On 11/2/10 2:38 AM, Bob wrote:

We just bought a new boat and we plan to do some cruising, but I sure
wouldn't want to break any of your rules when we do.

So, please list your rules in order of importance.


Going from point A to point B without creating a potential hazard or
harm to self or others.

Spending money and wasting time in port fixing things is not cruising.
that saying about fixing things in distant ports is a joke you
idiots,,,, its not a way of life..... it like saying, a successfull
marrage is 50 years of hurtful cruelty and lonleness only folowed by
death! Nor is cruising operating a vessel in a way that creates a
hazard to others (as in: no body at watch while underway)

Would you say flying cross country in a crashed home built aircraft
and "repaired" by someone who was never a licensed pilot and lacked
any mechanical skills hoped to fly cross country because it was his
life long dream. WOuld that be a good a good idea?

Would you really go for a flight with a guy who operated a homebuilt
like SKip runs his boat and call it a safe thing to do?

Dont get me wrong I enjoy his reading parts of his posts but probably
for the not for th esame reasons some do here.. But I would never call
fixing stuff on boats cruising especially since there is not reason
for it. Ive met many a cruisers who spend a few hours a month
PREVENTING events not fixing failures. Its a whole different mind set.

No,, Skip is not cruising.... he is learning about boats for the first
time something that most sucessful mariners do at ages 8-12. The
problme is that skip has waaaaaay toooo much boat for his skill set.
Skip remidns me of a nice good natured hillbilly. He's a nice guy but
I would stay clear until he learns a few things.

But sadly his self concept will not alow him accept the paradox he has
created. That is how do you cruise and have all the amminities of a
3500 sq ft ranch house. He sorta remids me of Jed Clampet and the
HIllibillies. You know. So much welath but not knowing what the
billyard table is really designed to do..Maybe Hillbilly is the wrong
name...... I think skip is a Squidbilly!

Bob




I'm sorry, but if you included a long list of what "cruising is" in your
harangue of Skip, I missed it. Could you repost it?

From those posts of Skip's I've read, my take is that he had a somewhat
limited knowledge of boating when he started, that he has been
"cruising" and rebuilding much of his old boat along the way, that he is
a far more experienced "boater/cruiser" than when he started and, unlike
most of the posters here, is out on the seas, "cruising" from one port
to another without a particular schedule.

I've been boating for six decades on all sorts of boats, power and sail.
I've done enough boating to know that the liveaboard lifestyle or
long-range cruising is not my cup of tea. If I want to cross an ocean on
a boat, the boat is going to be the Queen Mary II, or maybe a week or
two of island hopping in the Caribbean or among the Greek Isles. I do
enjoy reading about the boating adventures of others, though, especially
when the "others" are not stuck-up snobs with overinflated opinions of
themselves or their "cruising."

Now, as I stated, we bought a new boat and we will be taking short trips
on it. So, I take it we won't actually be "cruising," right?

:)