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An amusing day on the Erie Canal

On May 4, 1:13*pm, HK wrote:
HK wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 09:54:05 -0400, HK wrote:

wrote in
Yeah but those boats have a design that makes them easier to skull.
Long and narrow with a trailing end transom, vee bottom etc. I would
think the motor transom of those skiffs might make them harder to
skull, especially in any current or wind..

*skull* * Hehehehe.

What a frippin' idiot.

If you had something in your skull besides gas, you'd know the
difference between scull and skull.

*SKULL* * Sheeesh.

By their lame spelling flames you shall know them.

Casady

Nothing lame about it. As a self-proclaimed builder of rowboats, even an
intellectual cipher like JustHate should have known the word he wanted
was "scull," not "skull." I'm not expecting a high level of language
"dexterity" on usenet, but someone in "the boatbuilding biz" should be
familiar with its common terms.

*SKULL for SCULL*

Idiot.

scull, not skull. I can't even force myself to use the wrong word in
this instance. * :)- Hide quoted text -

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Wow! You are a real internet hero.. But you still have not posted
anything that would suggest you even graduated high school or built or
designed anything, ever... You are a phony, period...

An amusing day on the Erie Canal

On May 4, 1:13*pm, HK wrote:
HK wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 09:54:05 -0400, HK wrote:

wrote in
Yeah but those boats have a design that makes them easier to skull.
Long and narrow with a trailing end transom, vee bottom etc. I would
think the motor transom of those skiffs might make them harder to
skull, especially in any current or wind..

*skull* * Hehehehe.

What a frippin' idiot.

If you had something in your skull besides gas, you'd know the
difference between scull and skull.

*SKULL* * Sheeesh.

By their lame spelling flames you shall know them.

Casady

Nothing lame about it. As a self-proclaimed builder of rowboats, even an
intellectual cipher like JustHate should have known the word he wanted
was "scull," not "skull." I'm not expecting a high level of language
"dexterity" on usenet, but someone in "the boatbuilding biz" should be
familiar with its common terms.

*SKULL for SCULL*

Idiot.

scull, not skull. I can't even force myself to use the wrong word in
this instance. * :)- Hide quoted text -

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Pffftttt. Excuses and deflections.. WAFM. It's funny to see the Pink
Army throwing spelling flames around all the time, while making
mistakes of their own at the same time... That's some "delemma" you
and Dumb Donnie got yourselves into...

An amusing day on the Erie Canal

On May 4, 1:40*pm, jim78565 wrote:
HK wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 09:54:05 -0400, HK wrote:

wrote in
Yeah but those boats have a design that makes them easier to skull.
Long and narrow with a trailing end transom, vee bottom etc. I would
think the motor transom of those skiffs might make them harder to
skull, especially in any current or wind..

*skull* * Hehehehe.

What a frippin' idiot.

If you had something in your skull besides gas, you'd know the
difference between scull and skull.

*SKULL* * Sheeesh.

By their lame spelling flames you shall know them.

Casady

Nothing lame about it. As a self-proclaimed builder of rowboats, even an
intellectual cipher like JustHate should have known the word he wanted
was "scull," not "scull." I'm not expecting a high level of language
"dexterity" on usenet, but someone in "the boatbuilding biz" should be
familiar with its common terms.

*SKULL for SCULL*

Idiot.

Harry,
I'm having a hard time seeing the difference between the "scull" not
"scull". Surely someone as critical of others spelling, would be a
little more careful with his own. Eh!
You are a riot. How many years, in college, did you say it took them to
groom you to be a writer.- Hide quoted text -

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The Pink Army gets so caught up and full of drool when they think they
are being clever, they simply can't even wait to post... I can see
Hatin' Harrys little nubby fingers pounding away while eating a bucket
of KFC and getting grease all over the keyboard... You really don't
believe this story of him being a writer do you? He was more likely a
porter (janitor in union speak) in some shop, pushing a broom and
cleaning up the puke of the hungover warehouse workers he seems to
despise so openly...

An amusing day on the Erie Canal

Don White wrote:
"Jim Willemin" wrote in message
7.131...
Today was pleasant - some sun, light breeze, mid 60s - so I took my new
homebuilt flatiron skiff out for a row along the Erie Canal near Utica,
NY. I also took my fishing rod, of course; trolling while rowing is
sort of like killing two birds with one stone - one exercises and goes
fishing at the same time. Anyhow, it was a quiet day on the canal - I
saw four boats in total - two larger sailboats transiting the canal, and
two smaller powerboats out for a Sunday cruise. In particular, there
was a 16 foot open bow trihull that launched just as I was getting back
within a quarter mile of the launch ramp. There were four guys in it,
and it zoomed up the canal and back again in joyful abandon (at least,
they looked like they were having fun). I get close enough to the ramp
to reel in my line and sort of get ready to land (there are no docks at
this launch - just a concrete ramp cut into a bank that is heavily
riprapped with big honking boulders, making solo launches and landings
interesting). I look downwind, and notice the trihull sort of adrift in
the middle of the canal, with the cover off the outboard and very
ominous noises coming from the vicinity of the motor.

Well, if you are running a boat you're a mariner, even if it's only a
rowboat on a freshwater canal, and a vessel in distress imposes certain
obligations. I row down and ask if they need help. The boat was just
purchased, used, for $6,000. The motor does not start. There is no
paddle aboard (no PFDs either). They can't swim. There is no line
aboard. This is a canal, so the water is 10 feet deep four feet from
the shore. They are beginning to realize they stand a good chance of
being *very* late for supper. Fortunately, I have a long painter that
snaps into my bow eye, a sculling notch in the center of the transom,
and a couple of cleats on the gunwale. Pass the snap end of the line to
the trihull and tell them to snap it to their bow eye. Lead the line
through the sculling notch and make fast to a cleat. Shorten up the
oars a bit and begin to row. Fortunately, it's only a couple of hundred
yards, and the wind is light. Get to the launch ramp, find one of their
buddies standing there, pass him the line, and beach both boats on the
ramp. It would have been a lot easier except these four guys in that
boat were BIG - easily half a ton of manflesh involved there, indeed,
when dead in the water that poor trihull had between 4 and 8 inches
freeboard. Of such boaters are statistics made, I guess.

The *really* amusing part was watching four guys with a cumulative IQ of
about 25 and lacking the sense God gave geese faced with the problem of
getting a beached boat onto a trailer with neither power, paddles, nor
line. They finally managed it and nobody drowned, though the Keystone
Kops could have learned a few things about silliness from the spectacle.
Then, boat on trailer, drain plug pulled, they drove off, blissfully
ignorant of little things like tie-downs for gunwale and transom (that
boat was bouncing several inches off the bunks as they drove across the
rough parking lot).

I was laughing all the way home, and feeling very smug and almost
righteous. Proud of my little boat, too - she was more than up to the
rescue.

Good for you. That row might have intimidated more than one pseudo boater
in this group.

Always a negative post from the dummy who failed in life.

An amusing day on the Erie Canal