Sorry to take so long to respond, was up in Juan de Fuca on a 60 foot
ketch with shiny brass and spotless decks and brightwork to die for. It
has booms that don't need old scrap pipe to hold them together.

Simple Simon wrote:
It's people like you who deserve them
for wishing them on others.

Now - that's - an odd position for you to take, since you are the only
one here who is on record wishing bad things on others ... have you
already forgotten the thrashing you recently took? Oh, yeah, maybe so,
you take so many it must be difficult to keep track.

Real systems that work and show wear and tear ...

Bwahahahahahahahah, yeah, like that broken boom on your tupperware
trailerboat?

But, you'll never understand sailboating and sailboats because
you're just another motorhead

Bwahahahahahahahahaahh "Motorhead" ?? That's a good one coming from a
guy whose only bragging rights are based on an expired MOTOR license to
operate an outboard powered Whaler ... so where's the sailing content
there, MOTORmouth? Couldn't pass the sail endorsement or don't have any
sail experience?

Like I said before, your little toy MOTORBOAT license is worth
the same expired as current so who really cares, you can't use it 'cause
that's all you've got ... a piece of paper. But then again, paperwork is
where you find your comfort ... if it weren't for the COLREGS you, the
MOTOR "captain" without a sail endorsement, wouldn't have a whole lot of
nautical stuff to write about at all.

Face it Nil, you're just an internet wannabe who can't fix a broken boom
or renew a toy MOTORBOAT license.

Rick