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Rosalie B. wrote:
I saw a boat named WHIPPORWILL with a dinghy named TWHEE in Georgia

How about calling for a boat named UH OH II on the radio? Saw a power
boat with that name in the Alligator Pungo Canal.

TOTALLY WASTED is a name I'm not sure I like that I saw on another
power boat. I'm not sure about LAWMEN from Baltimore either. I liked
another trawler QUE PASA? better.

We met some newly retired folks whose boat was named GREAT ESCAPE.

grandma Rosalie

S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id2.html

I've always thought it would be fun to name a boat like:

Charleston Police Department
or
Federal Bureau of Investigation
or
Coast Guard Group Charleston
or
Drug Enforcement Administration
or
Internal Revenue Service
or
USS Eisenhower
or
Frying Pan Shoals Light
or
United Flight 232

creating real havoc on VHF wherever you sailed.....(c;

If I have to call the Coasties for some non-emergency reason like
reporting a floating container or other massive hazard dumped off some
ship, I call them with their OFFICIAL FCC CALLSIGN and mine, creating
more real havoc as the idiot on watch rarely recognizes his station by
his OFFICIAL FCC CALLSIGN. Not getting an answer, I switch to the CB
handles like "Coast Guard Group Charleston", which he answers to
immediately, so I can INFORM and TRAIN their watchstanders as to their
OFFICIAL FCC CALLSIGN when I ask him why he didn't respond when I
called him at first....(c; I still use our callsign, in any event.

Maybe we should put:

WDB 6254

on the stern of her, which seems to create its own havoc on VHF or:

366920680

her new MMSI for the DSC/GMDSS radios. That way if you wanted to call
me on HF or VHF, you could see our MMSI on the stern where "Lionheart"
used to be....(c;

Might be fun to have those made up into flags I could fly, proudly,
from the mainmast or have sewn into the new mainsail instead of the
hull number, which is useless. Great big WDB 6254, 8' high on the
main....

Of course, we COULD use Morse on 2182.....(c;
All in good fun, don'tcha know.



On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:55:32 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote:

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Rosalie B. wrote:
I saw a boat named WHIPPORWILL with a dinghy named TWHEE in Georgia

How about calling for a boat named UH OH II on the radio? Saw a power
boat with that name in the Alligator Pungo Canal.

TOTALLY WASTED is a name I'm not sure I like that I saw on another
power boat. I'm not sure about LAWMEN from Baltimore either. I liked
another trawler QUE PASA? better.

We met some newly retired folks whose boat was named GREAT ESCAPE.

grandma Rosalie

S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id2.html


Larry W4CSC

No, no, Scotty! I said, "Beam me a wrench.", not a WENCH!
Kirk Out.....

Wouldn't pull those tricks while sailing that Sunfish.
They just might swamp you as they pass by.

Larry W4CSC wrote in message
...
I've always thought it would be fun to name a boat like:

Charleston Police Department
or
Federal Bureau of Investigation
or
Coast Guard Group Charleston
or
Drug Enforcement Administration
or
Internal Revenue Service
or
USS Eisenhower
or
Frying Pan Shoals Light
or
United Flight 232

creating real havoc on VHF wherever you sailed.....(c;

If I have to call the Coasties for some non-emergency reason like
reporting a floating container or other massive hazard dumped off some
ship, I call them with their OFFICIAL FCC CALLSIGN and mine, creating
more real havoc as the idiot on watch rarely recognizes his station by
his OFFICIAL FCC CALLSIGN. Not getting an answer, I switch to the CB
handles like "Coast Guard Group Charleston", which he answers to
immediately, so I can INFORM and TRAIN their watchstanders as to their
OFFICIAL FCC CALLSIGN when I ask him why he didn't respond when I
called him at first....(c; I still use our callsign, in any event.

Maybe we should put:

WDB 6254

on the stern of her, which seems to create its own havoc on VHF or:

366920680

her new MMSI for the DSC/GMDSS radios. That way if you wanted to call
me on HF or VHF, you could see our MMSI on the stern where "Lionheart"
used to be....(c;

Might be fun to have those made up into flags I could fly, proudly,
from the mainmast or have sewn into the new mainsail instead of the
hull number, which is useless. Great big WDB 6254, 8' high on the
main....

Of course, we COULD use Morse on 2182.....(c;
All in good fun, don'tcha know.



On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:55:32 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote:

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Rosalie B. wrote:
I saw a boat named WHIPPORWILL with a dinghy named TWHEE in Georgia

How about calling for a boat named UH OH II on the radio? Saw a power
boat with that name in the Alligator Pungo Canal.

TOTALLY WASTED is a name I'm not sure I like that I saw on another
power boat. I'm not sure about LAWMEN from Baltimore either. I liked
another trawler QUE PASA? better.

We met some newly retired folks whose boat was named GREAT ESCAPE.

grandma Rosalie

S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id2.html


Larry W4CSC

No, no, Scotty! I said, "Beam me a wrench.", not a WENCH!
Kirk Out.....

