On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:49:34 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:


I think everybody who reads Bruce in Bangkok's bitter and jealous replies to
my posts that have sailing content can readily see how his replies have no
sailing content at all. Could this have anything to do with the fact that
the man has been languishing in Thailand for over thirty-five years now
while his ill-found motorsailer slowly turns to rubbish while tied to a dock
and serves only as a slum residence.

As I keep saying Willie-boy you just keep talking and keep showing
more of your ignorance.

Where in the world do you come up with 35 years? Your fevered
imagination.... Poor boy, take two aspirins and a cup of hot tea,
with lots of sugar - best thing for those hot flushes.

Actually I've lived in Thailand for more then 40 years, not the 35
that feverish Willie mentions, and I have the wife, kids and grand
kids to prove it.

Bruce's ignorance even extends to not understanding how a little auxiliary
outboard on the transom allows a blue water sailor to negotiate narrow
channels that might harbor adverse winds and currents. Bruce doesn't
understand how this very motor can be removed from the transom in a couple
of minutes and stowed away below out of sight and out of mind until it might
be needed at the other end of an offshore or coastal voyage.

"Needed at the other end"? This from the vaunted sailorman? The chap
who doesn't need an engine because his yellow anchor buoy can
outmaneuver a power craft?

Lord, I never thought I'd live to hear the Wondrous Willie admit that
he NEEDs an engine. I'd always assumed that he'd just sail up and
throw the anchor over like old Joshua used to.

Ah, even our most treasured myths must one day be destroyed.

It's difficult for an old man with 35-year-old memories to even comprehend
what a small, modern, 4-stroke outboard engine can do. People like Bruce
remain stuck in the antique Perkins diesel or Atomic 4 gasoline bilge engine
era.

And what is the matter with a Perkins engine? Or is this just another
rationalization. Willie-boy doesn't have one so it must be bad?

But, I try to humor the Rube along as best as I can as I understand all the
man has is antique memories and most of those involve failure to complete
his planned circumnavigation. All these years that have passed since his
venture ground to a halt and he ended up stranded in a third-world backwater
have only served to give him plenty of time to rationalize his failings at
sailing.


Wilbur Hubbard

Ah, but this "third-world, backwater" isn't out to destroy my license
as you so recently complained that your government was trying to do to
you :-)

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)