"NE Sailboat" wrote in
news:Yz3Gh.221$mI6.50@trndny08:

Larry ,, can I get a "housegirl" instead of boy? And teach her to
sail my boat?

Bahrain IS a MOSLEM country, where adultery and even if they catch a boy
and girl necking in a car....they beat them! You're not looking for a
housegirl, you're looking for a prostitute! You don't have to go to
Bahrain for those...Thailand is a better place...(c;

For $100 per month?

Guest workers do all the labor in many Middle Eastern countries. Pick
any with pumping oil wells. American Guest Workers, like myself, were
included in that, but Americans are more skilled so get paid more
handsomely to keep them from going home.....at least so far. That may
change.

Does Bahrain have nice harbors?

Beautiful harbor at the N end of the main island near the airport. I
worked on the White Fleet, as Coronado and La Salle are fondly called, at
that port. Be sure you get a rental car with an electric trunk release
so the guy with the loaded AK-47 at the gate can pass you through
quickly. He'll close it after looking in there and doubletap the trunk
to let you know you can leave. If you hear him chamber a round, put your
hands on top of the steering wheel and sit very still!


Any marina's?

Ah, fantastic marina. It's called the Marina Club. An American ham
radio operator, who was Superintendent for Middle East Operations,
Halliburton Industries, Downhole Drilling Systems, Walt, took us over
there for lunch. What a fantastic place. I've never seen so many
Cigarette-style boats on a single dock as Marina Club. We had Gulf
Prawns for lunch, cooked on a huge stove right at our table by the head
chef. We smuggled raw horseradish in from the US for Walt. You can't
buy it in Bahrain at any price, for some reason. Walt made the sauce and
showed our chef. I don't want to know what lunch cost Halliburton. Walt
told us when we left we had discussed oil well monitoring equipment we
might buy...(c; Halliburton bought lunch. Walt was also on the board of
the marina club. The whole staff came out to see him. Walt was ham call
A92DT in Bahrain, but I've lost him. I don't find his call listed in any
callbook, any more. He was quite old and may have retired or died since
then.

Transients stay at the Bahrain Yacht Club. They have 130 yacht slips,
Arab Style. Your boat might look a little funny on such a LONG pier...
(c; Here's their addys if you want to check:
http://www.noonsite.com/Countries/Bahrain/MinaSulman

I tried, unsuccessfully dammit, to get the Navy to set me up a little
Electronics Shop at the American Support Unit in Al Manama, because I did
a lot of electronic work on the ships not scheduled on our work orders.
Unfortunately, it didn't happen. Bahrain WAS a fabulous place in the 80s
under Sheik Isa Bin Sulman Al Khalifa, who was very respected by his
people, even though he only came up to about my neck in height...(c;
Since he died and Sonny took over the kingdom, things seem to have gone
downhill with lots of civil unrest, arrests, nasty stuff. Best place to
read about it is on Mahmood's Blog, unless HE gets busted again. Mahmood
is NOT the Arab Tel Aviv wants you to meet....NOT the bloodthirsty
terrorist that keeps those American dollars flowing to Israel. He runs a
video production company, is an avid gardener, has 2 great kids and, when
it rains hard, lives waterfront on Lake Mahmood, where the road in front
of his house used to be..(c; http://mahmood.tv Great fun reading.
The blog also has fantastic videos of the real Arab people of Bahrain.

Well, off topic we go....hee hee. Take Google Earth for a spin around
the shores of Bahrain. Google Earth has posted VERY detailed sat photos
of the whole place, now....so detailed, the elite that doesn't want the
average Bahraini to see how WELL he lives in his huge hotel-sized mansion
at the foot of the LONG dock/seawall the 180' yachts are tied up
to...they had Google Earth BANNED from all the ISPs on the
Island...Batelco, the phone company the emir controls. Man, they got
some BEAUTIFUL homes and yachts!....behind those tall walls.