"Gogarty" wrote in message


In article .com,
says...


There are only three types of sailors in the world, those who have been
aground, those who dont sail very often and those who lie

I would reduce that to two: those who have been aground and those who
lie.

Agreed. The ones who sail infrequently typically are the ones who run
aground.

Max

The "jetskiers" were members of the local fire/sheriff swif****er rescue
teams


"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
"Alan Gomes" wrote in news:a8adncHccqo9I6LfRVn-
:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/032...p_aground.html

I don't suppose THESE sailors made any comments about shooting at
jetskiiers with guns and missles.....like I've seen in the past on these
newsgroups.....(c;

Hypothermia might have been a problem without those "damned jetskiiers" so
quickly on the scene.....

Alan Gomes wrote:
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/032...p_aground.html


Those ships (Irving and Exy) are Crelock designs, absolutely beautiful.
I've sailed on them.

I can't understand why the anchors are still aboard and the dinghy is in
the davits. First thing I would have done was to run all the anchors I
could find as far out as possible and try to horse the thing head to the
swell and wind.

Jim wrote:

I can't understand why the anchors are still aboard and the dinghy is in
the davits. First thing I would have done was to run all the anchors I
could find as far out as possible and try to horse the thing head to the
swell and wind.

The seas were such that the dinghy would probably have swamped before
you got 100 ft out.

It is a beautiful boat, but not worth a human life.

Lew

Lew Hodgett wrote:
Jim wrote:

I can't understand why the anchors are still aboard and the dinghy is
in the davits. First thing I would have done was to run all the
anchors I could find as far out as possible and try to horse the thing
head to the swell and wind.


The seas were such that the dinghy would probably have swamped before
you got 100 ft out.

It is a beautiful boat, but not worth a human life.

Lew
Lew;
It wasn't that rough that day. The dinghy is a 13 foot Avon rib with a
15/20 horse outboard.

I have the same dinghy, with a 25.

That boat will handle a lot more than anything that they could have
found that day.

Probably not swamped a 12 or 14 foot rib (which they might carry) but
launching the small boat is really challanging (read dangerous) in a
good seaway.

Ben wrote:
Probably not swamped a 12 or 14 foot rib (which they might carry) but
launching the small boat is really challanging (read dangerous) in a
good seaway.


And more so when the boat is aground and has no ability or tendency to
move in sympathy with the waves.

DSK

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:36:50 -0500, DSK wrote
this crap:



And more so when the boat is aground and has no ability or tendency to
move in sympathy with the waves.

DSK


DSK is a lying cocksucker, and a coward.

DSK has posted blatent lies on this newsgroup, and when he is proven
to be a liar, he doesn't have the balls to defend himself.





This post is 100% free of steroids

Has anyone heard if the attempt to re-float/tow the "Irving Johnson" have
succeeded??

I haven't seen anything in the last 24 hrs on the national news.

The longer she languishes there, the less hope there is for a successful
attempt.

Thanks.

Steve
s/v Good Intentions