Hitting a rock is one of the worst blunders you can commit on a boat. You should be
ashamed of yourself.

I've been sailing for 45 years, and although I've taken bottom a number of times, its
always been soft -usually mud, a few times sand, and always a low speed, often dead slow.
And its never happened due to navigational error - its always been shoaled channels,
exploring uncharted shallows, or taking the advice of locals - several times I've grounded
two feet from the fuel dock!

But hitting a rock is a whole other thing. Rocks are what destroys boats. Rocks loosen
keel bolts, break rudders, destroy props. A good whack can break engine mounts, shafts,
exhaust systems, even take rigging down. And we haven't started with the possibilities of
a holed hull, or getting hung up on a falling tide.

And hitting a major rock, which uncovers at low tide, clearly marked on the charts, with a
major buoy protecting it, is totally inexcusable. And to do this one mile from your slip
is inexplicable! Your compass cover was on (welded on???) and you had no chart on deck,
and now you're defending this as a normal event that happens every few years?

Shame on you, Robert. You keep claiming that you want to learn, and your not afraid to
share your mistakes. But when the seriousness of your mistakes is pointed out, you just
make light of it. No compass, no charts, no depth sounder, no radio, and now you're
claiming whacking rocks is fun, you do it frequently! Shame Robert, shame.

Please contact one of these organizations and take a course before you end up costing us
all money on our insurance bills.
http://www.usps.org/
http://www.cgaux.org/

--
-jeff
"Constant Vigilance!" - Frances W. Wright




"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
Hey, one or a dozen.. I don't like hitting rocks.

Happened to me twice in 8 years! You don't know what you're missing until you
clobber a rock! Unlike the others here, I'm not a coward and admit a
mistake...even if it's one that did no harm!

RB

But when the seriousness of your mistakes is pointed out, you just
make light of it.

Yup, it was pretty funny. No damage. I checked out the hull back at the slip.
Got to use my cool Pelican light.
Sorry...I'm not ashamed or bothered in the least. More than 8 years of sailing,
hundreds of guests and NO serious mishaps and NO injuries.

RB

I've got a better idea. Show up here tomorrow and race an Xcite. I'll even
pay your entry fee

What's an Xcite? Where are you located?

RB

On 08 Aug 2003, (Bobsprit) wrote:

I've got a better idea. Show up here tomorrow
and race an Xcite. I'll even pay your entry fee

What's an Xcite? Where are you located?
RB

http://www.a-classis.hr/modeli/ini-modeli/xcite/

10' dinghy. Rocky Point, MD. Registration at 9AM. Skippers meeting at
10AM. Race till 5PM. JY/HCT has donated some nice prizes.

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Steve
S/V Pony Express

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
I've got a better idea. Show up here tomorrow and race an Xcite. I'll
even
pay your entry fee

What's an Xcite? Where are you located?

RB

he'll be at a friends' high-end funeral.


SV

"Pony Express" wrote in message
...
10' dinghy. Rocky Point, MD. Registration at 9AM. Skippers meeting at
10AM. Race till 5PM. JY/HCT has donated some nice prizes.

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Steve
S/V Pony Express

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
I've got a better idea. Show up here tomorrow and race an Xcite. I'll
even
pay your entry fee

What's an Xcite? Where are you located?

RB

over 26 years sailing and no rocks hit.

Scotty, your superior


"Snobsprit" wrote
More than 8 years of sailing,
hundreds of guests and NO serious mishaps and NO injuries.

On 08 Aug 2003 11:25:57 GMT, a team of surgeons from alt.sailing.asa
removed the following benign growth from Bobsprit:

Sailing the whole weekend, except you conveniently have a funeral when he
can meet you? What a pathetic excuse.

Steve, perhaps you can help us arrange another meeting within the next 8 weeks?
I can't imagine that Billy Jane is having his last sail this Saturday.
I've already offered this Sunday afternoon, either of next weekend's
afternoons. That's three alternate dates. I'm sure he can make ONE of them! Or
how about the weekend after that? That's FIVE alternates! Is he not sailing
after this Saturday?

Learn how to post, weevilhead.

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PJR :-)
mhm34x8
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:22:23 -0400, a team of surgeons from
alt.sailing.asa removed the following benign growth from Jeff Morris:

Hitting a rock isSNIP

Please keep your tedious sailing-related crap to yourself in future.
This is a troll newsgroup, not a newsgroup for wannabe yachtsmen.


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PJR :-)
mhm34x8
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I checked. It is 9 mm

RB

How big is it?
No silly boy, the video.

9 inche flacid or....dunno. I'll have to check.

RB