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i was wondering due to my lack in skill of researching is it possible and has it been accomplished to sail a laser 2 regatta sailing dinghy across the english channel. how long would this take? and what kind of power boat support is avalible to help accumplish this?

If people can swim it, sailing it (conditions permitting) isn’t a big deal at all. The time it would take depends on how fast you want to go, and you’d have to provide your own power boat support.

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I want to buy some cheap boat and pack it with a tent, and some small belongings and row it to the Gulf of Mexico, or perhaps take it by rivers to California, or in that direction. Is it possible, leagally or not?

If you want to do a combination of rivers an ocean you can do what many of us full-time cruisers do called the "the loop".
Start in New England in spring come down the east coast around Key West then up the Fla golf coast up the Mississippi river thru the Great Lakes then take the canal back to the east coast. It may take you a year or longer if you are going to row. I dont recommend a cheap boat unless you build it yourself.
Read the "Adventures of Serrafin" by Lin and Larry Purdy.
You dont have to listen to all the naysayers who post here because they dont know what they are talking about and have never done anything adventurous anyway.
People have rowed across the Atlantic alone why cant you row around the USA?

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California is the best state in America with an economy bigger than entire nations

California has natural organic farms, wines, fruits, nuts, openminded hippies, wind generators, desert, beach, redwoods, mountains, snowcaps, palm trees, GOLD, celebrities, communes, revolutionaries, HISTORY as in (73 men sailed out to the San Francisco Bay), and UC Berkeley.

California has local flavor, it has Hollywood intellectuals, it has Silicon Valley Entreprenuers, it has great free-thinking politicians, and magnificent weather and great welfare services for the poor and activism.

And you mean to tell me with all THIS, California should sacrifice all this greatness just so a few greedy businesses can get a tax break???

Heck no! California should raise taxes higher than ever to reimburse Sacramento for the money lost to the state from this recession.

California’s economic future can’t possibly fail because the spirit of California is too strong. However, rich people and Conservatives can make fortunes by moving out to California and making money off the real estate recovery (JUST LIKE THEY made fortunes off of buying up Haight Ashbury and spiking up the property values in San Francisco).
and why is greedy rich Forbes magazine so pessimistic about the economic recovery in coastal California??? Such heartless greed.

I’ll tell you something else. Governor Gray Davis has an unfinished vision for a great eco-friendly California and nobody ever realized it
I kind of hope they don’t move to Cali because California is a Liberal paradise where you can grow raisins and grapes and apples in your own backyard all year and not have to work for a corporation
IF corporations leave California? Then Haight Ashbury would turn hippie again…it’s natural richness.

California is a Liberal haven because in California, welfare comes from mother earth and not from rich people, therefore it doesn’t need corporations to be rich

Wait until you start making enough money to get nailed by California’s income tax rates and you will know why conservatitives do not want to invest in California.

I live in California and just went up a couple of tax brackets.

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I went on a catamaran in Hawaii this weekend and the captain sailed to a spot filled with lots of black fishes (with one blue stripe). I was amazed to see him feeding them Captain Crunch cereal and I wondered to myself, is that healthy for fish? They absolutely went crazy for cereal, but is this really a good idea?

As bait to attract a school of fish for the tourists it probably does little harm.

As a staple diet for your own fish.. I suspect it would be bit lacking.

Ian

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I was elated this music business is tough at my age been away 20 years just wanted to raise children live an hawaii and sail .. anyway i wanted to download my song .. I have att but my site song was on every phone … then volia! gone … I do not care if its free or I pay .. need help to find it again and download thanks yahoo answers an the great biig blue marble the world thanks to anyone! CAOS

Check this site, it has the excerpt of a song title which seems to be the one you are looking for. And they are selling it too: http://hypochondriacamerica.com/home

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i am a 13 year old girl and my family bought a big 42 foot sail boat. and we also have a dinghy boat. (a small boat so we dont have to drive the sail boat everywhere.) and i was wondering do you have to have a lincese to drive the dinghy. i wont be taking it anywhere but just driveing it around in an open area. i was wondering if that is okay. or do i have to have a lincese?

Yes, absolutely. And 13 is also more than old enough to start learning the ropes on the 42′.

