[C320-list] They Say You Want A Resolution

[Jeff Hare]

Adam,

Outstanding!  We were lucky if we got out 15 times last season.  (I think it
was 15).  
We logged just under 1200 k-miles.  I almost went up river a mile or so to
try to flip it to 1200, but the weather stunk when we hauled out and we're
stuck at 1193 for the season.  (couldn't convince the yard manager to do a
few laps around the parking lot either).

Two of the trips were 10 days apiece,  so do I count them as 2 "sails" or 20
individual "sails"?  5 more of them were overnighters or weekend trips, same
question?

We did however, have (I think) 9 days worth of 10+hr legs.   Unfortunately,
since nearly 1/3 of that was either under motor, or motor-sailing, there's
got to be some disqualification on my part. :(   Heck, it's New England and
the wind simply looks at where you're headed on any given day and veers
around to be on the nose.

Merry New Year.
-Jeff


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:c320-list-bounces at catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Adam Weiner
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 2:27 PM
To: 'C320-List'
Cc: CraigEneboe at aol.com; straum_rpi at yahoo.com
Subject: [C320-list] They Say You Want A Resolution



A blessed, prosperous, and good sailing New Year to everyone (that
includes you Orlando) for 2008.

My resolutions:  Sail more and be less irritating on this list.  Now, I
won't discuss the latter, but since this is my last chance to be
irritating for 2007 I want to pose a question.  If I told you that KELE
sailed 52.3 miles more in 2007 then 2006 would that be considered
shattering the 2006 record? This mileage increase sounds pretty
shattering to me. My concern is that was only a 4.97% increase from 2006
which percentage wise doesn't sound very shattering.

So, the statistics from the KELE log book:

2007:	47 sails, 1105.5 nautical miles, 236.85 hours.  This is an
average 23.5 miles per sail and an average of just over five hours per
sail.

2008: Goal--50 sails, 1200 miles.

By the way, for you poor folks who have your boat winterized (and now I
will get really obnoxious) KELE was out of the dock eight times in
November and December 2007 sailing 236.7 miles (average of 29.6 miles
per sail) on those trips which is 21% of the year's mileage.

Oh yes, all miles are nautical and were GPS readings.

Finally, to be really obnoxious, all miles were done without a folding
prop and with no clue of the battery charger that was installed on the
boat when my wife bought it (the boat) for me.

Happy Non-Noxious New Year,

Adam