The mystery box could be anything, it could even be a boat!

[Farbin Kaiber]

First step was leaving the desk job with BMW.

Second step was buying a one way flight.

Like.

[LJ851]

Quality thread, keep it comin'.

[blunttech]

All aboard the SSgettinBitches

[kronus]

great thread, great photos. how do you feel about stowaways? I'm wondering for uh no reason


I've done a bit of crewing for my friend who's going through sailing school. So far, a bunch of time out in a tiny 22' and one trip in a bigger 35' or 38', just dicking around in the bay. It's a lot of fun, but getting over the whole boat-being-sideways-most-of-the-time-normally has taken some time. It's counterintuitive.

[CorvallisBMW]

Who knew Ray was a playboy yacht billionaire?

[Farbin Kaiber]

^You didn't? You must not be on the Snapchat tip.

[kronus]

what's a snapchat

[Farbin Kaiber]

Says the guy that works for Kelp.

[kronus]

it's not my fault kelp's delicious

back to boats.

[F34R]

Second one in from the right in the teal shorts.... <3

[LJ851]

This is how we do:

Is it just me or is the dock listing to port slightly?

[mrsleeve]

I approve of dis fred

[Farbin Kaiber]

Is it just me or is the dock listing to port slightly?

I noted the exact same thing. I thought I might be thinking like someone that is shallow, then I realized I really didn't care what others think about what I think.

[Thizzelle]

I sailed the 7 seas, it took soooooooo long.

[BlackbirdM3]

J class sloops are where its at. Should I win the lotto, I will own one. I'd love to see a throwback America's Cup where they race J class boats. How awesome would that be?

The summer of '94 I had a pretty cool experience. I sailed the 181 foot Barquentine SV Concordia from San Francisco to Hilo Hawaii, to Victoria BC. I got posted to the the clew of the Royal yard arm. It was quite an experience. The first time I stepped out to the little dangling rope that I was supposed to stand on while manning the clew, in the dark. 96 feet up, was a little bit of a leap of faith. Actually it scared the shit out of me. Later on the return trip to Victoria, we had an accident. A week out of Hilo the morning watch was headed up the mast to do a sail maneuver in zero visibility fog. Everything was wet, almost like it was raining. A girl was climbing up to the upper crows nest and slipped off. No safety harness. She landed feet first between the mess and the starboard side pin-rail breaking everything from the waist down. I was the first person in the rigging following the accident. The next task was to get all the sails down in order to do a air lift... off a tall ship. It took some creativity. The Navy sent a Seahawk helicopter off the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier to do the lift. The rest of the trip sucked as we motored the last 1000 or so miles.

I always hoped I could find my way back aboard Concordia someday. Sadly she was hit by a micro-burst off Brazil and sank. All crew got off alive, but the ship is now on the bottom of the Atlantic, 600 miles off the coast of Brazil



Will