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Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ I still edit the HTML on the 2 web sites I manage for small changes but I do have an editor or two. I still won't use Flash or Java since there are still people worried enough about security to have them turned off. Flash won't run on my machines until I let it. You would be surprised how many ads that eliminates, particularly on those "free" sites we see. Your browser will open an HTML directly from your hard drive as a sanity check before you upload it. Pure HTML will open in Word, in fact I sometimes compose pages there. Most Email ends up being an HTML if you are doing anything more complex than flat text and I have used the moldy old AOL 7 I run to compose simple pages. The problem with that is you need to go in and strip out the email formatting manually or it shows up on the web page. It only takes a minute or so tho. In that regard an Email client or Word is as easy as any of the other ways to get pictures with captions up on a web page. |
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On 3/9/17 11:18 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:36 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-) Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past Big Carlos Pass. You're confusion an action - cruising - with an object - a slow, full displacement hull boat. |
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On 3/9/2017 11:15 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ Your browser will open an HTML directly from your hard drive as a sanity check before you upload it. Pure HTML will open in Word, in fact I sometimes compose pages there. Sure, *now*. Back then my computer didn't even have Windows. It had an ensemble called "GeoWorks". Similar in concept to Windows and, at the time, many considered it superior to Windows I. I forget what the "browser" was back then or even how it all worked. I think it may have been Netscape Navigator. I recall "AltaVista" as being the search engine. |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:31:50 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/9/17 11:18 AM, wrote: On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:36 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-) Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past Big Carlos Pass. You're confusion an action - cruising - with an object - a slow, full displacement hull boat. With a cruising speed in the 8 kt range (what I saw on the SPOT), that is a displacement hull. You are really getting hung up on semantics but that is not surprising. If you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bull****. |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:53:58 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 3/9/2017 11:15 AM, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ Your browser will open an HTML directly from your hard drive as a sanity check before you upload it. Pure HTML will open in Word, in fact I sometimes compose pages there. Sure, *now*. Back then my computer didn't even have Windows. It had an ensemble called "GeoWorks". Similar in concept to Windows and, at the time, many considered it superior to Windows I. I forget what the "browser" was back then or even how it all worked. I think it may have been Netscape Navigator. I recall "AltaVista" as being the search engine. How long ago are we talking about? HTML did not come into common usage until the early 90s and by then W/3.1 was around (93). I was running W/3.1 pretty early because the BB manager of Prodigy required it. That was the only way to keep my "minutes" down online. Prodigy embraced 3.1 pretty much from it's release tho, although I ran the DOS version as long as I could. I only loaded windows when I absolutely needed it. IBM had a multi tasker that run under DOS, also allowing 4 VM sessions on the IBM network and that was my normal desktop application at work. If you walked up to my PC you would see 4 VM sessions, the DOS box would have dBase running and I might be using the DOS call function there to do minor housekeeping. |
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On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:18:59 -0500, wrote:
On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:36 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-) Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past Big Carlos Pass. === Interestingly enough you can easily cruise the east coast in a non-long range boat. We see it all the time where a boat will zoom by us doing 20+ knots and then we pass them later on in the day while they are tied to a fuel dock. |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:53:58 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: I forget what the "browser" was back then or even how it all worked. I think it may have been Netscape Navigator. I recall "AltaVista" as being the search engine. === Good old AltaVista. At one time it was arguably the best search engine on the internet. I believe it was created by Digital Equipment Corp but they were too dumb and inflexible to realize the value of what they'd created. It could have saved their failing mini computer business if they had known what to do with it. |
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On 3/9/17 1:46 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:31:50 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/9/17 11:18 AM, wrote: On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:36 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-) Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past Big Carlos Pass. You're confusion an action - cruising - with an object - a slow, full displacement hull boat. With a cruising speed in the 8 kt range (what I saw on the SPOT), that is a displacement hull. You are really getting hung up on semantics but that is not surprising. If you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bull****. It's a displacement hull at low speed, but it can get up on a plane. A full displacement hull typically cannot do that. |
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On 3/9/17 2:46 PM, justan wrote:
Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 3/9/17 1:46 PM, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:31:50 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/9/17 11:18 AM, wrote: On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:36 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-) Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past Big Carlos Pass. You're confusion an action - cruising - with an object - a slow, full displacement hull boat. With a cruising speed in the 8 kt range (what I saw on the SPOT), that is a displacement hull. You are really getting hung up on semantics but that is not surprising. If you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bull****. It's a displacement hull at low speed, but it can get up on a plane. A full displacement hull typically cannot do that. You typically use the word typically when you typically don't fully comprehend what you typically talk about. Further, you typically do this when you know your typical bull**** will be challeged. Now I expect to hear some of your typical bull****, or even crickets. Crickets is typically your response to being outed in some manner. Wrong yet again, **** for brains. The world isn't binary. Put enough horsepower on some typically full displacement hulls and you can get them to plane. |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/9/17 2:46 PM, justan wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 3/9/17 1:46 PM, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:31:50 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/9/17 11:18 AM, wrote: On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:36 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-) Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past Big Carlos Pass. You're confusion an action - cruising - with an object - a slow, full displacement hull boat. With a cruising speed in the 8 kt range (what I saw on the SPOT), that is a displacement hull. You are really getting hung up on semantics but that is not surprising. If you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bull****. It's a displacement hull at low speed, but it can get up on a plane. A full displacement hull typically cannot do that. You typically use the word typically when you typically don't fully comprehend what you typically talk about. Further, you typically do this when you know your typical bull**** will be challeged. Now I expect to hear some of your typical bull****, or even crickets. Crickets is typically your response to being outed in some manner. Wrong yet again, **** for brains. The world isn't binary. Put enough horsepower on some typically full displacement hulls and you can get them to plane. And unless you put a jet turbine engine in Wayne's boat, probably not enough HP to plane. The 125' boat I long range fish on, cruises at 9-12 knots. 3000 HP from twin engines, and would never plane. |
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On 3/9/17 3:03 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/9/17 2:46 PM, justan wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 3/9/17 1:46 PM, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:31:50 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/9/17 11:18 AM, wrote: On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:36 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-) Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past Big Carlos Pass. You're confusion an action - cruising - with an object - a slow, full displacement hull boat. With a cruising speed in the 8 kt range (what I saw on the SPOT), that is a displacement hull. You are really getting hung up on semantics but that is not surprising. If you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bull****. It's a displacement hull at low speed, but it can get up on a plane. A full displacement hull typically cannot do that. You typically use the word typically when you typically don't fully comprehend what you typically talk about. Further, you typically do this when you know your typical bull**** will be challeged. Now I expect to hear some of your typical bull****, or even crickets. Crickets is typically your response to being outed in some manner. Wrong yet again, **** for brains. The world isn't binary. Put enough horsepower on some typically full displacement hulls and you can get them to plane. And unless you put a jet turbine engine in Wayne's boat, probably not enough HP to plane. The 125' boat I long range fish on, cruises at 9-12 knots. 3000 HP from twin engines, and would never plane. And a few morons wonder why I qualify statements sometimes, e.g., "Put enough horsepower on some typically full displacement hulls and you can get them to plane." Notice the words "some" and "typically." D'oh. |
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On 3/9/2017 1:59 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:53:58 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/9/2017 11:15 AM, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ Your browser will open an HTML directly from your hard drive as a sanity check before you upload it. Pure HTML will open in Word, in fact I sometimes compose pages there. Sure, *now*. Back then my computer didn't even have Windows. It had an ensemble called "GeoWorks". Similar in concept to Windows and, at the time, many considered it superior to Windows I. I forget what the "browser" was back then or even how it all worked. I think it may have been Netscape Navigator. I recall "AltaVista" as being the search engine. How long ago are we talking about? HTML did not come into common usage until the early 90s and by then W/3.1 was around (93). I was running W/3.1 pretty early because the BB manager of Prodigy required it. That was the only way to keep my "minutes" down online. Prodigy embraced 3.1 pretty much from it's release tho, although I ran the DOS version as long as I could. I only loaded windows when I absolutely needed it. IBM had a multi tasker that run under DOS, also allowing 4 VM sessions on the IBM network and that was my normal desktop application at work. If you walked up to my PC you would see 4 VM sessions, the DOS box would have dBase running and I might be using the DOS call function there to do minor housekeeping. It was in the 1994-95 time frame. You reminded me ... I also used Prodigy. |
