Franc

Hi Franc,

I guess I'd recommend the first one of my books, SURFACE TENSION, and then to read the rest of them in the order I wrote them. They all are about the world of boats, but none are truly about sailing. The one I'm writing now will be, though.

I'm read L.M. Lawson too. Love her stuff. Have you read Paul Garrison? His are good, as are Sam Llewellyn's.

Fair winds,
Christine

Gracias, partimos hoy hacia Puerto Rico y no estaremos conectados varios días. Navegaremos por el Mona Passage, algo escribiremos sobre la travesía a nuestra llegada.
Good winds!!
Cris & Jordi

Hey Frac. Nice to hear from you.
Ok but that will take a while for me to figure out. In the mean time we have a web sight. Dianerussellband.com with music.

Thanks man for comment :)
I am currently in Guatemala, so new videos are comming sooon :)
fair winds to all :)
Neb

Hola Franc,
Gracias por tu mensaje e invitacion.Se supone que zarparemos desde Annapolis aproximadamente el 14 de julio con Rumbo a N York, asiq ue de todas maneras reservanos en tu marina un espacio. Navegaremos en nuestro nuevo velero, Excalibur, un amel 53''. Para contactos personales te agradeceremos nos escribas a excalibur@ceyzeta.cl
saludos desde Chile, nos vemos en New York
Isabel y Jorge

I don't like the name on the boat now. Orphalese,, My current #1 is Rhapsody in Blue.

Yes, this weekend we will take pictures plus I owe Brian a picture for Winters new owners page on their website.
What is the font of Drac Verd? Times New Roman?
I doctumented the boat with the USCG as Drac Verd so the other one would need to be Jr? LOL.
I need to replace the stern name with 4" letters.
Do you have a higher resolution picture of your dad's boat?
Could you email a pic of Can Drac when the name is applied?
I want to display pics of the dynasty in my home.

We have a slight delay this season. After the encounter with the bridge last fall, it has been determined that the mast needs to come down. We need to rewire the radio antenna and anchor light. Looks like we be able to get in the water the week following Memorial Day. How about you? Are you bringing the boat up to Jersey City this weekend?

Franc, Wednesday I went by Winters & picked up the "stuff", thanks . Thursday, I helped deliver a 37' Hunter from NJ to the Chesapeake. I just came home. A lot of boats were going down the Delaware Bay yesterday on their way north. This was the first wave of snowbirds.

Quins temps!!! El meu baixell està encallat en les dures roques de fundar una familia. Ja fa tres anys que no navego i quan veig totes les fotos vostres, el Can Drac i tot.... joer, que dura es la vida de currant!. Una abraçada!!!.

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Gracias por la bienvenida, Franc. Me tengo que ir acostumbrando a usar esto, que estoy un poco pez, pero poco a poco me irá animando más.

Un abrazo,

Franc/Andrea,
Any chance you can move my old stuff (i.e. comments) to our new "Chuck and Sandra" profile?

The comments and discussions I had were all deleted when I deleted my profile.

Hello Franc.. We are the proud new owners of Norma'l Sea (previously Drac Verd I), re-named after my husband's wonderful mother Norma. No worries about re-naming superstitions, because we had a complete and official re-naming ceremony a few days before we left Riverside NJ. We are now in the same marina as Drac Verd II. What a small world! Wishing you happy sailing on your new boat.. ~Gail~

yes it is a 2004 423 I have it for sale now as I am sitting on my newest purchase a hunter 426 in georgetown cruising up the chain it is not quite the quality as the beneteau but much more spacious sorry about the time elapsed time getss away sometimes

yes....you didn't say when you where going.....let me check my map so I can tell you some good spots to visit that I did.....just gotta make sure I spell the names correctly.....overall you will love your experience there.....all the folks I met were wonderfully acceptable, friendly and hospitable.....I was there on a local's boat so that may have made a difference as I wasn't considered a tourist......

It would have been a better photo if we would have held the camera horizontal. We were heeling and having a balll.
Thanks for the comment.

Hey Franc, with my expirience to visit the best places with a gulet- leave the Turkish skipper the decision where and when to go, they know best. jochanan

Hi Franc, as you will be on a Gulet, I suggest you let the skipper choose the places as he will be trying to give you a good trip. I am pretty sure you will see all the best spots. Have a great holiday. Regards, Stephen

I hope the negotiations go well and quickly for their release. I don't think I would like to visit Somalia at the present time, specially as a forced visit. I don't have a copy of the book, so am not too sure how it handled the double translation. Thankfully no piracy here in the Med.

