"Flying Pig" wrote in message
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilbur Hubbard"
Sorry, Skippy but SOMETHING had to be done to troll you up. These people
were having Skippy withdrawal symptoms and some were extremely worried
about your well being having not heard word one from you in months. How
dare you so abuse your loving audience?

Be sure to work you way up to the Abacos in time for Regatta time there.
Don't miss it.

Wilbur Hubbard


LOL :{)) No need to apologize...

We'll be in the Exumas; likely we won't get to do Regatta time this time
around, at least not in the Abacos.

As to trolling me up, I was incommunicado, not hiding or otherwise, and
didn't even see the post for quite some time after I'd made mine.
However, I do apologize for the long silence. I know you are well aware
that's not my style :{))

My irony meter just pegged.



Lydia has something to say to you, btw...

Hi, Wilbur (you old ratbag, you) -

Hi Sweetie!


We're going to be back in the States for the month of May to OD on
children and grandchildren (or, at least *I* am - Skip may be busy working
on a friend's boat in SSI) and then we're off again around the beginning
of July.

I'm trying to encourage Skip to consider going back to the Abacos for the
summer. Why don't you *seriously* consider joining us? Bring your meds
and your cranky old self and give us a tour of all your favorite haunts.
We'll have mom off the boat by then, and there will be a lovely V-berth
begging for a body, and your own loo. Honestly - we'd love to have you
aboard for shorter or longer, which ever you like.

Thank you for your kind offer but the timing of your itinerary is suspect.
Quite frankly the sailing winds suck big time in the Bahamas in the
summertime. Nothing but light and variable with lots of thunder, lightning
and squalls. Then, by the end of July, a serious cruiser will be out of the
Bahamas for August, September and October because of the good chance of a
hurricane or two. Not much in the way of good hurricane holes in the
Bahamas.

And, in the summer it's rather hot and still and very buggy at times with
terrible mosquito and no-see-um infestations. And all the fires can make it
hard to breathe. Sleeping sometimes is a sweat bath because little air comes
down the hatch and bug screens restrict that puny flow to nothing. Then
there's the constant drone of generators and stench of diesel fuel from the
sissy boats full of spoiled lubbers who can't live without air conditioning
and who make it ever so unpleasant in any anchorage both day and night.

And just exactly what is a 'loo?' Is it some sort of pussified indoor
crapper? Why, that's women's stuff. Real men use a bucket in the cockpit to
take care of business. Real men decommission the 'loo' and use the space for
book shelves or some other more useful storage. Why devote so much space in
a yacht for something that gets used maybe ten minutes a day and on top of
that is most often untenable in a seaway? That's so inefficient and
wasteful.

Maybe next winter I'll plan another trip to the Abacos aboard my own fine
blue water yacht. I'd be happy to meet up with the "Flying Pig' somewhere to
share a cold beer or two. But, traveling together is out of the question. My
boat sails faster than yours under most every condition of wind and sea. I
hate waiting for any slowcoach.

TTFN

Wilbur Hubbard