Virginia members?

[JohnT3006]

Just curious how many members are in Virginia or maybe the mid east generally.

I’m from Central/SouthSide Virginia

 

[JohnT3006]

I’m in Central/Southside Virginia

 

[Longrifle]

NW Loudoun.
Have gun, will travel.

 

[ChooChoo404]

NOVA

 

[Dunno1]

Likewise, NOVA

 

[BeeMaa]

Alexandria, but in Fairfax County...aka outside the beltway.

Arrowhead would be about 3-hour drive (depending on traffic of course) for us. Not saying we won't do it, but it's a haul.

 

[404Pruitt]

Arrowhead Gun Club

It’s just outside of Chase City VA. It would be about an hour further east than Lynchburg. I would imagine if you’re near Bristol it you would take 58 to Clarksville (Buggs Island Lake) and then a couple secondary roads to the club.

I’m right across the state line in Carolina. Takes me about 45 minutes to get to Clarksville. We do all of our hunting in Halifax near Elmo. I know this is an older thread but would be interested in coming out to your club one day.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Alexandria, but in Fairfax County...aka outside the beltway.

Arrowhead would be about 3-hour drive (depending on traffic of course) for us. Not saying we won't do it, but it's a haul.

@BeeMaa
Y'all could do it with the boss mate, it's just a short doddle down the track.
Ah that's right you just bought a Ford van so may not get you there and if'n it does mightn't git y'all back home. Remember it is a Ford Afterall.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

I’m right across the state line in Carolina. Takes me about 45 minutes to get to Clarksville. We do all of our hunting in Halifax near Elmo. I know this is an older thread but would be interested in coming out to your club one day.

@404Pruitt
Y'all could
Take a fast train to Clarksville and they could meet you at the station.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Bob

 

[odonata]

I'm over in Arkansas but my sailboat is currently docked in Portsmouth, VA waiting for my upcoming retirement to start in less than a year. I just spent a week onboard getting her prepped & ready. Since I might be relocating to the east coast in the next few months, I thought I would tag this post to stay informed if a get together ever gets scheduled.

Drinking a Guinness before noon on a workday. Feels like a vacation!

 

[Russ16]

I'm over in Arkansas but my sailboat is currently docked in Portsmouth, VA waiting for my upcoming retirement to start in less than a year. I just spent a week onboard getting her prepped & ready. Since I might be relocating to the east coast in the next few months, I thought I would tag this post to stay informed if a get together ever gets scheduled.

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Drinking a Guinness before noon on a workday. Feels like a vacation!

Tell us more about your boat.

 

[odonata]

Tell us more about your boat.

The short version is that it's an Island Packet 31. I didn't need (or want) anything too big since I'll probably be alone on it most of the time.

The longer version of how I came to own it is a bit more convoluted. Over the last couple of decades, a good friend of mine & I have been restoring sailboats & building small wooden boats in a barn in Roland, AR. We would take the smaller ones out to the uninhabited barrier islands off the coast of Mississippi in the Gulf Islands National Seashore. We sailed one of the bigger ones down the Mississippi River & eventually on to Europe. A couple of months ago, we sailed a Morris Francis 26 that Pat restored from Port St. Joe, FL to its new home in Pass Christian, MS.

My IP31, Geneviève, came into my possession because of my daughter Olivia. She had fallen in love with sailing while she was working on her PhD at the University of Florida. When she graduated, she told me that she would love to stay along the coast & live on a boat if possible. I thought it would be a good learning experience so I gave her a list of items I was looking for in a retirement boat. I told her to search for a boat, find one, take it on a sea trial, have it inspected & then haggle a price. As I expected, she hit a home run & this was the boat she picked. She's been living on it for the last 2.5 years.

It originally was located in St. Petersburg. But we sailed it around Florida to its hailing port of St. Augustine. Last year I helped her relocate it to Portsmouth. She recently bought her own 44' trawler so now I'm starting to work on the transition to becoming a nomadic tumbleweed in my early retirement years. We'll see where the ocean breezes push me (and hope it's not into a reef).

As I mentioned above, we started out on small boats like this mahogany drift boat that Pat built. Here we are camping & fishing on Horn Island off the coast from Biloxi

Here's a photo of us taking a restored Hallberg-Rassy Rasmus down the Mississippi River

The Walkabout that I'm currently building that was designed by a Kiwi, John Welsford. I'm building her out of native Arkansas wood so she has a lot of sassafras, black locust & cypress.

The Morris Frances 26 that we just sailed to Pass Christian. Pat had to abandon an ill-fated attempt to sail to Belize after getting struck by lightning & beat up by unfavorable winds & currents.

My current IP31 about to set sail from Jacksonville, FL to Portsmouth, VA last year.

Olivia dropped me off on the shore in South Carolina before continuing on to Virginia

 

[Russ16]

The short version is that it's an Island Packet 31. I didn't need (or want) anything too big since I'll probably be alone on it most of the time.

The longer version of how I came to own it is a bit more convoluted. Over the last couple of decades, a good friend of mine & I have been restoring sailboats & building small wooden boats in a barn in Roland, AR. We would take the smaller ones out to the uninhabited barrier islands off the coast of Mississippi in the Gulf Islands National Seashore. We sailed one of the bigger ones down the Mississippi River & eventually on to Europe. A couple of months ago, we sailed a Morris Francis 26 that Pat restored from Port St. Joe, FL to its new home in Pass Christian, MS.

My IP31, Geneviève, came into my possession because of my daughter Olivia. She had fallen in love with sailing while she was working on her PhD at the University of Florida. When she graduated, she told me that she would love to stay along the coast & live on a boat if possible. I thought it would be a good learning experience so I gave her a list of items I was looking for in a retirement boat. I told her to search for a boat, find one, take it on a sea trial, have it inspected & then haggle a price. As I expected, she hit a home run & this was the boat she picked. She's been living on it for the last 2.5 years.

It originally was located in St. Petersburg. But we sailed it around Florida to its hailing port of St. Augustine. Last year I helped her relocate it to Portsmouth. She recently bought her own 44' trawler so now I'm starting to work on the transition to becoming a nomadic tumbleweed in my early retirement years. We'll see where the ocean breezes push me (and hope it's not into a reef).

As I mentioned above, we started out on small boats like this mahogany drift boat that Pat built. Here we are camping & fishing on Horn Island off the coast from Biloxi
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Here's a photo of us taking a restored Hallberg-Rassy Rasmus down the Mississippi River

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The Walkabout that I'm currently building that was designed by a Kiwi, John Welsford. I'm building her out of native Arkansas wood so she has a lot of sassafras, black locust & cypress.

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The Morris Frances 26 that we just sailed to Pass Christian. Pat had to abandon an ill-fated attempt to sail to Belize after getting struck by lightning & beat up by unfavorable winds & currents.

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My current IP31 about to set sail from Jacksonville, FL to Portsmouth, VA last year.

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Olivia dropped me off on the shore in South Carolina before continuing on to Virginia

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Very cool! Sounds like a great retirement.