Do you still keep a lumberyard of plywood under your v-berth? I believe
Thom is referring to references of "Chiquita Banana"...

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
...
Hey, Ole Thom, you should learn how to separate wishful thinking
from reality. For one thing, the broken boom happened years after
I made my way successfully down to the sea. If you will kick start
some of those alcohol-soaked brain cells of yours, you would recall
the boom broke while I was beating out of St. Augustine in half a gale.
That inlet is known for steep and dangerous seas in on-shore
weather because it shoals and waves often break all across the bar.

I believe the Columbia River bar is a bigger example of it. You should
be familiar with that inlet being as how you profess to live up there
in Washington State.

As for my fine blue water yacht's name, the fellow I bought her from
had her named "Autumn." I did not like that name so I changed it to
"Cut the Mustard." I have never called her anything else. Where you
got the idea she had multiple names is a matter of examining your
own thought processes. How any sane man could take as fact some
of the ramblings of the losers in this group over the actuality that is
Capt. Neal® borders on the farcical.

Furthermore, this fixation you have on my having moved the keel is
bordering on delusion. Again, sir, the keel is still in its original
place.
I did not ever say I moved it and unless you can come up with where
I said I moved it and post it to prove your contention, then why not
admit your error?

All I ever said is I refitted the keel meaning I added some extra keel
bolts. Perhaps you assumed refitting means removing. To this sailor
refitting means fitting it with new hardware. This was done in the
water and did NOT involve removing the keel. I believe I mentioned
this procedure on my website. Please don't allow your misconceptions
and ignorance of nautical terms to cloud your judgment, sir.

As for the positive flotation project, that is true and factual. I have
poured all the dead space between the hull and the component with
two-part, closed cell, urethane foam. My fine, blue water yacht is
similar to an Etap or a Boston Whaler in that there is the hull, there
is foam and there is the inner liner (component). Not only that, but
there is no unsightly, heavy pilothouse on this Captain's real sailboat.

You have a pretty good memory for an old coot but you have a lot
of the details wrong. I guess you can be forgiven since it is more
a problem with reading comprehension than memory in my humble
opinion. For an old relic you could be a lot worse off. Heck,
compare yourself to the dazed, confused, bitter and psychotic
mental state of the Gay One who is half your age and you will
have to admit you are practically an Einstein.

Cheers! And, I'll drink to THAT!

Seriously, Ole Thom, let me be among the first to wish you a
Merry Christmas this year and many, many more to come.

Respectfully,
Capt. Neal




"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
...
Hey Crapton,

Mr everything right, How about a post on the Broken Boom? How about a
History of the names on the "Banana Boat" before you changed the name
because of all the laughs the ASA was having? How about the true story
of the Keel?

Tell us about your project of making her unsinkable?

How about a re-telling of shooting the Inlet against the CG advice?

How about that for an Old Man's memory?

I still have many more of your tales. I'll save them. In the mean time,
Crapton. These are stories that you have posted. The real Crapton will
has no problem recalling them for the Newbies. (Nor will I)

Ole Thom

Katy,

I think Neal's name was simply "Chiguita" but it was in reference to the
Banana song.

Now he is hedging on Mr Everything Right because of time. Not that he
neglected proper use.

I also, Checked his story about the Keel from his own "Web Site" Along
with the pictures, Some of his asinine comments.

His rebuttals really don't have a real Neal way about them, So be it,
they do make interesting comments

How's it feel being high and dry ? I haven't been that way in
thirty-five years.
Luck of the draw on work transfer!

Guess I can't give you the;"I'll drink to that!" You know better but
I'm a happy old man out here.

Ole Thom

"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com...
Here is the story of my quest for a sailboat. After you read it lets
here your story, IF you have a boat. This has been published in Sail
magazine and readers digest. It is copy writed.


Fetching Red Cloud
A true
story by Joe Butcher

Top marks, Joe. That was the best sailing post that we've had in a while.

Regards


Donal
--

Why thank you Donal, I will send you an autographed HB copy of my book
when it is published. It is a great exciting true tale of the high
seas, spanish gold, corrupt goverments, hitmen, jail breaks, and much
much more. Even I cant put it down when I read it.

Joe

"Donal" wrote in message
...

"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com...
Here is the story of my quest for a sailboat. After you read it lets
here your story, IF you have a boat. This has been published in Sail
magazine and readers digest. It is copy writed.


Fetching Red Cloud
A true
story by Joe Butcher

Top marks, Joe. That was the best sailing post that we've had in a
while.

Regards


Donal
--




I would add, excepting the old nav/colregs quizzes, one of the few sailing
posts we've had lately.

John Cairns

Donal wrote in message
...

"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com...
Here is the story of my quest for a sailboat. After you read it lets
here your story, IF you have a boat. This has been published in Sail
magazine and readers digest. It is copy writed.


Fetching Red Cloud
A true
story by Joe Butcher

Top marks, Joe. That was the best sailing post that we've had in a
while.

I agree with Donal. There is much to be learned from your account and I am
sure you have taken the lessons on board and others would do well to think
about it too.
When you said that your boat came from Lowestoft my first thought was that
it was a North Sea trawler that someone had converted. There were many
trawlers in Lowestoft before overfishing of the North Sea killed off the
industry. However when you said she had a centre cockpit with a tall mast I
knew she must be a yacht from the start. First, I looked in google for any
reference to your boat in Lowestoft without success. Then, and more to the
point, I looked in my copies of 'Lloyds Register of Yachts' for 1975 and
1977 and can tell you that there is no yacht listed in either of them called
'C Search' or 'Sea Search'.
A yacht of 42' would have been included automatically if Lloyds had been
told about her but her omission simply means that nobody did so. Maybe, as
someone else suggested, she was built outside of normal shipyards, or maybe
she was built abroad and brought to Lowestoft. If she was UK built the screw
threads would all be in inch measurements. metric threads would indicate she
was built abroad.
This is all negative stuff, but it is information of a sort and I hope it is
of interest.
Edgar.

Thanks for your efforts Edgar,

However the name was C Warden not sea search or C search.

Please look again, it would be great if you could help me.
Best Regards,
Joe

Greetings Edgar,

Could you please try to search Lloyds for the C. Warden,
That was her original name not C Search or Sea Search.
It would be much appreacited.

Thanks
Joe

Joe wrote in message
ps.com...
Greetings Edgar,

Could you please try to search Lloyds for the C. Warden,
That was her original name not C Search or Sea Search.
It would be much appreacited.

Thanks
Joe
Sorry, Joe but no luck.
I have searched both years for C Warden, , C **** Warden, Sea Warden,
also plain Warden but nothing shows.
Is she chine or round bilge? Round bilge in steel would certainly mean a
top boatyard, probably Dutch, but steel hulls with chines can be built
anywhere. A friend of mine has just completed a steel 70 footer with three
masts that took him and his wife 15 years to build .

Edgar wrote:
Joe wrote in message
ps.com...
Greetings Edgar,

Could you please try to search Lloyds for the C. Warden,
That was her original name not C Search or Sea Search.
It would be much appreacited.

Thanks
Joe
Sorry, Joe but no luck.
I have searched both years for C Warden, , C **** Warden, Sea
Warden,
also plain Warden but nothing shows.
Is she chine or round bilge? Round bilge in steel would certainly
mean a
top boatyard, probably Dutch, but steel hulls with chines can be
built
anywhere. A friend of mine has just completed a steel 70 footer with
three
masts that took him and his wife 15 years to build .

Thanks for the effort Edgar,
It is a rounded hull and bilge,no hard chines.

Joe