BoatBanter.com http://www.boatbanter.com A boat and sailing forum covering all aspects of boating acting as a gateway with the best boat newsgroups en Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:22:45 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.boatbanter.com/images/002/misc/rss.jpg BoatBanter.com http://www.boatbanter.com NBC Olympic announcer gaffs http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97713&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:37:01 GMT Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators during the
Olympics that they would like to take back...

1. Weight-lifting commentator: 'This is Gregorieva from Bulgaria. I saw her
snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing'
......
2. Dressage commentator: 'This is really a lovely horse and I speak from
personal experience since I once mounted her mother.'
.....
3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: 'I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and
father.'
.....
4. Boxing Analyst: 'Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in
boxing, but none of them really that serious.'
......
5. Softball announcer: 'If history repeats itself, I should think we can
expect the same thing again.'
......
6. Basketball analyst: 'He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like
it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.'
......
7. At the rowing medal ceremony: 'Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the IOC
president is hugging the cox of the British crew.'
.....
8. Soccer commentator: 'Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got
eleven Dicks on the field.'
.....
9. Tennis commentator: 'One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that,
before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them... Oh
my God, what have I just said?'

]]> General http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97713 Obama to quit http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97712&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:16:38 GMT It wouldnt surprise me. However, I really wanted to make HK eat crow
or at least gloat a little. C'mon Harry, I'll take your bet that
Palin will be out in 21 days. No, No, dont go sulk on your
"lobsterboat".
]]> General ohara5.0@mindspring.com http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97712 Bounding Main News from Gunner Maggie http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97715&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:06:04 GMT Hello to the Bounding Mainiacs! Please read the last entry on our travel blog. We all contributed to it. Thank you, to all of you, who read the entries and... Hello to the Bounding Mainiacs!

Please read the last entry on our travel blog. We all contributed to it.
Thank you, to all of you, who read the entries and contributed comments.
Keep the comments coming!

Also, check out these photos that we took on the trip. The theme, as you
can see, is "Dashed on the Rocks". Thanks to Frank Hui for the idea! It was
a lot of fun, and added even a greater level of revelry to the journey.

I would like to invite you to contribute your own version of "Dashed on the
Rocks". Get together with your family, your pets, your co-workers ....
gather in your cubicle, the roof of your building, your swimming pool ...
and send in photos of yourself doing "Dashed on the Rocks". I'll see if
Dean can post them in the Mainiac page, and if there are enough of them,
I'll make a new album in our photo album.

Keep your mugs wet, your pants dry, and always remember where you docked!!

~Gunner Maggie
http://www.boundingmain.com


]]> Tall Ships Dean Calin http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97715 Oxymoron-- http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97711&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:54:22 GMT Paul Bagala on CNN with "No Bias, No Bull" in the window beneath him.

Right!
]]> General http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97711 off topic? http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97710&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:35:47 GMT
I had Agent mark "all read" ten days ago, and since then 2000 off
topic, mostly presidential politics, posts have accumulated. Thats
just the garbage I sidestepped, not including the stuff I read, or at
least opened. There is a NG that bans politics, religion, and
acronyms. Everyone posts under their real name, most have been doing
it for years, some, including myself, for more than a decade. If there
was a downside to posting under your real name, I have seen no
evidence thereof. In ten years. Fake names, handles, are, with rare
exceptions, signs of malice. My initial reaction to a obviously fake
name is, **** you, you have nothing to say.

Casady
]]> General Richard Casady http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97710 Hanna a non-event in Charleston... http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97714&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:50:52 GMT It's really raining, on and off every hour. The wind is terrific,
sometimes even rustling the leaves in the very top of my oak tree! I
can see it from the DEAD CALM GROUND!

The Folly Beach Surf Cam shows waves nearly knee deep on the edge of the
Atlantic in the rain. There's a huge party going on at the bar at the
Windjammer Lounge on the very beachfront of the Isle of Palms just north
of the harbor. You can watch the rain and the party on
www.jammercam.com from your browser. The rain has spotted the lens of
the "Deck Cam" on the roof, but you can still see the NEARLY FLAT OCEAN
on it.

