I agree whole heartedly and don't think that this type of personalised
depricatory posting is called for, especially in a forum such as this.
Anyway, bodies are only vehicles to carry a mind and should never be a
prime factor for judgement of the worth of a person. Stephen Hawkins
comes to mind as well as Albert Einstein's hair style.

Besides, Larry has enough security in his persona not to hide his
weight. In a posting about bicycles on board he freely made mention of
his "240 pounds of lard".

I don't care if he be fat or thin, tall or dwarf, blond haired and
blue eyed or bald and blind. I don't judge people by their physical
attributes. Larry does not need me to defend him. The amount of
helpful advice he has given freely over the years to this and other
forums is sufficient. He is the type of person who would spend hours
helping a stranger in need. His equal, also an ex US forces radio
specialist lives on his cat in Malaysia and the Phillipines. He spent
a couple of days in tuning our radio and getting it going again after
a lightning strike rendered it unable to talk to the auto antenna
tuner. In the end he gave me a manual tuner with a listing of knob
settings according to band, refusing to take anything for his efforts.
Bob is 72 and is also required to buy clothing for the larger man.

Personally, regarding people over 60 sailing, I disagree with Larry
partially as I will reach that age in November. A friend of mine,
currently 78 years old regularly sails solo between Bundaberg, Sydney
and Pacific Islands such as Tonga. I disagree with him but I do not
feel the need to attack him in a personal and hurtful manner.

Furthermore, I think that he looks sort of cute and cuddly and has a
nice face (No!, I'm not gay in addition to being not anti-Christian,
anti-Jewish, anti-American excepting for shrub of course - my God, the
list is growing).

I for one am very grateful for his advice and expertise.

Peter Hendra




Tea, take a look at http://www.qrz.com/w4csc


And that picture was from 10 years ago...

One more reason not to post your call letters on the internet.

Anonymity is overrated on the internet. The
posters that have the address of their website in
their sig, or use their real name are people to
admire, because they are _real_ people who are not
afraid to hide who they are.

For example, "Peggie Hall" is really ... Peggie
Hall, and when I was having trouble with the head
on our Irwin, she took the time to talk me through
it over the phone as well as responding to my posts.

"Rick Morel" is really Rick Morel, and you can
take a look at his boat at
http://www.morelr.com/valkyrie

If Larry was insecure enough to worry about what
people thought of his looks, he could have posted
a pic of some young buff guy on his website, and
no one would have been the wiser.

Although I still think of myself as a young buff
guy, the mirror tells me a different story ;-)
(Born in the 1950's) Fortunately, my wife likes
me the way I am, and that is all that matters to me.

Don W. -- who doesn't have a website yet, but
will post the URL when it goes up.