Re: RNC / patchbay Q?


rickymix wrote:
Danny T wrote:
That certainly is a great adventure! Congrats on making it! You must
have sailed past some of my favorite old surfing grounds in Latin
America and the Caribbean. D'ya surf?


Well, I don't do it now because I am in the mountains but I have 4
boards in my garage that the neioghbors all ask questions about - its
pretty funny really.

As for surf - when you are on a sailboat and trying to go surfing, a
funny thing happens. You can't anchor anywhere near the surf..... it
sucks. I always pictured dropping hook and jumping off the boat but
that only happened a dozen times or so. In Costa Rica, we had to dingy
it for 10, sometimes 20 miles to get to surf. In Tamorino we anchored
and rolled like S# ^T.

There were some spots in Mexico that were dreamlike but the water was
as brown as a river could make it. In the Caribbean, there were mostly
wind waves, though the water was crystal and no one was anywhere within
100's of miles.

The best surf was the Bahamas and I've spent a collective 2 years or
so in and around there. The Abacos are great because the storms come
off of north Carolina and pushing a swell but also sucking the wind
into it. You can catch the swell on the northern part and each day work
your way around a little further to the SE. You can grab about 6-8 days
of surf off of each storm, which is pretty much always. Then you cruise
into Marsh Harbour on the way back and reprevision. The only problem is
that if you eat it, you're dead. There might not be anyone or anyway
to get help for more then a day or so. If you had a SSB you might be
able to call someone but even the coast guard can't get in most
places because it is so shoal. There are a lot of sharks too though
they have never eaten me yet. They tend to steal from your spear a lot
though.

If I was 20 years old again I'd hit the reef at San Andres Columbia.
It was huge there on a regular basses and no one surfs because it is a
major nasty place to try and get out on. Also, Nicaragua's Pacific
side is untouched and on fire but the sharks are REALLY bad there. I
was in an estuary there by Isla Lemmon for 3 days and the locals ended
up barrowing my dive gear to try and find remains of a guy that was
eaten by a tiger shark while in less then knee deep water. We were on
our boat but we heard the guy screaming as he was dragged in. When we
asked about the situation, they said that they don't lose more then a
few people each year there (at that estuary!). The waves, though, were
some of the best I have seen anywhere in the world and we didn't see
anyone surfing the entire time we were there. I don't think it was
sharks that kept them out, I think there was no one there. We went into
Punta Corinto and the port Captain told us that we were about the 6th
US boat to come through in 2 years that he was there. The locals just
don't surf.

____ SO - Where do did you go in the carib.? Are you going back??


As for the RNC: isn't there something screwy about connecting it
to a TT patchbay? I thought I needed to make a special set of
patchcords to connect it properly. Or has that issue been fixed more
recently?
Cheers, Rick Novak.

I have the 1/4 bays so that i can actually see them and don't have to
breath in the lead when putting it all together. I think these are
woking right. At least I don't hear anything wrong on the test.

.

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