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Jet Ski overheating problem
Jonathan Ganz wrote:
In article et, Bill McKee bmckee=at-ix.netcom.com wrote: "DSK" wrote in message ... Bill McKee wrote: Probably like a lot if sailors, you turn when ever you want, and then yell at a power boat for impeding you. Probably like a lot of motorboaters, you have no clue what's involved in sailing, and think that all boats can be driven like a car. DSK I know what is involved with sailing. Married a good sailors daughter and used to windsurf. But too many "sailors" figure they have the right of way as they have a sailboat. I have had "sailors" do a 90 degree in front of me when lifting the sails and the iron sail is still running, and then yell at me. They would yell even louder if I collided with them and when they had to pay enormous sums of money to me. What's your point? If you know the Rules of the Road, there's never much doubt about who should give way. Surely not the overtaking vessel? Must a vessel desiring to turn from main channel to side route stand on past a harbour entrance because a zoomer wants to pass between them and their port? Could we invent turn signals for slow boats, to give those with power, speed and a lack of courteous patience a more easily notable legal signal of intentions to turn, given that noisy power vessels make horn signals adequate for listening and watching sailors inaudible aboard kilowatt stereo disco boats? Or would such unauthorized lighting distract starlet eyed go boaters from their fore deck ornaments? Do these power mongers not understand the need of sailors to turn into the wind to hoist their main sails? Nor is there much doubt as to how hard it is to hit a planing power boat with a sail boat, and vice versa. Honest savvy power boaters well know the paranoid schizophrenia they have forced on sailors and the bad reputation their wild mannered birds of similar feathering have cultivated for them, well know the secret rabid detestation that fires every sailor's killing passions and undeniable mad obsession with reach ramming power boats who so foolishly come so close as to make possible such sweet, aching temptation to chisel yet another notch in their stems, and well know to stay away, as they should from a starved tiger on a short chain. Those who actually get rammed by sailboats have no one to blame but themselves, (even the law of the sea agrees,) unless their canny X's have topped the limit on their gas cards, and the grinning fates deliver them to their well deserved, slow motion fates. Gradual horror overtake them, woe by tides and drift the planing challenged fume less speed boater who dallies wake less long enough for the long plotting sailors' pack to organize, isolate, surround and subsume their deserving victims, should Poseidon aid them and grant conspiring seas, wind and grant calls for rights to starboard tack. Like a wounded fawn in the teeth of crippled octogenarian wolves, surely their vessels shall be dismembered and dispersed without trace, like diseased baby seals in the toothless jaws of tired and gallopless killer whales. Aarrgghh! The longer takes the victory, the sweeter the vine of triumph, the sweeter the smoke of the roasting. May they all overheat;^) Terry K |
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Jet Ski overheating problem
Hi Terry
I guess from your post that you dont like power boaters :-) Power boaters are like car drivers who crash into buses when they stop at bus stops and then complain that the bus should not have stopped! Sailboats are always unpredictable by their nature so I can never understand why so many powerboaters have to overtake sooo close even when there is plenty of searoom Tony uk "Terry Spragg" wrote in message ... Jonathan Ganz wrote: In article et, Bill McKee bmckee=at-ix.netcom.com wrote: "DSK" wrote in message t... Bill McKee wrote: Probably like a lot if sailors, you turn when ever you want, and then yell at a power boat for impeding you. Probably like a lot of motorboaters, you have no clue what's involved in sailing, and think that all boats can be driven like a car. DSK I know what is involved with sailing. Married a good sailors daughter and used to windsurf. But too many "sailors" figure they have the right of way as they have a sailboat. I have had "sailors" do a 90 degree in front of me when lifting the sails and the iron sail is still running, and then yell at me. They would yell even louder if I collided with them and when they had to pay enormous sums of money to me. What's your point? If you know the Rules of the Road, there's never much doubt about who should give way. Surely not the overtaking vessel? Must a vessel desiring to turn from main channel to side route stand on past a harbour entrance because a zoomer wants to pass between them and their port? Could we invent turn signals for slow boats, to give those with power, speed and a lack of courteous patience a more easily notable legal signal of intentions to turn, given that noisy power vessels make horn signals adequate for listening and watching sailors inaudible aboard kilowatt stereo disco boats? Or would such unauthorized lighting distract starlet eyed go boaters from their fore deck ornaments? Do these power mongers not understand the need of sailors to turn into the wind to hoist their main sails? Nor is there much doubt as to how hard it is to hit a planing power boat with a sail boat, and vice versa. Honest savvy power boaters well know the paranoid schizophrenia they have forced on sailors and the bad reputation their wild mannered birds of similar feathering have cultivated for them, well know the secret rabid detestation that fires every sailor's killing passions and undeniable mad obsession with reach ramming power boats who so foolishly come so close as to make possible such sweet, aching temptation to chisel yet another notch in their stems, and well know to stay away, as they should from a starved tiger on a short chain. Those who actually get rammed by sailboats have no one to blame but themselves, (even the law of the sea agrees,) unless their canny X's have topped the limit on their gas cards, and the grinning fates deliver them to their well deserved, slow motion fates. Gradual horror overtake them, woe by tides and drift the planing challenged fume less speed boater who dallies wake less long enough for the long plotting sailors' pack to organize, isolate, surround and subsume their deserving victims, should Poseidon aid them and grant conspiring seas, wind and grant calls for rights to starboard tack. Like a wounded fawn in the teeth of crippled octogenarian wolves, surely their vessels shall be dismembered and dispersed without trace, like diseased baby seals in the toothless jaws of tired and gallopless killer whales. Aarrgghh! The longer takes the victory, the sweeter the vine of triumph, the sweeter the smoke of the roasting. May they all overheat;^) Terry K |
