On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:50:45 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"CaveLamb" wrote in message
...
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:


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.



They are following their dream, Wilbur.
Not yours.



Sorry, but no individual has a right to follow a dream when the following of
it results in a nightmare for everybody else in an anchorage.

Sailors used to be a polite, decent, honorable, competent, considerate and
quiet lot. Now, it's got so the majority are not sailors at all. "Boaters"
is the closest description of them and these boaters are impolite, indecent,
dishonorable, incompetent, inconsiderate and rudely noisy -like so many
spoiled-brat children who never grew up and who still think their ****
doesn't stink.

This sad state of affairs needs to be brought to light every time the
subject arises as this trend must be reversed before people start shooting
each other.


Wilbur Hubbard


Willie boy, lets face facts.

The word "Sailor" has, historically been, with very few exceptions,
applied to the generally unskilled portion of the crew of a vessels,
i.e., the poorly educated, poorly skilled, and generally low class
group who's main interest in life was the absorption of strong drink
and pursuit of loose women. The non-professional portion of the a crew
as in the British terminology "the Officers and the People", or the
"the Officers and the Crew"; "the Officers and the Sailors".

Gentlemen boaters, on the other hand, were and are, referred to as
"Yachtsmen" and this applied to gentlemen who owned and sailed on
yachts, and to be frank were/are a group about which you obviously
know nothing at all. After all,THEY are gentlemen.

For you to allude to this group as somehow being a group who embody
certain attributes which, and by inference include yourself as a
member, is simply ludicrous. Your little yellow boat (with purple
interior) is hardly the type of vessel that would be described as a
"Yacht" by any real Yachtsmen. As J.P. Morgan once said when asked
about the running costs of his Yacht, "if you have to ask, you can't
afford it". And you can't afford it.

To a real Yachtsman, you would be refereed to as a "Boat Boy", or
perhaps "Bum Boy" if you are describing life in the forecastle as seen
by an individual who is not attracted to women.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)