is any anchor, no matter how fancy or expensive, when a boat is
permanently on the hard? Better to invest in heavier extension cords for
that addiction to grid-style living.


Skippy will never admit it but his
floating condo is now anchored firmly and irretrievably there in the
yard

because the distaff side ball and chain holds stronger than any
patent anchor. *LOL!

I like that.......... I think there is an excellent quote in there
someplace. Might hae to tease the language a bit but there is fur sure
a dimond there! I think that english degree is showing.... or was it
journalism???

Happy NEW YEAR Willbur!

Wilbur Hubbard

Hi, Bob (I thought you'd maybe fallen off a rig, or something!), and
Wilbur - sorry I'd missed your last,

We have, indeed, seemed to have grown roots. However, despite having lost
our help (a very long story not appropriate for this venue), again (the
first one we "graduated" into a "real" job), we soldier on with the final
level of our longboarded finishing of the epoxy fairing compound.

That's going along beautifully, if slowly, as this 66YO body doesn't have
the strength and endurance of the youngster(s) we had working with us, and
the same goes for the lovely Lydia. We're about half finished with the
starboard, the final, side. After that will come 10 gallons of barrier coat
(just cuz that's how much we have), then a few coats of YTBD'd ablative
bottom paint. We've also got a few chores which have surfaced along the
way, unrelated to the bottom, which have to be done before we can splash.

However, this, too, will end, and we'll be back in the water and headed
south.

As to the nasty assertions of windlass and personal strength, this new
anchor is the same weight as the one I'm selling. Now that it's the primary
anchor (and thus has direct access to the locker through the windlass), I
can tell you for sure, in the many times I've had it up and down during the
fitting for the modification, that the windlass handles it with aplomb (in
case you were wondering, that's the same as a lead, as in sinker - take
that, you English majors!).

And, if you'd like to see what it all looks like, this weekend I got many
pix uploaded, including that of the anchor system modification needed to
allow this to fit. Click the gallery link, then the 2011 refit, then the
anchor section. The modification is a great one, regardless of the anchor
used, as it allows a lever to do most of the work of getting the chain and
beginning of the shaft over the roller hump, previously an exciting time if
I didn't inch it along at that point, with the anchor flying upward as the
angle suddenly changed with the shaft going over the roller.

Finally, yes, I'm selling it because I prefer the Delta and Rocna to the
CQR. There are those for whom the CQR is the only answer; I have a very
heavy example of one available cheaply, for them :{))

L8R, y'all

Skip, back to under the boat

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On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:35:22 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

I have to wonder why Skippy bothers with anchors at all. After all, what
good is any anchor, no matter how fancy or expensive, when a boat is
permanently on the hard?

===

Any luck yet with getting that court transcript?

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:35:22 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

I have to wonder why Skippy bothers with anchors at all. After all,
what
good is any anchor, no matter how fancy or expensive, when a boat is
permanently on the hard?

===

Any luck yet with getting that court transcript?




I was hoping everybody would forget. It turns out that for civil trials
they don't do transcripts. All they do is provide a CD with a voice
recording of the trial. Since the trial lasted about 45 minutes, I
decided that transcribing it myself is not worth the bother nor is
paying a court recorder to do it at 35 bucks an hour. I did purchase
the CD and could send you a copy if you're really interested.

Wilbur Hubbard

Hi, Wilbur,

By all means, send me one

Skip Gundlach
2350 Old Dixie Highway
Ft. Pierce FL 34946

Thanks.

L8R

Skip

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people's thinking.
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and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary".
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
news.com...
"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:35:22 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

I have to wonder why Skippy bothers with anchors at all. After all, what
good is any anchor, no matter how fancy or expensive, when a boat is
permanently on the hard?

===

Any luck yet with getting that court transcript?




I was hoping everybody would forget. It turns out that for civil trials
they don't do transcripts. All they do is provide a CD with a voice
recording of the trial. Since the trial lasted about 45 minutes, I decided
that transcribing it myself is not worth the bother nor is paying a court
recorder to do it at 35 bucks an hour. I did purchase the CD and could
send you a copy if you're really interested.

Wilbur Hubbard

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:12:00 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:


Any luck yet with getting that court transcript?




I was hoping everybody would forget. It turns out that for civil trials
they don't do transcripts. All they do is provide a CD with a voice
recording of the trial. Since the trial lasted about 45 minutes, I
decided that transcribing it myself is not worth the bother nor is
paying a court recorder to do it at 35 bucks an hour. I did purchase
the CD and could send you a copy if you're really interested.

Wilbur Hubbard

====

Yes, I would be interested in getting a copy and I'd be happy to pay
you some reasonable amount for your time and trouble.

Is the mailing address correct that one of your admirers posts to this
group? If not you can EMAIL me the particulars he

On 17/01/2012 8:24 PM, Flying Pig wrote:
Hi, Wilbur,

By all means, send me one

Skip Gundlach
2350 Old Dixie Highway
Ft. Pierce FL 34946

Thanks.

L8R

Skip


Hi Skip

Good call.

Terry

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:12:00 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:


Any luck yet with getting that court transcript?




I was hoping everybody would forget. It turns out that for civil
trials
they don't do transcripts. All they do is provide a CD with a voice
recording of the trial. Since the trial lasted about 45 minutes, I
decided that transcribing it myself is not worth the bother nor is
paying a court recorder to do it at 35 bucks an hour. I did purchase
the CD and could send you a copy if you're really interested.

Wilbur Hubbard

====

Yes, I would be interested in getting a copy and I'd be happy to pay
you some reasonable amount for your time and trouble.

Is the mailing address correct that one of your admirers posts to this
group? If not you can EMAIL me the particulars he






I'll e-mail you. The PO Box 1015 used to be correct but I had to get a
new one because of too much junk and harassing mail, etc.

Wilbur Hubbard

"Flying Pig" wrote in message
...
Hi, Wilbur,

By all means, send me one


I'll burn a few copies this afternoon and get one to you in the mail
soon. It is a proprietary file format played only by the 'court
reporter' software. Fortunately, the player is included on the CD in its
own folder. You'll have to install the player then use it to open the
file.


Wilbur Hubbard

"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
news.com...
"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:12:00 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:


Any luck yet with getting that court transcript?




I was hoping everybody would forget. It turns out that for civil trials
they don't do transcripts. All they do is provide a CD with a voice
recording of the trial. Since the trial lasted about 45 minutes, I
decided that transcribing it myself is not worth the bother nor is
paying a court recorder to do it at 35 bucks an hour. I did purchase
the CD and could send you a copy if you're really interested.

Wilbur Hubbard

====

Yes, I would be interested in getting a copy and I'd be happy to pay
you some reasonable amount for your time and trouble.

Is the mailing address correct that one of your admirers posts to this
group? If not you can EMAIL me the particulars he






I'll e-mail you. The PO Box 1015 used to be correct but I had to get a new
one because of too much junk and harassing mail, etc.

Wilbur Hubbard

Hi, Wilbur,

I had the same request, but snailmailing, earlier, which may have gotten
lost in the flurry of other stuff not related to anchors :{)) Email
certainly works, too, though. I presume you know mine - my name, all one
word, at gmail.com...

L8R

Skip


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anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in
particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and
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