Saw where you mentioned the book "Pirates Aboard", interested, I just now ordered it. Looking forward to the read.

Louis

That is very kind of you Franc. I will still be here on the western end of G dock, monitoring vhf 69. Looking forward to meeing you.

Thank you. We just headed north again today, with on and off internet access. Will probably be in Annapolis tomorrow, and NYC in a week or two.
Will happily accept suggestions, particularly since I am not familiar with NYC.
Rob

The RYC on 7/19? Sounds pretty good to me. Let me check w/ the Admiral. We have a couple good friends there, so that might sweeten the deal a bit. What's the plan? Sail down Saturday and stay over, then come back Sunday?

Hi Franc, The photo turned out well. I remember Incognito well, please say Hi for me. Some friends I sailed to Israel with earlier this year turned up, saw and borrowed the book for a day. When they returned it they pointed out that they had found their boat, Nisos, in it as well. Yep it certainly is a small world. It was really great to meet you guys, looking forward to when we next cross paths.

Have made it to NY and am on a mooring ball at 79th St boat basin. Also has great access, and is quite rolly - and inexpensive. I haven't found Newport marina yet, but will probably head north later this week

Yep, got the details. I've checked out Eldridge's for best departure time in terms of current changes. I'll give it a second look when I'm back at the boat tonight.

Franc: Before I can go anywhere, I have to do a major plumbing fix on the boat. The fresh water pressure pump died on me (after how many years of service, I don't kow). I have the replacement, and I'll be getting down to business with installing it right after my first cup of coffee tomorrow morning. I can fill you in w/ details if I see you at Newport tonight.

hi frank,nice to meet you.
how lond did you have the beneteau?was it an old boat?mine is 3 years old ..in the footloose program in tortola.was there any problem with it?lydia

Thanks for the good info Franc. I will take a look at that.
Jan

Well No. This pic is from the Cdn research vessel who took the pictures that define the Beaufort Scale. I'm sure this probables at least a force 10

Thanks Franc. It was an uneventful delivery home from Great Hudson. We found a problem with our charging system, but we got that sorted. We're actually in Milford, CT at the moment. We left Monday late in the afternoon and went to Oyster Bay, then on to Port Jeff or a couple of days, today to Milford, we'll stay here tomorrow, go to Northport on Saturday, and Sunday head for home. Then, we'll likely head out again on Thursday and extend the already long weekend, and hopefully we'll see you in Oyster Bay!

Best,

Dan

Hello Franc: Trust you had a wonderful time sailing the coast of Turkey. I apologize for not responding to you....it was not intentional.....gotta check my emails more often. Must get a map of Turkey so I can respond with any authority. I didn't keep a log of that trip and can't remember the names of the ports where we docked or anchored. Guess it's a moot point now. The boat is based in Marmaris, we went north up the coast to the Cleopatra Baths, then back south to Bodrum and Gocek and the furthest to Fatelaya (?) which is an ancient cross-roads city that has an incridible market.....really enjoyed that. Also a beautiful new marina that had their official opening when we were there.....was even interviewed by a Turkish TV network. Dianne

Hi Franc, I had my family over today for Jake’s birthday and wanted to show them our day at sea on seaknots. When did you change the web site to a login? Eileen let me see the email about your web page and that it was in a sailing magazine that’s pretty amazing that something like this could be really big.

Hello Franc,
It was a pleasure meeting you and Andrea this weekend. Now I understand why our boat came to us with such loving, wonderful, and positive vibes!
I want to ask you both a question on a personal note.. any chance you can send me your email address?

Hey was really trying to be #2000 I wanted to feel special.

No, my Catalan is rock bottom.
The only two languages I'll admit to being able to speak is English (naturally) and Maritime Spanish. Regular Spanish is OK, French & Portuguese are next but I'll study for a month before a trip where I'll need to speak those languages.in 1986-88 I lived in Barcelona, El Masnou and Palma Mallorca, and 1/2 our race crew was Catalan. A few of the ships commands were in Catalan because of fewer and shorter words needed, and I would order food and drinks in Catalan when in Catalan owned restaurants. The boatyard in El Masnou was Catalan, so there was another opportunity to understand that language.
Therefore languages are a hobby and I probably spend at least 20 hrs a month reading and studying languages, mostly French & Italian these days for some planned travel in the next two years, but I dabble in a few others to help my perspective and thinking globally.
In my library I have Spanish-Catala', Spanish-Portugues, & Spanish-French dictionaries.
I guess I need a Spanish-Italian dictionary next. And the internet has taken over as a resource for languages.
When I saw David Comes Lorenzo's cute cute baby, I couldn't resist celebrating him with a congratulatory greeting in Catala'.
Did you spend any time in Catalunya?

