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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:38:10 +1000, Herodotus
wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:16:21 +0700, wrote: One way to get your wife to come along is co call from where ever the boat is and say something like, "Honey, I've been looking for a crew all over and the only one I can find is this 30 year old Dutch girl......" A mate of mine did that and I swear his Missus must have ridden her broom to have gotten to Phuket as fast as she did. It's not a case of her not wanting to come. She does as I have been fortunate enough to have a wife who loves the sea. It's just that our son needs to attend High School and therefore she has to remain in Sydney for a while. Have you ever read D.H. Lawrence? In "The Sea and Sardinia" (I think that is the title), one of his books about his travels through Italy with his wife Frieda von Richthofen, he constantly refers to her as "she", never by name. As an aside (my mind wanders off very easily), whilst at Taormina in Sicily he wrote one of my favorite poems "The Snake". It is very beautiful. Nope, the only Lawrence I read was the guy running about in Arabia during the first World War and I don;' think that he had a wife. As to final landfall, not sure but have been invited to stop and stay at Haiphong, Vietnam as a guest of Customs. I may however end in Sydney and later sail through Indonesia again to Malaysia. Still deciding. cheers Peter You are in the Caribbean and headed for Vietnam? That is kind of the long way round isn't it? Or are you going east? Yes, a faster trip would possibly be down the South Atlantic to Cape Town and either across to Australia or up to South East Asia but I'd like to do the Pacific. I have friends who sailed through the Beagle Channel with a quick trip to Cape Horn Island. It is so very tempting to do this and then head up to say, Easter Island and French Polynesia from Chile, but it would be nicer with a companion. They said that Argentina and Chile are great places to sail through. As there are few foreign boats and no "water Winnebagos" the yacht clubs are inviting and generally charge no fees which seems a positive sign of their hospitality. But, as I said, I prefer to have a companion to share the experiences with. I can handle the being alone bit as there are lonelier situations within a crowded city or amongst a group of people. It is also nice to be able to get longer sleep periods when one does not have to worry about other vessels. Things are still fluid at the moment. cheers Peter Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) Being of British heritage - New Zealand was conquered by the British you know -- you should follow custom and put the boy in a good boarding school, a proper education you know. On a less frivolous aside I have some friends (from N.Z. also) that actually did place their son in a boarding school after having decided that the curriculum and teaching quality were vastly superior to that in public school. However, as a good Moslem you are allowed four wives. Of course, If I remember correctly, you must treat each wife equally so if you built another boat...... Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) |
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:04:24 -0500, cavelamb himself
wrote: Well, maybe the great unwashed masses? But I personally tend to read libraries by the stack. And use the interlibrary loan system constantly! You can find a good book on Amazon for 85 cents. But it costs $4 for shipping. Mr., Carnegie's legacy is still free - except for late fees. Thanks for this. I didn't mean to imply that Americans were illiterate or unread. Someone must be buying books from Amazon. Do you know the background to the Carnegie libraries? Do they still exist in the US? In New Zealand, unless I am mistaken, they have all been taken over by the local councils (county and town local government as opposed to central government). The building are still there and are almost all identical in construction - red brick with concrete or plastered lintels and pediments. Peter |
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Herodotus wrote:
o you know the background to the Carnegie libraries? o they still exist in the US? In New Zealand, unless I am mistaken, :they have all been taken over by the local councils (county and town :local government as opposed to central government). :The building are still there and are almost all identical in :construction - red brick with concrete or plastered lintels and ediments. The buildings are still around, though lots of them are no longer libraries. They're pretty small buildings, and aren't well suited for modern library use, which has more than books. (Some people might say less than books.) The grants that were intended to fund them have mostly been used up as operating money. The libraries are run by local library authorities, usually town or county sized. |
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:02:02 +1000, Herodotus
wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:04:01 +0700, wrote: However, as a good Moslem you are allowed four wives. Of course, If I remember correctly, you must treat each wife equally so if you built another boat...... Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) Bruce, Bruce, don't even suggest it. Another Englishman, Oscar Wilde said that "The definition of bigamy is one wife too many; monogamy is the same thing." Sorry that you have missed out on reading any D H Lawrence. Surely you must have heard of "Lady Chatterly's Lover', "Sons and Lovers" and "Women in Love"? I know that I meet few Americans who have read any of Hemmingway or Mark Twain apart from "Tom Sawyer", but I imagined that you were of an earlier generation. A great American, Carnegie, gave a lot of money to build libraries in places such as little N.Z. I used to believe as a kid that therefore (kid logic) Americans were a very well read people. This was reinforced when I was about 10 and somebody bought me the 52 volume set of Encyclopedia Britannica - 'Great Books of the Western World" - produced, not in the UK, but by the University of Chicago. everything from Homer to Freud including Plato, Euripides, Descartes, Shakespeare, Euclid and so on including my own Uncle Herodotus after whom I named my boat. At 10 I believed that Americans must be reading these. Pretty dumb huh! cheers Peter Ah Peter, the last work iin morning after remarks, "I'd like to marry you but I'd have to build a boat first...." Probably in self defense, my mother introduced me to the public library as soon as I could