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"Terry Spragg" wrote in message ... Jonathan Ganz wrote: In article et, Bill McKee bmckee=at-ix.netcom.com wrote: "DSK" wrote in message t... Bill McKee wrote: Probably like a lot if sailors, you turn when ever you want, and then yell at a power boat for impeding you. Probably like a lot of motorboaters, you have no clue what's involved in sailing, and think that all boats can be driven like a car. DSK I know what is involved with sailing. Married a good sailors daughter and used to windsurf. But too many "sailors" figure they have the right of way as they have a sailboat. I have had "sailors" do a 90 degree in front of me when lifting the sails and the iron sail is still running, and then yell at me. They would yell even louder if I collided with them and when they had to pay enormous sums of money to me. What's your point? If you know the Rules of the Road, there's never much doubt about who should give way. Surely not the overtaking vessel? Must a vessel desiring to turn from main channel to side route stand on past a harbour entrance because a zoomer wants to pass between them and their port? Could we invent turn signals for slow boats, to give those with power, speed and a lack of courteous patience a more easily notable legal signal of intentions to turn, given that noisy power vessels make horn signals adequate for listening and watching sailors inaudible aboard kilowatt stereo disco boats? Or would such unauthorized lighting distract starlet eyed go boaters from their fore deck ornaments? Do these power mongers not understand the need of sailors to turn into the wind to hoist their main sails? Nor is there much doubt as to how hard it is to hit a planing power boat with a sail boat, and vice versa. Honest savvy power boaters well know the paranoid schizophrenia they have forced on sailors and the bad reputation their wild mannered birds of similar feathering have cultivated for them, well know the secret rabid detestation that fires every sailor's killing passions and undeniable mad obsession with reach ramming power boats who so foolishly come so close as to make possible such sweet, aching temptation to chisel yet another notch in their stems, and well know to stay away, as they should from a starved tiger on a short chain. Those who actually get rammed by sailboats have no one to blame but themselves, (even the law of the sea agrees,) unless their canny X's have topped the limit on their gas cards, and the grinning fates deliver them to their well deserved, slow motion fates. Gradual horror overtake them, woe by tides and drift the planing challenged fume less speed boater who dallies wake less long enough for the long plotting sailors' pack to organize, isolate, surround and subsume their deserving victims, should Poseidon aid them and grant conspiring seas, wind and grant calls for rights to starboard tack. Like a wounded fawn in the teeth of crippled octogenarian wolves, surely their vessels shall be dismembered and dispersed without trace, like diseased baby seals in the toothless jaws of tired and gallopless killer whales. Aarrgghh! The longer takes the victory, the sweeter the vine of triumph, the sweeter the smoke of the roasting. May they all overheat;^) Terry K And what about the power boater that will become a sailboat after he raises his sails and turns off the motor. Just because he carries sails, he should have all the right of way? I carry a paddle on my powerboat, should I not have right of way over a sailboat? |
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Jet Ski overheating problem
In article et,
Bill McKee bmckee=at-ix.netcom.com wrote: "Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message ... In article , Jonathan Ganz wrote: The colregs do. Did you actually go to the link? I bet you didn't. Well, have a great evening... I'm outta here until tomorrow evening. Guess I'll go sailing and see if there are any jetskiers out there who know the rules of the road. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com Better not get in front of a tanker. Your posting will come back to haunt you. Which posting is that? -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Jet Ski overheating problem
In article et,
Bill McKee bmckee=at-ix.netcom.com wrote: And your "Rules of the Road" have legal validity. I did not go to the site. AS YOU STATED BOTH Colregs and your "Rules of the Road" for legality. So you "Rules of the Road" are nada as to concern. It may be a restatement or interpretation of the Colregs, but other than that they are meaningless. Bill, the Rules are *in* the colregs. Duhhh... sheesh. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Jet Ski overheating problem
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Captain Joe Redcloud wrote: Yes, you can be sure that Jon Gayanzy has NEVER resorted to name calling when it suited his own purposes. Poor Billy... he's got a lot of anger. Please join us in feeling sorry for him. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Jet Ski overheating problem
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Dr. Dr. Smithers Ask Me about my Phd @ Diploma Mill .com wrote: Capt Joe, All security experts strongly recommend you do not include your address and phone number in your UseNet Posts. He didn't. He's just trolling someone else from alt.sailing.asa. Captain Joe Redcloud 1882 Chestnut Hill Road Mohnton PA (610) 856-7118 -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Jet Ski overheating problem
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Bill McKee bmckee=at-ix.netcom.com wrote: "Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message ... In article . net, Bill McKee bmckee=at-ix.netcom.com wrote: "Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message ... Yeah, so? What's your point? I know the regs and clearly you can quote them. What are you trying to tell us here? That you are an idiot. Ah, a name caller. Well, ok then. You sure won that argument on the merits. No, just stating the obvious. Yes, it's quite obvious what you are and why you're doing it... PWCER!!!! -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Jet Ski overheating problem
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Dr. Dr. Smithers Ask Me about my Phd @ Diploma Mill .com wrote: Jon, In a passing situation both boats must maintain their course and heading. Some boaters, both power and sail do not understand the ColRegs, the biggest problem some sail boaters make is assuming they are a sailboat when they are under power, and assuming they have the right of way under all conditions when they are under sail. No kidding?? Yes, I happen to know that Dr. S. Did you see the post from him about doing 25MPH 15 FEET from another boat? -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Jet Ski overheating problem
In article . net,
Bill McKee bmckee=at-ix.netcom.com wrote: And what about the power boater that will become a sailboat after he raises his sails and turns off the motor. Just because he carries sails, he should have all the right of way? I carry a paddle on my powerboat, should I not have right of way over a sailboat? Bill, you really need to read the Rules of the Road section of the colregs... really.... just read them and get back to us. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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