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Dreams of that "Last Affair": Favorite Links
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Dreams of that "Last Affair". Here is a list of some of our favorite links. I hope you find them as useful as I do. Gulfstar Owners Club (.com). Gulfstar Owners Club (.org) Different site. Cruising Music on line from Cruising Outpost. Planning Diagrams for Last Affair. Navigation Station - NMEA Network Diagram. Navigation Station - Speaker Diagram. Navigation Station - Power Bus Diagram. Ruminations of a Sailor. Cruising with Soggy Paws. Helpful Resources for Live-aboards. Living the Pirate Lifestyle.
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The Regatta Diaries: Bay Waveland Yacht Club '05
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Re-live the watery trials of Harlen Leslie, Doc Farto and his crew as they transit the Gulf Coast in search of bullets, broads and bushwhackers aboard his 39' Gulfstar Sailmaster, Cash Bar. Bay Waveland Yacht Club '05. As long as there are no body piercings except ears. and the belly or the vagina. Doc was as ready as me to tack over into Bay St. Louis and head over to The Good Life for cocktails. Our second clandestine rendezvous with those GYA. So we put in over at Bay Marina. You see, Paul Anka. Which...
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The Regatta Diaries: The Strange Voyage of Doc Farto
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Re-live the watery trials of Harlen Leslie, Doc Farto and his crew as they transit the Gulf Coast in search of bullets, broads and bushwhackers aboard his 39' Gulfstar Sailmaster, Cash Bar. The Strange Voyage of Doc Farto. Several days ago, I came across a few old logbooks of Doc's and thumbed threw one of them. What follows is a reconstruction of certain events contained within, including my interpretations of these events. Log Entry: 6.15.1992. Prevailing winds from East. Ate legumes. When she was in c...
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The Regatta Diaries: Mardi Gras Regatta '05
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Re-live the watery trials of Harlen Leslie, Doc Farto and his crew as they transit the Gulf Coast in search of bullets, broads and bushwhackers aboard his 39' Gulfstar Sailmaster, Cash Bar. Mardi Gras Regatta '05. It’s pretty much a toss up as to whether there were more nekid boobs on Bourbon St. or crab traps out in the lake. But I tell you what, I should have known that this being New Orleans and double the fact that it was Mardi Gras. Things were bound to get a little weird. Every time he hit blackjac...
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The Regatta Diaries: The Revolution will be Intoxicated
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Re-live the watery trials of Harlen Leslie, Doc Farto and his crew as they transit the Gulf Coast in search of bullets, broads and bushwhackers aboard his 39' Gulfstar Sailmaster, Cash Bar. The Revolution will be Intoxicated. Dateline: Napoleon House, French Quarter, The Americas. As I stare into the old mirror above the bar, I realize that by my count, it’s been damn near 36 hours We’ve been holed up in this ancient dark bar for some time now and it’s starting to sink in. He helped me to focus on what w...
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The Regatta Diaries: Guyana '78
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Re-live the watery trials of Harlen Leslie, Doc Farto and his crew as they transit the Gulf Coast in search of bullets, broads and bushwhackers aboard his 39' Gulfstar Sailmaster, Cash Bar. F31 Trimarans are fast - real fast. Then Doc started grumbling, "Christ is there anything to drink on this boat except for booze." In the heat Doc was getting irascible. Lawrence, sitting back down from taking a leak, chimed in, "I think there's some Kool Aid below.". Why not, you look like their mascot." Trudy sn...
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The Regatta Diaries: Dauphin Island Race '05
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Re-live the watery trials of Harlen Leslie, Doc Farto and his crew as they transit the Gulf Coast in search of bullets, broads and bushwhackers aboard his 39' Gulfstar Sailmaster, Cash Bar. Dauphin Island Race '05. With 188 registered sailboats and the inevitable Racer Chasers in their little southern bikinis converging on Mobile, how the heck could we not be there? So, we loaded up on moon pies, crewed up in Pascagoula and Cash Bar headed east. We didn’t see him again until much later that evening as we...
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The Regatta Diaries: Gulfport to Pensacola '05
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Re-live the watery trials of Harlen Leslie, Doc Farto and his crew as they transit the Gulf Coast in search of bullets, broads and bushwhackers aboard his 39' Gulfstar Sailmaster, Cash Bar. Gulfport to Pensacola '05. It felt a little like knowing that I had an incurable virus working its way through my body. Startling though was the very prominent lack of sailing vessels that Hurricane Ivan. Seeing my annual consternation flaring up while waiting for the start, Doc put down his beer and produced a primit...
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The Regatta Diaries: Katrina: Blackwater & the Mossad Revisited
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Re-live the watery trials of Harlen Leslie, Doc Farto and his crew as they transit the Gulf Coast in search of bullets, broads and bushwhackers aboard his 39' Gulfstar Sailmaster, Cash Bar. Katrina: Blackwater and the Mossad Revisited. On Saturday August 28th, less than a day before Hurricane Katrina plowed into the Gulf Coast, I had no inkling that it would be nearly a week and in the most bizarre situation imaginable before I'd see my ill-tempered and fat Tactician, Doc Farto in person again. Doc clamb...
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The Regatta Diaries: The Great Bayou of Pigs Fiasco
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Re-live the watery trials of Harlen Leslie, Doc Farto and his crew as they transit the Gulf Coast in search of bullets, broads and bushwhackers aboard his 39' Gulfstar Sailmaster, Cash Bar. The Great Bayou of Pigs Fiasco. Of course as the liquor flowed, we started swapping the unlikely and hilarious stories that inevitably come out between long time crewmembers. Lawrence started by recounting how he'd been nearly fired from his volunteer radio DJ position at WWOZ. The community radio station in New Orlea...