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you cant be serious, there is no way to know since they come and go, and give it up. That was years ago and its a moot point. Get on with life and forget it now.

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My family and I moved to Utah about a year ago. I lived in Orange County my entire life, and when the real estate market there went to hell we decided to move to Salt Lake City. I was onboard with the move trying to make the best of the situation. After living here for a year I still have no friends, nothing to do, we are surrounded by mormons (no offense), and the school I am at is horrible. My main interested are paintball, and sailing. There is no place to sail here and all the paintball parks are an hour away and close for 8 months during the winter. I finally have a car and can drive myself places but there is no place to drive. I compromised to move to Utah, then I said I didn’t like it here my parents said do a semester and we will move you back, I did two semesters, they also promised before we moved to go to California in the summer (didn’t happen), know I am starting my junior year and have compromised again.
What should I do? I can’t handle two more more years?
I know my parents are struggling finacial, but they own two houses and four cars, and it no an unrealistic option except that would split up our family if I left.
They are also being very forthright and honest.

Don’t let it drag you down! Your parents sound like they are struggling financially right now. I think they can’t deal with telling you outright that you are not going back. I would straight up ask them. My parents always did this to me when I was younger and I started to resent the fact that I felt they weren’t being honest with me.

I live in OC now (have all of my long life) and I could not imagine that transition.

Can you graduate from high school early and emancipate yourself? Its a radical move, but if you have friends and family here in OC they may be able to help you.

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We want to relocate to Lima Peru,but cannot fly there,is there cruises/boats that actually sail there? is it more expensive that planes?

Lima’s port is called El Callao and many cruise ships dock every year there (Royal Caribbean, Princess, Norwegian). However, you can get a plane ticket from LA to Lima for just 300 dollars (Taca, Copa, Lan, American). If you are afraid of flying then yes, by all means go sailing but the least expensive crusie will cost you more than 2,000 dollars….

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That’s pretty much the whole question?

long enough for you to become crazy
it is about one month, i believe if you only replied on wind power

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If you have to ask——-DON’T GO!

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My boyfriend and I plan to go to Hawaii during mid-October for a 4-days trip. I’ve done a lot of researches yet I can’t decide which island I should go to. We are looking for a somewhat romantic trip that doesn’t include much sightseeing. We prefer being active at outdoor activities such as diving, snorkeling, laying/swimming near the beach, sailing… etc. So far I’ve come down to Big Island, Maui, and Oahu. Can you please give me some advice on which island I should pick and recommend me some activies that I definitely cannot miss? Also, if possible, let me know which hotel comes with a beach that we can actually swim. I gotta have this trip plan out as soon as possible, please help~~!!

That’s a huge question, and would require a huge answer. And depends on a lot of things like your interests and budget.

That said, here’s what our family and friends do before they come to visit. We built a web page with the best links and things to do in Hawaii, rated and reviewed. That way they could look BEFORE they got here and see what they want to do. Our 4-star rated items may be a good place to start for those "don’t miss" things.

Our family’s going to Kauai next…that island’s famous for not having much nightlife and the like, but is gorgeous and romantic. Of course there’s beach access and water activities like you mentioned. If you go to Maui, our web page has a link to a page that shows aerial pictures of the island’s resorts, so you can see them before you go. If you go to Oahu, and money’s no problem…since you want to get off the beaten path…consider Ko Olina resort. Four wonderful lagoons, but close enough to Honolulu that you can get there and back for dinner and other activities. Also look at Turtle Bay on the North Shore. Definitely remote, and while it does have nice beaches of it’s own, it’s also close to the other North Shore beaches.

The page is at http://home.hawaii.rr.com/gonebananas. Could go into a longer answer here, but with all the work we put into that page, well, you’ll see…it will answer your questions.

Aloha
HarleyDog

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I’m looking for some non-fiction sailing books about cruising on a sailboat. Please remember non-fiction means they are true and not made up. Sail, sailboat, cruising, travel.

Oh my … I wish I was in my own house right now because I could go to my bookshelf and give you a list. Unfortunately I am on the road …. and I can rarely remember names of books or even authors … I read a lot.

The one I have with me and am reading right now is By the Grace of the Sea by Patricia (Pat) Henry. It is about her solo sailing odyssey around the world when she was in her 50′s. It is a good book.

There are so many others. If you live close to a marine store such as West Marine go in and browse through their book selection and you will find many others.

There are a couple of books with the words "Women Aboard" in the titles. They make good reading and give a lot of ideas about cruising.

Another book is called something like "Your Home Afloat". It is an older book, but still good with many good ideas.

Look for Nigel Calder’s books for repair and maintenance ideas.

