[Public-List] On the West Coast

[Gordon Laco]

Hello again friends, 

I had a marvelous experience the other day while on this trip.  

My wife and I were looking at wooden boats in a harbour near here and noticed a powerful looking ketch in a travel lift heading for the launching slip. 

'That looks like John Guzzwell's 'Treasure' I said to Caroline.    We got closer and sure enough it was.   We saw a woman getting set to photograph the launch, I headed toward her to ask if Guzzwell still owned the boat.  Just then John Guzzwell himself walked around the rudder carrying a pan of anti fouling and a roller.   

Like an idiot I stuck out my hand and said 'hello Mr Guzzwell, I'm Gord Laco from Canada, I've read everything you and the Smeetons have written'.   

We introduced our wives to each other; Caroline gracefully got me away by saying 'launch day is a big day, have a good one' and we stepped away.  

Google John Guzzwell and the yachts Trekka, and Tzu Hang..... 

I shook the hand of a very brave man who is also one of the greatest seaman.  

Gord #426 Surprise

On 2012-09-24, at 7:52 AM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> And from me too!
> 
> On 2012-09-24, at 7:47 AM, Lawrence Morris <morris.lc at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> Amen brother!
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> Larry Morris
>> 
>> On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:42 AM, John Riley <jriley at dsbscience.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I played around with that app a while back, and there is simply no way
>>> it is displaying all vessels within a given region.  I looked at the
>>> Chesapeake, areas like Savannah Approach and around New Orleans, and a
>>> few other busy ports.
>>> 
>>> Sometimes, there was only one or two vessels shown.
>>> 
>>> Either the app does not get all AIS equipped vessels or there are very
>>> few AIS equipped vessels.  Either way, I'll stick to the Mark I
>>> Eyeball...which has the added advantage of not requiring cell signal...
>>> 
>>> Apologies if I sound like a technophobic curmudgeon again, but the thing
>>> I really hate about all these "modern tools" (gps, chartplotters, etc)
>>> is that they pull the focus into the boat.  The dangers lie outside and
>>> around me...THAT's where I want to be looking.
>>> 
>>> Yes, I've been aboard a power vessel going 30 knots where the skipper at
>>> the helm was looking DOWN at the dot on the chart plotter while piloting
>>> his vessel in a narrow channel and with other boats nearby.  Speed was a
>>> problem, but so was focus of attention to a screen at the helm station
>>> rather than out, as "Proper Lookout" demands.
>>> 
>>> --John
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Michael Grosh wrote:
>>>> Android users can use MarineTraffic.com. I use it all the time, and I am on
>>>> a boat with full featured AIS, chart plotter overlay, etc.(AIS is VHF line
>>>> of sight, the smart phone app uses shore stations for unlimited
>>>> range-theoretically).
>>>> Costs nothing.
>>>> 
>>>> MichaelGrosh
>>>> #220
>>>> On Sep 23, 2012 7:46 PM, "Greenhouse, Matthew A. (GSFC-6650)" <
>>>> matthew.a.greenhouse at nasa.gov> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> John S. Riley
>>> S/V Gaelic Sea
>>> 1972 Alberg 30 #521
>>> 
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