Or is he sailing the NW passage looking for pirates?

Hey Joe... LCdr Davis (Captain of HMCS Oriole) aka Gary aka Gaz
may be back on his ship by now.

I know personally that he posted to one of my statements on 1-26-06
via the "rec.boats.cruising" group. We had quite an interesting ex-
change having to do with my experiences with a multinational crew
on a small foreign flagged container ship... and his views of same.

In my opinion Mr. Davis is very knowledgeable and a definite asset
to any news group dealing with nautical type matters.

Though I can't speak for him... I suspect he treads lightly when it
comes to posting to this NG due to it's notoriety. (smile)

For the record... since I'm kind of a newbie... I find this "gang"
very entertaining and at times informative. Some of the reg-
ular participants are a "diamond in the rough" so to speak.

Best regards

Bill