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My mate and i have been wanting to build a boat for a while now and want a boat that a 13 year old can make for really cheap. We want one that can go out on the bay and be stable. We just want it for fishing, recreational sailing and just lazying out on the bay. All we want is a boat that we can make in the christmas holidays that wont take long and is cheap. So if anyone has any designs or plans (step by step instructions would be handy) that you think we will be interested in please send then to us.

Go here: http://www.clcboats.com/assembling.php

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It is my understanding that the United States of America has an unstoppable military force. It is widely accepted by military experts around the world that the U.S could literqally defeat the entire world at war with one hand tied behind its back.
Stealth drones, G.P.S.-guided smart munitions that hit precisely where aimed; antitank bombs that guide themselves; space-relayed data links that allow individual squad leaders to know exactly where American and opposition forces are during battle — the United States military rolled out all this advanced technology, and more, in its lightning conquest of Iraq. No other military is even close to the United States. The American military is now the strongest the world has ever known, both in absolute terms and relative to other nations; stronger than the Wehrmacht in 1940, stronger than the legions at the height of Roman power. For years to come, no other nation is likely even to try to rival American might.

Which means: the global arms race is over, with the United States the undisputed heavyweight champion. Other nations are not even trying to match American armed force, because they are so far behind they have no chance of catching up. The great-powers arms race, in progress for centuries, has ended with the rest of the world conceding triumph to the United States.

Now only a nuclear state, like, perhaps, North Korea, has any military leverage against the winner.

Paradoxically, the runaway American victory in the conventional arms race might inspire a new round of proliferation of atomic weapons. With no hope of matching the United States plane for plane, more countries may seek atomic weapons to gain deterrence.

North Korea might have been moved last week to declare that it has an atomic bomb by the knowledge that it has no hope of resisting American conventional power. If it becomes generally believed that possession of even a few nuclear munitions is enough to render North Korea immune from American military force, other nations — Iran is an obvious next candidate — may place renewed emphasis on building them.

For the extent of American military superiority has become almost impossible to overstate. The United States sent five of its nine supercarrier battle groups to the region for the Iraq assault. A tenth Nimitz-class supercarrier is under construction. No other nation possesses so much as one supercarrier, let alone nine battle groups ringed by cruisers and guarded by nuclear submarines.

Russia has one modern aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, but it has about half the tonnage of an American supercarrier, and has such a poor record that it rarely leaves port. The former Soviet navy did preliminary work on a supercarrier, but abandoned the project in 1992. Britain and France have a few small aircraft carriers. China decided against building one last year.

Any attempt to build a fleet that threatens the Pentagon’s would be pointless, after all, because if another nation fielded a threatening vessel, American attack submarines would simply sink it in the first five minutes of any conflict. (The new Seawolf-class nuclear-powered submarine is essentially the futuristic supersub of "The Hunt for Red October" made real.) Knowing this, all other nations have conceded the seas to the United States, a reason American forces can sail anywhere without interference. The naval arms race — a principal aspect of great-power politics for centuries — is over.

United States air power is undisputed as well, with more advanced fighters and bombers than those of all other nations combined. The United States possesses three stealth aircraft (the B-1 and B-2 bombers and the F-117 fighter) with two more (the F-22 and F-35 fighters) developed and awaiting production funds. No other nation even has a stealth aircraft on the drawing board. A few nations have small numbers of heavy bombers; the United States has entire wings of heavy bombers.

No other nation maintains an aerial tanker fleet similar to that of the United States; owing to tankers, American bombers can operate anywhere in the world. No other nation has anything like the American AWACS plane, which provides exceptionally detailed radar images of the sky above battles, or the newer JSTARS plane, which provides exceptionally detailed radar images of the ground.

No other nation has air-to-air missiles or air-to-ground smart munitions of the accuracy, or numbers, of the United States. This month, for example, in the second attempt to kill Saddam Hussein, just 12 minutes passed between when a B-1 received the target coordinates and when the bomber released four smart bombs aimed to land just 50 feet and a few seconds apart. All four hit where they were supposed to.