read. My Goodness, there was a lot of information in that building and right on the way home from school -- if I took a bit of a detour. At one time I was the youngest person in my home town to possess a "library card". I guess I have read D.H. Lawrence, at least the more lurid parts of Lady Chatterly. Really hard core stuff in my youth. Hemingway, is good and bad. Most of the bull fighting books were great on detail but dwelled, and dwelled, and dwelled, and dwelled on the tension and fear building up before the matador enters the ring. I found them tedious. On the other hand the old man and the sea, was, I believe, one of the best books about small time commercial fishing that has been written. Mark Twain (which, by the way, is 12 feet) is a writer that I enjoy as I do Kipling. Neither of them would be published in the present day of "political correctness" which seems a puzzle as it is neither political nor correct, but that is another story. I keep a copy of Kim and re-read it at least once a year. Most of my reading lately is trash. I work on the boat; I eat supper; it's too early to go to bed; I read a book, the last thing I want to do is read a good book because I've got to get up tomorrow and do it all again, so I read trash. Science Fiction; Fantasy; Detective stories, etc. Well, given that you have a boy in high school it might have been correct, when you were ten, that Americans read, but it certainly isn't true now. I have no contact with the U.S. except for the internet so can't say from experience but when I read some idiot's remarks about something he saw on TV that is physically impossible it really makes me wonder. But then have political leaders who are old enough to remember the last time we got ourselves into a situation where we didn' know how to get out of it and did it again. Truly, Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Enough for this evening. Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) |
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:19:28 -0400, Ruby Vee
wrote: On 2007-08-16 07:56:08 -0400, said: Probably in self defense, my mother introduced me to the public library as soon as I could read. My Goodness, there was a lot of information in that building and right on the way home from school -- if I took a bit of a detour. At one time I was the youngest person in my home town to possess a "library card". My father introduced me to the public library -- after I read everything in the children's library and was too young to get a library car in the adult library, he gave me his library card to use. Then he walked me to the library, introduced me to the head librarian and told her "Let Ruby read anything she wants to read. If she has questions, or if you're really concerned about whether it's appropriate for her, call me." It was a small town. I think the only call my father ever received wasn't from the librarian, but from my high school English teacher who had a problem with me doing a book report on "The Godfather." He threatened me with detention (and I had a job to get to!) and demanded to know what my parents would think of me reading such trash. (It was in the early 70s.) My father had given me the book! The English teacher called my father, and it was the last time he ever questioned my reading choices! I guess I have read D.H. Lawrence, at least the more lurid parts of Lady Chatterly. Really hard core stuff in my youth Hemingway, is good and bad. Most of the bull fighting books were great on detail but dwelled, and dwelled, and dwelled, and dwelled on the tension and fear building up before the matador enters the ring. I found them tedious. On the other hand the old man and the sea, was, I believe, one of the best books about small time commercial fishing that has been written. I feel the same way about much of Hemingway's work. But the old man and the sea was good. And Lady Chatterly was quite interesting -- at least the lurid bits. I was too young when I read it to really understand the story, though. I ought to give it another try. Mark Twain (which, by the way, is 12 feet) is a writer that I enjoy as I do Kipling. Neither of them would be published in the present day of "political correctness" which seems a puzzle as it is neither political nor correct, but that is another story. I keep a copy of Kim and re-read it at least once a year. I enjoyed Mark Twain. And Kipling, but I loved Jack London. And Steinbeck. Most of my reading lately is trash. I work on the boat; I eat supper; it's too early to go to bed; I read a book, the last thing I want to do is read a good book because I've got to get up tomorrow and do it all again, so I read trash. Science Fiction; Fantasy; Detective stories, etc. It's hard not to enjoy trash like sci fi, fantasy and detective stories. That makes up the majority of my reading these days, and for the same reasons. (Not working on a boat, per se, but working.) I read to relax, and I don't want to have to work at it. Well, given that you have a boy in high school it might have been correct, when you were ten, that Americans read, but it certainly isn't true now. I have no contact with the U.S. except for the internet so can't say from experience but when I read some idiot's remarks about something he saw on TV that is physically impossible it really makes me wonder. Americans do read -- although I think that it's the women reading while the men control the TV remote and watch one idiotic thing after the next. But then have political leaders who are old enough to remember the last time we got ourselves into a situation where we didn' know how to get out of it and did it again. Truly, Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Ruby Vee, in the US working to build up a cruising kitty. An old Australian told me, "you don't need it, just go." He was actually talking about equipment but equipment costs money. You really don't need as much as West Marine implies that you do. You do need an accurate voltage gauge to monitor your batteries but if you do some research (Trojan is a good site to start with) you'll find that you can get along perfectly well with a auto battery charger. If your solar panels and/or wind generator don't get your batteries over 13.5 volts then you don't need a regulator for them since 13.5 is about what an expensive three stage battery charger will hold your batteries at anyway. I could go on and on but the secret is to research the system until you really do understand it and then buy what you need. I'll see you when you pass through. Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) |
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