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On Jul 1, 12:05 pm, Bob wrote:
On Jun 30, 11:29 am, "Popeye" wrote:

I uses me trawler quites sa bit hawling back diesel frum Mexico. I can
carry
1200 gallons, I cruise down for the weekend on a near empty tank,
cruise
back up on Tuesday, sell 1000 gallons at $5.00. Every week, all tax
free!

thats what i told the coffee king on the Red Clown. Deep six the coffe
idea, uh well... i guess he did, and take an old 80' gulf shrimper
down there. most have 15-25 thousand gallon fuel tanks PLUS area galor
in the hold and monster space for a deck load.

But noooo. he wanted to be a coffee captain.
Bob



Bob you are so FN stupid with your idiotic suggestion. (nothing new)

He was right on with respect to his advice to the hapless skipper of the
erstwhile motor sailer, "Red Cloud." Not a few sensible folks tried to warn
him to cease and desist in his folly but did he heed the advice of his
superiors? No! And look what it got him.


Why would anyone risk 20 years in prison for smuggling such a low
profit item?

Duh, you can't 'smuggle' diesel fuel that way. You are allowed to have it in
your working tanks. The only way you can get caught is if you get caught
selling it. What you do is arrange beforehand to sell it to somebody who can
re-sell it. You sell it for a buck over what you have in a gallon of it and
the fellow you sell it to gets a buck. In case you haven't looked lately
diesel is close to five bucks a gallon now.

Diesel is 2.50 a gallon now in Mexico, you could only sell it black
market for 4.00 if you are lucky.

You just don't think very clearly, do you? You let somebody else sell it on
the black market. You can't get too greedy if you're going to skirt the law.
Greed is what gets most crooks in the end.

snip faulty math

Your math is wrong. At today's high prices for diesel the profit would be
around 30 large.

And, diesel is lighter than water. Pretty hard to sink the boat like that
the buffoon crew of "Red Cloud" had so little trouble doing with their
ill-conceived coffee run. El Lago Coffee Company, indeed. More like El Lamo
Coffee Company.

You may not have a life outside prison woth anything but Joe does I
would bet.

How can the poor schmuck even show his face anymore? After that travesty he
pulled off in the Gulf nobody would ever take him seriously again.


With an 80 ft sailboat you could carry 40,000 lbs of coffee.
Coffee can bring 7 a pound pure profit.
At 40,000 lbs thats 280,000 dollars profit on the cargo. Remove 10K
for fuel and legal paper work ect you have 270,000 dollars profit per
trip and no risk of jail time.

Bunk. If there were seven bucks a pound proffit coffe would cost about 14
bucks a pound and we all know I can go down to any bean shop and buy a one
pound bag of premium beans for six or seven bucks. What are you smoking,
man?

Again Bob, like Nealbur you will never muster up the balls to do
anything but sit on your hemmoroid laiden asses and critize those who
do. Start using your head for something other than greasing up pillow
cases.

Fred

Sorry, Fred, but if that puff-chested, strutting, know-it-all, banty rooster
of a poor excuse for a seaman who sailed the "Red Cloud" into extinction in
a little ole Gulf of Mexico cold front would have listened to Bob and Wilbur
he would have stood a much better chance of success. Of course, given what
we all know about his competence level after the fact, even God Himself
could not have guaranteed 100% success.

If the Captain Huff-n-Puff would have listened to me and hauled a decent
profit-making load down to Belize like I told him to, he would have at least
salvaged something out of the debacle. But, noooo, he had to play at the
game instead of taking it seriously. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing
right. The man's never going to succeed at anything until he adopts that
philosophy.

And you need to start using your ass for something other than a place to
store your head.
(SMACKDOWN!)

Wilbur Hubbard