Be careful Larry ,, Wayne wants you gone. He hates people like you. His
whole existance is threatened when someone tells him his view of the world
isn't necessarily everyone elses.


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"Larry" wrote in message
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"NE Sailboat" wrote in
news:Sfzhh.1429$Pq4.692@trndny08:

Wayne ,, you are showing a rather ugly side here. Do you have
something against people who live in trailer parks?

When you stop by Dunkin Donuts, do you call the employees losers? I
bet many of them live in trailer parks.

The "towns are getting fed up" . Classic "not in my backyard"
thinking. Oh, it is ok to pay next to nothing for to the lady who
drives your kids to school, the school janitor, the guy down at
Dunkins, the employee of Walmart ...........

As long as you don't have to associate with these people ... and for
heaven's sake you don't want "them" anywhere near the water.


I for one would rather dock next to someone who is busting their ass
at Dunkin Donuts and has an old sailboat than some Trustfund Baby who
never worked a day in his/her life.

Don't be too critical of the sailors who are at the bottom of the
docking order.


Wow, Wayne gets ugly some times. Some of us simply have no need for a
showy mortgaged mansion that drains away whatever you make. I'm always
amused that people living in houses where you can't hear the grand piano
in
the drawing room back in the kitchen spend most weekends at the "floating
trailer park" living in a 1 bedroom shack with a mast sticking out of it
and telling each other how wonderful it is.

This afternoon, instead of working for more mortgage bankers, I'm screwing
off in my nasty ol' "trailer" on the riverfront across the Ashley River
from historic Magnolia Plantation enjoying the view with the door open.
It's 72F on the river at 1430. I got back from the seawall a few minutes
ago to check my email.

I don't consider me "at the bottom of the docking order" at all. I'm
proud
of all who feed the bankers/doctors/lawyers/politicians working 60 hours a
week, and more power to them. But, which of us is "at the bottom" this
very instant as the nice, tropical breeze moving through the Spanish Moss-
crowned Southern Oaks in my yard is wafting those wonderful flower smells
from the gardens at Magnolia through my open doors into my "nav station"
of
the Oakwood 70 dock condo? Which of us is working on his first heart
attack?....No thanks!

Gotta go, now. I'm driving my Mercedes to Eastern Buffet for a late lunch
and gotta go check the mail before the UPS man shows up with my GPS
antenna
about 4:30, his usual time.

Life is great! Sorry some missed it.

I might install the Garmin into the stepvan, later...

"NE Sailboat" wrote in
news9Ehh.1445$Pq4.1014@trndny08:

Be careful Larry ,, Wayne wants you gone. He hates people like you.
His whole existance is threatened when someone tells him his view of
the world isn't necessarily everyone elses.



Lucky for him there aren't very many "people like me"....(c;

Most of 'em are much worse!

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:57:41 GMT, "NE Sailboat"
wrote:

Be careful Larry ,, Wayne wants you gone. He hates people like you. His
whole existance is threatened when someone tells him his view of the world
isn't necessarily everyone elses.

Not so, it takes all kinds. There are actually some very nice
trailer parks here and there, typically retired folks who take a great
deal of pride in their homes and apply a lot of peer pressure to those
who don't.

And then there are the floating trailer parks with the home made
plywood aft cabins, 3 feet of sea weed hanging off the bottom and
multiple layers of artistic mildew decorating the top sides.
Typically the mast will be horizontal on 2 x 4s with a tarp stretched
over it but not always.

These are the folks who went cruising on the cheap and got just far
enough to be south of the frost line. And they are the first ones to
scream about the latest anti anchoring law that just got passed by the
town fathers.

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:39:34 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

And then there are the floating trailer parks with the home made plywood
aft cabins, 3 feet of sea weed hanging off the bottom and multiple
layers of artistic mildew decorating the top sides. Typically the mast
will be horizontal on 2 x 4s with a tarp stretched over it but not
always.

These are the folks who went cruising on the cheap and got just far
enough to be south of the frost line. And they are the first ones to
scream about the latest anti anchoring law that just got passed by the
town fathers.

Actually a lot of them aren't cruisers at all, but people who live on
boats because it's cheaper than an apartment.

I know they're all over Florida. False Creek in Vancouver, BC is full of
them. There are plenty of "sneakaboards" living where they're not
supposed to in southern California marinas too. The few I've known over
the years weren't really boaters at all.

There are plenty of cruisers with inexpensive boats that are well taken
care of, some even quite spiffy.

Matt O.