[C320-list] Commitment #867

[Chris Burti]

Thanks Pat
Chris Burti
Farmville, NC



On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 2:26 PM pat reynolds <lorasalum at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  Best of luck to you and yours. Sorry to see all you youngsters leaving.
> Enjoy and don't make waves
>      On Thursday, December 2, 2021, 12:44:43 PM CST, Chris Burti <
> clburti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Thanks for the kind words Jerry
>
> 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
> >>>
>
>