What If # 5
 

The Boat: Fisher 33 Motorsailor
Conditions: close reach in 20-25 knots, seas 5-7 feet in blue water.


CRASH, THUD!!!! How could this happen? But it has happened. You've collided
with a partially submerged object. You run below and check the engine
compartment and bilges...no water rushing in. That's good! Back on deck you see
that the impact has compromised your rig. Two stays are broken. You quickly
douse the main and working jib. But you leave the mizzen up as a rider for the
moment. You realize that your boat is sluggish, as if stuck. You move to the
bow...and..the first thing you see are shark fins cutting back and forth.
There's stuff floating in the water. The Blue sharks are feeding in a frenzy.
Your boat has struck a dead whale and is practically stuck on top of it. At the
height of a swell, the heavy Fisher actually lifts and heels riding the back of
the dead animal. The stench is awful.
You run into the pilot house and fire up the powerful diesel, but in gear it
labors as the prop tries to church rotted blubber. You'll blow a headgasket
that way. Help is far away. You need to get free of this floating grounding.

What can you do?


RB

What If # 5
 

1. Throw a hook in the whale's mouth and make it a photo op.
2. Dial up the Hemmingways and make a deal for your new book, "The Old Man
and the Sea, Part II"
3. Relax while the sharks do their job.
4. Ask the whale if he knows Ahab.
5. Call the EPA: the whale is illegally releasing halogenated-organic
contaminants; ask for a tow back when they arrive.
6. Fire up the rendering pots and melt the blubber for fuel; convert your
diesel chugger to a blubber engine.

Scout

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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The Boat: Fisher 33 Motorsailor
Conditions: close reach in 20-25 knots, seas 5-7 feet in blue water.


CRASH, THUD!!!! How could this happen? But it has happened. You've
collided
with a partially submerged object. You run below and check the engine
compartment and bilges...no water rushing in. That's good! Back on deck
you see
that the impact has compromised your rig. Two stays are broken. You
quickly
douse the main and working jib. But you leave the mizzen up as a rider for
the
moment. You realize that your boat is sluggish, as if stuck. You move to
the
bow...and..the first thing you see are shark fins cutting back and forth.
There's stuff floating in the water. The Blue sharks are feeding in a
frenzy.
Your boat has struck a dead whale and is practically stuck on top of it.
At the
height of a swell, the heavy Fisher actually lifts and heels riding the
back of
the dead animal. The stench is awful.
You run into the pilot house and fire up the powerful diesel, but in gear
it
labors as the prop tries to church rotted blubber. You'll blow a
headgasket
that way. Help is far away. You need to get free of this floating
grounding.

What can you do?


RB

What If # 5
 

Bobsprit wrote:

The Boat: Fisher 33 Motorsailor
Conditions: close reach in 20-25 knots, seas 5-7 feet in blue water.


What can you do?

RB

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What If # 5
 

The Boat: Fisher 33 Motorsailor
Conditions: close reach

Did I really say that?

What If # 5
 

No, Asswipe said it.

SV

"Bobspirt" wrote in message
...

The Boat: Fisher 33 Motorsailor
Conditions: close reach

Did I really say that?

What If # 5
 

On 17 Jun 2004 12:13:20 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this
crap:

The Boat: Fisher 33 Motorsailor
Conditions: close reach in 20-25 knots, seas 5-7 feet in blue water.


CRASH, THUD!!!! How could this happen? But it has happened. You've collided
with a partially submerged object. You run below and check the engine
compartment and bilges...no water rushing in. That's good! Back on deck you see
that the impact has compromised your rig. Two stays are broken. You quickly
douse the main and working jib. But you leave the mizzen up as a rider for the
moment. You realize that your boat is sluggish, as if stuck. You move to the
bow...and..the first thing you see are shark fins cutting back and forth.
There's stuff floating in the water. The Blue sharks are feeding in a frenzy.
Your boat has struck a dead whale and is practically stuck on top of it. At the
height of a swell, the heavy Fisher actually lifts and heels riding the back of
the dead animal. The stench is awful.
You run into the pilot house and fire up the powerful diesel, but in gear it
labors as the prop tries to church rotted blubber. You'll blow a headgasket
that way. Help is far away. You need to get free of this floating grounding.

