"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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jeffies, it is a gate, not a lock, according to both the CG and CofEng, and it
It is locks with a tide gate, according to the Coast Pilot, Suffolk County who owns
and operates it, and various people who have gone through it. You have failed to show
any evidence to the contrary, again demonstrating you're a fool and a liar.
The rest of this is meaningless gibberish. Since I never claimed any desire to take
my boat through I don't know why the issue of lowering my mast is relevant. Its
pretty clear that you're terrified of operating any vessel in close quarters, or in
strong currents, so its just as well that you don't have a boat.
is open most of the time. However, few boat capable of being taken offshore
have masts easily taken down and put back up by the vessel's crew using DIY
manual equipment at each of the the canal.
Keep in mind, jeffies, that Hampton Bay was a swamp until the Hurricane of 1938
and even today is a decidedly shallow body of water with a constantly shifting
bottom and a often barely sufficient depth channel that moves around a lot and
an outlet to the ocean often with nasty standing waves wind against the current
in a highly changeable channel.
Here is what Shinnecock Inlet has looked like over the years.
http://www.oceanscience.net/inletson...3?inlet=Shinne
cock&state=New+York&district=New+York
What it looks like today is much different, and what it looks like after the
next storm will be different again.
you wanna go through there jeffies? get a SeaTow membership.
now, about you and your wife dropping the mast on your boat, and then 20
minutes later putting it back up, you fumb duck. Just to get to the northern
edge of the Shinnecock Canal you must first negoiate the currents either side
of Shelter Island, motor many miles across Great Peconic Bay and then Little
Peconic Bay taking great care to avoid the shallow spots.
jeffies, even in your training wheels and even with your utter lack of ordinary
intellgience *you* wouldn't do something like that.
From: "Jeff Morris"
Date: 10/16/2004 1:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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I can certainly see why you would be scared ****less, but then, you're to
much of a
coward to even admit your name.
Obviously, the mast would have to be lowered, and that by itself would be to
much work
for the benefit. But this is no more tricky or dangerous than a dozen other
places
I've been. The locks are 41 by 250 feet, not that different from others I've
been in.
And while it might be tricky with the tide running through, I regularly
transit the
Blynman Canal (in Gloucester) which is considerably narrower and just as
strong.
"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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jeffies, haul out a chart and LOOK at what you are proposing. kriste
almighty!
From: "Jeff Morris"
Date: 10/16/2004 12:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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jeffies, you have never seen the Shinnecock/Suez Canal, not even from
the
highway. so, how come you keep insisting that neither the United States
Coast
Guard, nor the United States Army Corps of Engineers is wrong?
Nope, I've never been through. I'm just quoting what the Coast Pilot
says.
There
are a number of sites that refer to the locks.
And I'm not saying the CG or Army Corps are wrong; I'm saying you're lying
about what
they say.
btw, jeffies, what is the chance *you* think *you* could move your
training
wheels through that canal and out through the bay on the ocean side?
tell
us
about just how you and your wife are going to pull down your mast on one
end of
the canal and put it up on the other, and then just how you are going to
navigate the channel out through Hampton Bay (without calling SeaTow
several
times), then make it past the entrance (which side does one favor,
today?)
and
then through the wind against the current, then on to (what if totally
frightening to you) the open ocean?
What's the problem? You must realize that my boat was built in Toronto
and I
brought
her down through the Erie Canal. And I've boated all my life near the
locks
on the
Charles River, their operation is no great mystery.
Sorry Jax, you can't bluff your way through this; its clear you've never
been
there,
and probably have never seen a lock in operation.