"NE Sailboat" wrote in message
news:ffZwi.713$1e.85@trndny06...
Skip.. you postings are mostly about your travails. Things that
break, running aground, bad weather, the sinking, etc.
And now you post that people are berating you, that you are amused by
the amount of space your activities generate.

This is "rec.boats.cruising" not
"wreck.sailboats.breakdowns.sinkings.groundings.di saster".

There are cruising boat all over the world, going from one port to
another, visiting far off places, and most don't have
half the issues you have had in their lifetime afloat, never mind in 6
months.

I think it is time for you to get your act together. You are a
Captain whether you like it or not.

It is about time you started acting like, and sounding like, a
Captain.

How about one cruise that goes right. A boring, we went from point A
to point B cruise. We anchored, we ate, we played chess.

If you continue as you have been you will need to change the name of
your boat from Flying Pig to Total Disaster.


Thank you, sir! It makes me so happy to see that not everybody here
thinks Skip is an admirable character instead of the blundering poor
example who gives cruising sailors a bad name that he really is. He's
obviously read every Cruising World Magazine ever published where their
stock and trade is article after article of blundering sailors who
proceed from one mishap, disaster and disgrace to another. The
frightening thing is there is now a couple generations of sailors who
think sailing is supposed to be a comedy of errors.

Wilbur Hubbard

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:42:41 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:


"NE Sailboat" wrote in message
news:ffZwi.713$1e.85@trndny06...
Skip.. you postings are mostly about your travails. Things that
break, running aground, bad weather, the sinking, etc.
And now you post that people are berating you, that you are amused by
the amount of space your activities generate.

This is "rec.boats.cruising" not
"wreck.sailboats.breakdowns.sinkings.groundings.di saster".

There are cruising boat all over the world, going from one port to
another, visiting far off places, and most don't have
half the issues you have had in their lifetime afloat, never mind in 6
months.

I think it is time for you to get your act together. You are a
Captain whether you like it or not.

It is about time you started acting like, and sounding like, a
Captain.

How about one cruise that goes right. A boring, we went from point A
to point B cruise. We anchored, we ate, we played chess.

If you continue as you have been you will need to change the name of
your boat from Flying Pig to Total Disaster.


Thank you, sir! It makes me so happy to see that not everybody here
thinks Skip is an admirable character instead of the blundering poor
example who gives cruising sailors a bad name that he really is. He's
obviously read every Cruising World Magazine ever published where their
stock and trade is article after article of blundering sailors who
proceed from one mishap, disaster and disgrace to another. The
frightening thing is there is now a couple generations of sailors who
think sailing is supposed to be a comedy of errors.


Flying Pig posts give me the willies, in comfort of my own home,
Wilbur.

"Goofball_star_dot_etal" wrote in message
...

Flying Pig posts give me the willies, in comfort of my own home,
Wilbur.


In spite of it all, he's probably an alright fellow. It's just how he's
been brought up being fed a line of bull by magazines and lately
newsgroups full of articles and people who think cruising is supposed to
be a comedy of errors. They really have little or no basis to think
anything else considering how the once proud sport of sailing has been
tarnish by the media and a couple generations of wannabes who have just
enough money to sign a 15 year loan agreement that includes insurance
which gives them that abhorrent attitude of, "I don't worry about it,
it's insured!"

The next time I hear that out of some idiot's pie hole who drags down on
me and damages my boat I'm going to break his nose and maybe his jaw and
then ask if he has medical insurance. If he says 'NO' then I'll tell him
to pay for it with the boat insurance he should have paid me for the
damage he caused. I'll consider it a fair trade off. Maybe it'll teach
him a thing or two.

Wilbur Hubbard