"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in
anews.com:


wrote in message
oups.com...
... So you can cruise and you can
telephone. But it's not the same as doing one or the other and doing
it
well. ...

I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying that I'm cruising less well
when, lets say, just for the sake of historical accuracy, I'm anchor
down in Kanton Atoll on a day when it's so calm I can't tell where
the air ends and the water starts and so hot that even the flies have
taken cover in the shade I call my father on my Iridium phone? Are
you telling me that this offends you in some way? Do we need to be
reduced to sail cloth pants and latitude sailing to be cruising
"well"?

-- Tom.


And sooner or later your phone will make you lazy and inept just like
the poor fella further up this thread who couldn't even figure out how
to get up the mast without making telephone calls and asking people
how to do it safely. That's pretty disgusting in my humble opinion.
People like him, when they get their friends advice about going up the
mast, and then they manage to fall off will likely crawl to their cell
phone, dial up their lawyer and enquire as to how to sue their friends
for giving bad advice.


Ocne again you're making assumptions about things that you know nothing
about. In this case I was calling someone who used to work for Freedom
to ask what the load rating was for the flag halyard rollers. As it
turns out, the rollers designed to support a person. I wasn't about to
go up the mast while underway without checking. It sounds like you
would have goen up as you wouldn't have had any other option. I did and
I took it.

You act like I know nothing about sailing. I typically spend 6-7 months
a year sailing and I've logged over 30,000 miles. I believe that know a
lot about my boat and sailing. Check my web site if you have any doubt.

You're just an arrogant SOB who thinks that everyone should do things
your way. Based upon your discourse in this and other threads, I'm very
glad that most of the world isn't like you. I suggest that you go back
to alt.sailing.asa where you're quite prolific and the people in that
group enjoy bashing one another.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org

P.S. In one thread you said

In my opinion, my relatives just have to accept the fact that I'll be
out of touch. I will not enable them to be worrywarts every time they
don't get a daily or weekly telephone call.

Did you ever consider that they don't want to hear from you if you act
this way towards them?