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

Cheers MC

Rick wrote:



Only the amateurs of either mode claim superiority. The rest of us just
don't play such sophomoric games. The skills required and the
application of those skills to safe vessel operation are the same. But
that is something which a rank amateur could not possibly understand.
That lack of understanding and experience is the foundation of Nil's
idiocy.

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

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

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

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

Simple Simon wrote:

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

Just slapping down an idiot wherever it raises its head.

You alone brought my name into this thread and by doing that you made
yourself fair game for my evaluation of your qualifications or lack thereof.

You seem to want it both ways, Nil. You want to trash your betters but
when you are exposed for the fraud you are you can only whine and claim
that you are being stalked or attacked.

Poor pathetic internet wannabe.

Rick

Wrong word, Neal ..... Disgusted, would be closer.

otn

Simple Simon wrote:

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

ubject: COLREGS - The final word on pecking order in restricted
visibility.
From: "Simple Simon"
Date: 10/16/2003 14:42 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

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

Another prime example of Neal's highly limited experience.

Shen

ubject: COLREGS - The final word on pecking order in restricted
visibility.
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?The=5Fnavigator=A9?=
Date: 10/16/2003 14:16 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

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

Cheers MC

Not really, it just takes different skills.

Shen