A C&C 27??... Heh that's nice boat! Fast as well! My friend by the name of
Bill.... had one in Yellowknife. He was a full blood racer, nice guy and
very good with a boat and racing tactics. I learned a lot form him that I
use cruising.

CM

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| On 25 Jun 2003 13:20:31 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:
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| but well adjusted, emotionally secure, people
| wouldn't.
|
| I see...you sit in this NG trolling, attacking and making a fool of
yourself
| daily...but ACTUALLY you sail all the time and are very secure.
| I see!
|
|
| Nobody expects that you would "see".
|
| The problem with you and Neal is that you have inferiority complexes.
| You have a reasonably good boat, but for some reson you are compelled
| to try and convince the world about how great you and your "stuff"
| are. The more you bleat and brag, the smaller you get in the eyes of
| everyone here. You'd be the class clown, except you can't even tell a
| joke.
|
| Neal is the same way. He might have oodles of credibility if he would
| just state the obvious. He has an old, but servicable boat, a limited
| budget, and he does the best he can with it. Continually bellowing
| about what a superior boat he has makes him look the fool.
| Occasionally, he manages to find creative solutions to some of the
| obstacles facing him. You don't even seem to have THAT going for you.
|
| Me? I have a nice old C&C 27-5 with a ton of good equipment on it,
| mostly due to the previous owner. I sail it often, and my wife shares
| my enthusiasm. I have sailed since I was a kid, but never raced, and
| most of my younger days of sailing was in small boats. I learned how
| to sail at CG Flotilla 72, on Calf Pasture Beach, and later taught the
| course there. I'm not the world's formost authority on anything
| sailing, but I know quite a bit.
|
| BB