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On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:48:12 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote: "Jessica B" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:26:08 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote: snippage Reasonable? LOL! Girl, you've got a lot to learn . . . I meant that you seemed pretty reasonable!! So, tell me something I don't already know. lol Jessica, Joe is one of those lubberly, wannabe-type sailors about whom I refer when saying some are fearful to really sail so they attempt to load up a boat with "all the lubberly contraptions" like washer/dryer combos so they can feel comfortable because they are addicted to the land and the sailing life is anathema to them. Joe's erstwhile boat, "Red Cloud" was prematurely abandoned in a cold front in the Gulf of Mexico and he and his rank amateur crew were airlifted off by the Coast Guard and his boat was abandoned to her own devices and eventually sunk. Joe is a little chicken, IMO. Certainly is no sailor. If his skills were 1/10th as big as his mouth he might amount to something. As it stands now he's a disgrace. Why, the moron doesn't even know the proper sized American flag to fly and he flies it in the wrong place. Nothing screams incompetence like disrespect for one's flag. Bummer that he lost his boat... Did they make him pay for his airlift? Seems like things would be a lot better if people paid for their mistakes... or at least had to make some kind of partial payment. It might cut down on the nonsense. Right you are. People are way to quick to pull the epirb switch because there is no charge for a rescue operation. No charge for the rescued, at least. Just another taxpayer-funded operation. It used to be sailors had pride and would not abandon a boat until they had to step up into the life raft from it. Nowadays people sprain an ankle or get a little seasick and they call the Coast Guard. It's deplorable and unseamanlike. Eprib... right, that's the emergency beacon. I guess in a big storm or you get run over or something. Seems like people should just be a bit more self-reliant. I mean if you're not prepared for what you're going to do, why do it? Just to be stupid??? If I go to a bar in a bad neighborhood, I get what I deserve, so what's so different than going out in a storm in a crappy boat with no skills. Can you believe it... I had this flag on the back of my bike seat and it got torn off by some jerk as I rode by. That happened last summer... right on the beach run. Fortunately, there was a bike cop following behind me (didn't realize he was there for 1/2 mile, but he didn't bust me for speeding - yeah, they have speed limits for bikes on the beach run), so he made him give it back or go to jail. The pole was all bent up, so now it doesn't work. Probably some flag-burning liberal creep. Those communist creeps hate the flag. So, a bike cop was following you for 1/2 mile? Cops in California must be in better shape than they are around here. Hell, around here if they can't drive a car they can hardly move all - their bellies are so big. So, you must have been wearing a bikini for that cop to follow you so far? LOL. Too bad about the flag pole. A bent pole is no laughing matter. snicker I'm fricken sick of the city here. Everything is the momma state. The cops are in good shape... the ones who are riding anyway. He was actually pretty nice, then of course, asked for my number... I don't think so. I was just wearing shorts and a long-sleeve top. I don't usually wear the bikini when riding... too much exposure for the sun. Also, there's the unbent pole danger. lol Wilbur Hubbard |
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:02:08 +0700, Bruce
wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:48:12 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote: "Jessica B" wrote in message . .. On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:26:08 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote: snippage Reasonable? LOL! Girl, you've got a lot to learn . . . I meant that you seemed pretty reasonable!! So, tell me something I don't already know. lol Jessica, Joe is one of those lubberly, wannabe-type sailors about whom I refer when saying some are fearful to really sail so they attempt to load up a boat with "all the lubberly contraptions" like washer/dryer combos so they can feel comfortable because they are addicted to the land and the sailing life is anathema to them. Joe's erstwhile boat, "Red Cloud" was prematurely abandoned in a cold front in the Gulf of Mexico and he and his rank amateur crew were airlifted off by the Coast Guard and his boat was abandoned to her own devices and eventually sunk. Joe is a little chicken, IMO. Certainly is no sailor. If his skills were 1/10th as big as his mouth he might amount to something. As it stands now he's a disgrace. Why, the moron doesn't even know the proper sized American flag to fly and he flies it in the wrong place. Nothing screams incompetence like disrespect for one's flag. Bummer that he lost his boat... Did they make him pay for his airlift? Seems like things would be a lot better if people paid for their mistakes... or at least had to make some kind of partial payment. It might cut down on the nonsense. Right you are. People are way to quick to pull the epirb switch because there is no charge for a rescue operation. No charge for the rescued, at least. Just another taxpayer-funded operation. It used to be sailors had pride and would not abandon a boat until they had to step up into the life raft from it. Nowadays people sprain an ankle or get a little seasick and they call the Coast Guard. It's deplorable and unseamanlike. What utter bumph. I personally know two people rescued from a barge that broke lose during a "tropical depression" and another rescued from a oil rig that was in the process of tipping over and they were damned happy to be saved., regardless of whether they had to step up or down. The two on the barge leaped across to the bow of the rescuing tug and the oil rig people jumped overboard and most were retrieved over the stern of a service boat. I can assure you that none of them were endeavoring to measure the relative height of the rescue craft and wait until they had to step "up" snipped Wilbur Hubbard Cheers, Bruce Well, seems like a true accident.. getting run over. ok, but I bet that isn't the case most of the time. But, what do I know... |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:50:25 -0500, " Sir Gregory Hall, Esq."
