On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:38:10 +1000, Herodotus
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:39:55 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:


More like a bulk carrier than a sailboat. But, whatever floats your boat . .
.

Myself, I prefer to sail. This no wind for an entire week is a load of crap.
Won't happen in that part of the world. He obviously lied. What he didn't
want to admit was the winds were light and variable and he was too lazy and
in too much of a hurry to work them. Not to mention his boat was so heavy
loaded down with huge diesel engine and huge tanks to feed its appetite.
Easier to just motor. It takes half a gale to make any decent amount of way
with any motor sailer like that.

That's the problem with carrying a lot of tankage. You quickly turn into
just another worthless motorboat. Now, I think I understand why you failed
to make it around even one time. Your tanks just weren't large enough. Some
sailor, you!


Wilbur Hubbard


For someone that doesn't sail you seem to have a lot of information
about the Indian ocean, albeit incorrect. During the change over from
the N.W. Monsoon to the S.W. Monsoon there are frequent periods of
calm.

The boat is a 55 ft. Ketch and the Perkins 6 cylinder doesn't seem to
weight it down a bit, nor the fuel.

Your problem is that you don't know anything about cruising boats. If
you have ever sailed (and I find that extremely doubtful from your
posts) it was in some sort of tiny day sailor. Had you have ever been
around an ocean going boat or made a voyage out of sight of land you'd
know better. But of course, you haven't so you sit there in your
eazyboy recliner reading your yachting magazines and dreaming you are
a sailor.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct Address is bpaige125atgmaildotcom)

I hate to support you in this Bruce, you being an American, but you
are 100% correct.

The man simply doesn't know what he is talking about having never been
there in one of his several 'circumnavigations'. There are many
periods of many days without wind and the currents in this area make
it both necessary and sensible to motor.

Another area requiring frequent motoring is the Med.

I am certain that if Captain Cook and all the great sailors had an
engine and adequate fuel they would have eschewed sailing at times of
adverse or no wind and motored quite happily about. They would have
also used flushing toilets instead of a wooden bucket.

what a moron.

Peter


Many years ago I met Captain Carter, an 80 year old lobster fisherman
and boat builder up on the coast of Maine. His family had lived in the
area and built boats for a couple of hundred years.

I asked him one day, Captain Carter, were the good old days really
that good?

He replied, "Boy, I'll tell you. you get down the mouth of the bay in
a sloop and the wind dies and you have to row her home you won't talk
about the Good Old Days.

Sloop, in this case referring to a lobster boat, a 28 - 30 ft.
Friendship Sloop like Captain Carter fished from in his younger days.

The Buggis Schooners, from S. Sulawasi are still trading between the
Indonesian Islands but they are all motorized now.

Real sailors -- the people that actually make their living from being
on the water are pretty unanimous in thinking that internal combustion
is good.



Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct Address is bpaige125atgmaildotcom)