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I'm back.
Sheesh. It's raining so hard here I don't even want to go down to the boat
to see if the leak around the lazarette hatch hinges onto the autopilot keypad is fixed. So, I decided to try the alternate newsgroup readers sooner than I though I would get to them. Sorry for the drama. I didn't realize that all I had to do was enter their addresses into Outlook Express and they would come up just like they used to on TW. I thought they would be sites I had to go to separately and log in. If I'd known who easy it was, I wouldn't even have mentioned it. -- Roger Long |
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On Jun 23, 5:06*pm, "Roger Long" wrote:
Sheesh. *It's raining so hard here I don't even want to go down to the boat to see if the leak around the lazarette hatch hinges onto the autopilot keypad is fixed. *So, I decided to try the alternate newsgroup readers sooner than I though I would get to them. *Sorry for the drama. *I didn't realize that all I had to do was enter their addresses into Outlook Express and they would come up just like they used to on TW. *I thought they would be sites I had to go to separately and log in. *If I'd known who easy it was, I wouldn't even have mentioned it. -- Roger Long Welcome Back Roger. Did you hear they found the Aggie keel? Fred |
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Did you hear they found the Aggie keel? No (holding tank contents)? This is going to be very interesting if it doesn't get settled out of sight with non-disclosure clauses. -- Roger Long |
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On Jun 24, 4:39*am, "Roger Long" wrote:
wrote Did you hear they found the Aggie keel? No (holding tank contents)? *This is going to be very interesting if it doesn't get settled out of sight with non-disclosure clauses. -- Roger Long That's the worry of many. The boat was given to A&M by George Mitchell. Mitchell's son owns Cape Fear. Infact he bought two boats and gave them to A&M. Most likely Mitchell is one of A&M largest supporters. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. My guess is the **** is going to roll downhill and the blame will be put on the repair outfit that fixed the keel after the boat grounded. There are still unanswered questions about gear aboard. Why was the raft not deployed? Was it below? Did they even have one? Why did they only have 4 life jackets? Why did the USCG turn around a boat in 6 ft seas? I guess this year the cadets at A&M will learn alot from Roger Stone's loss and heroism. Hopefully the lessons will be carried forward into the industry. Amazing they found the keel the first day looking for it. Fred |
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"Roger Long" wrote in
: Sheesh. It's raining so hard here I don't even want to go down to the boat to see if the leak around the lazarette hatch hinges onto the autopilot keypad is fixed. So, I decided to try the alternate newsgroup readers sooner than I though I would get to them. Sorry for the drama. I didn't realize that all I had to do was enter their addresses into Outlook Express and they would come up just like they used to on TW. I thought they would be sites I had to go to separately and log in. If I'd known who easy it was, I wouldn't even have mentioned it. Me, too! I don't think anyone missed me for a few days. I got an invite to sail up to Charleston from West Palm Beach in a Jeanneau 40DS one of the guys on the dock bought. Nice boat....quite fast, but we were nearly unloaded...only one tool box!...(c; The previous owner said the Yanmar was losing coolant in its heat exchanger, but I fixed that by fishing around in the damned coolant recovery tank until I found the damned stupid piece of hose Yanmar uses for a pickup tube that stupidly mounts to the CAP of the little plastic tank. We had some rough weather but she's got roller furling main and genoa all the way back to the cockpit....first class. We sailed her right up to the marina. Only added 1.9 hours to the engine trying to get out of "Manatee Country". With 4 aboard, we even got some sleep and ate better than sandwiches..... As usual, my seasickness only lasted about 6 hours out of initial port....(c; It had been a while since I was offshore for any length of time. After that I'm fine for weeks..... It was a quicker trip than I wanted because the other guys had to get back to work...(sigh) Turning to port into Charleston posed a problem with me resetting the autopilot to 094 true, trying in vain, to bring her to stbd for the run to Bermuda....(c; We took Amtrak to West Palm where the seller met us. The tracks from Charleston to West Palm jerk you back and forth something awful all warped up like they are. How awful. People in the ends of the cars really got jerked around.... At least they didn't bitch about our extra sailing "luggage". It wouldn't have fit in a minivan...(c; We shoulda gone to Bermuda. We had plenty of beer aboard! Dammit.... US Passports sure are getting expensive.... |
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