[C320-list] Commitment #867

[Joe M]

I hear you Chris.

Pass it along to the next owners to enjoy. That is exactly how we wound up
with ours 3 years ago.

Joe 2002 C320 hull #902

On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 1:48 PM Chris Burti <clburti at gmail.com> wrote:

> lol Joe, but to paraphrase the old saw, if the Admiral ain’t happy, nobody
> is happy 😆
>
> Best Regards,
> Chris Burti
>
>
> > On Dec 2, 2021, at 12:53 PM, Joe M <smith.blazer.72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You can use winches for the sails and they have a power winch handle
> these
> > days.
> >
> > Where there is a will, there is a way.
> >
> > Joe 2002 C320 hull #902
> >
> >> 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
> >>
>