Oh yeah...forgot for a minute that you 'sail' for the dark side.

Marty wrote:
Yeah, but it's pretty much a bitch to do canals and inland waterways
under sail. I'd love to hear the conversation with the lock master when
you tell him you intend to sail into his lock.


He might like that better than if you told him you were going to be
towed in by mules.

DSK

wrote:
Oh yeah...forgot for a minute that you 'sail' for the dark side.

Marty wrote:
Yeah, but it's pretty much a bitch to do canals and inland waterways
under sail. I'd love to hear the conversation with the lock master when
you tell him you intend to sail into his lock.


He might like that better than if you told him you were going to be
towed in by mules.

Alas, poor Yorick, where have the old ways gone?

Cheers
Marty, (did Yorick have mules?)

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:40:16 -0500, Marty wrote:

wrote:
Oh yeah...forgot for a minute that you 'sail' for the dark side.

Marty wrote:
Yeah, but it's pretty much a bitch to do canals and inland waterways
under sail. I'd love to hear the conversation with the lock master when
you tell him you intend to sail into his lock.


He might like that better than if you told him you were going to be
towed in by mules.

Alas, poor Yorick, where have the old ways gone?

Cheers
Marty, (did Yorick have mules?)

I have seen a dray pulling a heavy barge often enough - but not
a mule.

Brian W

Brian Whatcott wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:40:16 -0500, Marty wrote:

wrote:
Oh yeah...forgot for a minute that you 'sail' for the dark side.
Marty wrote:
Yeah, but it's pretty much a bitch to do canals and inland waterways
under sail. I'd love to hear the conversation with the lock master when
you tell him you intend to sail into his lock.

He might like that better than if you told him you were going to be
towed in by mules.
Alas, poor Yorick, where have the old ways gone?

Cheers
Marty, (did Yorick have mules?)

I have seen a dray pulling a heavy barge often enough - but not
a mule.

Aren't switching/shunting engines sometimes referred to a "mules", in
which case there's quite a few ships moves through the Panama Canals
with mules? ;-O

Cheers
Marty

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:21:56 -0500, Marty wrote:

Aren't switching/shunting engines sometimes referred to a "mules", in
which case there's quite a few ships moves through the Panama Canals
with mules? ;-O

I have heard the Panama locos called mules. There are short bits of
track there that are at 100% grade, or 45 degrees. The locos only
climb them when not under load.

www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html

Casady

I have heard the Panama locos called mules. There are short bits of
track there that are at 100% grade, or 45 degrees. The locos only
climb them when not under load.

www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html

Casady

They were called mules when I went through the canal in the 70's.
Red

Red wrote:

I have heard the Panama locos called mules. There are short bits of
track there that are at 100% grade, or 45 degrees. The locos only
climb them when not under load.

www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html

Casady

They were called mules when I went through the canal in the 70's.
Red

So what does it cost to transit the panama canal in a private boat these
days?