On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:39:51 -0400, Charlie Morgan wrote:

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:32:06 -0500, "Scotty" w@u wrote:


"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in
message news:RHCMh.109466

. Real sailors anchor or moor out and take a dinghy to
shore.

Shore? Why do you feel the need to go to shore? When I
anchor out, I stay on the boat because that is where I
wanted to be in the first place.
You, sir, sound like a land lubber!

Scotty



Painful for Wilbur to hear, I'm sure, but it desperately needed to be said.

CWM

Yes, that's it!! (spark of recognition)

I just knew that I had met his type before. They are the type of
people who buy their first boat at a marina in Spain, have been there
about 7 years living on-board, have read all of the books and are
impressively knowlegable about ALL things boating. Any queries I had
while getting my boat ready for sea again, they had an answer for. I
remember being in awe of their experience and fund of knowledge until
I discovered that they had never once left the harbour. They had their
valid reasons of course - waiting for parts, the wife's operation, the
pirates off Morocco etc. But they never went anywhere.

In this case, nice people who did not try to increase their diminutive
unhappy stature by pouring scorn on others, but I was glad that I did
not know as much as they. I would never have left New Zealand if I
had.

Ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
Peter - who still has a hellofalot to learn about boating - thankfully