"Joe" wrote in message
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On Mar 25, 1:00 pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message

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Right. I'm not going to do an impulse buy.

That's excellent that you're taking your time and doing it right.
There's one moron around here by the name of JimC who claims he's a
lawyer. He ran out on an impulse and bought a Mac26M and now is
totally
embarrassed about his uninformed entry-level purchase. It's like I'm
sure people look at his boat and then find out he's a lawyer and they
begin to wonder how lame is this guy. Lawyers who are worth a hoot
make,
what, about 500 dollars an hour so he ought to be able to afford a
real
boat and a classy boat at that. Anyhow, poor JimC spent probably a
hundred hours posting things about how he was so happy with his
purchase
but you could tell he was not happy at all. Somebody who's happy with
his boat doesn't spend hundreds of hours trying to convince himself
how
great it is.

But, I think the dude finally got the message that everybody thought
he
was pretty stupid and he got totally disrespected so he sorta slunk
off
with his tail tucked. He just about quit posting on alt.sailing.asa
because he became the laughing stock of the group. If you are the
type
of individual who is a bit insecure about his personal worth and has
low
self-esteem and is a bit paranoid like Jonathan Ganz, for example, do
yourself a favor and consider how people will snicker behind your
back
and make snide remarks about your pretend sailboat. If that sort of
thing gets to you perhaps you should reconsider and get a boat that
is
more prestigious. If you don't give a crap what people think about
your
choice of boat and it doesn't bother your self-esteem the Mac 26
could
be a decent choice for you.

If you're more like Scotty you won't care at all what people think.
Scotty sails a Seidelmann which has a worse reputation than even a
Mac26. He doesn't seem to care that almost everybody laughs at him
behind his back and shuns him to his face when confronted with him in
person. He's the type that probably would be very happy with a Mac26.

Wilbur Hubbard

Hey Wilber,

Guess who I saw out sailing on the lake today?
It's blowing about 13kts steady and it looks like he was having a nice
sail.

Joe


A lake in Texas. It couldn't be Scotti-Potti. Nor Bobsprit. Nor JL
Rodgers who never got around to getting a boat. Maybe it was Greg in his
Coronado 25. He lives down there in Texas the last I heard.

Wilbur Hubbard