[C320-list] Commitment #867

[Chris Burti]

Thanks Jeff

Best Regards,
Chris Burti


> On Dec 2, 2021, at 11:37 AM, Jerry's Iphone <jellyroll02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Chris. I’m glad you are staying on the forum. I have always appreciated your helpful responses and suggestions. We would surely miss you here. Thanks also for your service to the association. All the best in your next adventure. 
> 
> Jerry Sheets 
> JellyRoll 
> 
>> On Dec 2, 2021, at 11:00 AM, Allan Field <allanfield47 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Chris - Congrats on the sale of *Commitment*. And many thanks for
>> sharing your story with us. Linda and I also are realizing that we will
>> eventually be aging-out (I'll be 74 next week) of sailing and wonder what's
>> next. But most of all, I want to acknowledge your commitment (no pun
>> intended!) to the Association for so many years. It was a pleasure to serve
>> on the Association Board with you, to always value your wisdom and input,
>> and to know that what you put back in was so appreciated and always
>> spot-on. Best wishes always in your sailing retirement and may "what's
>> next" always "float your boat!"
>> 
>> Allan S. Field
>> Sea Shadow - C387, #103 (formerly C320, #808)
>> Columbia, MD
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 9:39 AM Chris Burti <clburti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Commitment has a new Owner, Richard Sloop. Hopefully, he will join the
>>> Association. I'll continue to stay on the forum for a while as we shop for
>>> a trawler.
>>> 
>>> For those wondering why...We loved Commitment, but last June we were
>>> crossing the Pamlico Sound with a forecast of SW winds at 16 -17 kn, which
>>> should have been a perfect reach to Ocracoke. Unsurprisingly, NOAA got it
>>> wrong. What was surprising was how wrong.
>>> 
>>> By the midway point, the winds had increased to the 20-25 kn range and by
>>> the time we reached the entrance channel into Ocracoke, they were steadily
>>> in the thirties with gusts into the mid forties..Needless to say, it was a
>>> fast and rough crossing. Preparing to go into Big Foot channel, it took all
>>> my strength in the big Lewmar's low speed to winch in the genoa (something
>>> I rarely do)  and we had to crab all the way up the channel to avoid being
>>> blown out of it into the shoals (another sailboat coming in 9 Foot channel
>>> was blown out of the channel and had to be pulled off by the USCG).
>>> 
>>> Our C-320's are great sailing boats and with the sails properly trimmed,
>>> they can handle far more than we can. As we were heading in crab style
>>> under WOT, I was thinking to myself: "This is the time a lot of less
>>> experienced sailors decide it is time to sell the boat". Sure enough, as
>>> soon as we were tied up at the dock and things were settling down, the
>>> Admiral shocked me by saying it was time to think about it. Well, the rest
>>> of the trip was great, good weather and good sailing, but the seed had been
>>> planted.
>>> 
>>> We are in our seventies, the Admiral is petite and I came to the
>>> inescapable conclusion that if i were incapacited in those conditions, she
>>> could not have gotten the sails in and in those winds, the engine would
>>> have been inadequate to overcome the sails, so rescue was improbable.
>>> 
>>> I'm not ready to limit my sailing to light wind days, a little daysailer is
>>> fine for that, and I ascribe to the wisdom of Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry
>>> where he observes that "A man has gotta know his limitations." The Admiral
>>> is capable at the helm and can get a powerboat to safety, we are not ready
>>> to give up being on the water, so ...stinkpots. here we come.
>>> 
>>> We've made a lot of friends, virtual and in person from this group over the
>>> years and wish everyone fair winds and following seas...
>>> 
>>> Fair winds
>>> Chris Burti
>>> Farmville, NC
>>>