Feb
07
is a pacific sea craft flicka a good boat for a first time owner?
by Erin | Posted in Boats & Boating
I've never owned a yacht before and I really love the Pacific Boats Wed Flicka, but I want to be aware of what type of water it can use, how much they will cost, how they find and how hard they are clean.
The Flicka is notable for a boat person. Expensive as hell, though.
Flicka Sunday sail 12Aug09
Slipping along in dizzy air on a quiet Sunday afternoon on Lake Travis, Austin, Tx. And only about 102 in the semi-darkness! The boat is a 1975 Hallberg ...
1980 Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20 Walking Tour
A Vivacious Walking Tour Of Kokopelli, A Pacific Seacraft Flicka, While She Lay In Her Slip On Lake Of The Ozarks, MO
Flicka 20 sailboat on Puget Sound
This is my Flicka20 "Sampaguita" sailing on Puget Aspect 2/20/10 shot from my friend Lee Miller's Cape Dory Typhoon. A delightful day ...
Jan
01
Hill sailing for spot on paralympics team
Former yacht Capt. Jody Hill is still working toward racing in the 2012 Paralympics.
The months since the Fort Lauderdale Cosmopolitan Boat Show, when Hill announced his plans to represent the United States in the 2012 Paralympics, have been filled with ups and downs. Whether he succeeds for London this year or begins training for a bid in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 comes down to two regattas in Florida in January.
In mid-January, the Agreed States hosted the 2012 IFDS World Championships, the first assay for those wanting to represent the U.S. as the team still must select its sailor athletes. Suspend on its heels was the OCR Miami regatta Jan. 22-28.
Going into the IFDS Worlds, Hill was favourable.
“It’s going to be extremely competitive but I’m feeling positive about my chances and fit for my biggest challenge to date,” he said.
It was not to be. On the second day of racing he retired with abnormal pain, something not unusual in his condition.
Amrchair Dreamer - SailNet Community
So, I control my thing for Hawaii. I went through many stages, first led by the major manufacturers (I'll get a Catalina in the universe!) More thoughts on the water wagon (Baba 30), the dear to continue traditional (see the Q Alden ooo!), the cheap (or even a Flicka Cal 20 in "Twenty miserable vessels ...").
JFK Love Letters to Swedish Flicka For Auction
Private light of one's life letters written by John F Kennedy to a Swedish lover before and during his coupling have been revealed for the first perpetually after she put them up for vending.
The correspondence – 11 handwritten letters and three telegrams – to Gunilla von Put discover a made-up accent that presaged a lifetime of belligerent womanising in which the subsequent president was linked with Marilyn Monroe and a play fast of other lovers.
Kennedy was 36 and the blonde Swede 21 when they met on the Cote d’Azur in August 1953.
Although it was only a month before he was due to wife Jacqueline Bouvier, she said they danced all darkness and parted with a quarrelsome peck.
In June the following year, having tracked down her greet in Stockholm, Kennedy wrote to her saying: “I might get a row-boat and sail around the Mediterranean for two weeks –with you as gang.”
Kennedy changed bind in November 1954 when he underwent vital surgery on his back and wrote from a New York facility to ask if there was “any speculation” she could be in print to America in preference to. “I was great let down that at the last time I was not skilful to bear down on to Europe, noticeably when you were prosperous to be in Paris and we could have had such a dependable duration,” he wrote.
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