On 10/15/2010 7:48 AM, Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
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So, Sasquatch, here.

Skip when are you going to make your boat ADA compliant?

Christ man just get a F-ing barge with a knuckle boom/crane...... o
ya, I forgot no men are on your boat.

Why do you want to add all that crap on your mast... unless you
already have all that crap on you mast??? Never mind.

Robert Whitworth Rexroth




Skippy has a huge problems with priorities. Not only that, but he's rather
the rule than the exception with regards to this. Most of today's so-called
sailors are just like him.

I've got some bad news for you. Look at anything in this world. If it's
popular, it almost certainly contains a large grain of truth.

The poor man has never learned and apparently will never learn the First
Rule of Sailboats which is "First, she's a sailboat". Consequently, he
affects unseamanlike modification after unseamanlike addition after
unseamanlike cluttering in lieu of making sure that, first and foremost, his
sailboat does most efficiently what it was built to do - sail.

Translation: Skip is often looking for innovative new ways to make his
cruising/sailing experience better. He hits and misses. They key is to
recognize the misses and eliminate them.

And, he has no eye for aesthetics, either. The uglier, more cluttered and
Rube Goldberged he can make his boat look the happier it seems to make him.
One of these days in the not to distant future he will be seen
diesel-smoking and lurching, banging, clanging, whistling and whooshing his
two-foot-down-on-the-waterline way into an anchorage replete with kitchen
sinks at the masthead.

Translation: His innovations may not be pleasing to the conventional
eye. My reply: True innovation almost never is.

Skippy and his ilk (pretenders) are not sailors. Rather, they are Gypsies
with floating Gypsy wagons. The most often heard phrase when they arrive is,
"There goes the neighborhood!"

Translation: The world moves on to better things. Many are left behind.

Stephen