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Wilbur Hubbard Wilbur Hubbard is offline
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"Jessica B" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:20:47 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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"Jessica B" wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:20:48 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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Motor-head boaters seem to become immune to their own noise and air
pollution. I guess they smell the exhaust fumes and hear the cacophony
so
often and so long that their sense of smell and their hearing modifies
so
they can't smell or hear it anymore.

Why else would some of them be so rude as to arrive in an anchorage and
anchor UPWIND of everybody and then run a smelly diesel generator all
day
and all night just so they can have plenty of electricity for all the
household crap they have on board. I just wish people like that would
STAY
home. What's the use of sailing when you float the farm, so to speak?
You
ruin the experience for most of the other travelers and are too selfish
to
understand what you're doing?

I'm hoping that if (when?) we work out the details, you wouldn't let
that happen to us!


Rest assured, I will find us a nice quiet anchorage all of our own with no
motorboats within miles. I got your email that you will be working on
details later on when things become more concrete.


As my brother would say, "Bitchin!" :-)

Neither of us are interested in motor smell. I'm going to email you
later hopefullly with some more details.



JMB just e-mailed me. She sounds like an organized person and a go-getter. I
CC'd you my reply to her. Things are looking good. She's got some firm dates
in mind so check your inbox. Sounds like she's planning to rent a car at the
airport so you two should coordinate your flights if you can so you can ride
together. It sure would save me time going back and forth twice to the
airport. In exchange I've offered to get you guys a room while you're here
so you can have all the luxuries you're used to and a safe place for your
luggage. Sounds like a deal to me. ;-)



snippage



Yup, land lubbers are mostly what one sees these days out here on the
water.
They are like cockroaches - you can't stamp them out. I just wish they
would
stay ashore where they belong. They have no respect for anything. They
use
the water as their 'getaway' and they think their 'fun' comes first over
the
RIGHTS of others. Such a selfish attitude and totally out of place on the
water.

Here is a good example for you of just how awful some of these jerks
really
are. Two fishermen were arrested a few months ago for cutting the pouch of
a
couple of pelicans because they claimed the pelicans were eating *their*
fish. Duh. I would say the fishermen where catching and eating the
pelican's
fish. A cut pouch causes the pelican to slowly starve to death because
when
they dive on a fish the pouch doesn't contain it. The fish escapes out the
slit in the pouch. Maybe the fishermen are the ones who needed their
throats cut.



I don't see how anyone could be so cruel. That's really a sad story.



Some humans are, I swear, sub-human. Even the animals they abuse are more
evolved.