"Frank Boettcher" wrote

And a number of my friends have or are thinking about
moving from sail
to power, with trawlers being the boat of choice. They
haven't
necessarily given up on sailing, just on the practicality
of owning a
large sailboat given their individual circumstances. One,
in Boca
Raton, lives on a canal on the wrong side of a couple of
fixed
bridges. Wants a boat he can keep at his house, rigged
and ready.
This is the guy who taught me to sail when we were both
teenagers.
His decision makes sense to me. Other similar stories.
Doug's
probably just as rational, but if not it would be only an
opinion and
none of my business anyway.


I've always found trawler people to be more like sailors
than powerboaters. They will give you ''right of way'', with
a friendly wave. They tend to be more quite at anchor than
your normal PBer.

Bob**** is all about image. He thinks his image of a sailor
is cool. Maybe some day he'll wake up to reality.


--
Scotty.....''One who never gets out of the Sound cannot,
with any degree of
credibility, comment on the courage of fellow sailors''