On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 07:04:08 -0700 (PDT), Bob
wrote:

On Aug 5, 2:34*am, wrote:
[This message forwarded from their sailmail status report.]

Day 7 - Maine Passage

(Hello from the North Atlantic, at 41*38'N, 68*49'W, enroute to
Portland, ME after transiting Cape Cod's Boston and
Nantucket-Ambrose channels' intersection...


Your not in the NORTH Atlantic til your NORTH of the the 45 line. Dont
attempt to brag about sailing the north Atlantic til ya actually get
there.

We have an interesting current here...
Of course, I don't have access to the charts on the links I gave
you in the beginning, so I can't see what's happening.

What ?!?! No charts???

And what so "funny" about a current?

*In
general, the area seems to usually have either strong inflow or
outflow to/from Portland. *
At the moment, we're being set fairly
strongly in the direction we want to go, but also experiencing
some drift which cuts our ground speed by about a knot under our
water speed. *What Neptune and Aeolus give, they also take away,
so the net effect is that we're pretty much on target for
Portland, just not as fast as we might otherwise be traveling.


This is a rather disturbing bit of ignorance. Any one with a CHART,
Tide Table Book, Tide Current Book, and ability to plot a SET and
DRIFT on a CHART knows EXACTLY what is going on. At the very least
Skip needs to know that TIDES exist and move boats underway.... Uhh, I
think unless that button isnt labled on some electric gizmo.
His stament above reveals his ignorance of basic sailing
responsibilites.

The Vikings seemed to be quite impressed by tides also:
http://www.havhingsten.dk/index.php?...&L=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1848&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1092&tx_ttnews[pointer]=2&cHash=e95c99d334


Our refrigeration which, for reasons I've yet to identify, has
been unhappy since Flying Pig went back in the water.

Why does he refer to equipment as "unhappy" DOnt anthropormophize
stuff. I knew chicks that gave their cars personallities. They were
usually fat, stupid ditzy welfare chicks who didnt know **** and
therefore made their car a person so they could rationalize
malfunctions. Usually the car was a VW Bug... Need I say more??


On that subject, with all the wind we've had lately, KissyFace
(the KISS wind generator) has had a field day,


KissyFace ?!?!?

I think im gonna barf.
I rest my case.



Gives one the willies..