On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:24:22 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"CaveLamb" wrote in message
om...
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
I think everybody who reads Bruce in Bangkok's bitter and jealous replies
to my posts that have sailing content can readily see how his replies
have no sailing content at all.


No. Not really.
He explains it very clearly.

It seems like you just don't want to hear anything anybody else says.
ESPECIALLY Bruce.



Yes, of course. Bruce is a has-been. His sailing knowledge base is outdated
by about 35 years which is about the time he retired from sailing. He's been
living aboard at a dock in Thailand since. What could the Rube possibly have
to say that was worth hearing considering my experience? Especially when you
consider the fact that I still sail and I don't live at a dock but have been
cruising and living on the hook and sailing and passage-making and generally
living the sailing life actively for 25 years, why would I need or want to
listen to some amateur who has such outdated sailing knowledge.

Willie-boy, how many times do I have to repeat it, "Keep your mouth
shut". You just keep opening your mouth and letting all that ignorance
pour out. Damn, if you just kept you lips sealed people might think
you were about half smart but instead you flaunt your ignorance for
the whole world to see.

But to reply to your foolishness.

"Sailing Knowledge outdated by about 35 years": In the vernacular of
dirty little school boys, "you're showing your ass again Willie-boy".

I built my first boat and was paddling and sailing it on local lakes
67 years ago. You missed that one by nearly half, didn't you. And, I
might add, the wind is blowing just like it was all those years ago.

But tell us Willie-boy, just what is this modern knowledge that you
seem to claim that you've acquired in the 25 years that you've been
acting like an anchor buoy?

Does the "modern" wind blow a different direction? Maybe your sailboat
doesn't need a mast like mine? Oh that's right... you probably have
one of those radio thingies that you can trigger when you get into
trouble so that the Coast Guard can come out and "save" you. Nope, we
didn't have them things when I started, you just had to depend on
yourself.

Living on the hook vis-a-vis moored in a marina.

Yes, I did keep my boat in a marina while in Thailand however this
rather ignores the years I spent as a live-aboard anchored in the
Singapore Straits.

But having done both I can say that unless you are prefer the labor of
hauling all your water to the boat in jerry jugs and carrying the
garbage the other way then I believe that the marina is preferable. At
least I don't believe that hauling water out and garbage back
contributed much to my fund of nautical knowledge. Perhaps it has to
yours.

But of course, one's ability to moor in a marina depends greatly on
one's ability to pay the mooring fees.

And finally. Willie-boy, an hour down the bay and an hour back does
not constitute, in most sailor's experience, "passage making", or
"cruising", and living at anchor might qualify one as water carrier of
the year, or sanitation Engineer (formally known as garbage man), but
hardly qualifies one for the sailor of the year award.

And his boat is one of those too-big abominations that pretty much guarantee
failure. And, he's married which also just about guarantees failure. He's
everything a good sailor is NOT.

Wilbur Hubbard

Too big a boat?? Willie you just keep insisting on showing off how
little you know about cruising.

Probably the greatest problem that long distance cruisers have in
making a passage (NOT a down the bay and back day trip) is where to
put everything. You need room for all the food and water you are going
to consume; you need room for the several sets of sails that you
carry; you need room for several anchoring systems (good to have a
spare or two in case you lose one); you need room for spares parts;
you need room for the dinghy; and on; and on. Difficult to find this
room on a tiny little boat.

But storage aside, I really cannot understand what appears to be a
common misconception that somehow, for some reason, a person can't
handle a boat over a certain size. I had no problems sailing a 40 ft.
boat and I know any number of people who single-hand larger boats. In
fact I believe that The Spray was about 40 ft. and Old Josh had no
labor saving devices. Just him and the boat.

Of course, it may just be jealousy rearing it's ugly head as the
people who are jabbering about how it is impossible for a man to
handle a reasonably sized boat are all puttering about in little
bitty, dinghy sized, vessels.

And, yes I'm married and quite happily too. Of course you aren't and
either was Tristin Jones, who died in Phuket, and always has a couple
of dainty young "boat boys" around the boat. When he finally got so
sick that he was living ashore they morphed into "house boys", cute
little things that I'm sure you would find simply darling.
..
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)