New way to depart the Marina?
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2MO0xBNwM

Joe

New way to depart the Marina?
 

Joe wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2MO0xBNwM

Joe

Now that one I'll believe was taken on a cell phone...seems like they
ended up right back where they started from...and the guy standing on
his bow pulpit? What was that about? Just what did he think he was
going to do?

New way to depart the Marina?
 

"katy" wrote in message
...
Joe wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2MO0xBNwM

Joe

Now that one I'll believe was taken on a cell phone...seems like they
ended up right back where they started from...and the guy standing on his
bow pulpit? What was that about? Just what did he think he was going to
do?

Better that he should take some damage personally than allow his boat to be
hurt?

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KLC Lewis wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
...

Joe wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2MO0xBNwM

Joe


Now that one I'll believe was taken on a cell phone...seems like they
ended up right back where they started from...and the guy standing on his
bow pulpit? What was that about? Just what did he think he was going to
do?


Better that he should take some damage personally than allow his boat to be
hurt?


Maybe he's afraid the other boat is uninsured? One of the first rules I
learned: body parts do not belong between two boats, a boat and a dock,
a boat and a rock...he did not have a fending pole in his hand...he did
not have a bumper to sling between them...so what good is your boat to
you, except as a resale item, if you become an amputee?

New way to depart the Marina?
 

* katy wrote, On 8/20/2007 5:34 PM:
KLC Lewis wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
...

Joe wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2MO0xBNwM

Joe


Now that one I'll believe was taken on a cell phone...seems like they
ended up right back where they started from...and the guy standing on
his bow pulpit? What was that about? Just what did he think he was
going to do?


Better that he should take some damage personally than allow his boat
to be hurt?

Maybe he's afraid the other boat is uninsured? One of the first rules I
learned: body parts do not belong between two boats, a boat and a dock,
a boat and a rock...he did not have a fending pole in his hand...he did
not have a bumper to sling between them...so what good is your boat to
you, except as a resale item, if you become an amputee?

I think he's the one who fell off the boat and he's trying to get back on.

New way to depart the Marina?
 

"katy" wrote in message
...
so what good is your boat to you, except as a resale item, if you
become an amputee?

Ignorant girl. Tell that to Tristan Jones who wrote some good sailing
books including "Outward Leg". He was an amputee.
http://www.tristanjones.org/outward.htm

Go post to a knitting group where you might know something about it,
please. Pretty please.

Greg

New way to depart the Marina?
 

Gregory Hall wrote:

"katy" wrote in message
...

so what good is your boat to you, except as a resale item, if you
become an amputee?


Ignorant girl. Tell that to Tristan Jones who wrote some good sailing
books including "Outward Leg". He was an amputee.
http://www.tristanjones.org/outward.htm

Go post to a knitting group where you might know something about it,
please. Pretty please.

Greg

Tristan Jones was a liar and a pirate. He could wirte a good tale but if
you believed that bilge then you're as lame as he was. Neal, get a life.
You must ahve something you could do other than pretend to be toehr people.

New way to depart the Marina?
 

"katy" wrote in message
...

Tristan Jones was a liar and a pirate. He could wirte a good tale but if
you believed that bilge then you're as lame as he was.

Could you expand upon that a bit?

New way to depart the Marina?
 

"katy" wrote in message
...


Tristan Jones was a liar and a pirate. He could wirte a good tale but
if you believed that bilge then you're as lame as he was. Neal, get a
life. You must ahve something you could do other than pretend to be
toehr people.

But he was an amputee. You said amputees didn't have no use for a boat.
Tristan SAILED his almost around the whole globe one legged. I'd say
that makes you wrong. Be a good girl scout and admit it. And what's
with this "Neal" crap? Does "Greg" look like "Neal" to you? Both have an
"e" and both have four letters. But, they ain't even close. You could
be dyslectic. I notice you mix up letters all the time. There's help for
that, ya know.

Greg

New way to depart the Marina?
 

"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
...

"katy" wrote in message
...
so what good is your boat to you, except as a resale
item, if you
become an amputee?

Ignorant girl. Tell that to Tristan Jones who wrote some
good sailing
books including "Outward Leg". He was an amputee.
http://www.tristanjones.org/outward.htm


I'll bet he would have traded his boat for a good leg,
anyday.

And *that* was Katy's point,

Scotty

New way to depart the Marina?
 

"Scotty" wrote in message
...

"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
...

"katy" wrote in message
...
so what good is your boat to you, except as a resale
item, if you
become an amputee?

