This weekend's wrecked.boats Cybercruise raftup in 
Clipper Cove (San Francisco Bay) is history.  So is
the outcome of the crucial voice vote on splitting
the newsgroup.  I will let Fishmeal report
the result; for now I can only say that it was 
terribly close and a dramatic mandate.  Most 
importantly, it was short. 

Some wreck.boaters raft up to see what the
people at the other ends of the network look
like.  Not Cybercruisers.  Cellular modems and the
new alt.cybercruise.hamsters.ductape newsgroup
permitted nearly all communication to originate
below the decks of the sailing workstations.  
(Just as well, given the abysmal weather--nobody
could recall a heavier dew.)  Paper bags and
ski masks sufficed for maintaining the privacy 
of userids at the communal dinner. 

Although the faces couldn't be identified,
their boats could.  From north to south we
had a Venture17, Olson30, Merit25, San Juan28,
Catalina27, and Olson911S.  Daytrippers who
didn't stay the night included an Ericson27,
Cal20, and Dash34(?).  The average displacement-length
ratio was well under 200; showers, microwaves
and VCRS were not in abundance.  The real cruising 
boats must have been on their way to Mexico.   

BILL

Yes, the November CyberCruise is history. And the voice vote:

          Split the newsgroup: 0
    Don't split the newsgroup: 1

We discussed this for about 15 seconds and went on to more important
issues, like frisbee collections (did you know that Dudley's wife was
U.S. Women's Frisbee Champ of 1979?)

The contingent representing The WELL consisted of lizewen@well.ca.sf.us
with her San Juan 28 (and she serves an extremely yummy pot of spaghetti),
hchan@well.ca.sf.us with his Cal 20 for a day visit, and jimkent@well.sf.ca.us
with his Olson 911s. Rec.boaters represented were: billc@netcom.com, Olson
30 (with an inboard, selft-tacking jib, and almost self-furling main!),
dudley.gamman@corp.sun.com (Catalina 27), deering@pixar.com (Macgregor 21,
out for his first overnight trip), haggart@ssrl.01.slac.stanford.edu 
(Ericson 27, but didn't stay for the night), and a "Dash 34," very
interesting Laurie Davidson design, I think a friend of lizewen's who
didn't stay for the night either.

My Merit 25 was the only representive of CSC, BYC, or the Merit 25 fleet.
They all decided to stay at BYC for the $16 frozen lobster tail dinner. 
A poor choice, by all accounts! 

T.I. Cove was as advertised. Calm, spacious, quiet enough, and convenient.
We didn't stay around long enough to check out museums on T.I. or 
Vessel Traffic Control visitor tours. Next time! We also failed to 
display an anchor light (as far as I know) but nobody seemed to care. 
We were *way* over in the south-west corner, a nice work of aggressive
anchoring by lizewen who was first there, and probably unnoticed after
dark. 

Thanks again to all the people who brought goodies to share, and lets
do this again real soon. 

                                           -"Call me Fishmeal"-

>Re: also failed to display an anchor light

Not so.  Since I arrived after dark I had to check out all the raftups
to find the right one.  None were showing anchor lights then so I
turned mine on.  Later I noticed someone had hung one up in front of
their mast and someone else had a bow light on that was clearly
visible to anyone approaching us from the beach.

Liz promised to get in deeper water for us next time.  It was hard to
to sleep with our keel impaled in the mud and unable to rock and roll
with Dudley's boat.  Fortunately, about midnight we were afloat again
and slept well to the gentle motion and absence of the sounds the
fenders had been making.

Liz also proved that you can cook spagetti on an alcohol stove.  Just
forget waiting for the water to boil.  And it passed the stick to the
bulkhead test on the first try.

A great evening!

Jim

In article <CG6nuy.Hp9@well.sf.ca.us> jimkent@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Kent) writes:
>
>
>Liz also proved that you can cook spagetti on an alcohol stove.  Just
>forget waiting for the water to boil.  And it passed the stick to the
>bulkhead test on the first try.

The trick with boiled foods on an alcohol stove is to break the rules...
...cover the pot. This has the dual benefit of keeping the heat in the
pot, where it helps to heat the water below it and preventing the escaping
steam from turning the cabin into something which resembles a tropical
rainforest. The latter effect is particularly annoying when the cabin
cools down, and the precipitation begins.


Greg

In article C4o@netcom.com, fishmeal@netcom.com (Paul Kamen) writes:
> We also failed to 
> display an anchor light (as far as I know) but nobody seemed to care. 
> We were *way* over in the south-west corner, a nice work of aggressive
> anchoring by lizewen who was first there, and probably unnoticed after
> dark. 

We were legal!  Both Fall Line and Invictus displayed anchor lights.
Fall Line had a masthead light, Invictus a portable hung from the
spinnaker halyard.  I wanted to make sure that the SPs didn't board
us in the middle of the night.

BTW: Thanks, everyone, for the hospitality and eats.

dudley
.

re: the only representative of CSC was fishmeal@netcom ... 

Don't forget me!

It was fun to see more faces behind the online userid's. I hope we have
more of these gatherings.

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