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On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:48:04 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote: "Bob" wrote in message ... 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. 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. 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. 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!" Wilbur Hubbard And this is presented by the individual who recently regaled us with his many and varied reasons for buying his new motor for his "sailboat". Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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