On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:00:24 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"WaIIy" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:50:59 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:46:02 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:50:16 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

"My gaspipe boom fell on my 1956 15 horse Johnson and now I can't get
it
started".

As near as I can remember, Johnson made an eighteen that year, not a
fifteen.

Casady

It WAS an 18hp until Wilbur "fixed" it. After that, some days it was
only a 6hp.

Yes, that's what I heard.

Dubble Bubble is really not very effective as a head gasket sealer.

Bazooka Joe would never even try it.



That's so funny I forgot to laugh. But, seriously, I am one of the few
sailors who is honest enough to put my money where my mouth is. I have
always derided those so-called sailors who demand diesel engines in
sailboats because they are very heavy and ruin the sailing performance
because of the extra weight from motor, tankage and systems along with the
usual, large, three-bladed fixed prop. These things all serve to turn a
sailboat into a motorsailer which is a sad state of affairs and unacceptable
to us real sailors. A motorsailer is nothing but an inefficient trawler and
even an efficient trawler is an abomination.

Please be aware of the fact that I, Wilbur Hubbard, have recently gone DOWN
in size from a 9.9 HP Honda twin (junk BTW) to a single-cylinder 6 HP
Tohatsu (quality) four-stroke (a mere 1500 dollar refit). This means going
from over a 120 pounds on the transom to about 60 pounds. It also means it
is much easier to remove the motor and stow it safely in a cockpit locker
when underway at sea where it is not needed. Also, it burns less fuel. Most
of you have never sailed a blue water cruiser in pure sailboat trim. Well, I
have and often do and there's nothing like it. Those who insist upon a big,
smelly diesel maybe need to stop pretending that you're sailors. I know all
about you pretenders. You rarely take the sail covers off. The most you seem
to do is unroll the silly roll-up headsail to assist the motor if the wind
happens to be right for it.

You don't even know how to get underway under sail while retrieving the
anchor. You couldn't anchor under sail if your lives depended upon it. You
are deathly afraid of sailing into an inlet without your security blanket
diesel churning away. In other words, you are a bunch of motorboaters. You
don't fool me. You lie even to yourselves. Just what do you think the
insides of your lungs look like anyway? All those diesel fumes you
constantly breathe turn your lungs BLACK. So very disgusting a thought. Here
you are pretending to be living a healthy life on the bounding main and,
instead, you are all candidates for lung transplants.


Wilbur Hubbard


Why all the vehemence toward diesels? Is it because you can't afford
one?

A motor is a motor and either you got one or you don't. Arguing that
because you have a miserable little outboard it somehow makes you
superior to the bloke with a good strong reliable diesel is idiotic.

But while we are talking about sailors, et al. I assuming that a REAL
sailor, like you, will espouse winches and other mechanical devices -
rig tackles on the sheets and use levers to tension the back stays,
You do have running back stays, don't you; to go along with your
authentic gaff mainsail.. And of course you are using genuine hemp
lines and long staple cotton sails, right? But of course, you don't
even know what I am talking about, do you.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)