Sailing from Newport to Bermuda
 

Make sure you have tit-reduction surgery before you
leave.

"Horvath" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:31:38 -0500, "John Cairns"
wrote this crap:

Interested in some opinions here, what equipment do I absolutely need? Do
I
need radar, do I need a GPS with a chartplotter, do I need a SSB, should
the
boat have refrigeration?

Make sure you have enough battiers, for GPS, flashlights, radios, etc.

Make sure you have enough rum.




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Sailing from Newport to Bermuda
 

Nutsy,

Why should anyone take you serious about off shore sailing, when you've
yet to spend your first day sailing out of sight of land?

Get real.

Ole Thom

Sailing from Newport to Bermuda
 

nope, it means you don't need an inflatable saucer no matter what type of boat
you sail or drive.

read it again.

ganz, read it again, this time slowly and out loud.
snip

you don't need training wheels not to need an inflatable rubber saucer,
aka
liferaft.


Let's try to translate this......

Inflatable rubber saucer = liferaft

The two negatives ("don't" and "not to") cancel each other out, so it's
quite easy, really.

"You need training wheels to need a liferaft."

Did I get it right, Jax?



Regards


Donal
--

Sailing from Newport to Bermuda
 

One thing is for sure, cell phone coverage is
going to really suck most of the way.

cell phone coverage will suck virtually the entire way New to Ber.


The inflatable harnesses are better than nothing

not really. fall overboard at sea with or without a PFD on and you can figure
on dying in the not too distant future.

BTW a few people mentioned "sextants." How about almanacs?

a sextant is almost as useless as tits on a boar. If lightning takes out all
your gps's it will also take out your quartz watches and you long distance
radios to reset them by. If you really do lose all your electronics, turn west
and sail until you sight land, stop at a Sunoco gas station and ask directions.

Sailing from Newport to Bermuda
 

ganz, it is way to hard to dumb down anything to your level.

It is up to you to graduate sixth grade all by yourself.

Jackass... write it again, this time in English.

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
ganz, read it again, this time slowly and out loud.

I think what you're trying to say is that one would still
want a liferaft even if one had a multi... English your
second language by chance?

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
Get a multihull, then you don't need the liferaft.


you don't need training wheels not to need an inflatable rubber saucer,
aka
liferaft.

Sailing from Newport to Bermuda
 

So, what you're saying is, besides the implication that you're
unschooled in basic English, that no one needs an inflatable.
This is patently wrong. What would Neal do without his
blow up girlfriend?

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
nope, it means you don't need an inflatable saucer no matter what type of
boat
you sail or drive.

read it again.

ganz, read it again, this time slowly and out loud.
snip

you don't need training wheels not to need an inflatable rubber
saucer,
aka
liferaft.


Let's try to translate this......

Inflatable rubber saucer = liferaft

The two negatives ("don't" and "not to") cancel each other out, so it's
quite easy, really.

"You need training wheels to need a liferaft."

Did I get it right, Jax?



Regards


Donal
--

Sailing from Newport to Bermuda
 

And, you're saying that you did this? It's not apparent from
your writing...

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
ganz, it is way to hard to dumb down anything to your level.

It is up to you to graduate sixth grade all by yourself.

Jackass... write it again, this time in English.

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
ganz, read it again, this time slowly and out loud.

I think what you're trying to say is that one would still
want a liferaft even if one had a multi... English your
second language by chance?

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
Get a multihull, then you don't need the liferaft.


you don't need training wheels not to need an inflatable rubber
saucer,
aka
liferaft.

Sailing from Newport to Bermuda
 

no one needs an inflatable.

"inflatable saucers" were developed to *try* to keep downed in the sea fighter
pilots alive long enough to be recovered. The product probably would have
never sold well to the public without this association and the naming of the
product a "life"raft instead of what it is, an inflatable rubber saucer.

Sailing from Newport to Bermuda
 

OzOne wrote:


I would venture that many here have no idea what an almanac is.

Helpful definition:
"Almanac: damn thick book in which one can never find the info for which one is
searching desperately before being interrupted by a new crises requiring that you
drop the book (often into the bilge) and run up on deck."

DSK

Sailing from Newport to Bermuda
 

Why not, a mono could have positive flotation ;)


OzOne wrote:
Yeah, so I've heard.
Kapok liferaft and jackets float too ;-)

Here's an idea... built a boat out of kapok trees!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King