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#126
hog88 said:
How big a boat you skipper? I've done a little sailing on a 25 or so footer and thoroughly enjoyed it but living in TN a sailboat just isn't practical.
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I'm just a deck ape on a Hobie 33 on Wednesday nights.
 
#127
#127
Septic said:
Cool, I sail as often as time permits. Heading back to the Caribbean next month with the fam for a week in the Sir Francis Drake channel.

My kids sail competitively and are going to be responsible for keeping my glass and main sail full.
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I really want to do that but the missus has zero interest.
 
#128
#128
hog88 said:
You renting? If so what company do you use?
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I've bareboated with the Moorings the last few times but am using Sunsail this go round. It's the same Caine and Robertson cats but just a little older (by a couple of years) but moderately less expensive. Typically have to go with 40± footers because they have generators and the ladies like the A/C.

I'd really like to find a rental that has a watermaker. I think MarineMax has those.
 
#130
#130
Septic said:
I've bareboated with the Moorings the last few times but am using Sunsail this go round. It's the same Caine and Robertson cats but just a little older (by a couple of years) but moderately less expensive. Typically have to go with 40± footers because they have generators and the ladies like the A/C.

I'd really like to find a rental that has a watermaker. I think MarineMax has those.
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I've been looking at MarineMax since they have power cats. Problem I'm having is getting enough people committed to help foot the bill. Probably will end up just being the wife and me but we're going to do it within the next few years.
 
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#131
#131
hog88 said:
That's all I've ever been, I learned that there is a lot I'd have to learn to skipper a sailboat.
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I can do it, but since it is not my boat I would not be very aggressive for fear of hitting somebody at the start line. Therefore we would lose. I'd rather just tell the captain to **** off when he complains about the foredeck crew. :):crazy:
 
#132
#132
hog88 said:
I've been looking at MarineMax since they have power cats. Problem I'm having is getting enough people committed to help foot the bill. Probably will end up just being the wife and me but we're going to do it within the next few years.
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Keep me in mind.
 
#135
#135
hog88 said:
I've been looking at MarineMax since they have power cats. Problem I'm having is getting enough people committed to help foot the bill. Probably will end up just being the wife and me but we're going to do it within the next few years.
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Yeah, it can get expensive especially when you factor in getting there. Since I'm taking the family we're going off peak season which relaxes the rates a bit. I like it because you avoid crowds but you have to keep an eye on the weather since storms tend to sweep that area on there way West.

The power cats are very nice with MarineMax, if you do happen to do that. I'd like to hear your experience.
 
#136
#136
Septic said:
Yeah, it can get expensive especially when you factor in getting there. Since I'm taking the family we're going off peak season which relaxes the rates a bit. I like it because you avoid crowds but you have to keep an eye on the weather since storms tend to sweep that area on there way West.

The power cats are very nice with MarineMax, if you do happen to do that. I'd like to hear your experience.
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It might be a couple years but we're doing it.
 
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#139
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#142
Sad stuff. My airspace is above MQY, and they had their TFR set up to practice right as I was leaving work.
 
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#144
Man the news just sucks on this. Any word on the pilot? "One person killed" Who the **** was it?
 
#146
#146
hog88 said:
Engrish please.
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Sorry...

MQY= Smyrna Airport. Blue Angels are part of an air show there this weekend. Smyrna generally hosts airs shows in the Nashville area.

TFR= Temporary Flight Restriction. A temporary restiction placed over a certain area (could be an airport/stadium/building VIP is in) that restricts any civil aviation aircraft from flying through that area. In this case a TFR is created around and above the airport while the Blue Angels are practicing, to prevent any other planes from flying into or close to that airport while the team is performing.
 
#147
#147
ATC_VOL said:
Sorry...

MQY= Smyrna Airport. Blue Angels are part of an air show there this weekend. Smyrna generally hosts airs shows in the Nashville area.

TFR= Temporary Flight Restriction. A temporary restiction placed over a certain area (could be an airport/stadium/building VIP is in) that restricts any civil aviation aircraft from flying through that area. In this case a TFR is created around and above the airport while the Blue Angels are practicing, to prevent any other planes from flying into or close to that airport while the team is performing.
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Thanks
 
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#150
#150
SpaceCoastVol said:
The only thing I will say about this is that to be the nirvana that these things are being made to be there will have to be a ton of infrastructure as well. You even said so yourself above. Meanwhile we have bridges that are becoming critically unstable all over the country and $19,000,000,000,000.00 in debt. It's coming, I don't deny that, but not tomorrow or next weekend. When 'pilotless' airplanes become reality - and I think someday they probably will - your scenario is probably right as well. One dud in his jammies operating multiple flights. I guess when #2 fails over the ocean it just isn't those people's night, but those will be exceptionally rare events. ;)
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I wrote "loosing". Doh!!!

The pilots will be in their jammies, but the airlines will have somebody on board to monitor things and push a button now and then. They won't call them pilots though so that their pay will be a fraction of a pilot's.

The technology is there now, but the politics and acceptance by the traveling public will be the more difficult obstacles.

As far as driver-less autos, that seems to be advancing pretty quickly. I suspect that Uber, Apple, Google, Amazon, Telsa and the auto manufacturers will be the companies owning the space... starting out as rides for hire in the high tech areas like Austin and the west coast. New York will be interesting with their taxi licenses (medallions) that approached $1,000,000 each before crashing in value the last few years.

It's funny how technology can advance really rapidly and then seemingly stagnate. Several years ago the technology was developed to swallow a tiny camera in order to get pics of your innards instead of snaking a camera down your throat or up your... But now you never hear about those things. Too many scopes to pay for in current medical practices maybe. Or patents, the Government, and lawyers are holding up the technology from becoming common.
 
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