On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:01:38 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:26:59 -0700, wrote:

But he's out cruising the Bahamas so he's doing something right.

Yes, that's laudable, but he also doesn't appear to completely have
his sh*t together either.

Fixing things with what you have on hand and dealing with the
unexpected are all part of international cruising, sometimes a big
part. The big mega yacht cruisers are maintained to a very high
degree of reliability but they generally have an engineer in the crew
and a big supply of spares on hand to keep things working.

Since we bought the trawler 7 years ago I've learned enough new
skills, and acquired the tools, to be a junior tradesman in 3 or 4
different fields.

I believe you. I also believe that Frogman couldn't deal with a simple
problem. I don't think it takes years of experience to solve something
like this. I offered a couple of solutions in the space of 10 minutes,
all of which would work. He panicked as far as I can tell, and threw
stuff in the water "hoping" it wasn't going to go thump thump again.
It kept him up? What a joke.