Around 7/5/2005 11:16 PM, wrote:

Here's a link to an op-ed piece about the philosophy of slow-boating.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...5618b7fc9c9df7

I bet my dad would love to go cruising with you sometime. Though our
Commando can and has been up on what some would call "the edge of
planing" once or twice in her life, she greatly prefers a nice stately
9-10 knots.

When we installed and was breaking in her new Crusader 220, we were able
to keep up with one of the Mukilteo ferries during a full throttle run,
but as my dad said, "It was like watching an old lady trying to hitch up
her skirts and sprint." Scary, and at the same time somewhat pitiful.


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~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows