Martin Schöön wrote:
writes:

Man, to keep this in perspective, this is a freakin' aircraft carrier!
I know that there used to be someone here who claimed to have piloted
a boat around the horn, but to drench the bow of an aircraft carrier
is something else!

http://www.break.com/index/giant-wav...t-carrier.html

Once upon a time (late 1980s) when rec.boats was actually a boating
(read sailing) forum and was to an impressive degree frequented by people
with real nautical experience (multiple Round the World Races, Navy...)
someone started a bragging match: "Who has been through the worst
storm at sea?"

The guy who 'won' had serviced on a nuclear air craft carrier
(Nimitz type of thing) and on the way into Japan they were over-
run by this typhoon and got pooped several times.



rec.boats is mostly populated by non-boaters these days, by boating
nincompoops who, for example, ask which brand of high-tech two cycle
outboard oil would be the best to use in their four cycle outboard, and
by amateur guitar players, amateur beer brewers, old farts who think
they had something to do with the production of grandchildren, golfers
who shoot in the 90s, and an absolute idiot who pretends he is a
construction engineer but who knows nothing about construction or
engineering.

Some of us just come here for the unintentional humor the idiots post.