Ignorant girl. Tell that to Tristan Jones who wrote some
good sailing
books including "Outward Leg". He was an amputee.
http://www.tristanjones.org/outward.htm


I'll bet he would have traded his boat for a good leg,
anyday.

And *that* was Katy's point,

Nope. You're wrong. Her point was just like she said. Get your leg
amputated between boat and dock and then you've gotta sell your boat.
It's no good to you anymore except for resale. How can you possibly get
what you said out of what she said? She seems to think amputees can't be
sailors. It ain't nice dissing the handicapped. Acting like a one-legged
man's got nothing going for him. Needs to be sitting in a wheel chair or
the like. She's ignorant. And you're just like her. So why don't you
mind your own beeswax.

Greg

New way to depart the Marina?
 

"katy" wrote in message
...
KLC Lewis wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
...

Joe wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2MO0xBNwM

Joe


Now that one I'll believe was taken on a cell phone...seems like they
ended up right back where they started from...and the guy standing on his
bow pulpit? What was that about? Just what did he think he was going to
do?


Better that he should take some damage personally than allow his boat to
be hurt?
Maybe he's afraid the other boat is uninsured? One of the first rules I
learned: body parts do not belong between two boats, a boat and a dock, a
boat and a rock...he did not have a fending pole in his hand...he did not
have a bumper to sling between them...so what good is your boat to you,
except as a resale item, if you become an amputee?

That's exactly why boobspit keeps his fenders on deck.......at-the-ready

New way to depart the Marina?
 

"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
...

"Scotty" wrote in message
...

"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
...

"katy" wrote in message
...
so what good is your boat to you, except as a resale
item, if you
become an amputee?

Ignorant girl. Tell that to Tristan Jones who wrote
some
good sailing
books including "Outward Leg". He was an amputee.
http://www.tristanjones.org/outward.htm


I'll bet he would have traded his boat for a good leg,
anyday.

And *that* was Katy's point,

Nope. You're wrong. Her point was just like she said. Get
your leg
amputated between boat and dock and then you've gotta sell
your boat.
It's no good to you anymore except for resale. How can you
possibly get
what you said out of what she said? She seems to think
amputees can't be
sailors. It ain't nice dissing the handicapped. Acting
like a one-legged
man's got nothing going for him. Needs to be sitting in a
wheel chair or
the like. She's ignorant. And you're just like her. So
why don't you
mind your own beeswax.


My take was that her point was, better to smash up your boat
than to lose a limb.

Beeswax, grandpa?

Scotty

New way to depart the Marina?
 

KLC Lewis wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
...

Tristan Jones was a liar and a pirate. He could wirte a good tale but if
you believed that bilge then you're as lame as he was.


Could you expand upon that a bit?


Tristan Jones
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Tristan Jones (May 8, 1924? - June 21, 1995) was an author and mariner
who wrote numerous books and articles, many in the first person, about
sailing. Since his stories tended to be a combination of both fact and
fiction in the tradition of Welsh story tellers, many of the details of
his early life are unknown.
Trivia

Mr. Jones was named, he claimed , for the island of Tristan da Cunha
because his parents were sailing near it when his mother entered labor.
The reality is that he was born Arthur Jones in Liverpool, the
illegitimate son of a Lancashire mill girl.

If you read any discussion boards regarding him, you will find that he
was a good spinner of yarn...I had an earthy uncle who loved the
backwoods of Northern Ontario, ate possum stew out of a big old
cauldron, and told whopper tales, too, that he purported to be true.
Fascinating minds, yes, but the truth? No way. There has also been much
discussion about his sexual proclivities. Now that he's dead, you find
mostly those who want to immortalize him and make him larger than life.
I personally do not think he is worthy of hero-worship although his
books are great reads...as long as you remember that they are fiction
based on a little bit of fact. Yes, the man could sail. So what? So can
many here...so honor him as an author, a good teller of tales, but don't
honor him because he performed great fetes of sailing magic..he didn't...

New way to depart the Marina?
 

Gregory Hall wrote:

"katy" wrote in message
...


Tristan Jones was a liar and a pirate. He could wirte a good tale but
if you believed that bilge then you're as lame as he was. Neal, get a
life. You must ahve something you could do other than pretend to be
toehr people.


But he was an amputee. You said amputees didn't have no use for a boat.

No...I said that guy, if an amputee, would ahve no use for his boat...he
was doing a yutzy thing in a yutzy situation...

Tristan SAILED his almost around the whole globe one legged. I'd say
that makes you wrong.

