On 2008-09-18 13:55:50 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
said:

Did he sell his house? I doubt it.

They both sold houses, including some rental properties if I remember
correctly.

Compare that with my safe, silent, successful and sane record of active
cruising of more than 13 years.

Yup, going nowhere is certainly silent, safe and easily successful.

I almost guarantee Pat and I have cruised further in those same 13
years, seen more sights, met more people, explored more new areas.

[Going back over some old logs on a whim, I see we've logged well over
8,000 nm in that time, with over 1,000 nm in our cruising range. The
little trips sure add up!]

--
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Xan-à-Deux -- Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
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: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:55:50 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
: wrote:
:
:
: wrote in message
: .. .
: : On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:08:38 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
: : wrote:
: :
: :
: : "Bill Kearney" wrote in message
: : ...
: : :
: : : "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
: : : anews.com...
: : : Loose all the extraneous crap if you are going to enjoy sailing.
: : :
: : : As opposed to you? Who's doing NO SAILING AT ALL?
: : :
: : : To say nothing of not knowing how to spell...
: : :
: :
: :
: : Dear Group,
: :
: : Allow me to couch it in simple enough terms so even a Bill Kearney
might
: : finally understand the simple reality of the matter.
: :
: : The simple reality is a man who takes some time out of his cruising
life
: : (but continues to live aboard and not at a marina) to pursue certain
: : activities ashore remains a cruising sailor while a man (like your
hero
: : Skippy) who takes some time out of his life and home ashore to go
: cruising
: : for a short time and will return to the lubberly life in the
: not-too-distant
: : future remains a lubber. He is a lubber out cruising for a while.
Nothing
: to
: : look up to in that respect. Nothing compared to me, a real cruising
: sailor.
: :
: : So, to summarize, I am a cruising sailor *temporarily* engaged in
: lubberly
: : activities while ALL of you Skippy sycophants and Skippy himself are
land
: : lubbers *temporarily* engaged in cruising.
: :
: : As for the misspelling comment you are again delusional. Read the
: offending
: : sentence again. Use your imagination (in your case that might nigh
well
: be
: : impossible). Read the sentence thusly:
: :
: : (Turn) Loose all the extraneous crap if you are going to enjoy
sailing.
: Have
: : you never read the sentence, "Loose me!" (Turn me loose)?
: :
: : Now run along, to the back of the class with you. You bother me . . .
: :
: : Wilbur Hubbard
: :
: : Skip intends for his boat to be his permanent home. He sold everything
: : he couldn't take on the boat.
: :
:
: Did he sell his house?
:
: It wouldn't fit on the boat. What part of "everything" don't you
: understand?
:
: Actually, I think there may have been two houses, and both were sold.
: His only home is Flying Pig.
:

I choose to NOT believe it coming second hand like that. I know how women
are. Lydia would never allow that to happen. Most any woman without her
*nest* turns out to be a psychotic bitch.

Wilbur Hubbard

(wilbur said)
I choose to NOT believe it coming second hand like that. I know how
women are. Lydia would never allow that to happen. Most any woman
without her
*nest* turns out to be a psychotic bitch.

I'm not going to comment on her disposition at any given moment, but
the boat is her nest. And, if you need even more "first"hand, she can
post and blister your ass (depend on it). But, here it is from the
horse's mouth (or, ass, if you prefer)

Wilbur Hubbard

(salty said)
Well, Skip tends to "tell all" in his posts, and at one point he
mentioned that Lydia's adult kids took a pretty dim view of them
selling off all their assets (intrepreted as "inheritance") to
follow
what they thought was a crazy plan. They pretty much tried to
convince
Lydia not to go along with it, but she did anyway.


Furthermore, it's obvious Wilbur likes to choose those parts which
suit him, ignoring the commentary in my log following our (enforced;
I'd not have done it - to that extent he's right about Lydia as to
home *FIRES*) visit ashore to deal with family business.

We'd hardly have camped out at a friend's, in the same town she lived
in for 16 years, if we had a home ashore. And, we couldn't wait to get
back aboard, despite having a car at our full-time disposal and their
home virtually to ourselves for more than half that time. Ditto our
couple of weeks in Portland, at my sister's home.

We sold the houses (we didn't live together until the boat, in
practical terms), took mortgages, which allows us a pittance to
supplement our fish catch, and gave away literally everything,
including the last vehicle the day we left before the wreck, and the
vehicle we were given after the wreck, *before* we left again. No
rolling stock, no real estate, no furniture, yada, yada.

Every piece of tangible we own is either the boat or aboard it...

A for (pot stirring) effort, B+ for entertainment, F on accuracy...

--
L8R

Skip

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