I did feel a gust coming back from dinner that hit the car in between
massive road flooding because the *******s that are SUPPOSED to be
keeping up our roads no longer scrape off the grass overgrowth that
traps the water in large pools on the road surface every few hundred
yards. Some pools drain off into the many potholes going unfilled.

The TV "news" and "weather" people have done their advertisers a
wonderful job of scaring the hell out of the population who've been just
cleaning the shelves off at WalMart and the hardware stores all day. I
hope everyone piles it BACK in the SUV and RETURNS IT TOMORROW, first
thing in the morning. The storm is sponsored by WalMart.

The storm is right off the coast of Charleston as I type this, as close
as it's gonna get. The leaves out of my window aren't even moving at
the moment. Maybe later there'll be a ripple on the river out front not
caused by raindrops....like now.

The boats are all being rinsed off at the marinas in nice fresh water.

]]> Cruising Larry http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97714 Miss Linda- Galilee RI July 2008 http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97717&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:13:03 GMT

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]]> Tall Ship Photos http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97716 Just for JustWait http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97709&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:02:51 GMT John McCain's acceptance speech last night was strikingly thin on
substance, but there was a portion, about halfway through, in which the
Republican nominee ran through a handful of policy issues. At one point,
he told the audience:

"My health care plan will make it easier for more Americans to find
and keep good health care insurance. [Barack Obama's] plan will force
small businesses to cut jobs, reduce wages, and force families into a
government-run health care system where a bureaucrat... (AUDIENCE
BOOS)... where a bureaucrat stands between you and your doctor."

There are only two sentences in this paragraph, and they're both
completely wrong.

Not only is the second sentence not true, it's nonsensical. Where
exactly is the bureaucrat supposed to stand? In the waiting room?
Outside your car? Obama's health care plan is basically a way to
subsidize private insurance. There's a regulator involved, but he has
nothing to do with you or your doctor. Instead, he stands behind your
insurer, tapping his foot, and warning against denying you coverage on
grounds of ill health or bad luck.

That said, here's the question I'd love to see John McCain asked:
"Senator McCain, can you describe how Senator Obama's health care plan
works?" And if he gets it wrong, I'd like to see the moderator correct
him and ask what he thinks of the actual plan.... I'd bet good money,
and a fair amount of it, that there's no way he could describe it.

Now, the first sentence:

McCain's suggestion his plan would "make it easier for more
Americans to find and keep good health care insurance" is just plain
wrong. As numerous experts have noted, its primary effect will be to
move people out of employer-sponsored insurance and into the individual
market, where the benefits are less comprehensive and insurers refuse
coverage to anybody with pre-exsiting medical conditions.

John McCain doesn't have the foggiest idea what he's talking about on
healthcare. Literally, not a clue.

Have a nice night.
]]> General hk http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97709 Latest Firefox version http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97708&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:23:30 GMT Hey, I just noticed something.

A while back I was complaining about Firefox and the "text size" setting.
You could increase it for a session, but it automatically defaulted back to
normal when Firefox was closed and then restarted.

The new version fixed that. Now, it's called "zoom" instead of "text size",
and once set to your liking, it remains set, even after you close and then
restart Firefox.

Only complaint I have is that apparently there is no way to clear the URL
location history. That's the box that opens when you click on the little
arrow on the right side of the URL field and displays several previously
visited website URL's.
That used to clear when you cleared history, I think, but no more, and
there's no obvious way of clearing it.

Not a big deal, but it's annoying.

Eisboch


]]> General Eisboch http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97708 First dude http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97707&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:37:30 GMT Sarah Palin's husband recently offered up these quips during his first
exposure to the national media.

He has a sense of humor himself .....

"Is it me, or do things move very quickly around here?"

and,

"If I had a crystal ball a couple of years ago, I might have asked a few
more questions when Sarah decided to join the PTA."


and,

"When my wife starts talking about reform, corruption and making the
government work for the people ..... it's just best to get out of the way."


Pretty cool dude, and no pansy, that's for sure.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...26716&src=news

Eisboch


]]> General Eisboch http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97707 Surge - Boating Related http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97702&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:33:29 GMT Yep...

Friendly marina guy called and said there might be a three to four foot
"surge" tomorrow in conjunction with the high tides and the passover of
TS Hanna. That kind of surge floods over into the boat parking areas,
and if it is high enough splashes more than water into the trailer axles.