Nope...doesn't make me wrong about anything...TJ was a hardened,
seasoned sailor before diabetes took his leg. He had lived aboard for
eyars and knew his way around his boat. Take a look at that guy hanging
off his bow pulpit, ready to sacrifice an arm or a leg....that's a
STUPID thing to do and Tristan Jones would agree...

Be a good girl scout and admit it. And what's
with this "Neal" crap? Does "Greg" look like "Neal" to you? Both have an
"e" and both have four letters. But, they ain't even close. You could
be dyslectic. I notice you mix up letters all the time. There's help for
that, ya know.

Yeah, Neal...whatever....gonna hide from the world forever behind all
your little socks? One day you'll run out of phone books to get names
from and then what?

Greg

New way to depart the Marina?
 

Scotty wrote:
"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
...

"katy" wrote in message
...

so what good is your boat to you, except as a resale

item, if you

become an amputee?

Ignorant girl. Tell that to Tristan Jones who wrote some

good sailing

books including "Outward Leg". He was an amputee.
http://www.tristanjones.org/outward.htm



I'll bet he would have traded his boat for a good leg,
anyday.

And *that* was Katy's point,

Scotty


Don't bother, Scotty...maybe he'll stick his groin out between tow boats
and take care of his own problem...

New way to depart the Marina?
 

Gregory Hall wrote:

"Scotty" wrote in message
...


"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
...


"katy" wrote in message
...
so what good is your boat to you, except as a resale

item, if you

become an amputee?

Ignorant girl. Tell that to Tristan Jones who wrote some

good sailing

books including "Outward Leg". He was an amputee.
http://www.tristanjones.org/outward.htm



I'll bet he would have traded his boat for a good leg,
anyday.

And *that* was Katy's point,


Nope. You're wrong. Her point was just like she said. Get your leg
amputated between boat and dock and then you've gotta sell your boat.
It's no good to you anymore except for resale. How can you possibly get
what you said out of what she said? She seems to think amputees can't be
sailors. It ain't nice dissing the handicapped. Acting like a one-legged
man's got nothing going for him. Needs to be sitting in a wheel chair or
the like. She's ignorant. And you're just like her. So why don't you
mind your own beeswax.

Greg

You're really a butt wipe, ya know....back in the bin with you...

New way to depart the Marina?
 

Scotty wrote:
"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
...

"Scotty" wrote in message
...

"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
...

"katy" wrote in message
...

so what good is your boat to you, except as a resale

item, if you

become an amputee?

Ignorant girl. Tell that to Tristan Jones who wrote

some

good sailing

books including "Outward Leg". He was an amputee.
http://www.tristanjones.org/outward.htm


I'll bet he would have traded his boat for a good leg,
anyday.

And *that* was Katy's point,

Nope. You're wrong. Her point was just like she said. Get

your leg

amputated between boat and dock and then you've gotta sell

your boat.

It's no good to you anymore except for resale. How can you

possibly get

what you said out of what she said? She seems to think

amputees can't be

sailors. It ain't nice dissing the handicapped. Acting

like a one-legged

man's got nothing going for him. Needs to be sitting in a

wheel chair or

the like. She's ignorant. And you're just like her. So

why don't you

mind your own beeswax.



My take was that her point was, better to smash up your boat
than to lose a limb.

Beeswax, grandpa?

Scotty


Like I said, don't bother....he's nothing but used Charmin....

New way to depart the Marina?
 

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:39:55 -0400, "Gregory Hall"
wrote:


"katy" wrote in message
...
so what good is your boat to you, except as a resale item, if you
become an amputee?

Ignorant girl. Tell that to Tristan Jones who wrote some good sailing
books including "Outward Leg". He was an amputee.
http://www.tristanjones.org/outward.htm

Go post to a knitting group where you might know something about it,
please. Pretty please.

Greg


And as everyone at Ao Chalong, Phuket, Thailand, where Tristan spent
his last few years knows he owed everyone who was dumb enough to loan
him money. Whether or not he made any money from his books nobody
knows but it is certain that he was broke the last several years of
his life.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom)

New way to depart the Marina?
 

"katy" wrote in message
...
KLC Lewis wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
...

Tristan Jones was a liar and a pirate. He could wirte a good tale but if
you believed that bilge then you're as lame as he was.


