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Went up to the boat today
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:01:48 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:49:10 +1000, Peter Hendra wrote: I had dreamed, many years ago of sailing up the Hudson/Eire canal and down the Chicago Sanitary canal to the Bay of Mexico. I doubt now that I'll do it but it is still tempting and I might still head north after leaving Trinidad. Florida is only two weeks away. Do you know John and Penny from the Skookum 53 "Seahorse" in Trinidad? They winter in Trinidad and go back up the Hudson River to Lake Champlain in the spring. That's a great trip and they are nice folks. Say hello for me if you run into them, Wayne and Diane from the Grand Banks 49 trawler. Hi Wayne, There are four major yards here with mostly American boats in them plus a marina attached to the Cruise In Hotel. I'll ask around and give your regards should I find them. I am learning to speak with a slow drawl like a mentally challenged person and mispronounce some of my words, so they should be able to understand me. I've even learned to curb my humour as I've discovered that Americans do not readily understand my Antipodean one which is often based on puns - seemingly foreign to them. Actually, for an ex-British colony, this country has many hallmarks of a US territory partly because Chagaramas was at one time, the largest American base in the world. Given by the British in exchange for the lend-lease destroyers etc in 1941, at one time there were about 400,000 servicemen based here as well as at the two military airfields. Another reason for the American-ness of the place is that, as I said, there are so many US citizens here. Prices in catalogues (again - correct spelling as in "colour" and programme") are often in US. I had the teak on top of my hatches replaced - quoted in US dollars not TT ones. Gallons are 3.7 litres, not 4.2 as in the rest of the world, power is 110 volts, weight is in pounds and ounces - not kilos. Bolts are not metric (they import Japanese cars so must have problems), and linear measure is in feet and inches, not the far simpler metre, centimetre and millimetre where, like the kilo, you just move the decimal point. AWG is fine, but everywhere else uses cross sectional area in millimetres - so much easier to calculate loss due to resistance. Last week I needed a new copper pipe for my compressor - couldn't get any metric. I went to buy some wire - $TT 10 on the price ticket - reasonable I thought for a yard or a metre - then I found that it was priced by the foot. At least time is still based upon 24 hours in a day and 365.25 days in a year. I would spit tacks if the American system had more hours in a day. I work long enough on this boat as it is already. Still, most people are very friendly and helpful, are relaxed about life and behave politely to each other as if they are in continual holiday mode. I hesitate however to address people in the Australian manner with "Gidday mate" least it been interpreted as being suggestive. cheers Peter |
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Peter Hendra wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:01:48 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:49:10 +1000, Peter Hendra wrote: I had dreamed, many years ago of sailing up the Hudson/Eire canal and down the Chicago Sanitary canal to the Bay of Mexico. I doubt now that I'll do it but it is still tempting and I might still head north after leaving Trinidad. Florida is only two weeks away. Do you know John and Penny from the Skookum 53 "Seahorse" in Trinidad? They winter in Trinidad and go back up the Hudson River to Lake Champlain in the spring. That's a great trip and they are nice folks. Say hello for me if you run into them, Wayne and Diane from the Grand Banks 49 trawler. Hi Wayne, There are four major yards here with mostly American boats in them plus a marina attached to the Cruise In Hotel. I'll ask around and give your regards should I find them. I am learning to speak with a slow drawl like a mentally challenged person and mispronounce some of my words, so they should be able to understand me. I've even learned to curb my humour as I've discovered that Americans do not readily understand my Antipodean one which is often based on puns - seemingly foreign to them. Actually, for an ex-British colony, this country has many hallmarks of a US territory partly because Chagaramas was at one time, the largest American base in the world. Given by the British in exchange for the lend-lease destroyers etc in 1941, at one time there were about 400,000 servicemen based here as well as at the two military airfields. Another reason for the American-ness of the place is that, as I said, there are so many US citizens here. Prices in catalogues (again - correct spelling as in "colour" and programme") are often in US. I had the teak on top of my hatches replaced - quoted in US dollars not TT ones. Gallons are 3.7 litres, not 4.2 as in the rest of the world, power is 110 volts, weight is in pounds and ounces - not kilos. Bolts are not metric (they import Japanese cars so must have problems), and linear measure is in feet and inches, not the far simpler metre, centimetre and millimetre where, like the kilo, you just move the decimal point. AWG is fine, but everywhere else uses cross sectional area in millimetres - so much easier to calculate loss due to resistance. Last week I needed a new copper pipe for my compressor - couldn't get any metric. I went to buy some wire - $TT 10 on the price ticket - reasonable I thought for a yard or a metre - then I found that it was priced by the foot. At least time is still based upon 24 hours in a day and 365.25 days in a year. I would spit tacks if the American system had more hours in a day. I work long enough on this boat as it is already. Still, most people are very friendly and helpful, are relaxed about life and behave politely to each other as if they are in continual holiday mode. I hesitate however to address people in the Australian manner with "Gidday mate" least it been interpreted as being suggestive. cheers Peter A British gallon is 4.55 litres, but we pay about 4 times as much for it (gas) than our US cousins, so I guess it really doesn't matter! Dennis. |
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"Dennis Pogson" wrote in
: A British gallon is 4.55 litres, but we pay about 4 times as much for it (gas) than our US cousins, so I guess it really doesn't matter! Dennis. Hey! Socialized medicine ISN'T free, ya know, just "price displaced"...(c; Larry -- Alltel Axcess TV - 10 minutes of TV then it dumps you until you click to get 10 minutes more. It SUCKS! |
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