Why my sailboat will beat your motorsailer.
 

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:

"MMC" wrote in message
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Looks good Wilburrrrr!
Mine is currently a habitat for all manner of marine life. Got to get to
the yard!

Mine was beginning to get that way after ten years scrubbing. Much of the
paint was gone or very thin. While I don't mind doing a monthly scrubbing
to keep the slime off when the water is warm, I refuse to get in 50 degree
water to keep things under control. Also in the last year the barnacles
were starting to adhere along with some types of crusty coral growth. I
hate
scraping barnacles and crusty stuff. It wears me out having to hold my
breath again and again and again. It was time - high time. Now it should
be good for years and years with just a light scrubbing from time to time.

Why do you need to hold your breath to scrape barnacles?

Surely all you need to do is run her aground at high water, then wait for
low water and then half the hull will be exposed for you to do your stuff.
At the next low water make sure she leans over on the opposite side so you
can do the other half. Or wait a few weeks if you don't have time to do
both sides on two consecutive low waters, if you can live with asymmetric
performance meanwhile.

I know in your part of the world the tidal range is not very big, so you
will have to do it at springs when the range is 2ft, but I'm sure a skilled
navigator of your calibre will know what to do to avoid being neaped.

Cross-posting (was:Why my sailboat will beat your motorsailer.)
 

"WaIIy" wrote in message
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:19:16 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"WaIIy" wrote in message
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Is it necessary to cross-post your silly post?


Yes, it's necessary in order to expose it to the largest possible audience
who might be interested in on-topic postings.

Cross-posting to related groups is not considered bad netiquette.


Wilbur Hubbard


It most definitely is.



Wrong! To wit. . .

http://www.newsdemon.com/usenet_term_cross-posting.php

"Cross-Posting can be beneficial to users who wish to reach a larger usenet
audience of a topic that spreads across multiple newsgroups."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting

"Crossposting is usually practiced when material is relevant and of interest
to the readers of more than one newsgroup"

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

"Crossposting is easier than sending separate postings. You don't really
need any other reason. The following discussion is here to tell you why
failure to crosspost really disturbs people. "

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/

"Usually, it is sufficient to post any article to a single newsgroup; the
one that's most relevant to the subject of your article. If the article
is really relevant to multiple newsgroups, then "cross-post" to the
relevant newsgroups by posting the article only once with all newsgroups
named on the "Newsgroups" header line. For example:

Newsgroups: comp.fish,misc.sheep,talk.ketchup"


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Get a clue, d00d! Bottom line is if you don't thing cross-posting is OK then
don't you cross-post but stop your net nannying of others who don't agree
with your control fetish.


Wilbur Hubbard

Cross-posting (was:Why my sailboat will beat your motorsailer.)
 

"WaIIy" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:20:17 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Get a clue, d00d! Bottom line is if you don't thing cross-posting is OK
then
don't you cross-post but stop your net nannying of others who don't agree
with your control fetish.


Wilbur Hubbard

Although you are amusing at times, you suffer from a self-importance
psychosis.

Changing your nick constantly, showing pictures of an average paint job
on an el-cheapo boat, bragging about fixing things with electrical tape
and Home Depot pipe, pontificating about places and things you have
never experienced, whining about boats with engines when you have an
engine, comparing a sailboat bottom to a whale and myriad other examples
would support my theory.

Individual posting to one group at a time is the courteous thing to do.
Cross-posting is for the ignorant or arrogant. Pick one or both.




Spoken like a nice little net nanny!


Wilbur Hubbard