Rick Morel wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:03:30 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
You've GOT to be kidding!! I bought a boat that has a hull that HAS NOT
ONE SINGLE SOLITARY BLISTER. The hull was laid up in 1971 and the entire
boat was commissioned in 1972. Count them, Dockbound Dweeb, forty years
of perfection. Forty years of fast, reliable, trouble-free sailing. Over
210,000 miles of reliability, at a purchase price of a mere 13 large. I
have kept "Cut the Mustard" in 'better than new' condition since 1985
when I purchased her from the original owner. Here are some recent
photos:
http://captainneal.wordpress.com/
The photo on top is OLD. The photos below are recent. Eat your
dock-licking heart out, Brucie Boi. You have NOTHING that can compare.
You FAILED in your circumnavigation attempt by half while I SUCCEEDED in
my coastal cruising lifestyle with 210,000 miles under the keel with
perhaps a paltry 1,000 of those miles motoring - the remainder under
sail.
YOU LOSE!
P.S. "Bruce" sure is a gay-sounding name. LOL!
Wilbur Hubbard
Willie boy, while you have an eloquent command of the English
language, your math really sucks.
210,000 miles since 1985 works out to 22 miles a day, each and every
day. You could make twice that in a daylight day with your vessel
given fair winds, but not much more, so you could travel every other
day.
You keep harping on being a "blue-water sailor" and owning a
"blue-water yacht", yet in your own words you are living "my coastal
cruising lifestyle".
Let's see, would 26 years of swinging at anchor while reading about
real cruisers add up to 210,000 miles of movement? And be defined as
"coastal cruising" since the boat is moving, albeit from side to side
and a bit of up and down?
Rick
Lets see how many miles he can 'claim' swinging at anchor:-
Lets be as charitable as possible and assume he's anchored with a lot of
anchor cable out, somewhere where the tide 'circulates' at slack water
rather than simply reversing direction, so "Cut the Mustard" swings
round the full perimeter of the swinging circle on every tide.
If the radius of the swinging circle is 40 yards (not unreasonable for
50 yards of warp out with only a bit of chain on the end - and we know
he's an antisocial b*****d who doesn't encourage any neighbours to stick
around), the perimeter is just over 250 yards.
Assuming a semidiurnal tide, he swings through 1/4 NM in just over a day
(a lunar 'day' is approx 50 minutes more than the normal 24H solar one)
so each year he 'logs' 0.9664... * 365 * 1/4 or just over 88 NM!
In 26 years that is nearly 2300 NM. I reckon his swinging circle is a
little smaller and he's only added two extra zeros on the end of his
claimed 'mileage'! [lol]
Assuming he motors at 3 knots, he motors just under 13 hours a year,
which is probably about right if he has a diesel stove and has to go to
the fuel dock a couple of times a year to fill the tank - I cant imagine
any near-by fuel dock would welcome him . . . ;-)
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