Chapman Piloting and Seamanship is a must for all crusiers. The most recent edition is of course always the best one to have, but it is usually very expensive. You can often find an older edition for much less.

Browse second hand bookstores in areas where there are marinas and live aboards and most likely you will find a few good books. If you are in an area where there is a marina there is often a "free table" somewhere and you can sometimes find good books there.

I hope that someday on a bookshelf somewhere you will find a really good book by me about the real life adventures my husband and I had while living aboard and cruising.

Enjoy your travels, whether they be real ones or vicarious ones. Here are a few good links.

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Well, the basic rhyme scheme and meter is iambic pentameter:
ABABABCC for sailing to Byzantium.

What is the effect of the meter and rhyme scheme on this poem?

Actually, this is an unbelievable poem. The rhyme scheme is something called ottava rima, which was popular among low comics in Italy who would make up silly poems on the spot– it is much easier to rhyme in Italian. Byron brought the rhyme scheme into English in his epic poem Don Juan, which has perhaps 2500 of these octaves. It is quite difficult to find three rhymes in English, and part of the persistent joke is the poet’s struggle to find rhymes– for example, once he hyphenates a word across lines to make a middle syllable rhyme, and he repeatedly mispronounces foreign words, and peoples’ names, to make fun of them.

It is actually surprisingly difficult to write serious ottava rima– Yeats is perhaps the only poem to write a famous serious poem in this scheme. The main effect is actually the inobtrusiveness of the triple rhyme, which is an explicit challenge to Lord Byron. It turns out the effect, when not obtrusive, is beautifully sonorous.

I hope this helps.

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http://www.docklandsailingschool.com.au/prices.html

http://www.docklandsailingschool.com.au/prices.html

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/29/1103996612238.html?oneclick=true

I’d check out any sailing clubs – they often have clunkers you can use to get a taste of a class for an afternoon or two.

good luck.

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A small boat leaves an island and sails due north for 3 hours at 28 km per hour, then it travels due east for an hour at the same speed before running aground. If a rescue ship sails from the island, how long will it take to reach the boat if it travels at 20 km per hour?

This is a Pythagorean theorem problem.

d_north = 28 km/hr * 3hr = 84 km
d_east = 28 km/hr * 1hr = 28 km

d_pythagorean = (84²+28²)^0.5 = 88.5 km

Assume the rescue boat sails straight to the grounded craft.

t = 88.5 km/20 km/hr = 4.43 hr

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I’m a photojournalist travelling back from Hawaii aboard a 70′ Santa Cruz racing yacht and need to know what I should wear. Any advice on the crossing would also be helpful. Thanks.

Be prepared for any weather. Have a set of foulies. Wear a hat for sun protection. Take sun lotion. Have white outer clothing for sun protection. Layers of clothes are what keeps you warm. It is summer but it can get cold., especially with being wet with wind. Have sneakers. and socks. even if you are barefoot most of the time. Take comfortable clothes. Have fun.

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will having twice the weight damage the decking for whatever in a laser standard one man boat

No, you won’t damage the boat. I once fit five 12 year old boys in a laser, so, I think two adults will be fine, it will just be a little squished.

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I have a laser sailing dinghy and I have realized that the radial is too powerfull, I have looked around and I thought that you had the same bottom section through all of the rigs and just changed the top section of the mast so it’s confusing when the laser website is selling the "4.7 rig" with a bottom section but not a top :S HELP
*** WHAT TOP SECTION MAST DO I NEED ? THE RADIAL OR STANDARD ? ***

The 4.7 rig uses a smaller lower mast section. So basically to move down to a 4.7 rig, you need the 4.7 sail and a 4.7 lower mast section.

The alternative if you want to keep the full rig for light winds and just reef for heavy winds it to take out the top batten and give a turn or two around the mast with the sail. This is only useful if you’re a recreational sailor though as it will not reduce your PY number if racing. It also would give less performance than a smaller sail as it gives a less effective sail shape.

Hope this helps

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I really really wanna go to this school.
but i live in California =/
any other schools like that in cali?

What do you want to go to school for? I know a LOT of people who went to Full Sail, and it is a TERRIBLE school with a bad reputation for almost every department. The job placement is horrible, and no one in the professional industry respects a degree from Full Sail.

Full Sail offers arts and arts industry degrees almost exclusively. How can you possibly live in California and not know of any arts colleges?

Look at CalArts, USC, and UCLA. San Fransisco Art Academy is worth looking at, if nothing else.

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Yacht
Pontoon
Raft

My friend has wild fantasies.

A month or more, depending on the weather, time year, etc. Doubt you would get there on a raft or pontoon.

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