Navigator wrote:
Awww c'mon. I say it was the best this week!



What utter drivel. First you post that the Constitution was motoring, then when it is pointed out that she has no motor, you backpedal and claim that
she was being towed, next it becomes apparent that the tow vessel was not in fact towing. Finally you lack the spine to say 'oops', but instead resort
to the tried and true Bobsprit cry, "It was a troll!", implying that you knew the facts all along and were merely trying to spark nautical discussion.
Hogwash. Shame on you Nav!

Cheers
Marty

No, I'm being dead honest about my saying she's motoring was a troll. I
knew I could get the Dogs barking if I said she was motoring. I know her
better than probably anyone else here -lived very close to her and
walked past her nearly every day when I worked in Baltimore.

Cheers

Martin Baxter wrote:

Navigator wrote:

Awww c'mon. I say it was the best this week!



What utter drivel. First you post that the Constitution was motoring,
then when it is pointed out that she has no motor, you backpedal and
claim that she was being towed, next it becomes apparent that the tow
vessel was not in fact towing. Finally you lack the spine to say 'oops',
but instead resort to the tried and true Bobsprit cry, "It was a
troll!", implying that you knew the facts all along and were merely
trying to spark nautical discussion. Hogwash. Shame on you Nav!

Cheers
Marty

C'mon, nav, be a man and admit you were wrong. Only a coward like booby plays
the "I was trolling all along" ploy.



"Navigator" wrote in message
...
No, I'm being dead honest about my saying she's motoring was a troll. I
knew I could get the Dogs barking if I said she was motoring. I know her
better than probably anyone else here -lived very close to her and
walked past her nearly every day when I worked in Baltimore.

Cheers

Martin Baxter wrote:

Navigator wrote:

Awww c'mon. I say it was the best this week!



What utter drivel. First you post that the Constitution was motoring,
then when it is pointed out that she has no motor, you backpedal and
claim that she was being towed, next it becomes apparent that the tow
vessel was not in fact towing. Finally you lack the spine to say 'oops',
but instead resort to the tried and true Bobsprit cry, "It was a
troll!", implying that you knew the facts all along and were merely
trying to spark nautical discussion. Hogwash. Shame on you Nav!

Cheers
Marty

Jeff Morris wrote:

C'mon, nav, be a man and admit you were wrong. Only a coward like booby plays
the "I was trolling all along" ploy.


Well if you don't want to believe my post then so be it, but it says
more about you than me. Sorry. Do you really think I don't know the
Constitution better than anyone here? Did you know I was a 'friend' of
the Constitution? But believe what you wish -it's all in your perception
anyway.

Cheers

Navigator wrote:
... Do you really think I don't know the
Constitution better than anyone here?

Now *that* is funny.

Navvie, you have shown you know little to nothing about tall ships,
tides, spinnakers, and that's just in the past two days. Apparently your
ego needs a good washing, shrink it to fit.

DSK

"Navigator" wrote in message
...

C'mon, nav, be a man and admit you were wrong. Only a coward like booby
plays
the "I was trolling all along" ploy.


Well if you don't want to believe my post then so be it, but it says
more about you than me.

What does it say about me? You're the one claiming you were lying before, but
now you're telling the truth. What does that say about you?

Sorry. Do you really think I don't know the
Constitution better than anyone here?

Why? You seem to know very little about it. I kept my last boat within a few
hundred yards of the ship for 8 years; I've lived within 5 miles of her most of
my life. I've been aboard her many times; gotten tri ps on her; and special
tours. However, my brother knows more, since he's been building a detail model
of her for the last 5 years or so.


Did you know I was a 'friend' of
the Constitution?

No that's probably another troll. The navy is not permitted to solicit
donations, and the museum doesn't have a "Friend" membership. But even if its
true, what's the point? Does making a donation make you an expert?

But believe what you wish -it's all in your perception
anyway.

And the perception of everyone else. Way to go, Navsprit!

Jeff Morris wrote:

"Navigator" wrote in message
...

C'mon, nav, be a man and admit you were wrong. Only a coward like booby

plays

the "I was trolling all along" ploy.


Well if you don't want to believe my post then so be it, but it says
more about you than me.


What does it say about me? You're the one claiming you were lying before, but
now you're telling the truth. What does that say about you?


Sorry. Do you really think I don't know the
Constitution better than anyone here?


Why? You seem to know very little about it. I kept my last boat within a few
hundred yards of the ship for 8 years; I've lived within 5 miles of her most of
my life. I've been aboard her many times; gotten tri ps on her; and special
tours. However, my brother knows more, since he's been building a detail model
of her for the last 5 years or so.


I had no idea we lived so close together. I may even have walked past
you on the street several times in the past few years! Is you boat at
the 'new' marina off Key St? Talking of model building you should see my
Victory!

Cheers

"Navigator" wrote in message
...

I had no idea we lived so close together. I may even have walked past
you on the street several times in the past few years! Is you boat at
the 'new' marina off Key St? Talking of model building you should see my
Victory!



I don't know which marina you consider "new" - and there isn't a "Key St." in
Charlestown now. I was at Shipyard Quarters Marina (piers 6 and 8 -
Constitution is pier 1) and at Constitution Marina, which is at the old Hoosac
Pier on the other side of pier 1. Now I'm across the Mystic River in Chelsea.
SQM was built in the late 80's, I think. Constitution Marina was somewhat
earlier.

Jeff Morris wrote:

"Navigator" wrote in message
...

C'mon, nav, be a man and admit you were wrong. Only a coward like booby

plays

the "I was trolling all along" ploy.


Well if you don't want to believe my post then so be it, but it says
more about you than me.


What does it say about me? You're the one claiming you were lying before, but
now you're telling the truth. What does that say about you?

Is the cheeky 'she's motoring you know' such a lie?



Sorry. Do you really think I don't know the
Constitution better than anyone here?


Why? You seem to know very little about it. I kept my last boat within a few
hundred yards of the ship for 8 years; I've lived within 5 miles of her most of
my life. I've been aboard her many times; gotten tri ps on her;

You got trips on the Constitution? When was that exactly? I really lived
within 0.5 miles of her for 5 years!

and special
tours. However, my brother knows more, since he's been building a detail model
of her for the last 5 years or so.


Did you know I was a 'friend' of
the Constitution?


No that's probably another troll. The navy is not permitted to solicit
donations, and the museum doesn't have a "Friend" membership. But even if its
true, what's the point? Does making a donation make you an expert?

I visited her quite often on my walks around her. There were certainly
no naval personnel there in my day. Just because she had not been
decommissioned did not mean that the Navy had any interest in her
upkeep. Given what happened to her and the desperate attempts of private
citizens (and I include myself in a very small way there) to raise
awareness of what was happening I think it was more a sense of shame
brought down on the 'powers that be' that got her to the standard she is
in now. Believe me, at one point she was only months away from bursting
open like a rotten apple -it was a terrible sight for a sailor to see!
She was closed to the public becuase she was so weak and unsafe!


But believe what you wish -it's all in your perception
anyway.


And the perception of everyone else. Way to go, Navsprit!


Jeff, I would have expected more from you than that cheap shot. Oh well.

Cheers

Navigator wrote:
I visited her quite often on my walks around her. There were certainly
no naval personnel there in my day.

When was this?

DSK