On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 18:53:15 -0800 (PST), Bob
wrote:

On Nov 5, 1:26*pm, Rick Morel wrote:


That's not cruising, that's voyaging. Of course voyaging is part of
cruising, but only a part. Uneventful? No, that would be BOR-ING!

Now that is somthing an amature would say. Why does everything have to
be a 3 ring circus? For me pure joy is having everything go as
expected. Its called being in the grove by some. Ask any professional
mariner if they want a bunch of excitment on the boat.....

Some, if not most, voyages will be eventful for one reason or another,

I dis agree. Only the baffoons will rejoyce and go runing telling
everyone how they ****ed up and closely missed diaster by only afew
inches. WHen I hear that bilge I glaze over with as I do when I hear,
"... we are living our dream...."


Bob, not only can't you spell, you apparently don't understand
English. Who said anything about a bunch of excitment or closely
missing disaster?

I'm really glad for you and Wilbur, who can take all those armchair
mind voyages and control all the forces of nature. When one really
does it, one finds out things happen. Good things as well as bad.

BTW, I was a professional mariner for about 15 years. I started out as
a paid deck hand on my dad's shrimpboat and worked my way up to
crewboat and shrimpboat captain. As an "amateur", I've got over 25,000
NM.

I'm also one of those people you really hate - half Sout' Lou-si-ana
coonass. You must really be an asshole if you can't get along with
cajuns, who are the most open minded, non-judgemental people in the
world.



I think I agree. Not so much with that "inconspicuous as possible"
part, but yes with the "head pops" part.

Back packers have two rules.............
1) DO NO HARM
2) LEAVE NO TRACE

Now why cant boaters have that same philosophy?

1) Take nothing but pictures
2) Leave nothing but footprints


I can't agree at all with #5. If somebody just has to have total quiet
they can go find it someplace else.

typical thoughts of an asshole. ANd how do your land neighbors next
door get along with that ?

There you go, not understanding English again. It's a statement of
fact, not a philosophy of life. I live in the real world and that's
just how it is. Those professional mariners you love so much are the
worse offenders.



They certainly aren't going to
find it at any fairly crowded anchorage.

no wonder so many in the world hates americans. Just think Rodney
Dangerfield in Caddy Shack.

You have no idea of what you're talking about. In the real world it
doesn't matter where that crowded anchorage is. I think the Med is
about the worse.



To be honest, if money wasn't a
consideration I think I'd really enjoy cruising aboard a 90-foot,
45-knot motor yacht!

Guilty as charged.............. that is why youre one of those horses'
ass neighbors that cruisers/voyagers/mariners avoid. Your noisy,
unattentive of your vessel and would rather have a barge for a party
platform.

Since you're so fond of the word, no you're the asshole. Maybe I
should have bought a stereo and turned it way up to keep the riff-raff
away. We regularly went to a lot of trouble to find a secluded, quiet
anchorage, only to have other boats come and surround us. You idiot, I
never said I made noise or any of that stuff. I don't know where you
got that idea. Oh wait, you just love to put people down and will find
the slightest excuse to do so. It makes you feel soooooo good! Only
thing, everyone knows you're mentally defective and really should be
totally ignored, but we still try to enlighten you, even though we
should know better.

You and Wilbur wouldn't even come close to making Skip's left little
finger, no matter how hard y'all tried

Rick