You have a perfect record when it comes to refuting and steamrolling the
great bloviator. Once again you've done it. I sincerely wish you would post
more frequently and continue to lance the great syphillitic pustule.

Good job.


Glory to Google!

Thanks. Just trying to be of help.

Its not uncommon for daysailors in tender boats who stare at
instruments to overestimate the wind. When a lightweight boat starts
getting knocked around, the masthead sensor takes on a life of its
own. A quick heel can move the sensor at 50 feet per second, which
just happens to be 30 knots! This happens every time Booby steps on
board, so he always has that as his "Max Wind Speed" reading.

On the LIS water quality issue, I'm surprised you didn't bring up the
chronic beach closings in Booby's area. The last few years had major
shutdowns, and this year isn't starting too well:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag... BC0A961958260
"Already this summer, beaches have been closed in New York City (in
the Bronx) and in nearby Westchester County, Stamford and Greenwich,
Conn. The worst problems, in Westchester, came in June after an
unmanned sewage pumping station in the Bronx malfunctioned and spewed
millions of gallons of raw sewage into a tributary of the East River."

Note also the beach closings in the Bronx and Westchester in 2004:
http://www.nrdc.org/water/oceans/ttw/sumnewy.pdf
In particular, the Morris Yacht and Beach Club (that's the one on City
Island that had the recent fire) seemed to be closed half the Summer.

Or you could consider the water quality buoys, including Execution
Rock, which generally show Oxygen levels too low to support fish life.
http://www.mysound.uconn.edu/
In fact, the bottom west of Oyster Bay has had chronic hypoxia for all
of the last decade.
http://www.longislandsoundstudy.net/...section2_1.pdf

Or you could consider the collapse of the lobster and oyster harvest
over the last 15 years.

Much is explained at:
http://www.longislandsoundstudy.net/indicators/

Jeff, between cruises for a week or so