Herodotus wrote in
:

Sorry to burn your ears but I always wanted to cruise the eastern
coast of the US.

cheers and thanks
Peter


Wow...I didn't know about these paper restrictions. What ****es me off,
being on the receiving end of anything bad, is that there is NO GUNBOATS
AT THE HARBOR ENTRANCE! We're never challenged in any way coming in from
sea on sailboats....even if we show no flag. Noone seems to care. You
could sail right up to the City Marina dock, right past the Coast Guard
Base Charleston, with a stolen Russian suitcase nuclear weapon and noone
would say anything to you unless you wanted to rent a slip or you set the
damned thing off. I think you, or anyone in any boat, ought to be
challenged at the SEAWARD end of the jetties! There's NOTHING THERE!
Noone calls you to even see if you speak English (or Spanish, now that
half our population are illegal Mexicans). I've tried to get noticed by
making calls in Farsi and Arabic on Channel 16 and got no response, at
all!....(c; You'd think at LEAST someone would say SOMETHING when you
called for Googoosh (a famous Iranian Pop singer that makes Iranian men's
blood boil) on CHANNEL 16 in FARSI! Nothing, nada....

So, we'll let the bombers in the harbor, probably rent them a slip for
$US100/day ($AU or NZ 50 by now) but only hassle our BEST ALLIES trying
to do the right thing running the paperwork monster. It makes no sense
at all.

Of course, we have a long history of Naval Stupidity, you know. It took
us nearly 3 years to figure out that those were GERMAN U-BOATS sinking
ships and tankers off the SC Coast that NOONE TRIED TO SINK right after
Dec, 1941. We didn't respond to the U-Boat threat, either, making U-Boat
crews just happy as hell for a long time. We wouldn't even put the
DAMNED LIGHTS OUT along the coast so it made it harder to target the
ships against the coastal lights!

We have 5 law enforcement bureaucracies riding around like a bunch of
cowboys in flak jackets disguised as PFDs harrassing local small boaters
inspecting fire extinguishers and whistles and PFDs, but no gunboats
protecting America from the WMDs on the deck of 1000' containerships
until the container is offloaded onto a trailer and driven past the gamma
detectors just as it leaves the port terminal behind a truck.

How stupid the Illuminati Government of the US is.....or are they? They
don't care about US, they care only about THEM and their MONEY.

I'm a little disappointed in Folbot after researching the website. The
"new" Folbots have no sail rigs available, which was a real blast on mine
with its little rudder linkage and fore-aft tiller. Now you have to
worry about the salt water eating the LAWN FURNITURE METALS the damned
frame is made out of. The old Folbots Mr Kissner made were highly-
compressed, laminated wood just like the finest snow skis WERE made of.

$US2000 for a Folbot? They gotta be kidding! Lawn Furniture covered
with seat covers?....(c;