On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:36:48 -0400, "Simple Simon"
wrote:

S.Simon - only has to pay $150 - a pittance for the privelege!

I've only been reading this group for a day, and you have all the
earmarks of a troll, but I'll bite. Do you really think that someone
who can afford a boat in excess of thirty feet is going to balk at a
mere $300 permit? What is that, like a few meals and a couple of
nights in a hotel for a family of four? Hell, I spent that much on a
printer. If I lived on the right coast and wanted to sail the
Bahamas, the extra hundred fifty wouldn't slow me down at all.

You're right, this will have no affect on the high roller, nor will it deter the cruiser
on a once-in-a-lifetime sabbatical. However, the working stiff who likes to take his
Carver 36 over to Bimini a few weekends a month will find paying this for every trip an
excessive burden. Add to this the extra hassle of returning to the States, and they'll be
a lot fewer weekend trips.


"Pockets of Resistance" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:36:48 -0400, "Simple Simon"
wrote:

S.Simon - only has to pay $150 - a pittance for the privelege!

I've only been reading this group for a day, and you have all the
earmarks of a troll, but I'll bite. Do you really think that someone
who can afford a boat in excess of thirty feet is going to balk at a
mere $300 permit? What is that, like a few meals and a couple of
nights in a hotel for a family of four? Hell, I spent that much on a
printer. If I lived on the right coast and wanted to sail the
Bahamas, the extra hundred fifty wouldn't slow me down at all.

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:25:59 -0400, something compelled "Jeff
Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom, to say:

You're right, this will have no affect on the high roller, nor will it deter the cruiser
on a once-in-a-lifetime sabbatical. However, the working stiff who likes to take his
Carver 36 over to Bimini a few weekends a month will find paying this for every trip an
excessive burden. Add to this the extra hassle of returning to the States, and they'll be
a lot fewer weekend trips.

Ah.

Point taken.


"Pockets of Resistance" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:36:48 -0400, "Simple Simon"
wrote:

S.Simon - only has to pay $150 - a pittance for the privelege!

I've only been reading this group for a day, and you have all the
earmarks of a troll, but I'll bite. Do you really think that someone
who can afford a boat in excess of thirty feet is going to balk at a
mere $300 permit? What is that, like a few meals and a couple of
nights in a hotel for a family of four? Hell, I spent that much on a
printer. If I lived on the right coast and wanted to sail the
Bahamas, the extra hundred fifty wouldn't slow me down at all.

I've only been reading this group for a day, and you have all the
earmarks of a troll, but I'll bite. Do you really think that someone
who can afford a boat in excess of thirty feet is going to balk at a
mere $300 permit?

You are excused from not knowing since you are such a newbie...$300 is =
Neal's grocery money for a whole year...He sails an ancient Coronado and =
his regular port of call is an immersed engine block from an old truck =
somewhere in the swamp below Homestead....

--=20
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Ouch, Katy! You need to trim your nails...

LP (rofl, as usual)

"katysails" wrote:

You are excused from not knowing since you are such a newbie...$300 is
Neal's grocery money for a whole year...He sails an ancient Coronado
and his regular port of call is an immersed engine block from an old
truck somewhere in the swamp below Homestead....

Ouch, Katy! You need to trim your nails...
It's like this...most creatures, when slashed, back away and learn their =
lesson. Then there are those few that keep coming back for more. Why =
should I disappoint them? Neal is one flayed doggie....

--=20
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Wow , I didn't know it is that tight for Neal. I feel a touch of pity at the
moment, I guess that explains a lot. Perhaps I should take it a little
easier on him? Naa I don't think so.
"katysails" wrote in message
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I've only been reading this group for a day, and you have all the
earmarks of a troll, but I'll bite. Do you really think that someone
who can afford a boat in excess of thirty feet is going to balk at a
mere $300 permit?

You are excused from not knowing since you are such a newbie...$300 is
Neal's grocery money for a whole year...He sails an ancient Coronado and his
regular port of call is an immersed engine block from an old truck somewhere
in the swamp below Homestead....

--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

"Pockets of Resistance" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:36:48 -0400, "Simple Simon"
wrote:

S.Simon - only has to pay $150 - a pittance for the privelege!

I've only been reading this group for a day, and you have all the
earmarks of a troll, but I'll bite. Do you really think that
someone
who can afford a boat in excess of thirty feet is going to balk at a
mere $300 permit? What is that, like a few meals and a couple of
nights in a hotel for a family of four?

LOL! Very funny! Try a Motel 6 for a lonely man and an old cat...

LP (not too often, either)
Hell, I spent that much on a
printer. If I lived on the right coast and wanted to sail the
Bahamas, the extra hundred fifty wouldn't slow me down at all.