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Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
Don White wrote:

So as with most things, you are wrong.

Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

Donald,

I remembered another interesting story about our trip to NS, that seemed
so totally different than anything one would see in the US. In Sydney,
we pulled into the first "Marina" we saw, it had about 75' facing the
harbor, and a very tiny cove, with maybe 15 boats. A very small marina
from what I was used to. The "yacht club" reminded me of an old VFW
club, cinder blocks, good old boys sitting around drinking beer and
telling war stories around old broken down furniture and tables. The
waitress who served us the beer, a really great IPA, was very friendly.
We asked her where was a good place to eat, and she said nothing in
walking distance. They had a guy making burgers and hot dogs, but she
did not recommend them. The waitress said while there were no good
restaurants close, a pizza joint that would deliver a pizza and dialed
the pizza joint on her cell phone for us. I could n't believe the
waitress would allow us to order a pizza and eat it in their
restaurant/bar/yacht club, but who am I to challenge local customs.
When the pizza was delivered, the guy cooking the burgers went crazy.
He had been laid off from the steel mill (or the mill closed I can't
remember) and was scrapping by making burgers in the "club". We gave
him $10 so we could eat the pizza and he was happy. It seemed that
everyone in that little neck of the woods would come by to find out who
we were, where were going, and they all provided advice. I think
everyone's advice contradicted each other, but they loved to be able to
spend time chit chatting. I had the feeling the entire town was out of
work.

You Canadians can be very interesting, eh......

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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Florida Boating [NOT}

"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in
message ...
Don White wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in
message ...
Wayne.B wrote:
Arguably one of the most beautiful bodies of water in the world:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0utTAiadygIUkT4LIXeoYfKADAn2Dkz os
Well, I am so stupid, at first I thought that was a map of the west
coast of Florida, and I am going, well it looks like he is boating to
me.

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

You'd better stick to small shallow lakes...where you can't get lost.
Don,

Not only have I lived on 3 continents. I have been boating and sailing
all over, including lakes smaller than Lanier, all the Great Lakes,
except for Superior, the Atlantic and the Caribbean. While I have done
out on charter boats in the Pacific, I have never been at the helm when
boating in the Pacific. I actually have been boating up and down the
coast of NS, we went out about 100 miles off the coast of NS, sailing
from Sidney to Halifax. I found Halifax to be a quaint town, nice
downtown tourist area, very clean, and the people were very polite and
helpful. I would guess either your online persona has nothing to do
with the way you behave in the real world, or you are a social outcast
in Halifax. If I had to bet, I would go with social outcast.

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

Hee hee... better find someone like Looneytunes to buy your bull
When I posted some local pictures last year, you commented that you like
to see photos of areas you haven't been to.
plus...why would anyone go one hundred miles offshore when sailing from
Sydney to Halifax?
I'm trying to decide if you sound more like the old Skipper..... or that
Teabag character on the recent 'Prison Break series.

Guess again, I spent a week in Halifax Harbor. The only pictures I
remember you publishing was of you on a lake, but I don't remember making
any comment about the pictures at all.

I moored at a private facility that had buoy's located in a Southern
Finger of the Harbor (or at least it seemed to be south). It was devoted
to pleasure boating, versus commercial ships. The water taxi (it was
blue, with red seats and white trim, would pick us up, and drop us off at
a the service area. I am pretty sure the water taxi was included in the
buoy fees, but we would tip the guy. A large white metal service
building with a fairly large boat lift. It looked like it could service a
25 ft. sailboat without dropping the mast. There were a number of sailors
who raced in the Wed. Night Beer Can races who kept their boat there, but
they were the smaller J-22 type boats. It was in June, and the Beer Can
Races had not even started yet. They were all out their getting their
boats ready. Next door, was an old fancy yachting club that looked like
it was built 100 yrs ago, yet was in fairly good shape. They had decent
meals at reasonable prices, but it had a very "old money" look to it. Out
back of the Yacht club, they had a small swimming pool, but it really did
not look like it had been used in years and was in bad shape. Most of the
people eating in the restaurant were old as dirt, and I doubt if they had
been sailing in decades. The yacht club was hosting a big regatta and
was selling T-Shirts a few weeks before the regatta, which surprised me.
I think it was the Marblehead to Halifax Race, but I could be wrong. The
General Managers office was on the 2nd floor, the stairs were against the
far wall, closest to the harbor, and looked like a combination office and
storage space. She was sorting out the tshirts by size and double
checking the order. It was hard to believe that the GM was doing such
simple work, it seemed like a poor utilization of talent. We walked about
a mile to 1.5 miles towards town to buy some boating supplies from an
independent marine supply house to buy some electronic equipment. Our
depth finder was giving us crazy readings. It was a fairly small shop,
not much bigger than a small convenience store, but he could order the
supplies and get them in a few days.

