Any Sailors out there?

[sheclown]

Where/what/how are you sailing?

Any river sailors?  Any racers?

[Ernest Street]

Can you start out with where you are moored?  I have a friend moored in the Ortega river and wonder where else you can Publicly moor at....(For the non Nautical, it's dropping a semi-permanent anchor/Buoy in certain waterways.)like squatters rights...only in the mud.

[sheclown]

No place that I know of -- you can anchor for awhile.  72 hours?

We are docked at River City Marina. 

NAS Jax has a mooring field -- don't know about the Navy rules on that.

In the Chesapeake, where we sailed last fall, there were wonderful mooring fields. 

[JaxByDefault]

We mostly sail on Mobile Bay and in the Gulf, as the family boat is docked in Fairhope.

I haven't raced in long time, but if someone's looking for crew, I'm well schooled (especially by my Chesapeake-raised, Navy-trained father who when at the helm the family "affectionately" calls Captain Bligh. He's so strict he'd make sheclown's cats meow "permission to come aboard." ).

[adamh0903]

got a 17' Hobie Cat 

Mostly around fernandina, St Marys, GA

[jaxtrader]

Not currently sailing...though I would love to get back into it. I used to race my c&c 35 around Newport...did Figawi a couple of times. Florida YC and Epping Forest, which face each other across the widepoint in the St johns, have midweek beercan races, I think spring and fall.

[sheclown]

We race on a C & C SR 25.  RUCKUS.

What a blast.

Newport?  That's impressive.

[jaxtrader]

RUCKUS is at River City? That's close by... I'll stop by sometime and check her out. You were in Annapolis last year?

[sheclown]

No Ruckus is at the Rudder Club, on the hard.

Strider is docked at River City,  a S2 35 foot center cockpit.  We plan on doing some short cruising on her after we are done with Ruckus this spring.  We are taking Ruckus to Charleston, and then, putting up our racing gloves for the slower life of cruising.  Ruckus is a handful and we can hardly race without ending up covered with random bruises and aching muscles.  And soaking wet. 

We missed Annapolis this year, but we were there last year.  We sailed Strider down from Baltimore last October.  We love the boat show and go, usually, every other year. 

[sheclown]

We mostly sail on Mobile Bay and in the Gulf, as the family boat is docked in Fairhope.

I haven't raced in long time, but if someone's looking for crew, I'm well schooled (especially by my Chesapeake-raised, Navy-trained father who when at the helm the family "affectionately" calls Captain Bligh. He's so strict he'd make sheclown's cats meow "permission to come aboard." ).

JBD, I just KNEW there was something about you!