On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:25:43 -0800 (PST), Bob
wrote:

On Feb 1, 2:34*pm, Bruce wrote:
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:06:37 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"





wrote:
"Bob" wrote in message
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I'm no lawyer, but it's changing the rules after the fact. That's
bogus.- Hide quoted text -

No its called a "Revision."

No, it's more than that. It's a supersede. If they invalidate your Master's
license when it still might have several years before the expiration date
then they are robbing you of your investment and depriving you of your
livelihood. It is clearly fraud and theft of services. While the license you
paid hundreds of dollars and many more hours than that to obtain has an
expiration date of, say 2015, all of a sudden some bureaucrat comes along
and declares it's useless without a TWIC card? That's reneging on a
contract, pure and simple.

Have you ever heard of ex post facto?

Wilbur Hubbard

No Willie-boy, your license is not useless for what you use it for -
hanging on the wall and boasting about it. You can still show it to
people and make your claims to fame, just like you always have.

And hundreds of dollars and many hours to obtain? It appears that our
intrepid sailor-boy went to school to learn to be a sailor? What a
farce.

Cheers,

Bruce- Hide quoted text -


We need to be kind to WIlbur et al.
He has a very small boat that will not alow him to do anything but
daysailing.

Actually that isn't true. People have done it in much smaller boats.
See the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h167pT8u_Cg

I met the guy at Yacht Haven Marina in Phuket and had a couple of long
talks with him. An interesting guy. He sailed from the Med across the
Atlantic and onward west. As I say, I met him in Thailand and
understand that he has now completed his circumnavigation in March of
2010. In a 19 ft. boat.

Willie-boy's boat is nearly 40% larger and still he's finding excuses
not to go.

He is probably over 60 years old

I've got a mate is about 75 years old and he still single hands a 55
ft. boat. His last "sail" as he refers to it was from Thailand to S.W.
India - non-stop both ways. Another mate is only a bit over 60 and
when he is not working (an offshore drilling superintendent) he is
sailing a Prout Cat. At the moment he is somewhere between Singapore
and Langkawi, Malaysia.

He lacks income most likly never made much money inhis career and now
lives on 900/month SSI.

That is no excuse either. Rice and Beans and water aren't that
expensive. He has a boat so all he needs to do is load some tucker and
go. Since he brags about sailing with minimum clothing and not washing
he doesn't even have to buy soap. Just get some beans, rice and a bit
of water for times that he can't catch any, and away. He can probably
do it with one pair of socks and a second hand jockstrap. And maybe a
wrap around skirt, lava lava, sarong, what ever you want to call it,
for formal affairs.

He is ALWAYS on the internet typing. People with a life dont spend
this much time typing unless your 70+ an tird of cross word puzzels.
He is too old, his boat too small and has too little to cruise. Soooo
here he is.

And mostly he is just scared to cut the lines and just go.

Me Im stuck in hawaii now killing time. Humm I think Ill go snorkeling
2maro
bob


Whacha doing in Hawaii?

Cheers,

Bruce