On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:52:16 +0000, Larry wrote:



Seaman Apprentice are wonderful toys the Navy bought us to play with. I
even made some of them into great technicians, those that were
interested. If they screwed up, a week on BMC Wilson's deck force
painting crew made new men out of them. When they returned to my nice,
air conditioned electronics shop, they seemed much more appreciative of
our wonderful position in the crew pecking order of things....much more
appreciative. BMC Wilson had the smile of a true pirate when I delivered
a young ETSA for "instruction" in the finer details of running a chipping
hammer and spray gun.


Larry

There's a wonderful American here at Chagaramus - Jack, who drifts
around this part of the Caribbean in semi-retirement. Last year I
helped him antifoul his boat. We didn't have enough red antifouling
and the stockist only had blue so we applied that as well, reasoning
that, being under water, it wouldn't be seen. Jack is one of those
people whom people gravitate to and seek his good advice on various
boating topics. Passersby in the yard began to enquire as to why the
multicoloured bottom paint. - Jack's dry response was that it
prevented collisions with migrating whales.

Within a week, two more boats had multicoloured anti-fouling.

I thank God for interesting people.

Peter