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Bruce in Bangkok[_7_]

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:58:06 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:20:19 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:13:38 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:23:58 GMT, (Richard Casady)
wrote:

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:52:17 -0400, wrote:

Yes, and the water that collects in each one makes a dandy little mosquito
factory. In many locales, that spells "West Nile Virus".

Only if you are too dumb to provide a drain hole. When they just lie
arround in piles, they collect rainwater, and one hole won't deal with
that.

Casady

First you have to be dumb enough to use old tires for fenders.

I don;t know. Sure are a lot of boats using them... maybe somebody
knows something we don;t know?

The masses often make foolish choices. Just because you see a lot of boats doing
it, doesn't make it smart. It may even increase the odds that it's stupid.

How so? The purpose of a fender is to keep your boat from banging into
other things, or other things from banging into your boat. Tires work
wonderfully well for that purpose as they can be obtained in various
grades of size and flexibility to work with nearly any size of vessel
up to about 200 ft. in size. Readily obtainable in most places in the
world.

In fact, "if you see a lot of boats doing it" usually does make it a
good idea. Take the diversity of fishing boat styles from place to
place. Why there is even a difference between in shore and off shore
hull shapes - all due to different conditions, and thus logical and a
"good idea".

Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct Address is bpaige125atgmaildotcom)