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I see you didn't know the Bristol 50 after after all. What a toad.

Cheers

DSK wrote:

Jeff Morris wrote:


Bristol has built (and continues to build) a variety of custom boats, many of
the large, so they may well have built a 50. However, they are now building a
48, which is close enough for me:
http://www.bristolmarine.com/bristol48.htm


Ah yes, but Jeff, you're not a pettifogging ****-ant like MC and JAX.

It's a matter of taste but I don't like center cockpit designs, most of them sail
like a double decker bus. However there are a few, Moody and Bristol come to mind,
that are good sailing boats. IIRC Bristols were designed by either Alden or Ted
Hood.

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DSK wrote:


JAXAshby wrote:


"Your search - "sailboats with that sissy footwell" - did not match any
documents."


Odd, there were at least as many of those as there were 50' Bristol center
cockpit sloops.

I bet a search for "JAXAshby's sailing skill & knowledge" would come up
blank, too. Or if you prefer mathematical terms, the empty set.


I don't think so. He's been known to sail. Tell us about your offshore
experiences?

Cheers

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DSK wrote:

wrote:


And it "is" a double decker bus. Dougy keeps telling anyone who will
listen that he doesn't like center cockpit sailboats because "they
don't sail well". Someone should tell him that trawlers don't sail at
all.


Shucks all this time I thought they did.

Seems to me that in a short time, on our trawler, my wife & I have been a
lot further, seen and done a lot more than you, Bubbles, and Jaxxie, ever
have in all your lives.


Good lord.

Cheers

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DSK wrote:

JAXAshby ranted:


.... dougie has two weeks experience repeated again and again and again
for as long as he has seen water.


Apparently you know even less about my sailing experience than you do about
actually sailing.


... He wouldn't know the Great Salt Pond from
the Great Salt Lake...


Actually, it would be easy to tell the difference. If it was one of those
"blackened windows, no outside input" exercises, you could look at the boat's
waterline.... or drop a hard boiled egg in the water.


Hey Doug, why don't you reread what you just posted and engage that
mighty intellect of yours?

Cheers

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wrote:

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:47:38 -0500, DSK wrote:



wrote:


From inside the cabin with the windows blacked out, you suggest looking at the
waterline or dropping an egg in the water? Damn you're good!

Yes, I am.



I have news for
you. The waterline on the inside of the boat isn't going to tell you much,

Actually, if you wanted to, you could indeed see the waterline from inside the boat.
It might take a little preparation or a lack of squeamishness.


and
dropping an egg in the bilge (I assume that's the water you intended, unless you
meant dropping an egg in the holding tank) is going to smell pretty bad after a
few days.

Sorry, none of my boats usually have enough water in the bilge to cover an egg, so
that wasn't what I meant. Nor did I mean the holding tank, is that you favorite spot
to play on the boat? In any event, it would only take a second to tell whether you
were in the Great Salt Lake so the egg would be fine.

Have you ever sailed at Salt Lake City?

Fresh Breezes- Doug King


You really are thicker than any post, and dumber than any dirt. No wonder you
had to give up sailing and buy a pretend tugboat with a fake smoke stack.


Perhaps he could get it smoking with some inseed oil soaked cotten rags?

Cheers

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JAXAshby wrote:

Doug no longer sails. The "man" now owns a trawler fer cripes sake.


got so old and decrepid he became frightened of tippy boats?

I think he and his wife got too fat for dinghies.

Cheers

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Lonny wrote:

Yes, that looks like the vessel. I remember it drawing 11' with the board down.



S'funny that's a new boat it says. Was your Bristol brand new?

Cheers

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JAXAshby wrote:

and which of those boats is a 50 foot Bristol?

dude, lonny was writing fiction (hoping to soon get paid LOTS of money for his
"better than Nick Carter" novels?).



No, he couldn't mistaken be 'cos Doug says he knows the boat and it's
"nice".

Cheers

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JAXAshby wrote:

Doug no longer sails. The "man" now owns a trawler fer cripes sake.


got so old and decrepid he became frightened of tippy boats?

Perhaps Doug was always old and decrepid (he coils the excess string at
the head of his guitar)?

Cheers