The Boat: Island Packet 35

You're sailing offshore alone, on autopilot and on a comfortable reach. You pad
below to get some hot chocolate when a strange noise alerts you that
something's up.
Back on deck you find that your boat is now traveling with a fairly large pod
of Sperm Whales. You count 5 or 6 adults and two calves. A large bull is making
somewhat unusual motions with his flukes and he swims closer to your boat.

What do you do?


RB

Bobsprit wrote:
The Boat: Island Packet 35

You're sailing offshore alone, on autopilot and on a comfortable reach. You pad
below to get some hot chocolate when a strange noise alerts you that
something's up.
Back on deck you find that your boat is now traveling with a fairly large pod
of Sperm Whales. You count 5 or 6 adults and two calves. A large bull is making
somewhat unusual motions with his flukes and he swims closer to your boat.

What do you do?

Democrat answer... ignore the whales, they are clearly hallucinations
brought on by too much LSD back in the '60s. Everybody knows whales are
extinct by now.

Republican answer... rake the whale with a burst of .50 cal fire
(tracers 1 in 3). After all whales are supposed to be extinct by now,
dammit!

DSK

you throw boobsy over board for a meal

The Boat: Island Packet 35

You're sailing offshore alone, on autopilot and on a comfortable reach.
You pad
below to get some hot chocolate when a strange noise alerts you that
something's up.
Back on deck you find that your boat is now traveling with a fairly large
pod
of Sperm Whales. You count 5 or 6 adults and two calves. A large bull is
making
somewhat unusual motions with his flukes and he swims closer to your boat.

What do you do?


RB

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
The Boat: Island Packet 35

You're sailing offshore alone, on autopilot and on a comfortable reach. You
pad
below to get some hot chocolate when a strange noise alerts you that
something's up.
Back on deck you find that your boat is now traveling with a fairly large pod
of Sperm Whales. You count 5 or 6 adults and two calves. A large bull is
making
somewhat unusual motions with his flukes and he swims closer to your boat.

What do you do?

Get the camera, quickly! Actually I've been in this situation a number of
times, though never with sperm whales. I know I've been with hunchback and
minke whales, perhaps other types. I've had them cruise alongside for some time
on three occasions; once, one dove under us, probably missing the keel by a few
feet. A number of times I've just stood off 100 yards and watched them feed.

http://www.sv-loki.com/Whales/whales.html

"Captain Bly" wrote in message
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you throw boobsy over board for a meal

first grease up his ass, he did say they were sperm whales.

"Bobsprit" wrote
Back on deck you find a fairly large pod of Sperm Whales.

see? We told you that big stern ladder was trouble.

SV

On 15 Jun 2004 19:14:49 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this
crap:

The Boat: Island Packet 35

You're sailing offshore alone, on autopilot and on a comfortable reach. You pad
below to get some hot chocolate when a strange noise alerts you that
something's up.
Back on deck you find that your boat is now traveling with a fairly large pod
of Sperm Whales. You count 5 or 6 adults and two calves. A large bull is making
somewhat unusual motions with his flukes and he swims closer to your boat.

What do you do?

Shoot it.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:30:52 -0400, DSK wrote
this crap:


Republican answer... rake the whale with a burst of .50 cal fire
(tracers 1 in 3). After all whales are supposed to be extinct by now,
dammit!

Tracers should be 1 in 10, or you'll foul the barrel.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:48:48 GMT, "Captain Bly"
wrote this crap:


you throw boobsy over board for a meal


Sperm whales are vegetarians.

But you WILL scare them away.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

you throw boobsy over board for a meal


Sperm whales are vegetarians.


100% wrong. They are toothed whales, feeding on fish, squid and so on.

RB