Shhhhh!

[Rick Klages]

This is the quietest board I have ever belonged to.  What gives?

ick

[Paul]

Oh, I've been working on my sailboat, all the live long day.....I've been working on my sailboat, just to pass the time away.......Can't ya hear my grinder moanin', rise up early in the morn......Can't ya hear the captain shoutin', "COME HEAR AND THE THIS HONEY-DO LIST DONE!!!"

(Attempted to be sung to "I've been working on the railroad). 


Anyway, most folks probably just enjoying this beautiful day.  Hopefully on their boats.  I simply live vicariously through them when they post on the site.

Keep on posting!!  You'll get responses from folks other than me. 

[Glenn Basore]

Hi Paul,

Being here in Calif, I feel a bit distance from the other Com Pac owners but love to read all the different subject matters.

I was / am  a member of the Hunter Owner forum too and a couple of others as well and it seems they all have the same thing in common, slow periods, usually about this time of year Thur the opening season of next year, once the ice clears !

The other issue is, This forum as well as other is a great source of information for new owners who most like discover it by accident, some keep coming back to be a part of the forum while others just look for information for a specific need.

I really like the inter actions of the members, some are more out going and it is always nice to hear from others as well.

[B.Hart]

hI rick, I personally spend very little time on the computer, and this is the only forum I can keep up with. lol. I also try to fallow some JEEP sites but they seem to move at the speed of light. Com-pac owners are just a rare breed.   HAPPY SAILING    BILL

[Paul]

Glenn:

It's true.  Just a fact of forum life.

Bill:

I try to keep it down to three forums regarding sailing, this one included.  This is probably my most visited forum and the one I contribute to more often.  The others I read for information and fun, with rare contributions.  Actually, I used to just read this one, until I felt like I had something to contribute.  The others?

"Sailfar" for fun.  "Plastic Classics" for info.  I can't actively participate in the "Yahoo" Com-Pac forum, but do sometimes read it.  Occasionally, I'll see what's new at "The Sailboat Company."

I am interested in anything "Jeep" as I use a 1999 Cherokee Sport to trail my CP-16.  Feel free to link that site, as it may have some useful information for suspension and drivetrain issues I have.

Happy Trails....I mean sails. 

Paul

[B.Hart]

  Hi Paul,  I pull my cp16 with a 1989 JEEP wrangler. The JEEP has matching boot stripes and american flags as my 16. I don't know how to do the link thingy but JEEPforum.com has every thing about  JEEPS of all kinds. I also ghost over other sites.   HAPPY SAILING     BILL

[Paul]

Thanks!

Paul

[fafnir]

I also pull my Compac 16 with a Jeep Wrangler.  Seems to do the job well.  We just bought a Montgomery 17 (need more cabin room) and I think that is about the biggest boat our wrangler 4 cylinder will handle.  Thank God the trailer has brakes :-) Wife says we need to sell the Com_Pac but am having a hard time putting her up for sale.  How many boats is too many boats ?

[Glenn Basore]

Fafnir,

You will know some day when enough is enough.

over the last 25 years I have collected and restore antique cars, It was really hard to sell the first one off after putting so much into it, however selling them off when I felt like it just seem right at the time. I have one left and its up for sale,

I rather be sailing !

[Rick Klages]

This is still the quietest forum I have ever frequented. I need to go and find something else to do.  Time for a new hobby, knitting perhaps.  Later,

ick

[Bob23]

   I don't know if I could handle something so exciting as knitting. 
   Being self-employed, I have some other things to do besides hang around on the computer. So, I'm here when I'm here. Besides, "Koinonia" (1985 23/2) comes out tomorrow and so begins the winter ritual of upgrades, maintenance, cleaning, you get the picture.
   Up here in NJ, we've been enjoying one of the most colorful falls I can remember in recent years. It's still a time to be outside, weather's been great, I'll save the dark, winter days for being inside. Still, I'd rather read, do some writing, or learn celestial nav rather than spend more time here at the HAL 9000.
   Happy post-Thanksgiving to all, Bob23
   

[Rick Klages]

I work the night shift for the local County so I get to check in often. I have other things to do but they don't take much time while the world is awake.

ick

[Glenn Basore]

night shift as in 4 pm to 12 am or do you mean an early morning shift from 12 am to 8am, I worked them all including day shift, weekends and holidays .

In either case I've worked many of them an perfer pm shift over all of them including day shift.

Thats  when I worked for Los Angeles County, I retired from the county after 27 yrs 3 months 6 days only to find my self working again at a great job and boss

Sat around the house for about a year, had to find something to do :-(

I might pull the plug this June and retire for good, too much sailing to be done :-)

[Rick Klages]

11 pm to 7am, four on four off.

[multimedia_smith]

Hey Rick,
If you notice the times of a lot of my posts... I'm typically a night owl... I'm self employed and a media producer... The night shift allows me to get a good block of non-interrupted creative concentration.
I'm writing or editing video or designing museum exhibits... or just puttering.
The two advantages of this are: I get to spend the max time with my family... I'm with my daughter from the time she gets home from school 'till she goes to sleep... then I come down and work.
The other advantage is that I can go sailing on a Tuesday afternoon if the weather looks good.
Speaking of which... I've been sailing every week lately.... Friday we got a great front passing through with winds out of the north.  I live on the North Shore of Lake Ponchartrain, so this makes for ideal conditions here... plenty of power and practically no waves.  With my new loose footed heavy air main and the old standard 110 jib, I was at hull speed plus for hours and hours on a broad reach back and forth for miles and miles last week.  It was just the best... and the greatest thing is (for here) that it wasn't miserably hot and sticky like it usually is.  The week before that, I had two reefs in the main and the 60% storm jib up and was still making hull speed in a mannerly way in +25kts conditions.  Winter is prime sailing time for us here in the deep South... Summer's we usually crawl into an air conditioned cave or leave the area for a month or so.
Enjoy... and Best Regards
Dale