John H. writes:
On Mon, 19 May 2008 19:16:50 +0200, (Martin Schöön)
wrote:
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.
You may be thinking of rec.boats.cruising, which has a lot of sailor types
thereon.
Nope, this was before rec.boats got 'branches', if memory serves.
I have never attended r.b.c.
We had a 'club pendant' (is that the word??) designed and someone
working at the linear particle accelerator in Stanford printed and sold
t-shirts---I still have one.
We had rec.boats 'summit' dinner at one of the yacht clubs to the
north of S.F. (no not Sausolito, the name eludes me) in mid-June
1997.
There was a list of people willing to host (take for a sail)
rec.boaters on the road. I got out sailing on the S.F. Bay
and Chesapeake Bay that way. I took a guy from N.Y. sailing on
my cat here in Sweden.
We have 'moved on' since those days.
--
Martin Schöön "Problems worthy of attack
show their worth by hitting back."
Piet Hein