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On 3/9/2017 2:19 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:18:59 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:36 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-) Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past Big Carlos Pass. === Interestingly enough you can easily cruise the east coast in a non-long range boat. We see it all the time where a boat will zoom by us doing 20+ knots and then we pass them later on in the day while they are tied to a fuel dock. Yabut, you don't do it on a 20 knot boat on a single fill up of diesel. I had to fuel the Navigator just about every day. The Grand Banks could make it from MA to Florida (or close) on a single tank full. |
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On 3/9/2017 2:47 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/9/2017 1:59 PM, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:53:58 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/9/2017 11:15 AM, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ Your browser will open an HTML directly from your hard drive as a sanity check before you upload it. Pure HTML will open in Word, in fact I sometimes compose pages there. Sure, *now*. Back then my computer didn't even have Windows. It had an ensemble called "GeoWorks". Similar in concept to Windows and, at the time, many considered it superior to Windows I. I forget what the "browser" was back then or even how it all worked. I think it may have been Netscape Navigator. I recall "AltaVista" as being the search engine. How long ago are we talking about? HTML did not come into common usage until the early 90s and by then W/3.1 was around (93). I was running W/3.1 pretty early because the BB manager of Prodigy required it. That was the only way to keep my "minutes" down online. Prodigy embraced 3.1 pretty much from it's release tho, although I ran the DOS version as long as I could. I only loaded windows when I absolutely needed it. IBM had a multi tasker that run under DOS, also allowing 4 VM sessions on the IBM network and that was my normal desktop application at work. If you walked up to my PC you would see 4 VM sessions, the DOS box would have dBase running and I might be using the DOS call function there to do minor housekeeping. It was in the 1994-95 time frame. You reminded me ... I also used Prodigy. I never was a Prodigy person... But I did use Q-Link (Quantum Link), but I think that was closer to the 1988-89 time frame, because I was still rocking a Commodore 64 and calling local BBS's... the WWW and Internet (as we know it) wasn't quite commonplace yet back in '90. I had access to internet via Pine at that point. Text only internet! By 94-95 I was using my Amiga and there was some primitive WYSIWYG HTML editors for the platform. Amazing how times have changed! |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/9/17 3:03 PM, Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/9/17 2:46 PM, justan wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 3/9/17 1:46 PM, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:31:50 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/9/17 11:18 AM, wrote: On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:36 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-) Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past Big Carlos Pass. You're confusion an action - cruising - with an object - a slow, full displacement hull boat. With a cruising speed in the 8 kt range (what I saw on the SPOT), that is a displacement hull. You are really getting hung up on semantics but that is not surprising. If you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bull****. It's a displacement hull at low speed, but it can get up on a plane. A full displacement hull typically cannot do that. You typically use the word typically when you typically don't fully comprehend what you typically talk about. Further, you typically do this when you know your typical bull**** will be challeged. Now I expect to hear some of your typical bull****, or even crickets. Crickets is typically your response to being outed in some manner. Wrong yet again, **** for brains. The world isn't binary. Put enough horsepower on some typically full displacement hulls and you can get them to plane. And unless you put a jet turbine engine in Wayne's boat, probably not enough HP to plane. The 125' boat I long range fish on, cruises at 9-12 knots. 3000 HP from twin engines, and would never plane. And a few morons wonder why I qualify statements sometimes, e.g., "Put enough horsepower on some typically full displacement hulls and you can get them to plane." Notice the words "some" and "typically." D'oh. Typically you are full of ****. |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:32:26 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/9/17 1:46 PM, wrote: With a cruising speed in the 8 kt range (what I saw on the SPOT), that is a displacement hull. You are really getting hung up on semantics but that is not surprising. If you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bull****. It's a displacement hull at low speed, but it can get up on a plane. A full displacement hull typically cannot do that. Any boat will plane if you put enough power on it. |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:47:16 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 3/9/2017 1:59 PM, wrote: How long ago are we talking about? HTML did not come into common usage until the early 90s and by then W/3.1 was around (93). I was running W/3.1 pretty early because the BB manager of Prodigy required it. That was the only way to keep my "minutes" down online. Prodigy embraced 3.1 pretty much from it's release tho, although I ran the DOS version as long as I could. I only loaded windows when I absolutely needed it. IBM had a multi tasker that run under DOS, also allowing 4 VM sessions on the IBM network and that was my normal desktop application at work. If you walked up to my PC you would see 4 VM sessions, the DOS box would have dBase running and I might be using the DOS call function there to do minor housekeeping. It was in the 1994-95 time frame. You reminded me ... I also used Prodigy. Around that time, I was using VM script, which was similar to HTML to the naked eye but the tags were a little different. The transition was not that hard tho. All of that is too cumbersome to write from scratch unless you are just writing a few lines so I use an editor but once I get the boiler plate down I use note pad to alter things as often as not. |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:32:26 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/9/17 1:46 PM, wrote: With a cruising speed in the 8 kt range (what I saw on the SPOT), that is a displacement hull. You are really getting hung up on semantics but that is not surprising. If you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bull****. It's a displacement hull at low speed, but it can get up on a plane. A full displacement hull typically cannot do that. Any boat will plane if you put enough power on it. --- Or fly apart. Lol! |
