On 1/6/2014 9:32 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 17:36:17 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Monday, January 6, 2014 7:02:25 PM UTC-6, Wayne. B wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:20:09 -0800 (PST), Tim

wrote:



On Monday, January 6, 2014 4:06:16 PM UTC-6, Gene Kearns wrote:

Thanks Wayne, but things don't look a lot different than when I left.







1) Harry, Harry, Harry,



2) Lots of childish sniping,



3) and no boating content.







I can remember when we had 100+ boating posts per day.....





I won't dispute there were that many boating posts, but I will say the board was very informative and lighthearted in 'the day'...



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Yes, and we had a good mix of interesting people like Wayne "Clams"

Canino, Larry from Charleston, Short Wave Tom, Chuck Gould and many

others. A lot of people stopped telling their more interesting

boating stories after Harry started putting everyone down. I guess

that's all he had left once everyone realized what a fraud he was. The

spoofing and sock puppet epidemics chased away a lot of good people

also.



Unfortunately a lot of folks have moved on to web based moderated

forums. There are some benefits to that but it tends to fragment the

knowledge base and doesn't have the same character.

I barely remember Karen (I believe) who had her giant diesel outboard powered 'frigate' and her dislike for Ficht outboard engines.

And Peggy the sanitizer who had a lot of good stuff concerning keeping bildges clean, odors removed and getting rid of mold.

Sad they're gone.

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Yes, both Karen and Peggie were driven off by U-No-Hoos never ending
stream of insults. Peggie is still a major contributor on other
forums however, and also has a book available:

http://www.amazon.com/Get-Rid-Boat-Odors-Aggravation/dp/1892399156

She is OK with being called the Head Mistress, but the Princess of
Poo, not so much. U-No-Hoo is alleged to have once had an unpleasant
confrontation with her at a boat show. Don't know it's true or not.

With Karen it was always humorous to try and decode her Australian
slang expressions.



Too bad folks couldn't send some of these folks re-invites and see if we
can all just ignore unohooo and his sidekick from the north.... Things
work pretty well when they are out of the picture..