In article , Bob wrote:
Willlllburrrr !

Yawn.

Those who are 'living the dream' for the most part are most likely too
busy with life to be posting here. To most of them, posting and reading
here is probably too trivial to bother with. That Skip and Lydia are
taking time out of their days to share their experiences is great for
us, it gives those of us who hope to follow in their footsteps a
reminder of what it is that we want to be doing; a dangling carrot. The
rest of the cruisers are perhaps keeping quiet in the hope that we don't
all get out there and join them - keep those anchorages quiet!

Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

"Justin C" wrote in message
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In article
, Bob
wrote:
Willlllburrrr !

Yawn.

Those who are 'living the dream' for the most part are most likely too
busy with life to be posting here. To most of them, posting and reading
here is probably too trivial to bother with. That Skip and Lydia are
taking time out of their days to share their experiences is great for
us, it gives those of us who hope to follow in their footsteps a
reminder of what it is that we want to be doing; a dangling carrot. The
rest of the cruisers are perhaps keeping quiet in the hope that we don't
all get out there and join them - keep those anchorages quiet!



Uh, Justin, by your very own admission you are following pretenders who
aren't living the dream because living the dream involves other than
Internet connectivity and posting to newsgroups. If you follow in Skippy's
footsteps you will never be a real sailor. I suggest you find a couple of
real sailors to look up to. You are being led astray by wanabee's.

You are correct about one thing, though. Quiet is of great value to us real
sailors. That's why we find so offensive and unacceptable overloaded
sailboats with Honda generators on deck grinding away at all hours of the
day and night, noisy, ill-conceived wind generators whooshing, whirring and
whistling at all hours of the day and night, stinky auxiliaries running four
hours a day to keep up with refrigeration, halyards banging and pinging
unsecured on masts, dogs barking, stereos blaring, loud drunken shouting and
laughing late at night and even inboard, diesel generators running 24/7 to
air condition the accommodation while anchored. Why don't assholes like this
stay tied up at marinas where they can plug in and not bother everybody.

These same inconsiderate people who spend tens of thousands of dollars on
electricity and the systems to produce an abundance of it can't seem to
scrape up enough money to buy a real anchor so they toss out their lone
ten-pound aluminum Fortress anchor and proceed to drag around the anchorage.


Wilbur Hubbard

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:52:14 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy seems to make Wi-Fi his main concern when visiting ports of call.

To me this seems rather pitiful.

To those of us with friends, family and business interests, being able
to keep in touch with the world has its advantages.

For you, perhaps not so much.

Wayne B wrote:
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:52:14 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy seems to make Wi-Fi his main concern when visiting ports of call.

To me this seems rather pitiful.

To those of us with friends, family and business interests, being able
to keep in touch with the world has its advantages.

For you, perhaps not so much.


Ouch

"Wayne B" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:52:14 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy seems to make Wi-Fi his main concern when visiting ports of call.

To me this seems rather pitiful.

To those of us with friends, family and business interests, being able
to keep in touch with the world has its advantages.

For you, perhaps not so much.




Has its advantages to the family, business interests and your perceived
audience.

Is detrimental to voyaging and the voyaging lifestyle because it involves
compromise. But, then again, yours is a motorboat. You will never qualify as
a voyager/cruiser. Your umbilical cord is much shorter than Skippy's.


Wilbur Hubbard

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:24:26 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

You will never qualify as
a voyager/cruiser. Your umbilical cord is much shorter than Skippy's.

If you'd like, I'd be happy to compare voyaging/cruising logs with you
anytime. We'll be cruising the Keys in January.

"Wayne B" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:24:26 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

You will never qualify as
a voyager/cruiser. Your umbilical cord is much shorter than Skippy's.

If you'd like, I'd be happy to compare voyaging/cruising logs with you
anytime. We'll be cruising the Keys in January.





Please consider doing your motoring somewhere else. I don't like the thought
of our clean, maritime air polluted with diesel fumes and our gin-clear
waters fouled with oily bilge water indiscriminately pumped from itinerant
trawlers.


Wilbur Hubbard

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:25:19 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Wayne B" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:24:26 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

You will never qualify as
a voyager/cruiser. Your umbilical cord is much shorter than Skippy's.

If you'd like, I'd be happy to compare voyaging/cruising logs with you
anytime. We'll be cruising the Keys in January.





Please consider doing your motoring somewhere else. I don't like the thought
of our clean, maritime air polluted with diesel fumes and our gin-clear
waters fouled with oily bilge water indiscriminately pumped from itinerant
trawlers.


Wilbur Hubbard



Translation: I ain't got no logs.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:15:28 -0400, WaIIy wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:25:19 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Wayne B" wrote in message
. ..
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:24:26 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

You will never qualify as
a voyager/cruiser. Your umbilical cord is much shorter than Skippy's.

If you'd like, I'd be happy to compare voyaging/cruising logs with you
anytime. We'll be cruising the Keys in January.





Please consider doing your motoring somewhere else. I don't like the thought
of our clean, maritime air polluted with diesel fumes and our gin-clear
waters fouled with oily bilge water indiscriminately pumped from itinerant
trawlers.


Wilbur Hubbard


Different translation :

"My gaspipe boom fell on my 1956 15 horse Johnson and now I can't get it
started".


Or "Damn but I wish I had a real boat!"

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:24:26 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Wayne B" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:52:14 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy seems to make Wi-Fi his main concern when visiting ports of call.

To me this seems rather pitiful.

To those of us with friends, family and business interests, being able
to keep in touch with the world has its advantages.

For you, perhaps not so much.




Has its advantages to the family, business interests and your perceived
audience.

Is detrimental to voyaging and the voyaging lifestyle because it involves
compromise. But, then again, yours is a motorboat. You will never qualify as
a voyager/cruiser. Your umbilical cord is much shorter than Skippy's.


Wilbur Hubbard


Possibly true.... but how would you know anything about the "voyaging
lifestyle"?

As to the term "voyaging lifestyle", it was coined by the Pardey's,
perhaps you read one of their books..... And your imagination is
working overtime.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)