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. Could this have anything to do with the fact that
the man has been languishing in Thailand for over thirty-five years now
while his ill-found motorsailer slowly turns to rubbish while tied to a dock
and serves only as a slum residence.

Bruce's ignorance even extends to not understanding how a little auxiliary
outboard on the transom allows a blue water sailor to negotiate narrow
channels that might harbor adverse winds and currents. Bruce doesn't
understand how this very motor can be removed from the transom in a couple
of minutes and stowed away below out of sight and out of mind until it might
be needed at the other end of an offshore or coastal voyage.

It's difficult for an old man with 35-year-old memories to even comprehend
what a small, modern, 4-stroke outboard engine can do. People like Bruce
remain stuck in the antique Perkins diesel or Atomic 4 gasoline bilge engine
era.

But, I try to humor the Rube along as best as I can as I understand all the
man has is antique memories and most of those involve failure to complete
his planned circumnavigation. All these years that have passed since his
venture ground to a halt and he ended up stranded in a third-world backwater
have only served to give him plenty of time to rationalize his failings at
sailing.


Wilbur Hubbard

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.


--

Richard Lamb

"CaveLamb" wrote in message
m...
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 His sailing knowledge base is outdated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.

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

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"CaveLamb" wrote in message
m...
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.

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




Not short on arrogance, are you...

--

Richard Lamb

"CaveLamb" wrote in message
...
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"CaveLamb" wrote in message
m...
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.

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


Not short on arrogance, are you...


To a novice, competence, experience and unabashed pride in a job well-done
often appears to be arrogance.

Wilbur Hubbard

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:

To a novice, competence, experience and unabashed pride in a job well-done
often appears to be arrogance.

Wilbur Hubbard





Arrogance — adj
having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance, merit,
ability, etc; conceited; overbearingly proud: an arrogant teacher ; an arrogant
assumption.

from Latin arrog�re to claim as one's own

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:


To a novice, competence, experience and unabashed pride in a job well-done
often appears to be arrogance.

Wilbur Hubbard



But what have those attribute to do with you, willy?
I've seen your boat. It's just this side of a derelict.

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:13:26 -0400, Harryk
wrote:

But what have those attribute to do with you

English major and editor?

Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:13:26 -0400,
wrote:

But what have those attribute to do with you

English major and editor?


Gee, W'hine, I dropped an "s". What a biggie. I see you're still playing
the retired corporate whore.

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:28:51 -0500, CaveLamb
wrote:

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"CaveLamb" wrote in message
m...
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.

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




Not short on arrogance, are you...


I call it the arrogance of ignorance - being too ignorant to
understand how little you actually do know and thus arrogantly
believing that you know it all.

Quite common in the inexperienced.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)