You wrote on June 20th;
Glad to hear things are progressing, Randal. When does the voyaging begin?
TOMORROW! I guess I am now experiencing
what every great and not so great sailor has
experienced, the night before the first passage
on their own boat. I truly wonder if I will sleep
at all tonight for thinking of and rethinking of
the preparation and did I forget anything.
Ive subscribed to Buoyweather and have
looked at it almost every day since February but
not until the last few days have I looked and
felt the wind and waves so vividly because of our
upcoming passage.
Our plan is to leave Hong Kong tomorrow,
Saturday, around 2:00 PM and if my calculations
are right will arrive in Subic Bay PH on
Wednesday midmorning. After we get settled in I
will post something to the passagemaking list
about our voyage.
I attended the Chapmans School in
Florida last year for their nine week mariner
training course. I would have to dig out the
material but one of the boat handling captains I
came to admire very much. He was eighty years old
and had lost a step or two on land but when he
stepped on the deck of a boat was as graceful as
a swan. He had spent his life aboard boats as a
merchant marine. He also had written a book about
his father who was a WWII hero. I read it and
liked it.
Randal Johnson
Dora Mac
Diesel Duck 462-05
>You wrote on June 20th;
>Glad to hear things are progressing, Randal. When does the voyaging begin?
TOMORROW! I guess I am now experiencing
what every great and not so great sailor has
experienced, the night before the first passage
on their own boat. I truly wonder if I will sleep
at all tonight for thinking of and rethinking of
the preparation and did I forget anything.
Ive subscribed to Buoyweather and have
looked at it almost every day since February but
not until the last few days have I looked and
felt the wind and waves so vividly because of our
upcoming passage.
Our plan is to leave Hong Kong tomorrow,
Saturday, around 2:00 PM and if my calculations
are right will arrive in Subic Bay PH on
Wednesday midmorning. After we get settled in I
will post something to the passagemaking list
about our voyage.
I attended the Chapmans School in
Florida last year for their nine week mariner
training course. I would have to dig out the
material but one of the boat handling captains I
came to admire very much. He was eighty years old
and had lost a step or two on land but when he
stepped on the deck of a boat was as graceful as
a swan. He had spent his life aboard boats as a
merchant marine. He also had written a book about
his father who was a WWII hero. I read it and
liked it.
Randal Johnson
Dora Mac
Diesel Duck 462-05
