"Dennis Pogson" wrote in message
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"Bob" wrote in message
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Skip: Now I know why you ar efixing things all the time..

Your Racor story is evidence of a total lack of ___________.

Why on earth would you wait 3 years to change a filter? I guess youre
more willing to HAVE to to
........ merely flip a couple of levers, engaging the second filter,
allowing us to make that filter change at our leisure rather than
under way........
But what happens if your underway some dark and stormy night when your
motor takes a **** and youre scrambling to merely flip a switch as
you are now beam to a Red Clowd sea?


Pennigton Rexroth

I think skip should nip into his dinghy and check to see if his waterline
is still visible.

Dennis.

Heh. Unfortunately, it is. There's one small section of the grass which
grew at the waterline in Lake Worth, just prior to our crossing, that I
didn't get to while we were there, Lydia blocking it with the dink while she
was scrubbing the topsides.

As to Boob, if I've got polished fuel, I don't need to change filters just
for the sake of changing them. As to rocking and rolling changes, that's
what most folks have to go through. I just reach up and move the levers (I
don't have one of the fancy manifolds that Racor sells as a dual unit) and
hit the starter button.

Then, on a nice peaceful day, at my leisure, I changed it out. A non-event.

However, stay tuned for the passage report, where I discovered something
else fuel related...

L8R

Skip, a bit sore from my unaccustomed (never did it before) YogaLates this
morning, but starting to get back into physical shape with that every other
morning and volleyball every afternoon

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On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:01:18 -0500, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Skip, a bit sore from my unaccustomed (never did it before) YogaLates this
morning, but starting to get back into physical shape with that every other
morning and volleyball every afternoon

Good grief, you must be in George Town.

Did you find a good WiFi conection? We did not.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:01:18 -0500, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Skip, a bit sore from my unaccustomed (never did it before) YogaLates this
morning, but starting to get back into physical shape with that every
other
morning and volleyball every afternoon

Good grief, you must be in George Town.

Did you find a good WiFi conection? We did not.

"Good" is relative...

I have three open sites to choose from where we are, in a west wind, about
25' off Chat'n'Chill's sign.

When I arrived in the GT area I visited each beach. Not less than 20, and
usually more than 30 visible. If I were closer to town, there's a forest of
open sites - but we're not leaving the beach :{))

Off Monument, there were a half-dozen open usable sites (not counting the
many repeaters at Palm Bay Beach Club, which has gone subscription).

The usual pipeline problems exist, and Harbour and Gaviotta are both
horrible this year, with Gaviotta being down more than it's up, and Harbour
usually taking a very long time to even paint its sign-in page. Both have
many complaints about how slow they are most of the time.

My connections vary in strength, and throughput varies between nothing and
extremely good - I had two conversations (well, three, as I called back when
I'd found some info they'd requested) on Vonage today, e.g., but, other
times, packets arrive either not at all or singly. Not the base station's
problem, it's Batelco's skinny pipe with all the businesses and homes,
complicated by all the cruisers muddying the water with all the channels
busy immediately nearby. The bigger problem is the businesses, as,
generally speaking, between 8AM and 8PM, the throughput is very spotty, but
outside those times, it's more often than not just great. I usually use my
time with Chris Parker to pull all the mail I've given up on the previous
night, and refresh all my weather and other pages I keep open all the time.

Gotta love that gear! Did another round of my seminar yesterday, about 60
showed up, and one happened to bring a POE, Bullet and stick for everyone to
see. As usual, I've been beseiged by questions, in general, and about our
rig, as well, which is what prompted my doing the seminar again.

If I get enough hands, I'll post it here. Wireless Communication for
Cruisers covered all the two-way comms used by most cruisers - VHF, HF,
Cellular, Satellite telephone and WiFi. Interesting developments in the
cellular area WRT internet connections, too...

L8R

Skip

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