The_navigator© wrote:

Sailing a boat takes far more skill than driving a motor boat -IMHO

To safely operate either requires skill. There may be different skills
involved at different times but neither is somehow a "superior" skill.
Only the amateurs of either mode claim superiority.

You will not find professional mariners of either mode making the type
of ignorant statements regularly espoused by Nil.

Nil's comments prove my point very clearly. He is merely a pedantic
dilettante who lacks both skill and experience.

Rick

Sad sad little man. Hates his toy license, hates those who make a living
doing what he wants so badly to do himself, hates himself for his
pathetic existence.

Whats'a matter, Nil, reduced to projecting your own failures and
ineptitude? Are you so jealous of those of us who do for a living what
you struggle to do for pleasure that you can now only attack us for what
you are incapable of attaining?

It seems you have been so thoroughly thrashed over your incompetence in
the COLREGS and vessel operations that you can now only spin around and
lash out in some blind rage accusing others of your own deficiencies.

Poor sad little wannabe ... save up and buy a boom. Get some sailing
time and maybe you can get a sail endorsement on your little MOTOR boat
ticket.

Don't forget to flush after each post, Nil.

Rick

You motorboat captains are all the same. You refuse
to believe you are nothing but glorified truck drivers.

Sailors, on the other hand, are much much more
competent mariners. There is a whole world you
are unfamiliar with because you drive boats while
sailors sail them.

How anybody who drives a boat from an enclosed
and air-conditioned wheel house where you can't
smell the air, hear the sounds outside, feel the temperature,
look at the horizon all around, see the sky, see the water,
etc. can call himself a mariner is an absurdity of a major
sort.

S.Simon


"Rick" wrote in message ink.net...
The_navigator© wrote:

Sailing a boat takes far more skill than driving a motor boat -IMHO

To safely operate either requires skill. There may be different skills
involved at different times but neither is somehow a "superior" skill.
Only the amateurs of either mode claim superiority.

You will not find professional mariners of either mode making the type
of ignorant statements regularly espoused by Nil.

Nil's comments prove my point very clearly. He is merely a pedantic
dilettante who lacks both skill and experience.

Rick

"Rick" wrote in message news
Sad sad little man. Hates his toy license, hates those who make a living
doing what he wants so badly to do himself, hates himself for his
pathetic existence.

Name-calling!

Whats'a matter, Nil, reduced to projecting your own failures and
ineptitude? Are you so jealous of those of us who do for a living what
you struggle to do for pleasure that you can now only attack us for what
you are incapable of attaining?

More name-calling!

It seems you have been so thoroughly thrashed over your incompetence in
the COLREGS and vessel operations that you can now only spin around and
lash out in some blind rage accusing others of your own deficiencies.

Still more name-calling!

Poor sad little wannabe ... save up and buy a boom. Get some sailing
time and maybe you can get a sail endorsement on your little MOTOR boat
ticket.

Even more name-calling still!

And, you call ME sad? Bwaaahahahhahahahahhahhahah!

S.Simon

Simple Simon wrote:

How Nil "can call himself a mariner is an absurdity of a major
sort."

Let's look at what he brings to the dock:

A license good for a Whaler load of poor bemused and endangered
passengers but none of the other certifications required of legitimate
professional mariners.

A plastic trailer-sailer with a broken boom moored to an old engine
block in some Florida swamp.

A pedant's vision of the COLREGS based on sailing fantasies developed
while immersed in the fumes from his cedar bucket MSD.

H'mmm, that seems to be about all ...

He needs about a year's worth of training before he can even be a "one
tripper." I don't believe he can successfully complete it even if he
could afford it.

Poor pathetic internet wannabe.

Rick

Simple Simon wrote:

And, you call ME sad?

Well, not just Sad:

Pathetic
Incompetent
Jealous
Incapable
Inept
Pedantic
Dilettante
Wannabe
Deficient

Let me know if I missed anything.

And BTW, that is not "name calling" it is part of an evaluation of your
unsuitability for shipboard employment based on your written statements.

Rick

I'm beginning to think Rick is becoming a newsgroup stalker.

He's so jealous of me he just can't let go of his obsession.

S.Simon

"Rick" wrote in message nk.net...
Simple Simon wrote:

How Nil "can call himself a mariner is an absurdity of a major
sort."

Let's look at what he brings to the dock:

A license good for a Whaler load of poor bemused and endangered
passengers but none of the other certifications required of legitimate
professional mariners.

A plastic trailer-sailer with a broken boom moored to an old engine
block in some Florida swamp.

A pedant's vision of the COLREGS based on sailing fantasies developed
while immersed in the fumes from his cedar bucket MSD.

H'mmm, that seems to be about all ...

He needs about a year's worth of training before he can even be a "one
tripper." I don't believe he can successfully complete it even if he
could afford it.

Poor pathetic internet wannabe.

Rick

Ronald Raygun wrote:

Well, that's bull**** of course, except in the zephyrs he's likely
to find himself in. He's making the mistake in logic that an
implication still holds when both sides are negated. From an
opinion (which, it has to be admitted, can in some circumstances
be correct, such as when there is very little wind) that it is safe
for him to proceed as fast as the wind will let him, he jumps, you
say, to the conclusion that it is unsafe to proceed at any other
speed. That's fallacious.

What about his contention that he has better maneuverability at a higher
speed than a lower one, such that he can stop more effectively at the higher
speed? Does that wash?


--
Wally
www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com
Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light.

Yet again Simple Simon shows the world that he has never actually been at
sea in fog.

It is NOT easy to tell the bearing of a vessel by just hearing a sound
signal in fog.





-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
-----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----

Yet again Simple Simon shows the world that he has never actually been at
sea in fog.

It is NOT easy to tell the bearing of a vessel by just hearing a sound
signal in fog.






-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
-----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----