Could you expand upon that a bit?
Tristan Jones
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Tristan Jones (May 8, 1924? - June 21, 1995) was an author and mariner who
wrote numerous books and articles, many in the first person, about
sailing. Since his stories tended to be a combination of both fact and
fiction in the tradition of Welsh story tellers, many of the details of
his early life are unknown.
Trivia

Mr. Jones was named, he claimed , for the island of Tristan da Cunha
because his parents were sailing near it when his mother entered labor.
The reality is that he was born Arthur Jones in Liverpool, the
illegitimate son of a Lancashire mill girl.

If you read any discussion boards regarding him, you will find that he was
a good spinner of yarn...I had an earthy uncle who loved the backwoods of
Northern Ontario, ate possum stew out of a big old cauldron, and told
whopper tales, too, that he purported to be true. Fascinating minds, yes,
but the truth? No way. There has also been much discussion about his
sexual proclivities. Now that he's dead, you find mostly those who want to
immortalize him and make him larger than life. I personally do not think
he is worthy of hero-worship although his books are great reads...as long
as you remember that they are fiction based on a little bit of fact. Yes,
the man could sail. So what? So can many here...so honor him as an author,
a good teller of tales, but don't honor him because he performed great
fetes of sailing magic..he didn't...

Ya, I was more interested in your "Tristan Jones was a pirate" comment. A
teller of TALL tales he certainly was.

New way to depart the Marina?
 

"katy" wrote in message
...
Gregory Hall wrote:

"Scotty" wrote in message
...


"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
...


"katy" wrote in message
...
so what good is your boat to you, except as a resale

item, if you

become an amputee?

Ignorant girl. Tell that to Tristan Jones who wrote some

good sailing

books including "Outward Leg". He was an amputee.
http://www.tristanjones.org/outward.htm



I'll bet he would have traded his boat for a good leg,
anyday.

And *that* was Katy's point,


Nope. You're wrong. Her point was just like she said. Get your leg
amputated between boat and dock and then you've gotta sell your boat.
It's no good to you anymore except for resale. How can you possibly
get what you said out of what she said? She seems to think amputees
can't be sailors. It ain't nice dissing the handicapped. Acting like
a one-legged man's got nothing going for him. Needs to be sitting in
a wheel chair or the like. She's ignorant. And you're just like her.
So why don't you mind your own beeswax.

Greg

You're really a butt wipe, ya know....back in the bin with you...

Sheesh. Talk about anger issues. What a bitter old bat!

Greg

New way to depart the Marina?
 

KLC Lewis wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
...

KLC Lewis wrote:

"katy" wrote in message
...


Tristan Jones was a liar and a pirate. He could wirte a good tale but if
you believed that bilge then you're as lame as he was.


Could you expand upon that a bit?

Tristan Jones
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Tristan Jones (May 8, 1924? - June 21, 1995) was an author and mariner who
wrote numerous books and articles, many in the first person, about
sailing. Since his stories tended to be a combination of both fact and
fiction in the tradition of Welsh story tellers, many of the details of
his early life are unknown.
Trivia

Mr. Jones was named, he claimed , for the island of Tristan da Cunha
because his parents were sailing near it when his mother entered labor.
The reality is that he was born Arthur Jones in Liverpool, the
illegitimate son of a Lancashire mill girl.

If you read any discussion boards regarding him, you will find that he was
a good spinner of yarn...I had an earthy uncle who loved the backwoods of
Northern Ontario, ate possum stew out of a big old cauldron, and told
whopper tales, too, that he purported to be true. Fascinating minds, yes,
but the truth? No way. There has also been much discussion about his
sexual proclivities. Now that he's dead, you find mostly those who want to
immortalize him and make him larger than life. I personally do not think
he is worthy of hero-worship although his books are great reads...as long
as you remember that they are fiction based on a little bit of fact. Yes,
the man could sail. So what? So can many here...so honor him as an author,
a good teller of tales, but don't honor him because he performed great
fetes of sailing magic..he didn't...


Ya, I was more interested in your "Tristan Jones was a pirate" comment. A
teller of TALL tales he certainly was.


I tried to find the corresponding discussion for that but it seems to
have disappeared...seems that many of the incidents he relates
(specifically, one with cheese) were actually theft...he liked to make
money on the side and was not adverse to hieing off with what he
considered "finder's keepers"...in that respect, he ;pirated other
people's goods...I doubt he was brave enough to actually do any piracy
at sea...

New way to depart the Marina?
 

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:07:50 -0400, katy
wrote:

KLC Lewis wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
...

KLC Lewis wrote:

"katy" wrote in message
...


Tristan Jones was a liar and a pirate. He could wirte a good tale but if
you believed that bilge then you're as lame as he was.