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On 3/9/2017 4:54 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:47:16 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/9/2017 1:59 PM, wrote: How long ago are we talking about? HTML did not come into common usage until the early 90s and by then W/3.1 was around (93). I was running W/3.1 pretty early because the BB manager of Prodigy required it. That was the only way to keep my "minutes" down online. Prodigy embraced 3.1 pretty much from it's release tho, although I ran the DOS version as long as I could. I only loaded windows when I absolutely needed it. IBM had a multi tasker that run under DOS, also allowing 4 VM sessions on the IBM network and that was my normal desktop application at work. If you walked up to my PC you would see 4 VM sessions, the DOS box would have dBase running and I might be using the DOS call function there to do minor housekeeping. It was in the 1994-95 time frame. You reminded me ... I also used Prodigy. Around that time, I was using VM script, which was similar to HTML to the naked eye but the tags were a little different. The transition was not that hard tho. All of that is too cumbersome to write from scratch unless you are just writing a few lines so I use an editor but once I get the boiler plate down I use note pad to alter things as often as not. My rememberer is starting to work. I used to store the whole html code for the boats of rec.boats website in a file using Geowriter. It was the Geoworks version of a word processor. |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 17:23:08 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:
Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 3/9/17 3:03 PM, Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/9/17 2:46 PM, justan wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 3/9/17 1:46 PM, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:31:50 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/9/17 11:18 AM, wrote: On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:40:36 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:16:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Mrs.E. brought up the subject of the old "boats of rec.boats" website this morning over coffee. Surprisingly, it still exists although not in the original, complete form. Still, a lot of old names from the past. When I first created the original website (back in a kinder, more friendly rec.boats time) the packaged website creation software used today didn't exist. Everything was done in html code which I learned from visiting other websites and viewing the "source" code. Shuda been a hacker. :-) I remember my computer at the time was a Laser Pal 286 with a 40mb hard drive with a "high speed" 2400 baud modem. The rec.boats participants would email me a picture and description of their boat and I'd call up the code for the website page that was stored on the hard drive and insert the code to add the person and picture(s) to the list. I'd then have to upload the entire website code just to add the person. No method existed to simply add to the current, published code. With a 2400 baud modem each addition to the list took about an hour to do and upload to publish. The other problem was that I had no way of viewing what the page looked like until I published it, so if I screwed something up I had to inspect the html code to see what was wrong, fix it, and then upload the whole damn thing again. Times have sure changed. Now you can just drop a picture into a pre-formatted software package, add some text, publish just the changes and be done in a minute or so. Here's the link to what remains of the website: http://thebayguide.com/rec.boats/ === Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could actually learn something about boating on rec.boats Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-) Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past Big Carlos Pass. You're confusion an action - cruising - with an object - a slow, full displacement hull boat. With a cruising speed in the 8 kt range (what I saw on the SPOT), that is a displacement hull. You are really getting hung up on semantics but that is not surprising. If you can't dazzle with brilliance, baffle with bull****. It's a displacement hull at low speed, but it can get up on a plane. A full displacement hull typically cannot do that. You typically use the word typically when you typically don't fully comprehend what you typically talk about. Further, you typically do this when you know your typical bull**** will be challeged. Now I expect to hear some of your typical bull****, or even crickets. Crickets is typically your response to being outed in some manner. Wrong yet again, **** for brains. The world isn't binary. Put enough horsepower on some typically full displacement hulls and you can get them to plane. And unless you put a jet turbine engine in Wayne's boat, probably not enough HP to plane. The 125' boat I long range fish on, cruises at 9-12 knots. 3000 HP from twin engines, and would never plane. And a few morons wonder why I qualify statements sometimes, e.g., "Put enough horsepower on some typically full displacement hulls and you can get them to plane." Notice the words "some" and "typically." D'oh. Oh, we notice. Still not so sure of yourself, eh? If he were sure of himself, he wouldn't be saying 'd'oh' every time he can't understand something. |
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