"Justin C" wrote in message
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, Bob
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Willlllburrrr !

Yawn.

Those who are 'living the dream' for the most part are most likely too
busy with life to be posting here. To most of them, posting and reading
here is probably too trivial to bother with. That Skip and Lydia are
taking time out of their days to share their experiences is great for
us, it gives those of us who hope to follow in their footsteps a
reminder of what it is that we want to be doing; a dangling carrot. The
rest of the cruisers are perhaps keeping quiet in the hope that we don't
all get out there and join them - keep those anchorages quiet!



Uh, Justin, by your very own admission you are following pretenders who
aren't living the dream because living the dream involves other than
Internet connectivity and posting to newsgroups. If you follow in Skippy's
footsteps you will never be a real sailor. I suggest you find a couple of
real sailors to look up to. You are being led astray by wanabee's.

You are correct about one thing, though. Quiet is of great value to us real
sailors. That's why we find so offensive and unacceptable overloaded
sailboats with Honda generators on deck grinding away at all hours of the
day and night, noisy, ill-conceived wind generators whooshing, whirring and
whistling at all hours of the day and night, stinky auxiliaries running four
hours a day to keep up with refrigeration, halyards banging and pinging
unsecured on masts, dogs barking, stereos blaring, loud drunken shouting and
laughing late at night and even inboard, diesel generators running 24/7 to
air condition the accommodation while anchored. Why don't assholes like this
stay tied up at marinas where they can plug in and not bother everybody.

These same inconsiderate people who spend tens of thousands of dollars on
electricity and the systems to produce an abundance of it can't seem to
scrape up enough money to buy a real anchor so they toss out their lone
ten-pound aluminum Fortress anchor and proceed to drag around the anchorage.


Wilbur Hubbard