Could you expand upon that a bit?

Tristan Jones
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Tristan Jones (May 8, 1924? - June 21, 1995) was an author and mariner who
wrote numerous books and articles, many in the first person, about
sailing. Since his stories tended to be a combination of both fact and
fiction in the tradition of Welsh story tellers, many of the details of
his early life are unknown.
Trivia

Mr. Jones was named, he claimed , for the island of Tristan da Cunha
because his parents were sailing near it when his mother entered labor.
The reality is that he was born Arthur Jones in Liverpool, the
illegitimate son of a Lancashire mill girl.

If you read any discussion boards regarding him, you will find that he was
a good spinner of yarn...I had an earthy uncle who loved the backwoods of
Northern Ontario, ate possum stew out of a big old cauldron, and told
whopper tales, too, that he purported to be true. Fascinating minds, yes,
but the truth? No way. There has also been much discussion about his
sexual proclivities. Now that he's dead, you find mostly those who want to
immortalize him and make him larger than life. I personally do not think
he is worthy of hero-worship although his books are great reads...as long
as you remember that they are fiction based on a little bit of fact. Yes,
the man could sail. So what? So can many here...so honor him as an author,
a good teller of tales, but don't honor him because he performed great
fetes of sailing magic..he didn't...


Ya, I was more interested in your "Tristan Jones was a pirate" comment. A
teller of TALL tales he certainly was.


I tried to find the corresponding discussion for that but it seems to
have disappeared...seems that many of the incidents he relates
(specifically, one with cheese) were actually theft...he liked to make
money on the side and was not adverse to hieing off with what he
considered "finder's keepers"...in that respect, he ;pirated other
people's goods...I doubt he was brave enough to actually do any piracy
at sea...

Tristan lived out his last few years in Phuket Thailand and while I
don't know of any specific thefts he certainly was not a man to ever
repay a bill. He died owing everyone who ever loaned him money.

By the way, he lost his legs due to Diabetes which never seemed to
effect his drinking at all. Most of the people at Ao Chalong (the
district of Phuket where hung out) detested him as a loud mouthed,
obnoxious, drunken ,bum.

For some details of his acquisition of the Sea Dart see Ron Riel's
site as Ron sold him the boat.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom)

New way to depart the Marina?
 

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:07:50 -0400, katy
wrote:

KLC Lewis wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
...

KLC Lewis wrote:

"katy" wrote in message
...


Tristan Jones was a liar and a pirate. He could wirte a good tale but if
you believed that bilge then you're as lame as he was.


Could you expand upon that a bit?

Tristan Jones
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Tristan Jones (May 8, 1924? - June 21, 1995) was an author and mariner who
wrote numerous books and articles, many in the first person, about
sailing. Since his stories tended to be a combination of both fact and
fiction in the tradition of Welsh story tellers, many of the details of
his early life are unknown.
Trivia

Mr. Jones was named, he claimed , for the island of Tristan da Cunha
because his parents were sailing near it when his mother entered labor.
The reality is that he was born Arthur Jones in Liverpool, the
illegitimate son of a Lancashire mill girl.

If you read any discussion boards regarding him, you will find that he was
a good spinner of yarn...I had an earthy uncle who loved the backwoods of
Northern Ontario, ate possum stew out of a big old cauldron, and told
whopper tales, too, that he purported to be true. Fascinating minds, yes,
but the truth? No way. There has also been much discussion about his
sexual proclivities. Now that he's dead, you find mostly those who want to
immortalize him and make him larger than life. I personally do not think
he is worthy of hero-worship although his books are great reads...as long
as you remember that they are fiction based on a little bit of fact. Yes,
the man could sail. So what? So can many here...so honor him as an author,
a good teller of tales, but don't honor him because he performed great
fetes of sailing magic..he didn't...


Ya, I was more interested in your "Tristan Jones was a pirate" comment. A
teller of TALL tales he certainly was.


I tried to find the corresponding discussion for that but it seems to
have disappeared...seems that many of the incidents he relates
(specifically, one with cheese) were actually theft...he liked to make
money on the side and was not adverse to hieing off with what he
considered "finder's keepers"...in that respect, he ;pirated other
people's goods...I doubt he was brave enough to actually do any piracy
at sea...

As far as his sexual proclivities, there is no question about that.
Any of the people in Phuket who knew him was well aware of his tastes
in partners. In fact he appeared to make no secret of the facts.

On the other hand, he probably did more single handed sailing in
small boats then any one else before or since.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom)