When you start motor-mouthing about trips to no where that you never
take and bull****ting about offshore equipment on your boat and in your
possession that you never use, I feel discusted about your posts.

I wonder what you're talking about. I never do more than refute nasty dumb crap
spewed out people like Scotty who have sailed less by far than I have. There
are also some common sense elements that ANYONE can talk about. You don't need
a degree to use a boat and operate it safely. Going offshore takes a bit more
experience and something MOST of the people here don't have...TIME.
Obviously...if someone like Scotty mostly daysails, that's fine. He works hard
and he's not likely to take a 3 month cruise.
Again, thom...what exactly are talking about? You act like the there should be
a thread of civility and balance here...where there is generally none. It's as
though you expect ME to act sane when everyone else doesn't.
I think you know full well how I sail (basically daysails and 3-4 short
cruising for now) and that I'm happy with it. That I can torture this group and
catch so many fish is a measure of my trolling skills, which have little to do
with sailing!
Like I said, few people here venture offshore...most have NEVER been out of
sight of land on thier little boats! They may claim otherwise.
Get real and STEP OFF.

RB