premature. Of course, it's none of my business or your business if Mr. Bolger decides it's time to end his life. The problem is that suicide can be a burden to those close to the actor, who can be left feeling that they have failed in some way. It sounds as if he had prepared his wife to know that his choice was fully informed and not a result of any failure of hers. But still, the world feels a bit less interesting when one of these creative spirits is gone. Chris Campbell > >