When we took a taxi to downtown, they had the normal restaurants on the
harbor, but they had recently closed off a number of streets in the
downtown area so it would be like a large mall. I talked to some locals
who said I had to come back for a "pub crawl", where a group of people
would stumble from one bar to the next all night long. It seems like your
son is not the only person in Halifax who enjoys getting loaded.

From memory, the reason we took such a long leg to get from Sydney to
Halifax had to do with a combination of the wind direction and some bad
reef you have in between Sydney to Halifax. Instead of beating into the
wind, and making frequent tacks, and getting into the reef's, we just made
it one long leg to avoid some place the harbor master in Sydney warned us
about. I remember a large rock outcropping that he told us to stay clear
of, but the real danger was the shallow rocks that surrounded the area.
I thought it was funny, the harbor master referred to it as "The Graveyard
of the Atlantic", but I had always heard the area off of the Outer Banks
to be called the Graveyard of the Atlantic. I thought it was a Canadian
trying to impress us. I can remember your TINY dolphins riding out bow
wave, about half the size of the dolphins I was used to. I commented this
to one of the locals and he jokingly said, OOHHHHH yeah, everything is
bigger in the US.

So as with most things, you are wrong.

Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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You are quite the pompous prick.
If you really were here, your description would be of the Royal Nova Scotia
Yacht Squadron...the oldest yacht club in North America......although only
at the current location for about 40 years.
It's swimming and new wading pool are well used every year and this club is
considered the best in Atlantic Canada.
BTW the Graveyard of the Atlantic refers to Sable Island...which is a
couple hundred miles east south east of Halifax
The pictures you commented on were taken in St. Margarets Bay and Mahone
Bay.
Better get back to your Googling and see what else you can distort.

Florida Boating [NOT}

On Wed, 20 May 2009 23:46:08 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 20 May 2009 15:52:41 -0400, John H
wrote:

Are you on your boat, Wayne? If not, and it's a cruise, tell us more.
What line, how do you like it, etc.

We are aboard the cruise ship Island Princess, very nice but not quite
the same as being on our own boat. It would be a *very* long trip to
bring the GB up here from Florida however. We are very pleased with
the trip so far. Princess did a great job with the land portion of
the trip, starting in Fairbanks, AK with a number of excursions taking
us south through and around Denali Park, ending up in Anchorage and
Whittier where we linked up with the cruise ship. Glacier Bay
certainly ranks as one of the high points so far, the other being our
fly over of Mt McKinley in a small plane.

Tomorrow we'll be in Skagway with a river excursion on a jet boat,
Juneau the next day with a helicopter ride to a glacier landing, then
Ketchikan with a float plane excursion inland.

Another highlight of the trip was three days in the San Juan Islands
north of Seattle that we arranged on our own with a little guidance
from Chuck Gould. Chuck tipped us to a great place to stay called the
Roche Harbor Resort which was really first class in every way.

Internet service on the ship is 40 cents per minute so pictures will
have to wait until later.

You know, for some reason I've never thought of flying to Alaska and
then going on a cruise. It's always been fly to Seattle and take the
cruise from there. I suppose one could see a lot more of Alaska for
the same amount of money flying there first.

Can't wait for the pictures.
--

John H

Florida Boating [NOT}

On Thu, 21 May 2009 07:43:18 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2009 07:19:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Not only have I lived on 3 continents. I have been boating and sailing
all over, including lakes smaller than Lanier, all the Great Lakes,
except for Superior, the Atlantic and the Caribbean.