wrote: "Jessica B" wrote in message .. . trimmed Oh.. whew.. I thought you thought I was thinking he was the reasonable one. I did at first . . . I get all confused any time I run into an intelligent woman who actually makes sense. It happens so rarely these days. LOL! Wilbur Hubbard Hey so wait... are you Wil or are you Greg? Totally confused unless you have a spoofer? The header info is different. I hate spoofers. |
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WaIIy wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:14:01 -0800 (PST), Joe wrote: And keep in mind, his boat is so small he only has room for one bucket..Head, shower, sink, combo. Good one. LOL... At least I have TWO sinks! -- Richard Lamb email me: web site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:33:15 -0800, Jessica B
wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:02:08 +0700, Bruce wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:48:12 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote: "Jessica B" wrote in message ... On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:26:08 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote: snippage Reasonable? LOL! Girl, you've got a lot to learn . . . I meant that you seemed pretty reasonable!! So, tell me something I don't already know. lol Jessica, Joe is one of those lubberly, wannabe-type sailors about whom I refer when saying some are fearful to really sail so they attempt to load up a boat with "all the lubberly contraptions" like washer/dryer combos so they can feel comfortable because they are addicted to the land and the sailing life is anathema to them. Joe's erstwhile boat, "Red Cloud" was prematurely abandoned in a cold front in the Gulf of Mexico and he and his rank amateur crew were airlifted off by the Coast Guard and his boat was abandoned to her own devices and eventually sunk. Joe is a little chicken, IMO. Certainly is no sailor. If his skills were 1/10th as big as his mouth he might amount to something. As it stands now he's a disgrace. Why, the moron doesn't even know the proper sized American flag to fly and he flies it in the wrong place. Nothing screams incompetence like disrespect for one's flag. Bummer that he lost his boat... Did they make him pay for his airlift? Seems like things would be a lot better if people paid for their mistakes... or at least had to make some kind of partial payment. It might cut down on the nonsense. Right you are. People are way to quick to pull the epirb switch because there is no charge for a rescue operation. No charge for the rescued, at least. Just another taxpayer-funded operation. It used to be sailors had pride and would not abandon a boat until they had to step up into the life raft from it. Nowadays people sprain an ankle or get a little seasick and they call the Coast Guard. It's deplorable and unseamanlike. What utter bumph. I personally know two people rescued from a barge that broke lose during a "tropical depression" and another rescued from a oil rig that was in the process of tipping over and they were damned happy to be saved., regardless of whether they had to step up or down. The two on the barge leaped across to the bow of the rescuing tug and the oil rig people jumped overboard and most were retrieved over the stern of a service boat. I can assure you that none of them were endeavoring to measure the relative height of the rescue craft and wait until they had to step "up" snipped Wilbur Hubbard Cheers, Bruce Well, seems like a true accident.. getting run over. ok, but I bet that isn't the case most of the time. But, what do I know... I don't know. I have seen, been involved in, or have had reliable information of problems ranging from a bloke who was motoring blithely along and put the engine in neutral and heard a deluge of water coming in somewhere. Looked in the bilges and his prop shaft had come out. to a mate that hit a rock in the middle of the night. plus various commercial disasters like the barges sinking I mentioned and another bloke who jumped off a tipping oil rig. When the guy with the missing prop shaft told me the story I said, all agape, my GOD what did you do? Expecting a tail of a sunken boat or a beaching. He replied, "stuffed a tee shirt in the hole and sailed home". Another chap (never heard any identification) who was calling, "Mayday, my propeller is missing". Heard a number of people trying to contact him in reply but he never replied. Kept listening to the news but never heard of any missing boat. Maybe he was telling a tall tail. I was in direct path of the Thailand Tsunami wave and weathered that but at the same time was listening to calls stating that everyone must head for deep water as there would be an after shock