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Published: November 3rd 2009
Marilyn
One of the costumes at the Ha Ha party.Hi all,
Well, we're still here. Brian and I have been cutting holes in the boats and the tanks and trying to figure out what has happened.
On Monday, October 26, we dinghied out to the Shelter Island fishing pier and watched the Ha Ha fleet sail away. We were both a little teary eyed watching them go.
All of our crew except Bonnie and Ray found another boat to go on, so we hope they have a good time.
It turns out that there is another Cooper 416 her in San Diego. She is named Redcoat and her skipper is Brian Cavilier. He sought me out so we could talk about the boat. Brian invited me onto his boat and I was able to see the differences, and look at his fuel tank, which had had an inspection port installed in the fuel tank. It was very helpful to me so that I could cut a hole in my boat and in the fuel tank.
The tank man, from American Tanks, showed up today to look at our tank problems. He has been out of town for a week, so this was the earliest we
The compass rose
This little cutie came to the party in a red dress with a compass on a chain around her neck - hence the compass rose. Sweet. could get him to come. The news was not good, as he believes that neither of our tanks can be repaired, so we have to replace them. Will take at least two weeks.
We are going to get nice new tanks made of 316L Stainless Steel, which will probably outlive either of us.
One other interesting thing happened here; while I was on Redcoat, the other Cooper, Brian C told me about these people driving around on two boats with divers and such. Turns out one of the boats was for a trained dolphin that would jump out of the water onto a mattress on their boat. Neither of us (Brian or I) had any idea what they were doing, but the dolphin would jump up onto their boat and off again into the water at their commmand. When the dolphin was aboard, they would pet it and it seemed that they were talking to it. My brother Brian thinks that this is probably a part of a Navy program to protect Navy vessels.
I tried to get a good picture of the dolphin jumping into the boat, but it was too fast. So all you'll see
is a picture of the dolphin on a mattress on the back of the boat.
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Bob Barker
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The bright side
Dear Dave: I can understand how hard it must have been to watch the race leave without you. However, they tell fortunate you are that you caught your tank problem in San Diego. You could've run out of fuel and washed up on Sacramento reef. Several boats have been lost on this reef. You're in a place where you speak the language fluently and can give the people accurate directions as they repair or rebuild your tank. What will you have to do to get this tank out? What kind of time frame is the repair going to take? What is this going to do dear sailing schedule? This is a very sophisticated blog. Did you develop this entire thing? If you did I'm impressed. Hope the repairs are going smoothly and will be too expensive. I hope you're going to make the tank out of stainless steel. Remember, you can not make it out of galvanized steel. The diesel oil will react with the zinc. The other choice is just black iron. But I'm sure you know this. Bob