When are you coming up here? I've been wanting to see that
motorsailor...(c;

I will be up around the first of june. I have too many
committments until then.

Boy, what a sailing day TODAY in Charleston. Great winds,
warm, dry....how
awful for a MONDAY!

Rub it in.... I was doing some yard work and planting a couple
trees, one of them being a Key Lime. I will be able to go out
in the yard and get the limes for my G & T or Coronas. It is
across the yard from the Lemon tree.

Leanne

"AttyFinch" wrote in
oups.com:

(if anyone who owns a boat has never had a nightmare, they don't own a
boat. My wife is new to boating and has already had the requisite one
with our purchase last year.)

AF



Have you ever laid there, staring at the overhead unable to sleep because
you can just FEEL the anchor draggin' towards something awful....even
though the next morning the anchor windlass has the bow in the water trying
to haul it back in?....(c;

Or..."Did I secure that spring line to this strange dock, the one with the
loose cleats that look like a rowboat will just break them off, the ones
that aren't already broken off?"

Or....You turned the light on, out there on the hook in the dark, over your
V-berth. Didya ever notice how fast it starts to DIM, in your mind, laying
there as the house batteries, whos voltage hasn't varied .2V since you left
home in actuality, are just fading away? "Did I remember to switch the
switch "A" (house batteries) or is it still in "BOTH", and the starting
battery is already dead?"

Or....Feel that? Is that the anchor chain draggin' down the side of the
hull or has it dragged us into that $3.2M Hinckley near us, the one with
the Philadelphia Lawyer who kept screaming at us that we were anchoring the
'74 Hunter too close to his million-dollar gelcoat and paint job?

"DAMMIT, I CAN'T SLEEP UNTIL I FIND OUT WHAT THAT BUMPING IS!", as you
stumble over the head of the V-berth, stepping on HER shoes diggin into
your heel, painfully. She's ****ed having been woken up out of a fantasy
dream about some rock star. Looks like you'll be on watch in the cockpit
all night, anyways....watching that anchor rode.....(d^

"Why IS that damned halyard banging against the mast, again? Who's the
IDIOT that decided to run it INSIDE the aluminum mast, anyways?!"

Larry W4CSC wrote:

Or....Feel that? Is that the anchor chain draggin' down the side of the
hull or has it dragged us into that $3.2M Hinckley near us, the one with
the Philadelphia Lawyer who kept screaming at us that we were anchoring the
'74 Hunter too close to his million-dollar gelcoat and paint job?

I've seen a guy who looks/sounds like this in the middle of Big Tub @
Tobermory every summer for a while. It's no nightmare...he's for real!
Big blue "J" boat, big mouth...probably should be driving a SeaRay

On 6 Mar 2005 16:15:04 -0800, "AttyFinch"
wrote:
We have spec'd out a SeaRay 260 and the Regal2665.
The SeaRay berth is small and the use of space seems a bit ineffective.
The Regal is beautiful inside and out and everything I see is saying go
for it. However, SeaRay is sitting back there whispering, "It is not a
SeaRay". Before we pull the trigger and commit a substantial sum of
money we are asking ourselves what is the best choice we can make.

=====================

One of my neighbors just traded up from a 29 ft Sea Ray to a 33 ft
Rinker. The Sea Ray was a decent boat (another neighbor bought it),
but the Rinker is finished well and offers a lot for the money. I'd
spend some time looking over all of the options.

"Leanne" wrote in :

Rub it in.... I was doing some yard work and planting a couple
trees, one of them being a Key Lime. I will be able to go out
in the yard and get the limes for my G & T or Coronas. It is
across the yard from the Lemon tree.

Leanne



Yard work? Marinas don't have yard work!......(c;

Marinas have BOAT work...cleaning, painting, pumping, grinding, wrenching,
smelling, dieseling....ad nauseum!

prodigal1 wrote in
:

Or....Feel that? Is that the anchor chain draggin' down the side of
the hull or has it dragged us into that $3.2M Hinckley near us, the
one with the Philadelphia Lawyer who kept screaming at us that we
were anchoring the '74 Hunter too close to his million-dollar gelcoat
and paint job?

I've seen a guy who looks/sounds like this in the middle of Big Tub @
Tobermory every summer for a while. It's no nightmare...he's for
real! Big blue "J" boat, big mouth...probably should be driving a
SeaRay


It's all about the MONEY....

What never ceases to amaze me is that we let a blind guy with a $10M
portfolio go out and buy a 72' Hatteras with twin 1300 HP diesels and he
doesn't break any laws driving it away from the brokerage towards your
bassboat!.....

Larry W4CSC wrote:
prodigal1 wrote in
:


Or....Feel that? Is that the anchor chain draggin' down the side of
the hull or has it dragged us into that $3.2M Hinckley near us, the
one with the Philadelphia Lawyer who kept screaming at us that we
were anchoring the '74 Hunter too close to his million-dollar gelcoat
and paint job?

I've seen a guy who looks/sounds like this in the middle of Big Tub @
Tobermory every summer for a while. It's no nightmare...he's for
real! Big blue "J" boat, big mouth...probably should be driving a
SeaRay



It's all about the MONEY....

What never ceases to amaze me is that we let a blind guy with a $10M
portfolio go out and buy a 72' Hatteras with twin 1300 HP diesels and he
doesn't break any laws driving it away from the brokerage towards your
bassboat!.....


This sounds like the dude in Tobermory last year aboard a spacemachine
called Clueless registered in Ft. Liquordale. Big emerald green cat
72-75'LOL. 4 huge polished brass counter-rotating props on two shafts.
I'm a ragbagger, but even this puppy turned my head...particularly
when he backed off the fuel dock!

In article ,
Larry W4CSC wrote:

http://www.yachtsurvey.com/Fiberglass_Boats.htm

THAT is a truly scary page! Talk about a minimally seaworthy boat...

--
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html
Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/

In article ,
Wayne.B wrote:

On 6 Mar 2005 16:15:04 -0800, "AttyFinch"
wrote:
We have spec'd out a SeaRay 260 and the Regal2665.
The SeaRay berth is small and the use of space seems a bit ineffective.
The Regal is beautiful inside and out and everything I see is saying go
for it. However, SeaRay is sitting back there whispering, "It is not a
SeaRay". Before we pull the trigger and commit a substantial sum of
money we are asking ourselves what is the best choice we can make.

=====================

One of my neighbors just traded up from a 29 ft Sea Ray to a 33 ft
Rinker. The Sea Ray was a decent boat (another neighbor bought it),
but the Rinker is finished well and offers a lot for the money. I'd
spend some time looking over all of the options.


Then again, there's our friends that got a Rinker that eventually earned
the moniker "Stinkin' Rinker". They're happier with their new boat.

--
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html
Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/

Jere Lull wrote in news:jerelull-
:

THAT is a truly scary page! Talk about a minimally seaworthy boat...


And more and more boats built by large conglomerates with big law firms to
protect them are built like that every year...

I asked a Brunswick exec, "Why is it that a company that can make a bowling
pin that survives being slammed into hard wood, scraped around an automatic
pinsetter, then slammed again, over and over....why is it that SAME company
can't build a fiberglass boat that can survive banging up against a wooden
dock without being all gouged up or worse?"

I never got an answer.....

There's two Brunswick bowling pins staring at me as I type this on my
mantle over the computer desk.....