Capt. Rob wrote:



And since you've been more than a few miles from shore, you have no
right to comment on any aspect of cruising.

Oh. So if I cruise 100 miles within a few miles of shore...uh....it's
not cruising? Ok!

There are lots of ways to go cruising. You haven't done any yet.




Maybe, just maybe, you can get
someone to believe you took your own boat through Hell Gate once.

Yup, with all of my boats and even the "wrong way" a few years ago to
return from the worst fireworks ever.

dream on. But even so, Hell Gate is only about 8 miles from your
slip. And are you seriously claiming that you wouldn't turn on the
engine to make a favorable tide?


And I could care less what you care.

Then why answer EVERY post? You seem very wound up about what I think
of your PDQ. I guess if you had some self confidence you could move on.

You're the one who has been begging for approval Bob. With every
post, you've groveled before us. Rather pathetic for an allegedly
grown man.



You claimed that "sailing without
A/C would be horrific" and you don't even have a genset!

Never said that. Prove it with a link.

I wouldn't think you'd be so stupid as to want to relive that blunder.
On Nov. 7 you said: "It even has AC and heat. A boat without AC is
horrific in August."


Like you I refered to a specific
time period (it's August here) where it been so hot and still, that
most folks don't even both with their boats.

Well, we didn't think you meant it would be horrific in winter. But
you still don't get it. How do you actually plan to use the A/C?
You're bragging that for the month of August the only use you'll have
of your boat is sitting down below in your slip. So that puts you
where on your rating system? About 10 levels below a powerboater?


You used the word
"oppressive." With A/C at the slip at least I can spend some time
aboard. And of course we're getting a genset, Jeff...so take it easy,
bub!

Now you're bragging that you'll be the asshole everyone hates, not
just here but out on the water. You're already well on your way.



In 10 years of sailing you're
still talking about maybe doing a few overnights. Why do you even
bother owning a boat?

Funny. My friend owns a J30 and he rarely cruises anywhere. He just
sails and sails locally because he loves it.

Good for him. Does he spend all his time making up reasons why his
boat is superior to all others?


I guess he's a bad sailor too!

He may well be a great sailor. One the best sailors I've had out on
my boat (an Olympic alternate in the Star class) almost ran my boat
aground just a mile from his normal race course. He thought my "old
man's boat" was lots of fun to sail.

Good call, Jeff. Sorry everyone isn't playing with their toys to
suit you. Then again our toys are actually entertaining to use!

No Bob, its the other way around. YOU haven't earned to right to
complain about how I, or anyone else uses their boat. Have you ever
seen me comment adversely on anyone's boat (not counting Irwins and a
certain Coronado)? I have no problem with how people use their boats,
I like most of the boats here, and respect the experience of most of
the skippers. Most of them have earned the right to comment,
occasionally harshly, on others and their boats. You have not.

You started this with your pathetic insistence that everyone approve
of you new boat. It wasn't enough that people think its a good choice
for your use, you need to keep making idiotic lists of reasons why
your boat vastly superior to all others, and that you got it for half
price.

Sorry Bob, you may own a sailboat, and you may (someday) actually
leave the slip, but you're not a sailor in my book.



But haven't you noticed, they all
agree with me!

Jeff, snap out of it. I you said the earth was flat and I said it was
round, they'd still side with you.

I wonder why that is?

Or haven't you noticed? The fact
that I can take ALL of you on and still beat you with your own oars is
why this is so much fun.

And the best part is that when Thomas asks "what was daddy like?"
there will be a record that he can read.