"Larry" wrote in message
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"Dennis Pogson" wrote in
news:TXPxj.2486
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just curious to know if such
training and examination facilities exist in the US

Not in Charleston. They make you install a manual bilge pump if you don't
have one, but noone inspects it to see if it's there.

The qualifications to race here are to have a boat that has at least one
sail that's not ripped to shreds and some kind of tiller so you can turn
it
'round towards the start line without running over the race committee's
bouys.

They get all excited, too, if you steer right towards the yacht club dock
with the spinnaker haulin ass...(c;

No dead crew members are allowed. Boozed up is normal.


Larry,,, it amazes me that people who seem to have a brain can't see that
the government does not care one hoot
about safety. All it wants is more money. What a joke. No wonder the US
dollar is worth nothing, no wonder the
credit crisis is so overwheming, .. we are doomed. How long can the great
old USA go on it we have the likes of
Clinton, Obama, Bush, McLiberal,, and the rest of them.

About a week ago I called to ask why there is no public dock for
recreational boats in Portsmouth NH.
You would think I was a member of the Talaban. Public docks? Who are you?

So, I ask, where is all the boat registration money going?

I'm still waiting for the answer.

And now these lemmings want to give the government more of their money for
LICENSES?

ARE YOU PEOPLE NUTS?

WAKE UP...