So I just picked up Yo Ho and brought her home. We're between 110' and
115' above sea level. Going to move another boat to a Pax River spot in
a couple of hours.

Lots of guys moving their trailer boats today, and some guys were taking
their boats out of the slips and trailering them to higher ground. A few
guys were doubling up lines.

Hopefully, Hurricane Ike will not present a problem next week to us Acelas.
]]> General hk http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97702 What a great day!! http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97701&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:16:52 GMT Woke up, exercised (lifting some 38000lbs), took the trailer back to the storage lot, hit 120 balls, and just washed the 4Runner. Saw a few second hand... Woke up, exercised (lifting some 38000lbs), took the trailer back to the
storage lot, hit 120 balls, and just washed the 4Runner. Saw a few second
hand Harrytales, and realized that JimH has apparently forgiven Shortwave
his egregious transgressions. Jimh must have realized that Tom was right
all along, besides being right, that is.

Life is good. It doesn't get much better.

Get it? Eh?
]]> General http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97701 Redcloud was not first http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97706&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:45:44 GMT From Letters to the editor, Sept. 08, Sail Magazine: COFFEE CARGO Dave Baldwins story about the coffee-hauling ketch Red Cloud (*Coffee Clipper Plan Grinds... From Letters to the editor, Sept. 08, Sail Magazine:

COFFEE CARGO

Dave Baldwins story about the coffee-hauling ketch Red Cloud (*Coffee
Clipper Plan Grinds to a Halt, " Under Sail, March) prompted me to
write this letter. In 1998, our 82-foot schooner, Patricia Belle, set
sail from Port Orchard, Washington, on her maiden voyage, outbound for
Nicaragua.

There, we loaded 10,000 pounds of green coffee beansand returned to
San Diego, intent on selling our cargo. After a lengthy inspection by
U.S. Custom, and the Food and Drug Administration, the beans were
cleared and we paid a small duty. "Sorry it took so long, Cap, but we
haven't done this for 100 years," the port authorities said.

The Patricia Belle soon became known as the "Coffee Schooner"; she
sailed on San Diego Bay every Sunday. Some boats sent tenders over to
buy beans, but most of the coffee was deliveredto the other boats in
the bay. Since then, we've made three more voyagesthrough Central
America and the Carribean. The boat now takes charter guestssailing
out of Mazatlan, Mexico, and I still have guests say, "So, you're the
coffee schooner, eh?"

Sorry to read about Red Cloud's misfortune.

Captain Patrick Hughes
schooner Patricia Belle
]]> ASA salty@dog.com http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97706 Redcloud was not first http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97703&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:45:44 GMT From Letters to the editor, Sept. 08, Sail Magazine: COFFEE CARGO Dave Baldwins story about the coffee-hauling ketch Red Cloud (*Coffee Clipper Plan Grinds... From Letters to the editor, Sept. 08, Sail Magazine:

COFFEE CARGO

Dave Baldwins story about the coffee-hauling ketch Red Cloud (*Coffee
Clipper Plan Grinds to a Halt, " Under Sail, March) prompted me to
write this letter. In 1998, our 82-foot schooner, Patricia Belle, set
sail from Port Orchard, Washington, on her maiden voyage, outbound for
Nicaragua.

There, we loaded 10,000 pounds of green coffee beansand returned to
San Diego, intent on selling our cargo. After a lengthy inspection by
U.S. Custom, and the Food and Drug Administration, the beans were
cleared and we paid a small duty. "Sorry it took so long, Cap, but we
haven't done this for 100 years," the port authorities said.

The Patricia Belle soon became known as the "Coffee Schooner"; she
sailed on San Diego Bay every Sunday. Some boats sent tenders over to
buy beans, but most of the coffee was deliveredto the other boats in
the bay. Since then, we've made three more voyagesthrough Central
America and the Carribean. The boat now takes charter guestssailing
out of Mazatlan, Mexico, and I still have guests say, "So, you're the
coffee schooner, eh?"

Sorry to read about Red Cloud's misfortune.

Captain Patrick Hughes
schooner Patricia Belle
]]> Cruising salty@dog.com http://www.boatbanter.com/showthread.php?t=97703