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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:26:48 -0500, D K
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Don White wrote:

I have my handheld VHF + GPS + signal whistle attached to my PFD.......
the PFD is attached to me.
If anyone is within a 4 - 5 mile range I should be ok. (assuming they
have a
VHF turned on to channel 16 or even 12)



Amazing stuff. Got a good whistle on board that vessel, dummy?


Do you guys have a couple of those horns you pit a piece of cellophane
on to make the noise? Those suckers are the loudest thing I have seen
if you don't have air horns. They are louder than the freon can horn
and they are so low tech they will always work. I keep some plastic
wrap in the first aid kits anyway and that works great on these horns
if the one in there gets damaged.

Sure do!
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"D K" wrote in message
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:12:56 -0500, HK wrote:

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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:24:08 -0500, Wayne.B
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:01:01 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

The Everglades boat looked a bit top-heavy anyway, and rafts look to
be about 60-100 lbs, depending.
It is ironic that very few boats under 35 ft carry life rafts but they
are the ones that most need them. There are soft pack rafts that
weigh less than 50 lbs. All life rafts however have a significant
hidden expense: They must be repacked and recertified every 1 to 3
years depending on the manufacturer and model.
It's part of the same logic that leads people to think that a smaller
boat needs smaller bilgepumps.



Indeed.

One aspect of the Parkers I've owned that I appreciated is their
bone-dry bilges. Unless I open a hatch and pour water down into it, I
don't seem to get any water into the bilges of my 21-footer. There's no
liner. I supposed if I started filling up the center console, at some
point water would go down the rigging tubes into the bilge, but that
doesn't happen a whole lot.



???

What does that have to do with what I said?


Nothing. What you post is insignificant at best.

You gotta give him a little credit though. At least he now admits that HK's
posts are insignificant as well. Someone mentions something about a bilge
pump, and mr. me me me has to chime in about his parker POS. Hairy is
predictable to say the least.

--Mike

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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:32:43 -0400, "Don White"
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wrote in message
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:26:48 -0500, D K
wrote:

Don White wrote:

I have my handheld VHF + GPS + signal whistle attached to my PFD.......
the PFD is attached to me.
If anyone is within a 4 - 5 mile range I should be ok. (assuming they
have a
VHF turned on to channel 16 or even 12)



Amazing stuff. Got a good whistle on board that vessel, dummy?


Do you guys have a couple of those horns you pit a piece of cellophane
on to make the noise? Those suckers are the loudest thing I have seen
if you don't have air horns. They are louder than the freon can horn
and they are so low tech they will always work. I keep some plastic
wrap in the first aid kits anyway and that works great on these horns
if the one in there gets damaged.

Sure do!
http://ca.binnacle.com/product_info....oducts_id=2331


Just the thing for signaling that you are having an asthma attack and
need help.

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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:32:43 -0400, "Don White"
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wrote in message
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:26:48 -0500, D K
wrote:

Don White wrote:

I have my handheld VHF + GPS + signal whistle attached to my
PFD.......
the PFD is attached to me.
If anyone is within a 4 - 5 mile range I should be ok. (assuming they
have a
VHF turned on to channel 16 or even 12)



Amazing stuff. Got a good whistle on board that vessel, dummy?


Do you guys have a couple of those horns you pit a piece of cellophane
on to make the noise? Those suckers are the loudest thing I have seen
if you don't have air horns. They are louder than the freon can horn
and they are so low tech they will always work. I keep some plastic
wrap in the first aid kits anyway and that works great on these horns
if the one in there gets damaged.

Sure do!
http://ca.binnacle.com/product_info....oducts_id=2331


Just the thing for signaling that you are having an asthma attack and
need help.


That could be tricky. I also have a couple of compressed air horns.
Both given to me... one from a former co-worker that uses the canned air and
Tom gave me one with the little airpump and soda type, liter sized bottle

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Don White wrote:
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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:32:43 -0400, "Don White"
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wrote in message
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:26:48 -0500, D K
wrote:

Don White wrote:

I have my handheld VHF + GPS + signal whistle attached to my
PFD.......
the PFD is attached to me.
If anyone is within a 4 - 5 mile range I should be ok. (assuming they
have a
VHF turned on to channel 16 or even 12)


Amazing stuff. Got a good whistle on board that vessel, dummy?

Do you guys have a couple of those horns you pit a piece of cellophane
on to make the noise? Those suckers are the loudest thing I have seen
if you don't have air horns. They are louder than the freon can horn
and they are so low tech they will always work. I keep some plastic
wrap in the first aid kits anyway and that works great on these horns
if the one in there gets damaged.
Sure do!
http://ca.binnacle.com/product_info....oducts_id=2331

Just the thing for signaling that you are having an asthma attack and
need help.


That could be tricky. I also have a couple of compressed air horns.
Both given to me... one from a former co-worker that uses the canned air and
Tom gave me one with the little airpump and soda type, liter sized bottle



Amazing!

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"HK" wrote in message
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You're just encouraging the Loogy asshole, Don.

Call me crazy, but I was hoping he and JustHate would eventually come around
& be civil again.

BTW... couldn't get any nice new shiny loonies from the two neighbourhood
brances of national banks.
I'll try downtown at the main branches this week. If worse comes to worse, I
may try to scrub a few dull circulated coins.
The alloy in them doesn't hold a shine very well.

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Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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You're just encouraging the Loogy asshole, Don.

Call me crazy, but I was hoping he and JustHate would eventually come around
& be civil again.

BTW... couldn't get any nice new shiny loonies from the two neighbourhood
brances of national banks.
I'll try downtown at the main branches this week. If worse comes to worse, I
may try to scrub a few dull circulated coins.
The alloy in them doesn't hold a shine very well.



Damn...I was counting on those loonies to bolster our tanking economy! :)


Oh...you're crazy! LoonieLoogy and JustHate are as likely to be civil
here as the top of my head is to grow a new crop of wavy dark brown hair.

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On Mar 9, 12:33*pm, "Don White" wrote:
"HK" wrote in message

m...



You're just encouraging the Loogy asshole, Don.

Call me crazy, but I was hoping he and JustHate would eventually come around
& be civil again.

BTW... couldn't get any nice new shiny loonies from the two neighbourhood
brances of national banks.
I'll try downtown at the main branches this week. If worse comes to worse, I
may try to scrub a few dull circulated coins.
The alloy in them doesn't hold a shine very well.

Call us crazy, but we are hoping the same of you. We, and especially I
have been nothing but civil for weeks, hardly coming here at all.
However, every time I do log in all I see name calling directed toward
myself and several others who left long ago.. The board is yours now,
and nothing has changed at all, do the math... If you all want to grow
the board, you need to stop calling everyone names and calling us out..

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"HK" wrote in message
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Go away, ****forbrains.


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On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:59:52 -0700 (PDT),

Go away, ****forbrains.




Birds of a feather, as they say....

Eisboch