"Donal" wrote in message
Sailing .... or working???
For most of us on this ng, "sailing" means taking our vessel out to sea
(where we can be master of all that we survey).

What the hell on you on about.... for the most part "sailing" on this
newsgroup consists of a bunch of cyber sailors lamenting everything that
crosses their path due to their current inability to get out sailing!

If everyone here were as you put it.."taking our vessels out to sea"...
nobody would be friggin' here to bait and abuse!

Look at Bob... he never goes further than eyesight from his dock and lays
claim to stupendous 4-hour passages in the wilds of the LIS!!
90% of the time you never clear the harbour!
90% of the time I'm too inebriated to remember where the hell I've been
unless I refer to the latest collection of beer coasters on my boat!
Horvath sails a low class POS on a polluted lake and never beyond a well
marked racing buoy with every other boat ahead of him to show him the way!
Scotty is too busy cooking steaks to sail beyond the Chesapeake Bay Limits!
Kitty is stuck on a lake doing daysails!
Doug "sails" a friggin' Trawler!
Michael sails for work and hasn't got his "sailboat" launched in 3 years!
Haggie is working on restoring her vessel... even though she probably has
more experience then most of us combined!
Binary Bill sails a daysailor... that leaves the dock 50% less often than
Bob's!
Tadpole sails on a swamp!
John Cairns has illusions of being a salty world class racer... never gets
his own boat out of the lake
Capt Neal makes passages that wouldn't test the abilities of a Mac26x.. let
alone a Jet ski and lays to anchor for 6 months of the Year.
Joe sails his "Iron Maiden" out of a lake and onto shallow flats you could
get out and walk along.
Jon sails in San Fran 'Bay".... he never goes out of the bay!
Old Thom is the only one that remotely sails out of the bay... for short
durations!

Master of all he surveys indeed..... the hell you say!

CM