My opinion about cruising is that those who have to take the land-based
lifestyle along with them on the water should just stay home. The reasons
for this are obvious.

1) Those who can't cruise simply but have to have a boatload of lubberly
systems will not be happy cruising

2) Those who can't cruise simply but have to have a boatload of lubberly
systems will end up making those of who DO cruise simply miserable.


Those of us who do it right get sick and tired of the following:

1) Noisy wind generators, gasoline generators, diesel generators, etc.
which rudely run at any and all hours, day and night.

2) Inflatables roaring back and forth through the anchorage ten or
twenty times a day chasing parts for broken systems.

3) Dogs barking all day and all night. (leave the animal at the pound)

4) Loud music.

5) The shouting from bow to stern from the anchor "team". Hey, it only
takes one person to anchor a boat, you morons you!

6) The running of the smelly auxiliary to top off the batteries when
the wind won't blow or the sun doesn't shine.

7) Television(s) running half the day causing number six.

8) Radar running half the day causing number six.

9) VHF radios with the volume so high that it would wake the dead.

10) Assholes sitting in the cockpit getting drunk and rowdy
and shouting loudly every inane thing that pops into their
drunken brains.


Get a clue people. Leave the shore side vices and distractions ashore where
they belong. When you're on the water try to act like a normal human being
even if living ashore for so long has caused you to forget what it is to be
human. Better still, STAY HOME and LEAVE ME BE!


Wilbur Hubbard

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 19:30:16 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:



My opinion about cruising is that those who have to take the land-based
lifestyle along with them on the water should just stay home. The reasons
for this are obvious.


So? What exactly is this "marine life style"? Is it the Royal Navy
routine, living on salt junk, dried peas and ships biscuits, with a
liter of water a day (do anything you want with it) ad a half cup of
grog a day?

Or you talking about the VLCC standards of the gourmet meals, air
conditioned private sleeping quarters, 8 hour a day shifts, satellite
TV and communication?

Are you talking about saying "starboard helm" and "port helm"? Or
"right rubber" and "left rudder" as used by the U.S. navy?

You see, the concept of "marine life" is wholly imaginary and exists
main in the imagination of landlubbers with very limited experience
off shore, and any professional mariner would laugh at you if you
expounded your theories to him.

And by the way, your reference to being "drunk and rowdy
and shouting loudly every inane thing that pops into their drunken
brains" is an old mariner's tradition that certainly dates back to the
days of the Norsemen, and probably even further, so why do you condemn
it?

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
My opinion about cruising is that those who have to take the land-based
lifestyle along with them on the water should just stay home. The reasons
for this are obvious.

1) Those who can't cruise simply but have to have a boatload of lubberly
systems will not be happy cruising

2) Those who can't cruise simply but have to have a boatload of lubberly
systems will end up making those of who DO cruise simply miserable.


Those of us who do it right get sick and tired of the following:

1) Noisy wind generators, gasoline generators, diesel generators, etc.
which rudely run at any and all hours, day and night.

2) Inflatables roaring back and forth through the anchorage ten or
twenty times a day chasing parts for broken systems.

3) Dogs barking all day and all night. (leave the animal at the pound)

4) Loud music.

5) The shouting from bow to stern from the anchor "team". Hey, it only
takes one person to anchor a boat, you morons you!

6) The running of the smelly auxiliary to top off the batteries when
the wind won't blow or the sun doesn't shine.

7) Television(s) running half the day causing number six.

8) Radar running half the day causing number six.

9) VHF radios with the volume so high that it would wake the dead.

10) Assholes sitting in the cockpit getting drunk and rowdy
and shouting loudly every inane thing that pops into their
drunken brains.


Get a clue people. Leave the shore side vices and distractions ashore where
they belong. When you're on the water try to act like a normal human being
even if living ashore for so long has caused you to forget what it is to be
human. Better still, STAY HOME and LEAVE ME BE!


Wilbur Hubbard






Will,

Maybe it's time to unsubscribe so you can leave in peace?



--

Richard Lamb

On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:50:03 +0700, Bruce
wrote:

And by the way, your reference to being "drunk and rowdy
and shouting loudly every inane thing that pops into their drunken
brains" is an old mariner's tradition that certainly dates back to the
days of the Norsemen, and probably even further, so why do you condemn
it?

chuckle

Wilbur sounds like he's not having too much fun on his boat. It must
be quite a strain on him trying to uphold all of those manly
traditions of the sea.