I had a good day .

Yomama wrote:PB. Here's a pic from YouTube. I have noticed that sometimes the Address is wrong. I will copy the URL from the browser and paste that in the YouTube link here on the Forum. If that works... fine.

If it doesn't, I'll right-click on the video and the picklist shown in this image also gives you an option to select the video URL. I don't know why, but sometimes this is a different URL and will work on this forum.

Thanks, Yo. I got side-tracked yesterday and wound up getting cozy and watching old movies with hubby, so I didn't get to practice. I'll go back and see if I can get my Navy video to post correctly.

Double-posted......oops.....

It worked! It worked! I posted a video!

It doesn't take much to make my day.

I was trying to post a link versus posting a video. Duh.....!

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PBulldog2 wrote:It worked! It worked! I posted a video!

It doesn't take much to make my day.

I was trying to post a link versus posting a video. Duh.....!

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YEAH!

Where?

Chrissy wrote:

PBulldog2 wrote:It worked! It worked! I posted a video!

It doesn't take much to make my day.

I was trying to post a link versus posting a video. Duh.....!

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YEAH!

Where?

*****CHUCKLE*****

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-hxY2V9yrQ

Chrissy wrote:

PBulldog2 wrote:It worked! It worked! I posted a video!

It doesn't take much to make my day.

I was trying to post a link versus posting a video. Duh.....!

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YEAH!

Where?

The Navy/Bath Salts thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4xp2lgiAjY

Dammit, dammit, triple dammit, it won't work this morning, and I did exactly the same thing I did yesterday!

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!



Anyway, this one was for DE. I used to listen to Marshall Tucker many moons ago when I was traveling out west. My all time favorite travelin' song was the one above, though.

Jumpin' up and down dancing here.....this is another of my favorite traveling songs, and I haven't listened to it in years! Let's see if I can post it, now:






Hopeless.

PBulldog2 wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4xp2lgiAjY

Dammit, dammit, triple dammit, it won't work this morning, and I did exactly the same thing I did yesterday!

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!



Anyway, this one was for DE. I used to listen to Marshall Tucker many moons ago when I was traveling out west. My all time favorite travelin' song was the one above, though.

*****CHUCKLE*****

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZewGYqrUXeM

I don't know why YouTube starts out captured URLs with httpS: The letter S is for secure transactions like logging in somewhere. I have found that, if I delete the S, the video will post.

I love both of those songs, BTW.

How about

Yomama wrote:I don't know why YouTube starts out captured URLs with httpS: The letter S is for secure transactions like logging in somewhere. I have found that, if I delete the S, the video will post.

Thanks, Yomama. They probably put the "S" in there so people like me won't post the video anywhere. Sigh......I even considered trying it without the "S", but I didn't. Next time I'll know!

I can't imagine why some YouTube URLs are indicated as supposedly secure, when they are anything but. I never log in to YouTube - I wonder if it's different for those who log in?

PBulldog2 wrote:I can't imagine why some YouTube URLs are indicated as supposedly secure, when they are anything but. I never log in to YouTube - I wonder if it's different for those who log in?

I am logged into YouTube and sometimes I get the "S" and sometimes not. I just do a "Preview" on the post. If it works, fine... go ahead and "send" it. If it doesn't show up, I'll try something else. I am not smart... just doggedly persistent!

Very nice! It brings to mind another song that brings tears to my eyes almost every time I listen it:




I had a small 21 foot Catalina many years ago. I named her "Music", after the lyrics of this song.

"And Music is her name......"

PBulldog2 wrote:"And Music is her name......"

I like that version.

But, I like Jimmy Buffet's version better. Unfortunately, I cannot find a copy on YouTube that has the recording that I like the best. It's not as pretty as the CSN version, but he shows more emotion.

Every time I hear that song I get all choked up. It reminds me of another life.......would that I could pull in a jib now without a super electric winch. Or raise anchor by myself. Not gonna happen.

But it's still a good day, which was the title of HMG's thread.

PBulldog2 wrote:Every time I hear that song I get all choked up. It reminds me of another life.......would that I could pull in a jib now without a super electric winch. Or raise anchor by myself. Not gonna happen.

But it's still a good day, which was the title of HMG's thread.

I had 5 sailboats behind the house one time. My best day was when we took the Boston Whaler Supercat out when it was blowing a Northerly gale out on Perdido Bay. Three of us on a 17' catamaran. We only flipped it once.

