On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:48:35 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Jessica B" wrote in message
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Ok... dumb question time... if the oar doesn't fit in the boat, what
the heck do you do with it when you're done using it? If you just
leave it hanging out, it seems to me it would get torn off or damaged.



Dumb question? Hardly. Smarter by far than these pretend sailors.

Ha ha. You know more about it intuitively than Bruce, stuck at the Bangkok
dock, does. See my post in reply to Bruce's arrogant but ignorant
contentions quoting Sir Eric Hiscock, a world famous cruising sailor whose
writing supports your perceptive observation.

You are a credit to your gender, mam.


Wilbur Hubbard


Well, I think you're right, and I think I'm right too... I just posted
a link from the first Google hit.