View Poll Results: Have you sailed on the open ocean?

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  • Yes! On a large sailing vessel

    13 30.95%
  • Yes, but on a small craft or dinghy

    10 23.81%
  • Well, it didn’t have sails...

    6 14.29%
  • Sailing vessel but it was on a lake, river, or inlet.

    9 21.43%
  • Hey, I was on a cruise ship. Does that count?

    3 7.14%
  • Surf’s up! Surf board, paddle board, kayak.

    0 0%
  • I waded into the water.

    1 2.38%
  • I got my toes wet.

    0 0%
  • Lubber.

    0 0%
  • Lubber. But I did polish up the handles on the big fromtdoor!

    0 0%
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Thread: Have you actually been on the open ocean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DeRuyter View Post
    Nice shot. I was onboard for the Tall Ships 2000 in New York and we sailed up the Hudson, well briefly just to the GW and back for a ship parade.
    That's great! I had no idea how close we came to meeting 20 years ago. That same week, Suzanne and I were sailing our first cruising sailboat up to Connecticut to rendezvous with the OpSail fleet. We crossed paths with the fleet on the Chesapeake and New York harbor. I was a professional juggler and that was one of my last major gigs before switching over to working on sailboats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dobbs View Post
    That's great! I had no idea how close we came to meeting 20 years ago. That same week, Suzanne and I were sailing our first cruising sailboat up to Connecticut to rendezvous with the OpSail fleet. We crossed paths with the fleet on the Chesapeake and New York harbor. I was a professional juggler and that was one of my last major gigs before switching over to working on sailboats.
    Hey Dobbs,
    I know a couple of accountants who might qualify for the title "professional juggler".. Perchance you weren't a Flying Kamarazov Brother were you?
    Bill

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    Stuff that doesn’t count...

    US Carrier USS SYLVANIA Naples 1969
    Assorted ferries
    HMS Victory
    HMS Belfast
    Cutty Sark
    Island trips off Cyprus/Portugal/Mallorca


    Stuff that might count..

    Sailing ship in the Adriatic visiting islands off a Croatia
    Sea kayaking off Dubrovnik
    Crewing a Viking ship up Roskilde fjord
    Never knowingly undergunned

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    Reminds me about the woman who spent a month as a stow away on the Isle of Wight Ferry.

    Rob.
    The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rafer J Larwood View Post
    Stuff that doesn’t count...

    US Carrier USS SYLVANIA Naples 1969
    Assorted ferries
    HMS Victory
    HMS Belfast
    Cutty Sark
    Island trips off Cyprus/Portugal/Mallorca


    Stuff that might count..

    Sailing ship in the Adriatic visiting islands off a Croatia
    Sea kayaking off Dubrovnik
    Crewing a Viking ship up Roskilde fjord
    Many decades ago (1970s) I visited Roskilde fjord and the Viking museum there -- it was so very cool then...I presume it has gotten even cooler now!

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