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Silverheels, P-424 #17
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What an extraordinary man! Makes me feel like a couch potato.
Thanks for sharing this.
Tor
Silverheels, P-424 #17
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“It’s a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford…”
Glory days! I’d do it all again in a heartbeat. But, man, what I would’ve
given for a sailboat like Silverheels back then.Quote:
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Yes, Q, and I may yet pay a heavy price because I did. They really are
monitoring our emails now, or so I hear on the mainstream news these days.
Spooky. Kind of makes you want to speak your mind and then get out of town.But I apologize to this forum. This isn’t the place for my paranoid rants.
I’ve just been besieged lately by a lot of scary information while
simultaneously reading Al Gore’s book, “The Future,” not to mention a deluge
of disturbing media mush online. I cherish the freedom our boats represent
and worry that my grandchildren may never experience it.OK, back to boat stuff. I’ve been lucky with my writing lately and expect to
have one little Cruising Tip in the October issue of SAIL, plus 3 pieces in
their November issue and 3 more in December, plus one little story in the
December issue of Cruising World that I originally wrote as a note to this
forum, about Silverheels hitting 9.7 knots (albeit SOG). What fun!Quote:
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Well, bless your hippie heart, Dan. You’re a kindred spirit, to be sure.
Back before I could afford a sunken dinghy I considered myself a Master
Hitchhiker. I could stick out my thumb in Miami with $3 in my pocket and
arrive in San Francisco with a dollar left and never once did I panhandle a
penny. Life was its own cornucopia in those days. I logged tens of thousands
of road miles that way. What a great time in our lives! What adventures we
lived! Oh, I’d trade everything to do it all again.I keep putting off sailing out to the South Pacific. Really should have done
it a long time ago. We’ll see.Sorry to hear about the molasses. Too bad they hadn’t yet distilled it into
rum. What a party that would’ve been!Tor
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Quent, my friend, if the Coasties/DEA/NSA/Men-in-Black see that little
tirade of mine taped to your bulkhead they will strip your boat to the bone
from stem to stern and, whether or not there’s anything there, they will
find it and ruin your day, or worse. In my experience, jackboots rarely have
a sense of humor (although one of them did once pet my dog). I’m probably
already risking life and limb with my public venting. Blame it on too much
reading lately and a shot (or two) of that good Barbados rum.Or so I’ve heard. Maybe they’ll just smile and say yes, Captain Quent,
you’re right. We used to be nicer. Sorry, sir, we’ll try to do better in the
future. Have a nice day. Yes, yes, I’m sure that’s how it will play out.Quote:
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I’m sure you do, Alan, but I wouldn’t broadcast it online.
Don’t mind me, friends, I was just having a “born free” moment down here in
paradise. The officials tend to leave us in peace here. Apparently we’re
“good for the economy.” I’m sure everything is perfectly rosy up north, as
well.So, getting back to the subject at hand, Pearson 424’s and Florida boat
registration, it seems to me if a federally documented vessel is cruising
abroad most of the time and has no particular state affiliation, state
registration is not necessary or required. Perhaps there is an admiralty
attorney in the group who knows better?Tor
Silverheels, P-424 #17
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John,
Another reminder of why I don’t cruise in the US anymore. Over-aggressive
tax extortion – I mean, 90 days? Give me a break! – gun-&-boot-clad Coast
Guard “safety inspections,” Marine Police harassment in port and underway,
stone-faced Homeland Security thugs roaring by in black rocket ships that we
paid for, ubiquitous anchoring restrictions and outright bans, tip to tip
private waterfront and $100/night dockage. No other country I’ve cruised
treats small yachts so shabbily. I’m old enough to remember a kinder, freer,
more courteous American coast, one I used to explore by boat as a free
citizen, a respected young adventurer and a welcomed guest, where the Coast
Guard were the good guys, there when you needed help even if only a friendly
tow into the harbor, not a coastal police force with leveled deck canons and
notches in their guns. Maybe there are still pockets of that America left,
some cruiser-friendly harbors where the town docks are free to anyone who
cares to tie up for a few days, where folks offer a handshake instead of an
invoice, where moorings haven’t crowded out any possibility of anchoring and
the police are there to Serve and Protect, not just top off their ticket
quotas. I believe there is still a bit of that left, but it seems like you
have to run some tough gauntlets to find them – and you better not stay too
long.IMHO.