We came back bleeding and grinning from ear to ear. (I didn't seem to have a successful sail unless somebody was bleeding.)

Here is the weekend before Hurricane Frederic at Fort McRee. My friend's 27' Stilleto was quite a sailboat. It won the Dauphin Island race one time. It was so far ahead of the committee boat that the committee boat (a power boat) had to witness Joe's finish through binoculars!

The boat didn't have a name. The trophy had to have a boat name inscribed on it, so Joe said "FAYA". (Stands for "F***k All Y'all)

We used to camp with them all the time.

I used to take my Hunter 25 out to Fort McRee all the time. Sometimes I took friends; most of the time I sailed alone.

I'd anchor up, make a pot of coffee on the alcohol stove using an old percolator pot and then just hang out on the beaches all day. It could get kinda hairy when it came time to weigh anchor (had to dig the anchor in on the beach) if lots of other boats were around. I musta been crazy to do that alone, but I never had any problems.

Weigh anchor, swim to the ladder, climb on and motor on out backwards. What a trip! Young, foolish and looking for adventure, I guess. Used to enter my slip under sail, too. Did it just to prove I could do it, that kind of silly stuff.

Love the pic of the Stiletto! I didn't have much opportunity to sail cats, but the few times I did it was a rush! Sooooo much faster and lighter than a single hull.

Geez. I miss sailing!

I'll have to remember to tell you the Hunter 25 versus barge story someday.

PBulldog2 wrote:Geez. I miss sailing!

We had a Hunter 23 with the wing keel. The boat only drew 23", if I remember that correctly. Great boat... for the price.

We bought a Coronado 23 for $1K... with a trailer. What a sorry excuse for a sailboat. It had a solid keel that ran the length of the boat, but it didn't go down very far. It wouldn't point at all.

We had several Boston Whaler "Harpoon" 5.2 meters. Wonderful boats. One had a cuddy and the other was open. We enjoyed the cuddy version better.

Here's our only sailboat now. It is a Dolphin Sr. with a Sunfish sail (10 sq. ft less than the original sail). It is still fun.

I took Bob out one time with the Dolphin. I told him to duck because I was going to tack and he laid down in the foot well. He just laid there on his back, getting wet and it surely wasn't comfortable.

I asked him why he was laying there and he thought that this is where he was supposed to be

(He got out of the bilge and enjoyed the rest of the sail.)

We have to sell our big boat first, but we'd like to get another boat like this. It was small enough to trailer behind any vehicle but big enough to carry passengers and not get wet. It was a Boston Whaler Harpoon 5.2 meter.

With the boards up, it would sail in 4.5" of water.

Yomama wrote:

PBulldog2 wrote:Geez. I miss sailing!

We had a Hunter 23 with the wing keel. The boat only drew 23", if I remember that correctly. Great boat... for the price.

We bought a Coronado 23 for $1K... with a trailer. What a sorry excuse for a sailboat. It had a solid keel that ran the length of the boat, but it didn't go down very far. It wouldn't point at all.

We had several Boston Whaler "Harpoon" 5.2 meters. Wonderful boats. One had a cuddy and the other was open. We enjoyed the cuddy version better.

Here's our only sailboat now. It is a Dolphin Sr. with a Sunfish sail (10 sq. ft less than the original sail). It is still fun.

anchoring off of white island in this picture it looks like was my most fav place to go. It was literally a hop around the corner from me. I camped there occasionally on the beach with the boat anchored.

I went around the corner to where you go momma but usually it was too crowded for me and my old boat wasnt pretty but she ran good. I gave several people in much nicer boats than mine a lift from being stuck in the middle of the bay. I did not charge them a penny.

Love seeing these old pics btw.

PB & EE:

I kept meaning to grab this screenshot and post it earlier, but was tied-up with other stuff and didn't get around to it tonight until I got into my youtube to listen to some good stuff (thank you, Seaoat!). I have never had trouble posting youtube videos using the following method. Sorry for the shaky-hand in the grab below ... where you see that I starred to the left of the page, that is to indicate that the arrowed-to field will automatically highlight. All you need to do from there is CTRL-C then paste into the video link thingy here.



Cheers, and good luck!



Oh, and for gosh sakes, here's the song. It is Neil Young's (well, technically I suppose it's CSNY's) "Country Girl," which is one of my all-time favorites. One of my (very few!) GOOD and NICE ex-boyfriends used to play this for me all the time, especially when we went camping together up in the mountains.