What can you do?

You use your whisker pole to push yourself away.






Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

What If # 5
 

On 17 Jun 2004 15:07:46 GMT, (Bobspirt) wrote this
crap:


The Boat: Fisher 33 Motorsailor
Conditions: close reach

Did I really say that?

You were busy handling your whisker pole.




Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

What If # 5
 

I'm beginning to think Horvath had never even heard of a whisker pole until
this
week. He's using it like a "new" vocabulary word.


To Horvath, whisker poll is the name for his boyrfriend's.....yup.

RB

What If # 5
 

If he says it over and over, eventually he'll be able to pronounce it.

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wrote in message
...
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:50:56 -0400, Horvath wrote:

On 17 Jun 2004 12:13:20 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this
crap:

The Boat: Fisher 33 Motorsailor
Conditions: close reach in 20-25 knots, seas 5-7 feet in blue water.


CRASH, THUD!!!! How could this happen? But it has happened. You've
collided
with a partially submerged object. You run below and check the engine
compartment and bilges...no water rushing in. That's good! Back on deck
you see
that the impact has compromised your rig. Two stays are broken. You
quickly
douse the main and working jib. But you leave the mizzen up as a rider
for the
moment. You realize that your boat is sluggish, as if stuck. You move to
the
bow...and..the first thing you see are shark fins cutting back and
forth.
There's stuff floating in the water. The Blue sharks are feeding in a
frenzy.
Your boat has struck a dead whale and is practically stuck on top of it.
At the
height of a swell, the heavy Fisher actually lifts and heels riding the
back of
the dead animal. The stench is awful.
You run into the pilot house and fire up the powerful diesel, but in
gear it
labors as the prop tries to church rotted blubber. You'll blow a
headgasket
that way. Help is far away. You need to get free of this floating
grounding.

What can you do?

You use your whisker pole to push yourself away.


I'm beginning to think Horvath had never even heard of a whisker pole
until this
week. He's using it like a "new" vocabulary word.

BB

What If # 5
 

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
The Boat: Fisher 33 Motorsailor
Conditions: close reach in 20-25 knots, seas 5-7 feet in blue water.



You run into the pilot house and fire up the powerful diesel, but in gear
it
labors as the prop tries to church rotted blubber. You'll blow a
headgasket
that way. Help is far away. You need to get free of this floating
grounding.

What can you do?


RB
What sorta idiot is going to run and engine to distruction trying to drive a
fouled prop?
If you are that stupid... You deserve to die... the planet has sufficient
humans without your input


What kept the sharks away from the whale while it rotted so much?


The entire scinario is so full of virtual impossabilitys that you might as
well ask "what if the crash turns out to be a motorcar fallen onto the
masthead?"

You Stupid boy!

What If # 5
 

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:20:03 +0000 (UTC), "James"
wrote this crap:



"what if the crash turns out to be a motorcar fallen onto the
masthead?"


Extend your whisker pole out to 35 feet, and push it off the masthead
into the sea.






Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

What If # 5
 

There are all sorts of idiot. Occasionally, barely running it in reverse
for a couple of seconds at a time might disengage the line from the
prop. I've never seen it work, but I suppose it's possible.

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www.sailnow.com

"James" wrote in message
...

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
The Boat: Fisher 33 Motorsailor
Conditions: close reach in 20-25 knots, seas 5-7 feet in blue water.



You run into the pilot house and fire up the powerful diesel, but in
gear
it
labors as the prop tries to church rotted blubber. You'll blow a
headgasket
that way. Help is far away. You need to get free of this floating
grounding.

What can you do?


RB
What sorta idiot is going to run and engine to distruction trying to drive
a
fouled prop?
If you are that stupid... You deserve to die... the planet has sufficient
humans without your input


What kept the sharks away from the whale while it rotted so much?


The entire scinario is so full of virtual impossabilitys that you might as
well ask "what if the crash turns out to be a motorcar fallen onto the
masthead?"

You Stupid boy!