Are you one of them girls?

@Yulianna I don't know what one of "them girls" means - but I do know what the road sign "do not enter means"... and I tend to pay that sign a great deal of heed. Some people have that sign wrote large on them.

@pdqsailor1 how very apt...

@Yulianna Well put. (As usual.) ❤️

@pdqsailor1 "One of them girls" refers to the song lyrics quoted above. According to the song, it seems to be a girl who "says no" just to see how far you'd go to get her to say yes. In other words, someone who plays games.

@sarabee1995 🤗 was the song written by a guy?

@Yulianna Of course! 🙄

@sarabee1995 🤣🤣🤣

@sarabee1995 Thank you, as you can see I know nothing of playing games but I must be doing something correctly as we are about to have our 33rd anniversary in a weeks time and I am fully domesticated, well behaved (and very happily completely monogamous)... Men have to realize who is in charge in a relationship and it is not them.

@pdqsailor1 Happy wife, happy life??

@sarabee1995 Over the years I have observed the consequences of people who have made their partners unhappy and the results are severe. The grass you see is never greener in anyone else's garden, at best it is the same colour. Time and a bit of wisdom teaches us this. We chose to focus upon and remain true to the forces that attracted us to one another in the first place.. The other realization one gains is that there is a reason that they are not called the ten suggestions. It is not easy choosing a partner, but the choice must be made carefully - sin in haste repent at leisure.. but if the choice is wise then one can enjoy heaven upon this earth.. I am not lucky I am blessed and there is a difference. Its only blowing five knots out of the south today, but I have both a drifter and a half ounce chute so we can go out and play today while others won't be able to avail themselves of the opportunity...

@sarabee1995

@pdqsailor1 Nice! Yours?

@sarabee1995 yes, only 48 years old.. she is a keeper. I rebuilt the boat in 2018/2019 and made spring launch...

@pdqsailor1 Very nice and much congrats on the rebuild! 🙂

@sarabee1995 Thank you. Can you imagine the insurance company wanted to destroy this boat? We decided this was not a good idea. It was a LOT of work and it tested my project management skills to the limit but look at her doing her thing on the water.. Love this boat and its about as close to perfect as it gets. A very experienced sailor and Friend had a C&C 120, he decided it was far too much boat for him to handle himself so he sold it and purchased an Alerion 30.. and he is out on it all the time.. Our club is the oldest and largest in Canada and Alerion is becoming THE choice in boats for some of the most experienced knowledgeable sailors there. Well respected choice... You have a GREAT boat, enjoy it every chance you get.

@pdqsailor1 Thank you. I do love her! As I think I might've mentioned before, she was my grandfather's boat. He had her commissioned from the factory when I was at University. The factory is right in Rhode Island not far from where I was, so I was down almost every week to see her being built.

His horizons never extended beyond the Gulf of Maine, Cape Cod Bay, or Nantucket Sound. I've had her down and back to Chesapeake Bay a couple times and down to Florida once. She's not really made for cruising like that, but I hug the shoreline and we do okay. I do wish I had a more ocean-capable hull sometimes.

Right now she's on the Chesapeake in Maryland and I'm, again, living in her for the summer (sublet my apartment for June, July, and August). I'm planning on sailing her back to New England at the end of the summer. 🙂

@sarabee1995 There was nothing wrong with your Grandfather's horizons, Gulf of Maine, Cape Cod Bay, or Nantucket Sound are all perfect cruising grounds and hey it is a Herreshoff based design, built in New England... so there is no more appropriate horizons than to use it there from whence it was conceived and born.

Your trip to Florida sounds like a great adventure, particularly with your boat having electric drive....Our boat has in. its 48 years never been out of Lake Ontario... I just like sailing and not so much cruising.. which we have done a fair bit of over the years but the fact is that on Lake Ontario there are not that many stellar places to be at... The thousand islands is "interesting" but not so much sailing there and I don't much like hanging on a hook for days.. Rochester back in the day was amazing but after the technological advent of digital cameras and the demise of Polaroid and Kodak, the economy there has been devastated and it has not recovered. We loved the Rochester Yacht Club.. next to ours it was the nicest place on the lake but our club is an awesome place to come back to and be at so we day sail a LOT from it.. On the same principle as the Alerion being easy to get sailing I have amended the way we sail our boat with a full hoist #3 that tacks easily, points high and does not heel the boat over much...and furls up when we are done with it.. The boat goes almost as quickly with this sail up as it does with a 155% #1 as she has a large foretriangle. and like your boat she is both light, narrow and stiff... Good boats share similar characteristics, design elements and principles. Now this boat has not been out of Lake Ontario but I have... I crewed as a young man on a C&C custom 53 that won its division in the SORC in Florida, did the Newport RI to Bermuda races every two years and sailed the upper lakes doing the Mackinac Races (Port Huron to Mackinaw and Chicago to Mackinaw) many times, once first to finish in a Port Huron Mac race... I got to sail with and against some of the best sailors in the world including Americas' cup skippers (Ted Turner - Courageous) and crew (John Marshall, Gary Jobson) and it was there that I really learned to sail. I was a very much blessed young man.

