"Skip Gundlach" skipgundlach sez use my name at earthlink dot
fishcatcher (net) - with apologies for the spamtrap wrote:

"Jere Lull" wrote in message
...
Taking a course will help you be more comfortable and give you a bit of
info, but you *will* pause as you first back several million dollars'
worth of fiberglass away from the dock.

DAYUM (southern expletive of amazement), Jere,

What kinda boats do you charter?? :{))

With us it is as much what we might crash the boat into, rather than
the actual charter boat itself.

Most of the time the problem is coming IN to the dock, and often that
is because the people giving us the directions do not realize that we
don't have a fin keel and that we DO have a very heavy boat, which
would make a big dent in the big multi-zillion $$ yacht, or smash to
smithereens the little sports fish at the dock (which is parked in a
completely inappropriate place, but if we smashed it the owner would
still be mad). Or because they've failed to warn us about cross
currents that we can't see or something else equally egregious.


L8R

Skip, whose direct charters were on 5-figure boats (some shoulda been 4),
but that's what we came for

grandma Rosalie