On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:59:04 -0400, " Sir Gergory Hall, Esq·"
åke wrote:

Regarding Message-ID:

Dear Capt. Skippy,

We real sailors never have the need for a massive refit
and if, heaven forbid, we did have such a need, due to
some extraordinary circumstance, even so, it would be
an admission of sloth and other such lubberly traits.

So what do we real sailors do as everybody knows nothing
is forever and breakage and routine maintenance is a fact
of life? Well, we real sailors live aboard and we never allow
the type of decrepitude that requires a massive refit.
Instead, we spend our time daily doing the required upkeep
and routine maintenance so as to never require a massive
refit. We have our priorities straight and our ducks in a row.
We can't abide anything other than shipshape and Bristol
Fashion.

Real sailors would be mortified to admit they required a
massive refit. Even pretend sailors should have the
common sense and sense of pride to never give a blow
by blow account of a massive refit in Internet discussion
groups because doing so is a public admission of lubberly
incompetence. If one is incompetent and lubberly, the
very least one can do is have the decency to not claim
to be a sailor.
Strangely considering the author :-), the above is a massive display
of utter ignorance. Working ships frequently undergo "massive refits".
I've got a good friend, a marine engineer, who has been making a very
good living for the past 20 years as Project manager on "massive
refits" of commercial vessels.

But more to the question, how would the owner of a "Blue Water Sailing
Yacht" know whether he has an actually blue water boat if he never
goes sailing"?

Ah well, I suppose he read it in a magazine.

--
Cheers,

Bruce in Bangkok