I'll answer to anything, especially Steve

[spaul]

I'm semi-retired in Nashville, IN. Wonder what Capt. Kurk was doing in Indianapolis, my home town?
Wife and I have boated all our lives and when I went sailing with a friend I had to have a change from power to sail. I found and rebuilt a 1941 Dunphy Condor (17' day sailer) from a  pile of sticks. Cooked ribs in the backyard and whole works. Then moved up (?) to a Southcoast 22. Moved on to a MacGregor 26 and now am the proud skipper of a CP27/2.
We live about 20 minutes from lake Monroe, Indiana where we slip our boat "IM PAUL SIVE" at the Lake Monroe Sailing Assoc. I was honored to be Commodore there 2 years ago. We have a Greyhound "Boo" short for "Boo's Hotsteppin" who raced for 2 years. She (Boo) won't go near the water or the dock so we leave her at home.
Vice Commodore Connie still works for Kimberly Clark Corp. and is keeping me in grand style. I spent 30 years with RCA, GE, and Thomson as Field Engineering Mgr. QC Mgr, etc. But now we go sailing with whom I wish and when I wish. Wonderful isn't it!
I love reading these forum notes and confirming that wonderful Americans out there haven't changed a bit from these crazy times.
Thanks for having this forum, I appreciate it fully.
Steve Paul
IM PAUL SIVE   CP27/2

see: www.lakemonroesailing.com

[CaptK]

Steve -

Short version of How I Wound Up In Indy  -

I used to make surfboards for a living. My best friend, who worked with me, got a job in Hawaii making boards up on the North Shore. After a few years, the summer before I was to return to my last year at college, he called me and offered me a job out there for the winter. Choices, choices... stay in SC, get a piece of paper which says I spent lots of time and money to do some learning, or move to Hawaii, and finish my larnin' at the School of Hard Knocks. I flew out in September.

A friend I knew from here (who was originally from Indy), called me and said her friend back home had won the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Indiana contest, and would be coming to Hawaii for the Miss HT National competition - did I want to meet her and get free tickets to the contest events? I don't even know why she bothered to ask...

Well, that Indy gal and I hit it off. We became really good friends, and eventually more. About a year later, after being back on the mainland for about 8 months, I moved up there. We dated for about 2.5 years, during which I lived and worked in Indy. It was a good experience overall, while there I worked in part for Fred Treadway (Treadway Racing/Arie Luyendyck), and so got to participate in the 500 as a bit of an "insider". Eventually that relationship went south, and when it did so did I, and came home again where I soon became a CP owner.

Never sailed on Lake Monroe, alhough I did do a bit of hiking and camping on the shores of it down in the Hoosier Nat'l Forest and the Deam Wilderness. I did get to sail on Eagle Creek Reservoir, my first ever lake sailing. Used to go over there on Wednesday nights for the "Beer Can Races". It was a lot of fun.

[Craig]

Steve,

I tried the link for Monroe sailing and got an error message.  Is the address right or is the server down?

Craig

[spaul]

CRAIG, I'm not sure about the server. Try a search for LMSA, there is more than one. We're in Indiana at Lake Monroe.
WWW.Lakemonroesailing.com should work.
I'll see if I can send a working link to your e-mail. Once there you can see a few photos of storm damage and good times. If  you're quick you can see my cp27 with a listing mast.
Steve

[Craig]

Steve,

Found the problem.  The complete address has to be:
http://www.lakemonroesailing.com/intro.htm

Which picture is your boat in?

Craig

CRAIG, I'm not sure about the server. Try a search for LMSA, there is more than one. We're in Indiana at Lake Monroe.
WWW.Lakemonroesailing.com should work.
I'll see if I can send a working link to your e-mail. Once there you can see a few photos of storm damage and good times. If  you're quick you can see my cp27 with a listing mast.
Steve

[CaptK]

Front row of boats, second from the right, in the Fenced Storage picture maybe?

The mouse-over map works with Mozilla Firefox browser, BTW.

