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walt
05-25-2012
04:46 PM AZ (US)
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High winds, warm temps, lots of campers in the Colorado mountains = forest fire danger.
"the lake innundated with memorial day revelers.from CA." Look on the bright side, the folks visiting lake Havasu this weekend cant start the lake or the desert on fire.
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dauntless  05-25-2012
04:24 PM AZ (US)
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Gary and Liz,
Few boats tug at my heart strings like the Montgomery 23...which is why I sail one. But some friends of ours had a Beneteau First 26, the big sister to "Resolute", and it too was a boat that I fell in love with. What a fantastic looking and sailing boat it was. I know "Resolute" is going to be "that" boat for you guys!! She is a super looking boat and I know she is going to sail like a shot! Awesome!
I looked up synonyms to "Resolute" and found this:
Synonyms
1. firm, steadfast, fixed. See earnest1 . 2. unwavering, undaunted.
and when I looked up "Dauntless" I found this:
Synonyms
1. undaunted, daring, indomitable, brave, courageous.
Sweet! Dauntless and Resolute are related!!! I can't wait till they meet. Seems they share the same personality traits!!!!! :-)
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Eldor
05-25-2012
04:06 PM AZ (US)
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Winds in north central Texas are only in thr 30mph range temps , mid 90's F
Mnb
Has anyone stuck their finger in the hole in the Lake Hattie dam and do you have enough snow melt
so we can launch Motu iti? Sure would hate to trailer her up there and not be able to launch.
Won't leave here until Aug but keep os informed
Eldor
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Resolute Gary and Liz
05-25-2012
04:05 PM AZ (US)
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Resolute launched yesterday evening at Boyd Lake put on a mooring. Only took two plus hours set and launch for the first time.
Sean the a-frame mast raising gizmo you advised me worked great. Only tough part was getting the mast at a high enough angle to pin the mast. The mast is much lower than the cabin top. I made a telescoping mast crutch out of aluminum tubing and an old trailer winch to get the mast at the proper angle.
The easiest part of the launch was the strap launch which was mine and Liz biggest concern. We needed all thirty feet of the 40,000 Lbs rated strap to float Resolute off the trailer, just got a little bit of the rear tires on the Xterra wet. Strap launch method worked like a charm had some power boaters wondering what we were doing then they were amazed.
Bruce and Shirley, Liz’s parents showed up Bruce helped and Shirley supervised she also brought home baked cookies peanut butter or oatmeal, I had one of each. I believe cookies are a food group.
Shirley took the photo.
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keithbennett 05-25-2012
03:54 PM AZ (US)
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Gonna have to be quick tomorrow with the reefs - 15:00 hrs; 6mph gusting to 61!!
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dauntless
05-25-2012
03:34 PM AZ (US)
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It must be cool up there. Are temps have dropped 2012 degrees in two days and the wind is howling. Unfotunately, the lake innundated with memorial day revelers.from CA. No room for locals out there especially in a sailboat. Cmon November!
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Metes No Bounds
05-25-2012
02:24 PM AZ (US)
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Doug,
Same deal here but 30 degrees cooler. Ugh
And we had snow off and on this week too. This is just wrong!
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dauntless 05-25-2012
01:26 PM AZ (US)
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50....HA! That's for whimps!! ;-) Edited 05-25-2012 01:29 PM
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dauntless 05-25-2012
01:24 PM AZ (US)
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no lie....that could be a whole new market for them....and they could pay some dork and his pet polar bear to travel the country preaching it!!!
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Larry
05-25-2012
01:23 PM AZ (US)
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75 mph?! Holy Knockdown, Batman!
Blustery up here in the inland northwest today, but we're only seeing gusts to 50.
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paintboy
05-25-2012
01:17 PM AZ (US)
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Hey caretaker de dauntless (AKA-Bud), nice trick photography on the portlights, you are making a little kick back from 3M ? If not you should be..Send them that pic..
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dauntless 05-25-2012
12:02 PM AZ (US)
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Doug and Katie..
75mph!!! Yikes!!!! Batten down the hatches. That's damn near Hurricane strength!!!!
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dauntless 05-25-2012
11:58 AM AZ (US)
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After about 20minutes of work with the leftovers of the headlight restore kit.....we now have this: See above
I'm liking this! The kit is $20 and I should be able to do 3 ports per kit. So ...$40 and I will have transparent ports again rather than the hundreds of dollars to replace them!!! Woohooo!
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dauntless 05-25-2012
11:55 AM AZ (US)
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Hey Gang...back from the doughnut shop...
I got a little sidetracked on project this morning that I was thinking about the whole 48 hours at work.
The other day I decided that the Land yachts headlights were just too yellow and needed to be replaced. I had tried a "restore" kit on them before with very little noticeable success. But,,..I was stumbling through Wally World and saw a different "restore" kit made by 3M. It included a pad with a mandrel to use in the drill instead of sanding an buffing by hand. I decided to give it a try. WOW! I am telling you I could not believe the results. Incredible. My headlights literally look like new.
hmmmmmm..........
Dauntless has 6 large opening ports that are made by Grey Marine. They are polycarbonate and the sun has worked her magic on them over the years rendering them opaque. This really detracts from Dauntless' appearance and limits the light getting inside. It also prevents looking though the ports at all as you can only see shapes and shadows through them. Sooooo....I thought....I got some of this headlight kit left....let's see what happens. After all...they are opaque at this point...they cant be made any worse....this is the port looked like when trying to view through it.
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Albert Fischer
05-25-2012
11:15 AM AZ (US)
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Doug and Katie, are you guys trying to round Cape Horn? :) Edited 05-25-2012 11:15 AM
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Doug and Katie
05-25-2012
05:30 AM AZ (US)
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It looks like Shadowfax is going to have to wait a couple of days to see the water. Winds gusting to 75 MPH tomorrow is a bit much! Add to that an overnight low of 28 on Sunday night. We are thinking Monday we might take her up, rig her and get her into the slip. Maybe a quick afternoon sail if things settle down.
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