On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 19:30:16 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:



My opinion about cruising is that those who have to take the land-based
lifestyle along with them on the water should just stay home. The reasons
for this are obvious.


So? What exactly is this "marine life style"? Is it the Royal Navy
routine, living on salt junk, dried peas and ships biscuits, with a
liter of water a day (do anything you want with it) ad a half cup of
grog a day?

Or you talking about the VLCC standards of the gourmet meals, air
conditioned private sleeping quarters, 8 hour a day shifts, satellite
TV and communication?

Are you talking about saying "starboard helm" and "port helm"? Or
"right rubber" and "left rudder" as used by the U.S. navy?

You see, the concept of "marine life" is wholly imaginary and exists
main in the imagination of landlubbers with very limited experience
off shore, and any professional mariner would laugh at you if you
expounded your theories to him.

And by the way, your reference to being "drunk and rowdy
and shouting loudly every inane thing that pops into their drunken
brains" is an old mariner's tradition that certainly dates back to the
days of the Norsemen, and probably even further, so why do you condemn
it?

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)