Franc, it's very cool that you are from Barcelona.
All the places we went were when there were regattas. The boat I was on primarily was a 40' Farr named Ramel-Dos, owned by Manuel Martinez who owned the company RAMEL. Big company! The boat's maintenance port was El Masnou, where Toni Tio has a sail loft, and we often kept the boat at RCNB. Antonio Gorostegui from Santander was the skipper, and Juan Vila (Catala') was the navigator/mainsheet trimmer. We were on the Spanish National Team at the Sardinia Cup and 1-ton Worlds. Another fantastic series we did was La Vuelta de Espan~a, which we won. The ports on that regatta were, Santander for reassembly, near Bilbao for the start, Vigo, Lisboa, Puerto de Santa Maria (Cadiz), Estipona, Valencia, Sitges and finish in Palma. That was a great race and unbelievably fantastic party ashore at all the stops. And we won. And Ramel-Uno (Vicieras design) was chartered by Hola magazine. Hola Magazine hired an all female crew to race the boat. WE, had a great time!
We probably stopped at nearly every port along the coast North of Barcelona as far up as Loret de Mar or maybe Palamo's and only Sitges south of Barcelonas. We often were racing in Palma and I almost always stopped over in Andraitx
Also another Catalan I raced with was Pepin Gonzales, a great yacht designer and builder.
Franc, thanks for bringing back the memories.
You are in NYC now?

Yes, she's a beauty! (and her previous owners took very good care of her!) That photo was taken in Riverside, prior to our 'journey' to Forked River.

Franc, mi OC43 aguarda el termino de los huracanos para venir para Brasil. Dos otros amigos (OC40 y OC43) estan en ruta de Charleston asta Bermuda, y sufrieram una severa falla en el ruddr post bearings. No estamos seguros con la informacion, pero parece que Francia cambio el rudder collar por un "U" hecho de madera, filled con epoxy. Que passa es que descobrimos que por un error de produccion, Beneteau US no esta'poniendo el Epoxy. Entonces el rudder bearing si encontra con solamente un colar de madera. El OC43 (hull #66), almost tuve su leme perdido, y felismente estaban cerca de Hamilton y procederam al reparo. De una mirada en nuestro post en Sailnet Beneteau, y principalmente pide a alguen mirar su rudder post. Una vez que se confirme al problema, pediremos a Beneteau una respuesta oficial.

Ricardo Negrini
OC43 Nave Rara

Thank you Frank, I hope I can able to sail other side of the atlantic ocean one day.
I have added a photo on leaving Marmaris you can see Marmaris at the background, it is a deatiled picture, even a Turkish naval ship visiting on our republic day on this October can be seen.
I am planning to add some more pictures on Marmaris bays and also some info on them.

Sorry I saw your message now! I think it is to late. If you still need some information about Bodrum, please let me know by personal meassage so I get a email. I highly canrecommend my friend Udo Hinnerkopf at http://www.gulet-holiday.com/ He owns a sailsboat himself and is living in this area for many year.

Best,
Christoph

Franc, Sorry for the late reply. WiFi hasn't been the best and then my girl friend came for a few days - I guess during those days my mind was elsewhere :) I'm currently in Charleston, SC. I stayed here over the Holidays so I could have my visitor. I'll be leaving either tomorrow or Tuesday depending on the weather. From here the plan is to hop off shore to Amelia Island and then to do coastal day hops. I want to spend some time in the Keys so Jan and Feb the boat will be there - then hopefully up to the Bahamas. Hope your plans continue to be successful. ...Bill

Franc,

Happy New Year and what's going on? I see you heard from Bill and that he successfully made it south. All good news.

Keep me apprised of plans, and also let me know what teWEB sites were that you used or getting wind info. Cayo Mio is hopefully going to be back sailing soon. The repairs have take much more time and effort than I ever imagined.

Capt Tom & Olivia

Franc, the 40/43 group sounds great. Always good to share info, expecially on a new model like ours.
Happy New Year
Mike

Great! I hope he enjoys the book. He should be able to use the index to look up English words, phrases! Tell him to let me know how it works for him.
This is a nice site - it will be fun to explore and I will definitely mention it to other friends.
By the way, Imray is now carrying the new edition, so it should be easier to get in Europe.

Hey there!

-Miss you...can't wait to see you on Sun/Mon!

Hi,
where are you now. Hope everything went well.

Jeff

Hi Franc:

Sea Knots is great. How do I advertise on the sie?

George at BWS

In may sometime water is still very cold

Happy Birthday Love!