American aerial might is so great that adversaries don’t even try to fly. Serbia kept its planes on the ground during the Kosovo conflict of 1999; in recent fighting in Iraq, not a single Iraqi fighter rose to oppose United States aircraft. The governments of the world now know that if they try to launch a fighter against American air power, their planes will be blown to smithereens before they finish retracting their landing gear. The aerial arms race, a central facet of the last 50 years, is over.

The American lead in ground forces is not uncontested — China has a large standing army — but is large enough that the ground arms race might end, too. The United States now possesses about 9,000 M1 Abrams tanks, by far the world’s strongest armored force. The Abrams cannon and fire-control system is so extraordinarily accurate that in combat gunners rarely require more than one shot to destroy an enemy tank. No other nation is currently building or planning a comparable tank force. Other governments know this would be pointless, since even if they had advanced tanks, the United States would destroy them from the air.

The American lead in electronics is also huge. Much of the "designating" of targets in the recent Iraq assault was done by advanced electronics on drones like the Global Hawk, which flies at 60,000 feet, far beyond the range of antiaircraft weapons. So sophisticated are the sensors and data links that make Global Hawk work that it might take a decade for another nation to field a similar drone — and by then, the United States is likely to have leapfrogged ahead to something better.

As The New York Times Magazine reported last Sunday, the United States is working on unmanned, remote-piloted drone fighter planes that will be both relatively low-cost and extremely hard to shoot down, and small drone attack helicopters that will precede troops into battle. No other nation is even close to the electronics and data-management technology of these prospective weapons. The Pentagon will have a monopoly on advanced combat drones for years.

An electronics arms race may continue in some fashion because electronics are cheaper than ships or planes. But the United States holds such an imposing lead that it is unlikely to be lapped for a long time.

Further, the United States holds an overwhelming lead in military use of space. Not only does the Pentagon command more and better reconnaissance satellites than all the rest of the world combined, American forces have begun using space-relayed data in a significant way. Space "assets" will eventually be understood to have been critical to the lightning conquest of Iraq, and the American lead in this will only grow, since the Air Force now has the second-largest space budget in the world, after NASA’s.

This huge military lead is partly because of money. Last year American military spending exceeded that of all other NATO states, Russia, China, Japan, Iraq and North Korea combined, according to the Center for Defense Information, a nonpartisan research group that studies global security. This is another area where all other nations must concede to the United States, for no other government can afford to try to catch up.

The runaway advantage has been called by some excessive, yet it yields a positive benefit. Annual global military spending, stated in current dollars, peaked in 1985, at $1.3 trillion, and has been declining since, to $840 billion in 2002. That’s a drop of almost half a trillion dollars in the amount the world spent each year on arms. Other nations accept that the arms race is over.
this article was written by Gregg Easterbrook.

The guy who said the British is the best is a HATER!!
Why are you hating on the US Military? you supposely are the best trained blah blah blah, that don’t mean sh!t to US. I even heard the Americans had to save your @ss in ww1 and ww2. ww3 is coming soon, i bet history is gonna repeat itself, and we are gonna have to save your @sses yet again..lol

US military is the best in the world PERIOD.

The US has gone thru a lot more than the british, people call us nosey. Maybe it’s because we are the most powerful Country in the World with the most powerful Military in the World, and we ain’t afraid of nobody, cause WE ARE the BEST!

But even though i said that about the british, i have great respect for them, because they are among the best, but not #1.

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to go down the west coat, is it a problem..

Its a sturdy boat and I have all the gear, Epirb, raft,storm sails, heavy rig, sea anchor etc.

Its just a fin keel and Im worried about broaching, never been 75 offshore before. But sailed for years enginless, in some really nasty weather with no searoom, (40-50knts)

Any salts???

ya

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I recall he sailed for Canada in a Laser, and played defense when it came to hockey. I don’t know if it ever actually got called up, but I know he belonged to Habs orginization.
I guess maybe it was the Atlanta Olympics that he sailed in. I guess he didn’t set the NHL on fire, but I wonder if he is still doing some kind of racing.

You are partially right, and partially wrong. A Canadian Olympic class yachtsman was drafted by an NHL team, he was never in the Montreal organization however.

