Picture Contest

[pokerrick1]

What the heck is twitter? I need lessons from a zit covered nose picker.
Mike Inmon

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Rick less in Las Vegas

[Rick Westlake]

Running upwind on the South River, below Annapolis, MD ... I really should have shaken out that reef before this.

[Sea Dreamer]

Rick, Bossa Nova looks good on the water! I think it's the first time I've seen her in the water outside the marina. (Well, ok it is our fault, not yours...confounded wiring project!) We just looked at our schedules and it looks like it'll be Labor Day weekend before we can get any sailing time in. We'll be at the marina this weekend installing the new 'head' (super duper, heavy duty size!) and the new mast light. Maybe we'll see you there.
Clarissa

[2BonC]

I have one too

...and this...

...and this


to be honestly I did not take the third picture by myself...
Rainer

[kmclemore]

Einstein was an avid sailor, actually. Here's a story about his beautiful little boat, the "Tümmler" ("Porpoise") which was confiscated not once, but twice, by the German government:

http://www.einstein-website.de/z_biogra ... ler-e.html

After he came to America he continued his hobby, often sailing on Saranac Lake, as in the photo above.

[2BonC]

..interesting story however I believe this picture was taken on the river Havel in the west of Berlin

[Bransher]

The website "Propercourse.blogspot says:

It's not widely known that Albert Einstein was a sailor. Indeed his friends gave him a yacht for his 50th birthday in 1929. The sailing magazine Die Yacht described this boat in detail. Sadly, after the Nazis came to power and he moved to America he had to leave this boat behind in Germany, and the boat was eventually confiscated by the state. He continued to sail small boats while working at Princeton. Here he is sailing on Lake Carnegie in Princeton with a female friend

Although the link to the photo at "Proper Course" is not working right now, I think it is referring to the photo that 2BonC posted above. I read a book about Einstein a few years ago and remember seeing that picture in the book.

The New York Times said in their July 22, 2007 edition:

CUTCHOGUE, New York — When Albert Einstein first came into Rothman's Department Store in July 1939, the owner, David Rothman, recognized him immediately.

Word had already spread across this sleepy bayside hamlet far out on Long Island that the strange, shaggy genius fancied himself a sailor and had rented a summer cottage overlooking Cutchogue Harbor.

The name of his clunky 15-foot sailboat was Tinef, Yiddish for "worthless" or "junk," and, according to tales across the Little Peconic Bay, it could have equally described Einstein's sailing skills.

"You had 30 people around here who'd tell you they rescued Einstein when he capsized, and towed him and his boat in," said David Rothman's son Robert, who now runs the store.

[kmclemore]

Other info:

http://www.tighsolas.ca/page359.html

http://nolin.vox.com/library/photo/6a00 ... d6a47.html

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/st ... e=8/4/2009

http://hsl.wikispot.org/Albert_Einstein

[2BonC]

...ok, You have won ..
..but the picture in this article defenitely does not belong there: http://nolin.vox.com/library/photo/6a00 ... d6a47.html
This boat has never touched US-water (at least nobody knows) , it is showing the Tümmler.

Rainer

[J.Teixeira]

Hi Rainier.

Did you realize that trip down the Danube?

I (we all) wold love to know about.

Cheers

Jose

[technicalman]

Here's mine. It looks prettier out of the water than it was in the water. we had 35-45 mph gusts on the lake. We were being blown over 20 degrees with the sails down. Even our tents got blown flat! very scarry with over 100 degree temps. but God! It was beautiful up there.

[Captain Jim]

Here we are on Lake George in upstate N.Y. tubing with our grandson in July 2009 with BOLD VENTURE .

Jim

[Love MACs]

Nice pic Technicalman. Just where was that taken?

Allan

[Duane Dunn, Allegro]

Still one of my favorites, anchored in Echo Bay at Sucia Island in the San Juans in 2003




At anchor in front of Chatterbox Falls in Princess Louisa Inlet on the BC coast in 2004.
Surrounded by 2,000' to 3,000 sheer cliffs.
I put the anchor down in 10' of water, the boat is sitting just off the shelf in over 200' of water.




A more recent trip, on a mooring buoy at Kopachuck State Park this Memorial Day.

[Québec 1]

July 20th 2009...Canada
Q1