SCOUT sighting?

Figment · Post by **Figment** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:00 am

Saturday (the 7th?) afternoon, around 4:30 or 5:00, I'm 95% sure I saw SCOUT running east under jib and jigger, just off Hamonnasset point. Looking just glorious. How many dark-hulled Invicta-looking things can there be on the sound?

I was the green and white spinnaker that had just crossed 300yds ahead of you into Clinton harbor.

Post by **Tim** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:56 am

So where's the picture? Sheesh.

Figment · Post by **Figment** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:20 am

Yes, the onboard photocrew certainly dropped the ball on that one!
I let it slide, though, as we'd just doused the spinnaker into the companionway hatch, so finding the camera beneath that pile of nylon wasn't going to be a quick operation.

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:36 pm

Boy, that thread title sure had my hopes up for a photo.

Post by **Tim** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:41 pm

Figment wrote:...we'd just doused the spinnaker into the companionway hatch, so finding the camera beneath that pile of nylon wasn't going to be a quick operation.

Always with the excuses. ;<)

Scout · Post by **Scout** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:31 am

Gee Fig, just saw this...I'm not sure - that was 4 weeks ago!! Let's see, the first night we dropped anchor in Duck Island, so, it could have been, I guess. Sorry, but I don't remember the Spinny dousing. Wish you h ad hailed us, we always moniter 16. Sorry to have missed you.

Figment · Post by **Figment** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:37 pm

Well, I'm GLAD you don't recall the dousing of the spinnaker. I like to think I handle it well enough to not make a spectacle of the evolution! :)

Oh yeah, radio. Honestly I forget I even have one aboard 98% of the time. 5 demerits for me.

Scout · Post by **Scout** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:08 pm

RE radio, some how or another it is engrained (ingrained?) in both of us that the radio comes out and is turned on at the beginning of every day. Is your home port not Long Island, west of us? Purty far afield I'd say, must have been racing?

jollyboat · Post by **jollyboat** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:10 pm

Scout! - Hey wanna have lunch this weekend - will you be at the mooring?

Scout · Post by **Scout** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:34 am

Gee Grif, didn't see this till today. Would have plucked you on Saturday as we went by you....dang!

Evening sail? Like the old days? Only, with maturity?

jollyboat · Post by **jollyboat** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:36 pm

Only, with maturity? ! Oh, I am sorry - though I have aged a little a am still not mature - and hope I never am. Would very much love a ride on SCOUT - you guys have done a fanstastic job. How do you think you would fair in race against the lightest TRITON in Western LongIsland Sound?

Scout · Post by **Scout** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:07 am

Good question, it seems every boat of any size or rig is faster than us. It's an ongoing source of amusement (?)

But, hey, I'm game.

jollyboat · Post by **jollyboat** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:00 am

OK! Your on. I can't wait! The winner provides ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon beer upon return to our respected moorings. Close quarter yelling and screaming while racing is tollerated and the race committe will ignore all protests - blue blazers while racing are optional. you will only be allowed to use your engine if you are a full distance away from bouy to bouy and you have to turn it off once the compitition is sporting again.

Scout · Post by **Scout** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:16 am

Pabst? Does it still exist? Longnecks?

Go ahead and wear YOUR blazer, amuse me.

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