[spaul]

Craig, the site link still works for me. Perhaps a search and try from that way. If you can't get in I'll ask our webmaster to check out why.
In the photo section of the home page go to photo's. I can be seen in #6 in the first row (last picture on right) and next to last photo in second row. Mast is leaning, bow sprit and rail is pulled completely vertical (with virtually no hull damage)!!
Please try:
www.lakemonroesailing.com

Steve

[Craig]

Steve,

http://www.lakemonroesailing.com still doesn't work.  I can get to pieces of it by typing in address extensions like /menu.htm and /photos.htm However, the photo section only produces a bunch of broken links.  I tried using a different browser (Explorer) and it still did not work.

Craig

[Craig]

Kurt,

Does Steve's link http://lakemonroesailing.com work for you?

Craig

Front row of boats, second from the right, in the Fenced Storage picture maybe?

The mouse-over map works with Mozilla Firefox browser, BTW.

[Craig]

Steve,

I tried Opera and it worked.  Not sure what is up with Safari (Netscape in disguise) and Explorer.  Saw your boat.  OUCH!  You are in another in the bottom row, picture #10 that shows your bowsprit pointing in the wrong direction.  OUCH!!

I have seen LMSA from the water.  In June we watched a bunch of kids out in small day sailors having a blast.  Looked like they came out of LMSA.  Do you have a member who owns a green Pacific Seacraft 25?  I believe it is called Ephesus.  If you do I talked with him last October.  Interesting character.

Craig

Steve,

http://www.lakemonroesailing.com still doesn't work.  I can get to pieces of it by typing in address extensions like /menu.htm and /photos.htm However, the photo section only produces a bunch of broken links.  I tried using a different browser (Explorer) and it still did not work.

Craig

[spaul]

Guys, I'm almost whole now thanks to Gerry Hutchins and a very nice insurance adjuster.
Waiting on the new bow rail and we're done. Lots of money there in whole.
We used to be on the Indiana University server but we have moved. This could be part of the problem. I think I'll mention this to our web guy and his wife. We want to  be visible if anyone is interested in our site.
We were pretty bummed for a few days after this happened but it's ok now. No-one was hurt and ours was less damaged than most. Remember it's only money. However, we only had one really good sailing day and one overnighter  before this happened.
Take a lesson from all of us with damaged boats, crap happens. Expect the worst and be ready for the best, the truth is usually somewhere in-between.

[CaptK]

Steve - Man! That sucks! What a bummer...  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:  I hope that you can get her fixed up and all better soon!!!

Craig - The site is coded oddly. When I first looked at it, using I think your first "fixed" link (/intro.html), I got the Tour page, but no menubar on the left. Going off of the later link one of you put in, the straight lakemonroesailing.com , I got to the page and it looked right - except the links to the pics and thumbnails on the Photo page are written incorrectly, like so:

http://lakemonroesailing.com/pics\tor04/p10.jpg  <- the backslash after "pics" should be a forward slash, like "/" . (Proper URL is: http://lakemonroesailing.com/pics/tor04/p10.jpg .)

This is using Mozilla Firefox browser. Using the Konqueror browser, I get 404 errors all over the place, and can't see *any* content at all. Both of these are W3C standards-compliant browsers, so I think it is something going on with the authoring tool being used to compose the pages. Kinda makes me think it was made with ms frontpage...

I'll link the photo's into this post, so others don't have to figure it out to see them. (Pretty handy feature, eh? ).

[spaul]

Thanks Kurt and Craig. I thought this might be a new design but seems no-one likes it. We're already back in the water and sailing just waiting on the bow rail. New mast and rigging, new pulpit is awesome. No damage below the rub rail and only cosmetic damage to the bow rail area. It's already fixed and looking forward to the rest of the season.
I should tell you the storm moved all the boats on the whole "A" dock and buckled the access ramp about 12' into the air. We have 12 or 16 anchors placed plus the weight of our largest boats and the concrete deck. Some power.
After all of this is said, I saw photo's of the hurricane damage to marinas in FL and feel very badly for those folks. Like I told friends at the club, we were lucky no-one was hurt. I suspect you're right about the web page. Should I speak with our guys to make this more user friendly?
Steve

[CaptK]

Wow, that was a powerful storm to do all that! You *are* lucky, I guess!

Steve - tell your guy(s) to read this thread, and here's a screenshot of what I see on the Photo's page of the website. See what I mean? They'd probably like to know about it.

Edit: BTW, this image is on the Gallery site, also, they can look at it there. (Man, I gotta say I am just tickled pink about how well this software works together to do stuff like this. )