Yes, but have you rounded the Horn in a 12 foot dinghy when your
Zimmerman lobster boat sank fighting 100 foot seas and 200 mph winds
arriving in New York to a fire boat welcome being towed by a pod of
Orcas that you personally trained after repelling pirates and fending
off a 27 foot Great White shark who mistook your boat for a seal?

Yes. That was funny.

LMAO!
--

John H

Florida Boating [NOT}

On Thu, 21 May 2009 10:03:18 -0700, jps wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2009 08:34:32 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2009 08:19:37 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2009 07:56:32 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2009 07:19:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Not only have I lived on 3 continents. I have been boating and sailing
all over, including lakes smaller than Lanier, all the Great Lakes,
except for Superior, the Atlantic and the Caribbean.

Yes, but have you rounded the Horn in a 12 foot dinghy when your
Zimmerman lobster boat sank fighting 100 foot seas and 200 mph winds
arriving in New York to a fire boat welcome being towed by a pod of
Orcas that you personally trained after repelling pirates and fending
off a 27 foot Great White shark who mistook your boat for a seal?

Oh, did I forget to mention that? ;)

Well yes - you did.

But I'll bet you never sailed to Hawaii on a inflatable kiddie pool
using a sail made of woven kelp leaves and hung on a telephone pole
you found floating half way after you got tired of battling a Pacific
typhoon and giant waves by way of Japan dressed only in a Speedo
feeding youself along the way using fine German screwdrivers bent into
hooks to catch giant Green Marlin and Blue Whales arriving to dancing
dolphins who sang in a language only you could understand while
rainbows flooded the sky with light as a beautiful Polynesian Princess
took your virginity at the age of 12 in celebration of your incredible
adventure.

Did I ever tell you about the time I was attacked by a Tostito?

Or was that a Dorito?

I am not sure, but it was one angry salty snack.

Lay's Classic potato chips - those things are dangerous.

They sneak up on you with mind control - you can't eat just one.

There's a poster here who is much too modest to admit this, but once
he built a boat out of stale Cheetos - sails, boat, masts, stays -
everything and sailed it to Antarctica to save a party of German
explorers who lost all their fine screwdrivers and BMW snowmobiles
all the time making observations of the natural behavior of penguins
which was made in a Oscar winning movie - "Penguins - Not in
Madagascar" while authoring a best selling auto-biography in his spare
time - "A Fireboat Welcomes Me".

Manic asshole are two words that come to mind.

jps and HK?
--

John H

Florida Boating [NOT}

On Thu, 21 May 2009 09:38:39 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

The rain has been good to us, the lake is almost back to normal levels.
http://lanier.uslakes.info/Level.asp

That's good news!
--

John H

Florida Boating [NOT}

Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
Don White wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in
message ...
Wayne.B wrote:
Arguably one of the most beautiful bodies of water in the world:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0utTAiadygIUkT4LIXeoYfKADAn2Dkz os

Well, I am so stupid, at first I thought that was a map of the west
coast of Florida, and I am going, well it looks like he is boating to
me.

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

You'd better stick to small shallow lakes...where you can't get lost.

PS - While you have been fetching beers for your son, providing him free
rent and food, doing his laundry, paying his car note and auto
insurance, because he does not earn enough to do any of that himself, my
son graduated Cum Laude from Columbia University. He then moved to
Boston for a 9 months, earned enough money to spend 9 months traveling
SE Asia, India and Africa. While he was in Thailand, he applied for and
was accepted to a 6 year fellowship to teach and earn his Phd, at one of
the top schools in his field. My oldest daughter graduated Magna Cum
Laude from U of Mich. and she also DID NOT move back home. My youngest
is the closest we have to a "home body", and she goes to Emory, which is
about 10 miles from home, but she still lives on campus and does her own
laundry at school. I have taught my children to be self sufficient, and
helped provide them with the skills to move from adolescents to adulthood.

You on the other hand, had to work as a Civil Servant, in a job you felt
was underpaid, and overwork, and as you stated treated their employees
poorly. You stated you went years without a pay raise, because you were
to scared to leave Halifax. So you really do want to be careful about
talking about "small ponds" to anyone.

I agree with this post.

