Every now and then we all get it I suppose.........what? you ask!!! BLOGGER's BLOCK!! the inability to create something for your blog entry. Well I've got it. Trying to get rid of it but it's lingering....Well! lets see............haven't got any work done on ZOSHA for about a week.....the weather hasn't been cooperating......raining every day.....hopefully this weekend will be nice......Oh....ho-hum. OK...how about this........Tana is really really disappointed today. Why? I'll tellya.......about six weeks ago we were at a boating thing at a brokerage company and ran into an old friend of mine whom I hadn't seen in a few months. While BSing with my old buddy, he invited us to a party at his house on March 21, 2012 which is today. He said that we could meet Bob Bitchin who was going to be there........well let me tellya I thought Tana was gonna have a BIG O right there! "Bob Bitchin!!!! OMG my dream man" she exclaimed..."Oh I can't wait." And it has been like this for the last six weeks. Almost every day she asks if I RSVP'd the date with my friend. She absolutely could not wait to shake ole' Bob's hand and visit with him and get her copy of Letters From the Lost Soul autographed by Mr. Bitchin himself. My friend's sweet wife emailed me this afternoon and.............you know where I'm going here don't you?.....yes, you guessed it........Bob won't be there! He got stuck in California and will miss the party tonight. Well Tana was devastated when I dropped this bomb on her!! She told me that she is going to stay late at work tonight so she will have something to keep her mind from her abject disappointment. "Why come home?" she asked.
"Uhhh you gotta a cat here"
"Oh its not the same not meeting Bob Bitchin! Life sucks" she bemoaned.
"We all gotta deal with life's disappointments" was my retort. "I never got my Vette or my 43' CABO Sportfish."
"Yeah I guess" said she.
On the sailing side of things......today I was surfing around the Internet and in between checking out the weather in the Caribbean, dropping in on my favorite cruising blogs, and looking for recipes for something different for dinner, I stumbled across a site that chronicled some boat speed records.
Check this out!!!!
1. Fastest 24 hour run in a sailboat: Banque Populaire V -131' trimaran......908.2 miles !
2. Fastest all out speed in a sailboat: L'Hydroptere - 60' trimaran.....59.33 MPH!
3. Fastest circumnavigation: Banque Populaire V- 131' trimaran......45 days 13 hours 42 minutes!
4. Fastest monohull: Mari-Cha IV- 140'........37.366 MPH
5. Fastest 24 hour run in monohull: Ericsson-70'...........596.6 miles.....average speed....24.86 MPH
6. Fastest circumnavigation monohull: Fonica- 84'........84 days...average speed 12.41 MPH
7. Slowest circumnavigation monohull: SVZOSHA.....TBD
As for dinner??? still don't know what to fix tonight? I think I'll check in with Steve and LuLu at yodersafloat........they are always fixing sumptin' good.
Take care my friends..............seeya
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