Just waiting for the pre-game shows and the games to start. 25 degrees F,
and windy, on the desert no less. Drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, but
no flowers on the wall.

"Capt.Mooron" wrote in message
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Yup!.... morning coffee and nuthin' worth reading in the newspaper :-)

CM

"jlrogers" wrote in message
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Bored, are you?
"Capt.Mooron" wrote in message
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Ahem......

"Capt. Rob" wrote in message

We buy a boat for no practical
reason. Oh, we can defend the sailboat with many arguments. A person or
family does need an outlet, a way to relax one's mind, to bring friends
and family closer. But there are less expensive ways to do that than
owning a yacht.

I bought mine to live on... which I did for 9 years.

And that brings us back to beauty. Picture a sailboat
in your mind; a long slender crescent moon topped with an impossibly
large triangle of cloth, a floating pendulum of grace designed to
harness the power of the wind. It's quite an amazing thing really. The
experience, as a boat heels over in that first gust of wind, sails
powering up, the dramatic effort as tons of hull balances and slices
through the water, is nothing less than orgasmic.

I hope this isn't an example of the writing skills used in your book.

Sailing isn't about speed. It isn't about comfort and sure as hell
isn't about how far you sail.

The hell you say..... what's it about then.. a dock condo in a mega
city? if it isn't about comfort why do you go on and on about bunks and
AC and.... well, point proven.

You could spend a lifetime sailing on a
small lake and never need anything more.

Bull****.... unless you're skeered of the big water.


Or you could sail across an
ocean. It's all the same as it all brings you back to that first magic
moment.

Put down the crack pipe Bob....

The rest, all the rest are only details.
If you want to get there faster, buy a speedboat. If you don't like the
heeling, buy a trawler.

How about just buying whatever you like.

The beauty of sailing is in the inefficiency of
it all in a world that forces us to be efficient, the impractically in
a life that demands practicality.

Say what??!!! The efficency is movement without ependiture of fuel....
try it sometime on your sailboat. Contary to what you believe... the
engine does not have to be on for the boat to move.

Trying to force practicality onto a
sailing vessel is like adding a trailer to a Jaguar E Type, or adding a
hull and taking away the heeling and beauty of a sailboat.

That's just a dumb statement. You're envious that Jeff's Moby-Dock has
more real estate than your Dock-Condo

So...two all the aspiring dreamers out the Stay away from a boat
like Jeff's. It's an abomination. It's ugly plain and simple. Want to
be practical? Buy a minivan, but don't tarnish a dream of sailing with
a boat that looks and sails like one. Buy a sailboat that fits your
dream, that picture in your mind. It can be a Catalina 30 or a Rhodes
19 or a lavish Sweden 39. The joys of a keelboat are boundless. There
are SUV's that are faster than a Miata, but no one seeking a sportscar
would trade that feeling for extra seats....except maybe Jeff.

"joys of a keelboat"???..... this coming from a fin keeler is nothing
short of hilarious.

I know , I know... you sat here and crafted this lure for Jeff. I
apologize.... there was just so little in the way of posts here that I
decided to reply.

CM