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Peter Wiley wrote

Riiiiiight. I thought you were just trolling, now I'm sure of it. I
won't waste my time any further.


Well geee Peter. Having you on a hook is just plain dull.

Of course it was a trool! Everone bit but the boobfish I was fishin
for.

I found the perfect boat to start with and do not need "Stepping
Stones".

You think Im really going to section my fine boat? I could but the
truth is RedCloud is perfect how she is. She is large enough to be
roomy for 2 and I can single handle her

Nah, I didn't think you were gonna do it. Has been done tho.



Thanks have a safe trip

Got rid of the ship for this voyage, I'm not sailing until 20 December
or thereabouts.


What do you sail on? Where do you go? You licenced? Union?

For work, mostly a 6500 tonne class 1 icebreaker equipped for
scientific research these days. Mainly out of Hobart down to the
Antarctic continent, over to Heard Island, etc etc. In the past, a
large variety of fishing trawlers, oceanographic research vessels and
the like. Been a lotta places but all in the Southern Hemisphere so
far. I hold a couple licences for workboats but not blue water big
ships, these days I run the computer networks, datalogging systems,
software, scientific sampling equipment etc etc. I'm running a marine
engineering R&D group.

Occasionally I get to drive the icebreaker when we're actually breaking
ice since my guys & I have been sailing with the crew for so long that
they treat us as part of them. 4th Mate :-) Powerboating writ large,
conning a big ship down ice leads and doing bank shots off the sides to
go round a corner tighter than the ships turning radius. An experience
few people will ever have.

PDW

Peter Wiley wrote in message

Occasionally I get to drive the icebreaker when we're actually breaking
ice since my guys & I have been sailing with the crew for so long that
they treat us as part of them. 4th Mate :-) Powerboating writ large,
conning a big ship down ice leads and doing bank shots off the sides to
go round a corner tighter than the ships turning radius. An experience
few people will ever have.

Sounds like a blast. Id love to take a 6,900 ton icebreaker and crush
every powerboat in this marina. But as you say... only the very lucky
get a shot at so much fun.

Joe



PDW

(Joe) wrote in message . com...
Peter Wiley wrote in message

Occasionally I get to drive the icebreaker when we're actually breaking
ice since my guys & I have been sailing with the crew for so long that
they treat us as part of them. 4th Mate :-) Powerboating writ large,
conning a big ship down ice leads and doing bank shots off the sides to
go round a corner tighter than the ships turning radius. An experience
few people will ever have.

Sounds like a blast. Id love to take a 6,900 ton icebreaker and crush
every powerboat in this marina.

Amen. And the people who invented PWC should be cloned, tortured to
death in front of their clones, then the clones dealt with as well.
Fortunately PWC are rare here.

Ah well. Friday night sailing, Saturday sailing, Sunday building then
kayaking, Monday in the office but if the weather holds, sailing after
I get home. Hope you guys are enjoying winter, tho as I remember it in
AZ it was pretty nice, assume TX is OK too.

PDW