"Jere Lull" wrote in message
news:2008100901052716807-jerelull@maccom...
On 2008-10-08 23:33:50 -0400, "Skip Gundlach"
said:

Enjoying the rain and the wind in Charleston while we attend to some
minor boat chores and electronics games with Larry, another of our
angels. We'll be heading out either direct to MIA or with a stopover in
Saint Simons Island to help repay one of our Saints for all his helps,
when the weather's right. Immediate forecasts are fairly stiff, and not
particularly good for our course of travel...

I detect a bit of annoyance in what I snipped. I included the obviously
ironic with what I see as appropriate considerations of your future plans.

You have successfully gotten past the monster of the East Coast, Hataras
(which I can't spell right without a chart except by accident).

You're pretty much "home free" (nevermind that you live on your home). I
am assured that you won't fall prey to parochial forecasts, will venture
out only when the forecast benefits outweigh the forecast possible
drawbacks.


I doubt Skippy will ever be "home free" unless and until he changes his
mental frame of mind from sailing on a schedule dictated by meeting lubbers
ashore to sailing strictly according to the optimal weather conditions.

As for weather forecasts, that's another very weak area in Skippy's grab bag
of lubberly tricks. I have read where he employs a professional weather
router. Sad! Weather prognostication is something any intelligent sailor can
do with ease since the advent of all the weather information pages on the
Internet. To rely upon some lubber ashore for your weather forecasts is to
shirk a captain's personal responsibility to vessel and crew.

This continued dependence upon land while claiming to be a sailor is not
very smart. Skippy has come a long way but he has an even longer way to go
before I consider him one of my peers.

Wilbur Hubbard