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That’s happy news, Dan, and as it should be. As for liking it out there, I
KNOW I would. I did! I lived on Maui in the early 70’s, when it was a
totally cool bohemian paradise, hippie heaven on earth (except for the
Hawaiians, who’s favorite pastime was haole bashing). From what I’ve heard,
I wouldn’t recognize Maui now for all the condos and development, nor would
I like it so much considering my old hippie tastes haven’t changed all that
much. But much of The Big Island and Kauai still sound wonderful, and last I
heard the north coast of Oahu was still mostly natural – or have the
developers ruined that, too?As for sailing there, I don’t recall many places to anchor. Seemed to be a
scarcity of natural harbors. Am I mistaken?Tor
Silverheels, P-424 #17
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Dan Wrote: Why not just USCG document?
That’s how I do it, Dan, but Silverheels doesn’t spend any appreciable time
in the US so no state has a claim on her. Most states require boats that
remain in their waters for (typically) more than 6 months to state-register
with them, whether or not the boat is federally documented. It’s just a
money-&-control grab, officially sanctioned extortion IMHO, or as our
straight-talking forefathers called it, “taxation without representation.”
(OK, OK, I’ll tone down my Libertarian politics.) I believe the federal
government has decreed that US Documentation is all the registration a
qualifying vessel requires, but most states choose to simply ignore that
law.It’s not only the state registration fee you need to worry about. Once they
have “signed you up,” if you can’t produce proof that you paid state sales
tax someplace when you bought your boat, your new “resident” state may well
go after you for that, too. Now we’re talking thousands. Not a pretty
picture.There are a few legal loopholes for those willing to pursue them. For
example, last time I checked there is no state sales tax on boats
bought/sold/registered in Oregon, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware.
Also, Florida (and probably other states) do not (or didn’t used to) count
days a boat is in a credible repair facility towards the 6-month time period
before state registration (or paying a hefty Sales Tax or User Tax) is
required. And so on…Tor
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Too funny, Ken! I T-boned a boat once, too, back when I was first getting
used to the engineless ketch Autant in Coconut Grove, around 1975. Not as
many witnesses as you had and the owner was a friend of mine in the free
anchorage. It wasn’t a very hard hit, but still I spent the next day doing a
little cap rail repair job on his boat, after which all was forgiven and
forgotten.It has been my experience in general that the smaller the boat, the more it
goes sailing. That little O’Day Tempest of mine, Adagio, (designed by Philip
Rhodes, no less) went out a lot during my summers in Rhode Island. Often I’d
just scoot off onto the bay for an hour after work, before it got dark.
Mucho fun. Almost anything under 30-feet works for that kind of sailing.Meanwhile, though, I’m really enjoying my 424. She’s a good, comfortable
home in the islands and a respectable, trustworthy passagemaker when I move
around. What I’d really like right now is a sailing dinghy. I’m keeping my
eyes open down here.Tor
Silverheels, P-424 #17
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Too funny, Ken! I T-boned a boat once, too, back when I was first getting
used to the engineless ketch Autant in Coconut Grove, around 1975. Not as
many witnesses as you had and the owner was a friend of mine in the free
anchorage. It wasn’t a very hard hit, but still I spent the next day doing a
little cap rail repair job on his boat, after which all was forgiven and
forgotten.It has been my experience in general that the smaller the boat, the more it
goes sailing. That little O’Day Tempest of mine, Adagio, (designed by Philip
Rhodes, no less) went out a lot during my summers in Rhode Island. Often I’d
just scoot off onto the bay for an hour after work, before it got dark.
Mucho fun. Almost anything under 30-feet works for that kind of sailing.Meanwhile, though, I’m really enjoying my 424. She’s a good, comfortable
home in the islands and a respectable, trustworthy passagemaker when I move
around. What I’d really like right now is a sailing dinghy. I’m keeping my
eyes open down here.Tor
Silverheels, P-424 #17
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Nice find, Rich! Alas, I’ve already got 3 sextants on board plus one on
shore and don’t use any of them anymore.Tor
Silverheels, P-424 #17
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Ah, the good old days…
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Thanks, Quent. I’m looking for the simplest, lowest-tech solution this side
of a hamster running around a cylindrical cage. The calendar idea is
helpful, though. (What ever happened to those odometers you could “adjust”
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