and apparently people were just going crazy. How anyone expected to get very far off shore in the few minutes that the people were saying the after shock would come? What you gonna do? . Someone answered one of my calls for information stating that there was no reason to bypass Phi Phi harbor and no problem to anchor there. I later discovered that the wave washed directly into the harbor, over that section of the island and there was nothing there any more. I had a mate hit a rock under all sail with a 60 ft. ketch. Middle of the night and they were making a lot more leeway they had thought and no one was watching. Holed the boat and he did say that "it got a bit frantic until we got enough cushions stuffed in the hole". That was yet another example of how idiotic Willie-boy can be. The hole in the boat bloke used his generator to power a 220 VAC sump pump pumping through a 3 or 4 inch hose to keep the boat afloat until he could fother a sail over the damage and stuff the hole with cushions. He was able to sail to an island where he could have beached the boat if things got worse and waited until the next high tide. then careened the boat and fiberglassed a patch over the hole which held until he got where he was going where he could haul the boat and make a permanent repair. So I reckon that every is entitled to get a bit excited when it all turns belly up and is entitled to react in any manner that he feels appropriate and to sit at home and second guess things based on a picture on a TV screen is just a display of ignorance. Cheers, Bruce |
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:21:56 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote: WaIIy wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:14:01 -0800 (PST), Joe wrote: And keep in mind, his boat is so small he only has room for one bucket..Head, shower, sink, combo. Good one. LOL... At least I have TWO sinks! But very small :-) Cheers, Bruce |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:34:30 -0800, Jessica B
wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:50:25 -0500, " Sir Gregory Hall, Esq." wrote: "Jessica B" wrote in message . .. trimmed Oh.. whew.. I thought you thought I was thinking he was the reasonable one. I did at first . . . I get all confused any time I run into an intelligent woman who actually makes sense. It happens so rarely these days. LOL! Wilbur Hubbard Hey so wait... are you Wil or are you Greg? Totally confused unless you have a spoofer? The header info is different. I hate spoofers. Don't think a thing about it. Willie-boy is actually a figure of someone's imagination. He is/or has been known as: Wilbur Hubbard Gregory Hall Gwen Ives Cecil Warren Capt.Neal Simple Simon Ellen MacArthur Ed Gordon873 Gloria/Wesley Mouch Aratzio Atlas Bugged Jamie Baille Lumpy Karen Anderson GitRDunn Phat_Arse Jeff Relf Blondie Capt. Moroon Capt. America Cap'n Crunch Marcia Lawrence Stone Key WestWym Capt. Key West Lonnie Anderson Margaret Jax Ashby, and likely more, at various times. Cheers, Bruce |
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Bruce wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:21:56 -0600, CaveLamb wrote: WaIIy wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:14:01 -0800 (PST), Joe wrote: And keep in mind, his boat is so small he only has room for one bucket..Head, shower, sink, combo. Good one. LOL... At least I have TWO sinks! But very small :-) Cheers, Bruce True enough... But it has a proper head - not a bucket. (but no washing machine ) -- Richard Lamb email me: web site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb |
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"Joe" wrote in message
... snip And keep in mind, his boat is so small he only has room for one bucket..Head, shower, sink, combo. And keep in mind that Joe's boat lies in the muck and mire at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico - a victim of Joe's lack of seamanship. At least, if one expects to be a viable critic, one should not be such a demonstrably inept buffoon as to abandon a boat because of a cold frontal passage. Wilbur Hubbard |
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"CaveLamb" wrote in message
m... WaIIy wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:14:01 -0800 (PST), Joe wrote: And keep in mind, his boat is so small he only has room for one bucket..Head, shower, sink, combo. Good one. LOL... At least I have TWO sinks! Joe will have two sinks as well, as soon as the poor schmuck can beg, borrow or steal enough money to acquire another boat which he will also sink until and unless he learns a few seamanship skills in the meantime . . . Wilbur Hubbard |
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