There are plenty of worse things you could do than live on your boat for the summer... Years back when our Daughters were going to Sailing Camp at the club we would move on board for the summer - all four of us.. with me doing the shopping and cooking, often the laundry and the boat going sailing in the evenings and weekends... loaded to the gunnels with ridiculous levels of the ladies clothing on board packed to the gills... They. both became excellent sailors, literally they could sail on their own in their optimist dinghies before they could ride bikes and there is plenty of silverware at the club with their names engraved on it. You get to go sailing after work and on the weekends - and just how perfect is that? I am down to the boat today to do some maintenance, mostly a few electrical issues and I might wash the deck... We literally brought our Daughters home from the hospital, packed them up and took them sailing.. Their infant carriers plunked on the floor of the cockpit, I put in a lee cloth as a crib for them when they were babies so they could have a secure place to sleep on board. They were the ones telling me that I had to fix the boat - they did not help me do it mind you but they were telling me that I just had to do it LOL... There is no problem with self esteem or assertiveness with the Women in my family.. So when you say you have your clothes all over your boat... well been there done that with THREE / FOUR Women on board our boat at a time... I was lucky to have one shelf to call my own. When school started in the fall, I swear the water line rose by like four inches, not a problem your boat faces with you on it by yourself.

Do you have a propane grill on the back rail? It might be a good idea for you to be able to make dinners.. Fish, burger, a steak - even warming up pizza.. I cook on the boat pretty much as I do at home... but that galley today is dramatically refined over what it was when we lived on the boat. I am going to do pizza this weekend as one of the meals...

@pdqsailor1 Oh nothing wrong with his horizons at all! I grew up exploring the waters and harbors of Nantucket Sound with the occasional diversion to the north.

And there are numerous pictures of my brother and I in baby seats on the old family boat and a bunch with me in a baby carrier across my grandfather's chest or up on his back. So I get what you mean by learning to sail before learning to ride a bike!

The electric drive is both good and bad. Yes, it's always available for harbors with no diesel needed. But, it has limited range and no way to quickly refuel. You know that most canals require us to be under power to travel through. No problem for small canals like the Cape Cod canal, but for longer ones like the Chesapeake & Delaware canal, I can't go through. To get into the Bay, I have to go down and around. 🤷‍♀️

I've crewed on many Figawi Races (Hyannis to Nantucket) when I was in high school. I would LOVE to crew a boat out to Bermuda!!!

No grill. I really do very little cooking. It's simply, at this point, not among my skills. 🤷‍♀️

@sarabee1995 When you wish to transit the Chesapeake & Delaware canals... perhaps consider getting one of these... 2.2KW, quiet not heavy and fuel efficient... I got it brand new in the box for $700 CDN ($500 US or so)... You could turn your electric boat into a hybrid when it is needed as you could charge your propulsion battery from the generator.
The other way I suppose is a hydro generator though your drive might be able to generate power while you sail? Some do some do not... Yes I am a bit of a geek technically...

I have not one but TWO Magma stainless steel barbecues for the stern rail both stored in the locker. The problem with them aside from what they cost is they truly get filthy when you use them and I like things clean.. and they take a lot of effort and time to get them clean so they are clean all right and stored away.. in case I forget just how much time and effort they take to get clean...

And yes I too would love to get back on a boat that was sailing to Bermuda..

@pdqsailor1 I've thought of a generator to extend range under power... but... part of me likes that I currently run purely on pixie dust. 😁 🧚

Yes, she recharges while under sail. And I've added two solar panels as well.

I don't have your woodworking or fiberglass skills, but I'm pretty good with boat electricals. I installed the radome, gps, ship-to-shore, and cell antennas on the mast myself along with all the associated equipment down below.

@sarabee1995 just because you have a generator does not imply that you have any obligation to use it. If you need it then you can decide and options are generally helpful. I have yet to take it out of the box but it’s available should I need it.

Excellent that you recharge while sailing. Few people realize how much power a sailboat delivers but you certainly do.

Good on you with electrical and electronic installations. Every skill you acquire will serve you well and make you more independent. Today I did electrical work. Yesterday refrigeration, plumbing and electrical. Next a new VHF in the whaler. It’s always something.