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Wayne.B wrote:
Arguably one of the most beautiful bodies of water in the world:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0utTAiadygIUkT4LIXeoYfKADAn2Dkz os
Well, I am so stupid, at first I thought that was a map of the west
coast of Florida, and I am going, well it looks like he is boating to
me.

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Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.


You'd better stick to small shallow lakes...where you can't get lost.
Don,

Not only have I lived on 3 continents. I have been boating and sailing
all over, including lakes smaller than Lanier, all the Great Lakes,
except for Superior, the Atlantic and the Caribbean. While I have done
out on charter boats in the Pacific, I have never been at the helm when
boating in the Pacific. I actually have been boating up and down the
coast of NS, we went out about 100 miles off the coast of NS, sailing
from Sidney to Halifax. I found Halifax to be a quaint town, nice
downtown tourist area, very clean, and the people were very polite and
helpful. I would guess either your online persona has nothing to do
with the way you behave in the real world, or you are a social outcast
in Halifax. If I had to bet, I would go with social outcast.

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Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

Hee hee... better find someone like Looneytunes to buy your bull
When I posted some local pictures last year, you commented that you like
to see photos of areas you haven't been to.
plus...why would anyone go one hundred miles offshore when sailing from
Sydney to Halifax?
I'm trying to decide if you sound more like the old Skipper..... or that
Teabag character on the recent 'Prison Break series.
Guess again, I spent a week in Halifax Harbor. The only pictures I
remember you publishing was of you on a lake, but I don't remember making
any comment about the pictures at all.

I moored at a private facility that had buoy's located in a Southern
Finger of the Harbor (or at least it seemed to be south). It was devoted
to pleasure boating, versus commercial ships. The water taxi (it was
blue, with red seats and white trim, would pick us up, and drop us off at
a the service area. I am pretty sure the water taxi was included in the
buoy fees, but we would tip the guy. A large white metal service
building with a fairly large boat lift. It looked like it could service a
25 ft. sailboat without dropping the mast. There were a number of sailors
who raced in the Wed. Night Beer Can races who kept their boat there, but
they were the smaller J-22 type boats. It was in June, and the Beer Can
Races had not even started yet. They were all out their getting their
boats ready. Next door, was an old fancy yachting club that looked like
it was built 100 yrs ago, yet was in fairly good shape. They had decent
meals at reasonable prices, but it had a very "old money" look to it. Out
back of the Yacht club, they had a small swimming pool, but it really did
not look like it had been used in years and was in bad shape. Most of the
people eating in the restaurant were old as dirt, and I doubt if they had
been sailing in decades. The yacht club was hosting a big regatta and
was selling T-Shirts a few weeks before the regatta, which surprised me.
I think it was the Marblehead to Halifax Race, but I could be wrong. The
General Managers office was on the 2nd floor, the stairs were against the
far wall, closest to the harbor, and looked like a combination office and
storage space. She was sorting out the tshirts by size and double
checking the order. It was hard to believe that the GM was doing such
simple work, it seemed like a poor utilization of talent. We walked about
a mile to 1.5 miles towards town to buy some boating supplies from an
independent marine supply house to buy some electronic equipment. Our
depth finder was giving us crazy readings. It was a fairly small shop,
not much bigger than a small convenience store, but he could order the
supplies and get them in a few days.

When we took a taxi to downtown, they had the normal restaurants on the
harbor, but they had recently closed off a number of streets in the
downtown area so it would be like a large mall. I talked to some locals
who said I had to come back for a "pub crawl", where a group of people
would stumble from one bar to the next all night long. It seems like your
son is not the only person in Halifax who enjoys getting loaded.

From memory, the reason we took such a long leg to get from Sydney to
Halifax had to do with a combination of the wind direction and some bad
reef you have in between Sydney to Halifax. Instead of beating into the
wind, and making frequent tacks, and getting into the reef's, we just made
it one long leg to avoid some place the harbor master in Sydney warned us
about. I remember a large rock outcropping that he told us to stay clear
of, but the real danger was the shallow rocks that surrounded the area.
I thought it was funny, the harbor master referred to it as "The Graveyard
of the Atlantic", but I had always heard the area off of the Outer Banks
to be called the Graveyard of the Atlantic. I thought it was a Canadian
trying to impress us. I can remember your TINY dolphins riding out bow
wave, about half the size of the dolphins I was used to. I commented this
to one of the locals and he jokingly said, OOHHHHH yeah, everything is
bigger in the US.

So as with most things, you are wrong.


Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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You are quite the pompous prick.
If you really were here, your description would be of the Royal Nova Scotia
Yacht Squadron...the oldest yacht club in North America......although only
at the current location for about 40 years.
It's swimming and new wading pool are well used every year and this club is
considered the best in Atlantic Canada.
BTW the Graveyard of the Atlantic refers to Sable Island...which is a
couple hundred miles east south east of Halifax
The pictures you commented on were taken in St. Margarets Bay and Mahone
Bay.
Better get back to your Googling and see what else you can distort.



See if you can Google up where the GM's office is in the RNSYS, and
where the steps leading up the office are located.

Since it was only June, I guess your swimming season had not started
yet, so it still had not been cleaned, or maybe to you, that was a good
pool.


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Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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