Florida Boating [NOT}

Don White wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...
Don White wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in
message ...
Don White wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in
message ...
Wayne.B wrote:
Arguably one of the most beautiful bodies of water in the world:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0utTAiadygIUkT4LIXeoYfKADAn2Dkz os
Well, I am so stupid, at first I thought that was a map of the west
coast of Florida, and I am going, well it looks like he is boating to
me.

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

You'd better stick to small shallow lakes...where you can't get lost.
PS - While you have been fetching beers for your son, providing him free
rent and food, doing his laundry, paying his car note and auto
insurance, because he does not earn enough to do any of that himself, my
son graduated Cum Laude from Columbia University. He then moved to
Boston for a 9 months, earned enough money to spend 9 months traveling
SE Asia, India and Africa. While he was in Thailand, he applied for and
was accepted to a 6 year fellowship to teach and earn his Phd, at one of
the top schools in his field. My oldest daughter graduated Magna Cum
Laude from U of Mich. and she also DID NOT move back home. My youngest
is the closest we have to a "home body", and she goes to Emory, which is
about 10 miles from home, but she still lives on campus and does her own
laundry at school. I have taught my children to be self sufficient, and
helped provide them with the skills to move from adolescents to
adulthood.

You on the other hand, had to work as a Civil Servant, in a job you felt
was underpaid, and overwork, and as you stated treated their employees
poorly. You stated you went years without a pay raise, because you were
to scared to leave Halifax. So you really do want to be careful about
talking about "small ponds" to anyone.

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

If you're going back and digging in your dossier on me...better be sure
you have accurate facts instead of regurgitations from LooneyTunes and
JustHate.
A self-absorbed operator such as you wouldn't want to look like an ass in
public eh?
No, I don't need to look at anyone else's fact, as a civil servant, you
complained about your job, how terrible management was and how even the
Union screwed you. You are a little boy in a tiny pond with severe
insecurity issues. The fact that you son is still at home, tells me he
takes after his dad.

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

Ok..trashing my son tells a lot more about you than it does me.
Back into the septic tank with the other low life posters who like to pick
on innocent family members.

Innocent? He's a loser that *you* introduced to this group, dummy.

Florida Boating [NOT}

John H wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2009 10:03:18 -0700, jps wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2009 08:34:32 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2009 08:19:37 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2009 07:56:32 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2009 07:19:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Not only have I lived on 3 continents. I have been boating and sailing
all over, including lakes smaller than Lanier, all the Great Lakes,
except for Superior, the Atlantic and the Caribbean.
Yes, but have you rounded the Horn in a 12 foot dinghy when your
Zimmerman lobster boat sank fighting 100 foot seas and 200 mph winds
arriving in New York to a fire boat welcome being towed by a pod of
Orcas that you personally trained after repelling pirates and fending
off a 27 foot Great White shark who mistook your boat for a seal?
Oh, did I forget to mention that? ;)
Well yes - you did.

But I'll bet you never sailed to Hawaii on a inflatable kiddie pool
using a sail made of woven kelp leaves and hung on a telephone pole
you found floating half way after you got tired of battling a Pacific
typhoon and giant waves by way of Japan dressed only in a Speedo
feeding youself along the way using fine German screwdrivers bent into
hooks to catch giant Green Marlin and Blue Whales arriving to dancing
dolphins who sang in a language only you could understand while
rainbows flooded the sky with light as a beautiful Polynesian Princess
took your virginity at the age of 12 in celebration of your incredible
adventure.
Did I ever tell you about the time I was attacked by a Tostito?

Or was that a Dorito?

I am not sure, but it was one angry salty snack.
Lay's Classic potato chips - those things are dangerous.

They sneak up on you with mind control - you can't eat just one.

There's a poster here who is much too modest to admit this, but once
he built a boat out of stale Cheetos - sails, boat, masts, stays -
everything and sailed it to Antarctica to save a party of German
explorers who lost all their fine screwdrivers and BMW snowmobiles
all the time making observations of the natural behavior of penguins
which was made in a Oscar winning movie - "Penguins - Not in
Madagascar" while authoring a best selling auto-biography in his spare
time - "A Fireboat Welcomes Me".
Manic asshole are two words that come to mind.

jps and HK?
--

John H

Yep.