The New York Islanders drafted Hank Lammens in the 8th round of the 1985 Entry draft. He stayed with the Islanders until the end of the 1990-91 season. After taking a year off to concentrate on Barcelona, Hank signed with the newly formed Ottawa Senators where he scored 3 points in 27 games during the 1993-94 season

Hank Lammens competed in the 1988, 1992, and 2000 Olympics as a yachtsman. He was elected to the Canadian Olympic Hall of fame in 1993. He is still sailing having won the Buzzards Bay Regatta this past summer in Massachusetts

http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=15034

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Hey guys, here’s my problem:

I just bought a standard-rig (not racing rigged) Laser 1 sailboat. I have experience sailing, but mostly on 2-person racing boats such as 420′s. I’m cluless as to how to rig my new boat, and I’m looking for directions with diagrams or even better a detailed video of how to rig the boat, especially the boom and sail. Thanks

Step by step instructions, pictures and diagrams are located at

http://sailtoronto.com/PDF/Laser%20Rigging%20Basics.doc

Smooth sailing

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I am starting a business where people can give other people gift certificates for things like surfing lessons, sailing lessons, boxing lessons, riding in a stockcar, ride in a paraglider….etc etc….I am not actually giving the lessons and rides, I just match the suppliers with the customers. Do you like the name for this venture: California Field Days?

I am based in California. If you look up Field Day in the Dictionary it means 2: a time of extraordinary pleasure or opportunity

I like it.

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The art institute, california college of the arts, or Full Sail university? Or do you recommend a different school?

go visit all of them and see which school best suits your lifestyle

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Can anyone think of a reference to the sea since he’s been POTUS. He sure talks a lot.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html

….did Obama actually write his books? Was he a sailor? Perhaps he picked up the lingo on his trip from Kenya to Hawaii.

"Memory sails out upon a murky sea," Ayers writes at one point. Indeed, both he and Obama are obsessed with memory and its instability. The latter writes of its breaks, its blurs, its edges, its lapses. Obama also has a fondness for the word "murky" and its aquatic usages.

"The unlucky ones drift into the murky tide of hustles and odd jobs," he writes, one of four times "murky" appears in Dreams. Ayers and Obama also speak often of waves and wind, Obama at least a dozen times on wind alone. "The wind wipes away my drowsiness, and I feel suddenly exposed," he writes in a typical passage. Both also make conspicuous use of the word "flutter."

Not surprisingly, Ayers uses "ship" as a metaphor with some frequency. Early in the book he tells us that his mother is "the captain of her own ship," not a substantial one either but "a ragged thing with fatal leaks" launched into a "sea of carelessness."
I stand corrected Carmen. Please read the article.
It’s relevant because it supports the idea that the man is a fraud. Long article, bet none of you read it.
No everyone doesn’t know he didn’t write it…no one knows anything. Gotta go with what’s compelling here.
Logic, I bet you crack yourself up. You remind me of my GF’s 10 year old always doing goofy ish for attention…he’s never funny.
Experts on the subject took time out to compare. I think it’s overwhelmingly true.

Too creepy, but doesn’t everyone know he did not write that book alone. good job

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Read this list SLOWLY and tell me how you feel after you read it:

Soft Rain

Puffy Clouds

Floral Bouquet

Sailing

Hawaii

Massage

Dreaming

Bathrobe

Bed and Breakfast

Cool Breeze

Sunlight

Joie De Vivre

Positive

Angel’s Wings

Music

Rainbow

Warm Sand

Blue Waters

Pineapple

Guava

Tropical

Palm Trees

Bubble Bath

Love Making

Candle Lights

Lavender, Jasmine, Chamomille

Meditation

Ocean Waves

Nature

Smiling

Soft Kisses

Holding Hands

Touch

Passion Fruit

Strawberries and Bananas

Acoustic Guitar

Piano

Care Free

Laughter

Sleepy

Soft Pillows

Fluffy Slippers

Comfy Blanket

Paradise

Calm

Euphoria

Release of Toxins

Feeling Lighter

Feeling Relaxed

Pleasure

Harmony

Balance

Healing

*If you’ve read this slowly, you may experience any of the following: relaxation, peaceful, calm, detox, etc…..

Let me know how you feel

I feel relaxed, my back hurt really bad and after reading that for 10 minutes, it felt relaxed THANKS!

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