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"Bruce in bangkok" wrote in message
... On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:59:04 -0400, " Sir Gergory Hall, Esq·" ċke 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. FYI, working ships have to be economically viable propositions. One way to accomplish this is to run them 24/7/365 until it would be too dangerous and too costly to continue. So this requires a massive refit from time to time. (Some of the cruise ships might need a such a massive refit more often considering the abysmal record of late from some of them that break down and have to be towed into port with most everything not working - not even the sewage system). I can't remember the last time my cedar bucket broke down. ;-) There's a lesson in there somewhere, folks simplify, simplify, simplify! Anyway, recreational sailors have no need to run their vessels into the ground like commercial vessels. That you seem willing to compare apples and oranges casts doubt upon your qualifications as a recreational sailor. But, perhaps you've been away from it for so long that you've simply forgotten how it should be done? 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"? Never goes sailing? Sounds like a big PKB to me. One need not join the madding crowd in the Caribbean to be called a sailor. The Caribbean crowd sailors have no idea of the efficacy and no desire to be completely out of the loop. Nay, they need to be near civilization so they can Tweet, Facebook, Usenet, email etc. IOW, it's, "HEY LOOKIT MEEEEEE!" You call THATsailing? OMG, Joshua Slocum is spinning in his watery grave! The only reason that old gentlman discussed his sailing is because he needed to earn some cash. Had he been independently wealthy nobody would have every heard of him and Rubes like you would be saying. Slocum? Why, he's no sailor. He never goes anywhere. How droll. -- Sir Gregory |
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