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 03:46:20 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:

Wouldn't pull those tricks while sailing that Sunfish.
They just might swamp you as they pass by.

Gave the Sunfish away to one of the dock crew at Ashley Marina last
fall. Nice kid, college student who just happen to be in the right
place at the right time. He helped me load up a free 9.4 Watertender
one of the guys on E-dock gave me when I suggested we pump her out
before it went under full of rainwater. Another yacht friend gave me
a 3hp Yamaha outboard for fixing the automatic yard light at his
house. He didn't need it any more, having sold his Hatteras 56 and
gotten out of boating and its headaches.

I gave away the Sunfish so I could put the "new powerboat" on the
little trailer the Sunfish was sitting on. Free boats with free
motors run a LOT smoother than something that will only depreciate,
you know!

I looking for some discouraged yachtie who wants to get rid of that
nasty Beneteau with the leaky diesel, now.....(c;



Larry W4CSC

No, no, Scotty! I said, "Beam me a wrench.", not a WENCH!
Kirk Out.....

Good for you...passing along the good fortune.

Larry W4CSC wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 03:46:20 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:

Wouldn't pull those tricks while sailing that Sunfish.
They just might swamp you as they pass by.

Gave the Sunfish away to one of the dock crew at Ashley Marina last
fall. Nice kid, college student who just happen to be in the right
place at the right time. He helped me load up a free 9.4 Watertender
one of the guys on E-dock gave me when I suggested we pump her out
before it went under full of rainwater. Another yacht friend gave me
a 3hp Yamaha outboard for fixing the automatic yard light at his
house. He didn't need it any more, having sold his Hatteras 56 and
gotten out of boating and its headaches.

I gave away the Sunfish so I could put the "new powerboat" on the
little trailer the Sunfish was sitting on. Free boats with free
motors run a LOT smoother than something that will only depreciate,
you know!

I looking for some discouraged yachtie who wants to get rid of that
nasty Beneteau with the leaky diesel, now.....(c;



Larry W4CSC

No, no, Scotty! I said, "Beam me a wrench.", not a WENCH!
Kirk Out.....

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:23:14 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:

Good for you...passing along the good fortune.

And, of course, I made him promise me he would never SELL it but pass
it on to another young sailor when he was done with it........



Larry W4CSC

No, no, Scotty! I said, "Beam me a wrench.", not a WENCH!
Kirk Out.....

Larry W4CSC writes:
Don White wrote:

Good for you...passing along the good fortune.


And, of course, I made him promise me he would never SELL
it but pass it on to another young sailor when he was done
with it...

This does remind me of a boyhood friend of mine, who once stopped
to help an old lady who had a flat tire, during a rain storm. She
wanted to pay him for changing her tire, but he told her that
helping her gave him a good feeling that wasn't for sale, and if
she really wanted to do him a favor, she could help some one else
out when she saw some one who needed help.

If more people did that kind of thing, Larry, and required them
to pass along the favor or the help the world would be a much
happier place in which to live.

I salute you, sir.

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Larry W4CSC writes:
Don White wrote:

Good for you...passing along the good fortune.


And, of course, I made him promise me he would never SELL
it but pass it on to another young sailor when he was done
with it...

This does remind me of a boyhood friend of mine, who once stopped
to help an old lady who had a flat tire, during a rain storm. She
wanted to pay him for changing her tire, but he told her that
helping her gave him a good feeling that wasn't for sale, and if
she really wanted to do him a favor, she could help some one else
out when she saw some one who needed help.

If more people did that kind of thing, Larry, and required them
to pass along the favor or the help the world would be a much
happier place in which to live.

I salute you, sir.

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Topic-Mimara
Unique in the World!
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:23:14 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:

Good for you...passing along the good fortune.

And, of course, I made him promise me he would never SELL it but pass
it on to another young sailor when he was done with it........



Larry W4CSC

No, no, Scotty! I said, "Beam me a wrench.", not a WENCH!
Kirk Out.....

Good for you...passing along the good fortune.

Larry W4CSC wrote in message
...
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 03:46:20 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:

Wouldn't pull those tricks while sailing that Sunfish.
They just might swamp you as they pass by.

Gave the Sunfish away to one of the dock crew at Ashley Marina last
fall. Nice kid, college student who just happen to be in the right
place at the right time. He helped me load up a free 9.4 Watertender
one of the guys on E-dock gave me when I suggested we pump her out
before it went under full of rainwater. Another yacht friend gave me
a 3hp Yamaha outboard for fixing the automatic yard light at his
house. He didn't need it any more, having sold his Hatteras 56 and
gotten out of boating and its headaches.

I gave away the Sunfish so I could put the "new powerboat" on the
little trailer the Sunfish was sitting on. Free boats with free
motors run a LOT smoother than something that will only depreciate,
you know!

I looking for some discouraged yachtie who wants to get rid of that
nasty Beneteau with the leaky diesel, now.....(c;



Larry W4CSC

No, no, Scotty! I said, "Beam me a wrench.", not a WENCH!
Kirk Out.....