What really happened to Mooron
 

"Peter Wiley" wrote:

I suspect he's not *that* fussy. Any rum 100 proof or over will
probably do.

Oh, but I bet he is...but I'm sure any would do in a pinch.

Speaking as a long-term rum drinker myself, I wouldn't
bother with white rums. Inner Circle OP (unobtainable in the USA) is
good, a dark rum with lots of flavour and 75% ethanol content. Bundy OP
isn't bad either, we were drinking that last weekend, but it's only
57%.

I drink Myers's Rum (original dark 40%). I admit I haven't tried many
others...I don't care for Captain Morgan, too much spice.

Teenage children have some uses once they learn how much ice goes
in the rum. There may be hope for them yet.

Hehee. I will have to remember that, although I still haven't figured out
how to get my boys to clean their rooms get. Somedays it looks like a F-3
tornado runs through their rooms. :-)


LP

What really happened to Mooron
 

"Peter Wiley" wrote:

A full keel cruising sailboat, not one of those fin keeled things that
draw too much water to get into shallow anchorages and don't track
worth a damn.

Thanks, I'll have to look the different keels up on the internet to see what
they look like.

LP

What really happened to Mooron
 

Thanks, I'll have to look the different keels up on the internet to see =
what
they look like.

LP

Remember, preference of keel is an opinion. Us deep fin keelers know =
how to row our dinghies into those shallow areas without having to take =
the whole boat in...if you want to go swamp stalking with a boat, then =
you should get a pontoon picnic boat....and our deep fin tracks fine. =
set the sails correctly, lock down the wheel and sit and watch the =
scenery/

--=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

What really happened to Mooron
 

In article YD7Gb.21322$HQ.21048@okepread02, Lady Pilot
wrote:

"Peter Wiley" wrote:

I suspect he's not *that* fussy. Any rum 100 proof or over will
probably do.

Oh, but I bet he is...but I'm sure any would do in a pinch.

Speaking as a long-term rum drinker myself, I wouldn't
bother with white rums. Inner Circle OP (unobtainable in the USA) is
good, a dark rum with lots of flavour and 75% ethanol content. Bundy OP
isn't bad either, we were drinking that last weekend, but it's only
57%.

I drink Myers's Rum (original dark 40%). I admit I haven't tried many
others...I don't care for Captain Morgan, too much spice.

Yeah, I don't like it either. Might be cheap, but not sufficiently so.

Teenage children have some uses once they learn how much ice goes
in the rum. There may be hope for them yet.

Hehee. I will have to remember that, although I still haven't figured out
how to get my boys to clean their rooms get. Somedays it looks like a F-3
tornado runs through their rooms. :-)

Give up. What I do for my teenage daughters is give them 24 hours
warning that I'm going to sweep the entire load of crap on their floor
straight down the passageway and into the bin. After the first time I
did that, they got smart enough to pick up the stuff they really wanted
before I did it. Lotta screaming & tears that first time but they got
the message. Still don't clean their rooms but I don't bother much
about it either, easier to go the clean sweep than pick over the bomb
site. I'm on a plane and somewhere else by the time they work out some
stuff is gone forever :-)

PDW

What really happened to Mooron
 

In article , katysails
wrote:

Thanks, I'll have to look the different keels up on the internet to see what
they look like.

LP

Remember, preference of keel is an opinion. Us deep fin keelers know how to
row our dinghies into those shallow areas without having to take the whole
boat in...if you want to go swamp stalking with a boat, then you should get a
pontoon picnic boat....and our deep fin tracks fine. set the sails
correctly, lock down the wheel and sit and watch the scenery/

Yeah, sure, Katy. It's possible, just not as forgiving and every boat
seems to have an autopilot these days anyway. What you can't do
anywhere near as easily is haul out in odd places which doesn't matter
to you, where you are, but does matter if you want to go cruising in
backwater places in the Pacific. Ditto if you hit something or snag a
line; the full keel offers better protection to the prop & rudder. You
can also tuck into a protected corner or get over a bar where the
water's too shallow for deeper draft boats. Everything's a compromise,
it's just a matter of weighting the tradeoffs.

The front of my place is tidal, but there's deep water 400m offshore
and a private marine railway a little closer than that. I can park
something that draws 1.5m or less a lot closer than something drawing
2m plus. In fact I can park a shoal draft full keel boat on the tidal
flat to do bottom work without any dramas or expense. It won't point
as high or go as fast, but what the hell. If I wanted max speed I'd
have a multihull or a displacement diesel powerboat (aka 'trawler') and
if I wanted something that pointed as high as possible I'd buy
something like Navvie's Farr and change headsails every time the wind
speed changed by 5 knots while resigning myself to always sailing with
a crew. Tradeoffs and if my goals change so will my tools (ie boat).

Christmas Eve and time I was drinking. Packed another 4 crates of
machine tools, castings & accessories to ship south. Good thing freight
companies charge by volume & not weight, one of the crates has 3 cast
iron cannon barrels in it and they weigh about 75 kg each, plus another
250 kg of castings for future projects. Only another 8 tonnes of
tooling to go.....

Peter Wiley

What really happened to Mooron
 

Ditto if you hit something or snag a
line; the full keel offers better protection to the prop & rudder.

We're kedged....

--=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