Hey everyone

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:32 am

How is everyone? Long time no talk.

Post by **Philip** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:02 pm

Hi, great to see you! All good here, still kicking

Going to a sailboat regatta on Thursday/Friday with a friend around St. Augustine, pretty stocked about it.

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:56 pm

Philip wrote:Hi, great to see you! All good here, still kicking
Going to a sailboat regatta on Thursday/Friday with a friend around St. Augustine, pretty stocked about it.

Glad to hear you are doing well. That sounds like fun.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:15 pm

What's up Roodster?

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:43 pm

Hey Roody

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:51 pm

Philip wrote: Going to a sailboat regatta on Thursday/Friday with a friend around St. Augustine, pretty stocked about it.

Good friend has always been into kayaking, ran into shoulder trouble after being attacking at work (mental health), surgery...

Bought a paddle kayak from our buddy, loves it. Mostly rivers and lagoons, occasionally the ocean right outside some natural harbors.

Anyway, he just bought and got installed a sail, outriggers, and new high tech peddle blades upgrade.

Maiden voyage yesterday and he had the time of his life!

Footage of him just sailing and gaining on his paddle kayak buddy fierce.

Maybe he'll have a sailboat sometime soon, but even this blew his mind with fun.

Post by **Philip** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:51 am

Sounds like fun, I know Hobie makes those sailing kayaks, but only watched a couple of promotional videos, haven't really seen one in action around here. I did rent some of those beach Hobie catamarans over the years, they're a lot of fun. I also used to windsurf a bit.

The regatta I am going to is called "St. Augustine Race Week", it has a number of different events for different class sailboats. It was postponed from last spring because of the pandemic. I am going to crew on a friend's 39' sailboat, we will be offshore doing triangles, two races per day for a couple of days, back in the marina evenings.

Sailboats can be a lot of fun, but owning a bigger one is a considerable commitment, you must have the time and will to use and maintain it.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:35 am

Fun stuff...I used to be an assistant sailing instructor at Mystic Seaport Museum...did quite a bit of sailing in my youth.

Oh..and wind surfing too...LOVED THAT!

Still love ripping around in Hobie Cats on good stiff breeze days...getting a pontoon up in the air good ...

St Auggie still on our list to visit. Considering if for our Oct trip, since....looks like Red Tide might be brewing up good on the gulf side already..and we have that "Piney Point" toxic run off that just happened inside Tampe Bay on the Brandenton side. So we might have to switch AMI over to the north east coast.

And then 6 weeks of snowbirding in January! Don Pedro Island for first 2 weeks, and renting a home in Rotonda West for the last 4x weeks.

Post by **Philip** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:13 pm

Haven't been down to the North Port area in many years, always seem to skip it and stop at Fort Myers/Naples. It must've changed a lot, the SW portion of FL has been growing last crazy over the past 20 years it seems.
St. Augustine is lovely in the fall, water is still warm in October, but nothing like the red tides on the West coast. Come on down!

Post by **Philip** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 3:11 pm

There are some pics of the St. Augustine Race Week (SARW) regatta, I was crewing on an O'Day 39 sailboat, sail #72, we were doing offshore performance non-spinnaker class. First day we had ~8' seas, 20+ knots of wind and we were short-handed, just me, my friend and his 13yo daughter, but we still placed well. Got 3rd place overall over 3 days, 6 races, had a great time.

https://ibb.co/album/Q9MXfJ

https://ibb.co/album/PDhVsw

fords8 · Post by **fords8** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:41 pm

Been a while for me as well. Good to see the site still going.

Post by **Philip** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 9:30 pm

fords8 wrote:Been a while for me as well. Good to see the site still going.

Welcome back, wow registered over 18 years ago

fords8 · Post by **fords8** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:51 pm

Philip wrote:Welcome back, wow registered over 18 years ago

Yup! And this is only post 96 too. I signed up because I was tweaking something from Comcast. The site helped me do it. ICQ and AIM in my profile. lol

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:16 am

Some cool pics Philip...looked like a great day to catch some wind!

Post by **Philip** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:56 am

fords8 wrote:Yup! And this is only post 96 too. I signed up because I was tweaking something from Comcast. The site helped me do it. ICQ and AIM in my profile. lol

Wow ICQ... my old UIN was 3834989, but I guess they were wiped. I Just removed it from my profile. I suppose people just migrated over the years from ICQ to MSN/Skype and now more modern stuff like Discord/WhatsApp/Viber.

fords8 · Post by **fords8** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 9:01 am

Philip wrote:Wow ICQ... my old UIN was 3834989, but I guess they were wiped. I Just removed it from my profile. I suppose people just migrated over the years from ICQ to MSN/Skype and now more modern stuff like Discord/WhatsApp/Viber.

ICQ is still around. Not sure how much people use it. I am going to remove mine as well since I don't use it. So what is the plan for the site these days? vB forever?

Post by **Philip** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 9:01 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Some cool pics Philip...looked like a great day to catch some wind!

Yeah, good times, it was interesting because we got scored over 3 days/6 races.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:24 am

I always wondered what happened to all those messaging app from way back then (ICQ etc). I can't even remember some of the program names. I do remember there was one program where you could consolidate all your messaging apps into one window and at the time I thought that was the greatest thing ever.

fords8 · Post by **fords8** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:38 am

Easto wrote:I do remember there was one program where you could consolidate all your messaging apps into one window and at the time I thought that was the greatest thing ever.

What was the program called? Trillian or something?

Post by **Philip** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:36 am

fords8 wrote:What was the program called? Trillian or something?

I was just about to post that, yeah I was using Trillian at some point. It had much cleaner interface than ICQ, and you could use it with the different messaging apps.

fords8 · Post by **fords8** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:41 am

Philip wrote:I was just about to post that, yeah I was using Trillian at some point. It had much cleaner interface than ICQ, and you could use it with the different messaging apps.

Cleaner and everything in one place. Liked it a lot. Now I use Discord and I really like Guilded.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:12 pm

Trillian. Wow, you guys really pulled that one out of a hat. I don't know if I would have ever remembered the name.

fords8 · Post by **fords8** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:33 pm

Easto wrote:Trillian. Wow, you guys really pulled that one out of a hat. I don't know if I would have ever remembered the name.

Yup! I got lucky to remember what it was call. hehe