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Yo - Shortwaisted Tom
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:54:27 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote: On Jul 21, 6:02?am, HK wrote: You still on the road? After much aggravation and some research (the BassPro shop in Norfolk was a big help- they have almost everything on display), I've narrowed down the electronics search for my new boat. GPS Plotter Lowrance Globalmap 7200 with a Nauticpath chip. I like the screen and ergonomics of the new Lowrance unit better than the similarly priced Garmin units. I am still thinking about the Northstar Explorer 660, but after reading its manual, I think it has too many damned features that I will not use. Nice unit, though. Feeshfinder/Depthfinder Garmin Fishfinder 340C with an AirMar hole in the bottom of the boat transducer. The new boat has a flat pad at the crotch of the vee at the transom, designed for a shoots-straight-down dual frequency dual beam transducer and temp gauge. VHF ICOM handheld M72. The only party I would call in an emergency, the Coast Guard, has huge towers on the Bay, so "reach" is not an issue. Just about everyone else uses cellphones, even for "ship to ship." Fuel Flow Meter - still working on this one. Shortwaisted Tom? Oh well, I guess that's better than being short, wasted Tom. :-) Obviously a writer! |
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On Jul 23, 4:39?pm, "JimH" ask wrote:
"HK" wrote in message ... Chuck Gould wrote: On Jul 21, 6:02?am, HK wrote: You still on the road? After much aggravation and some research (the BassPro shop in Norfolk was a big help- they have almost everything on display), I've narrowed down the electronics search for my new boat. GPS Plotter Lowrance Globalmap 7200 with a Nauticpath chip. I like the screen and ergonomics of the new Lowrance unit better than the similarly priced Garmin units. I am still thinking about the Northstar Explorer 660, but after reading its manual, I think it has too many damned features that I will not use. Nice unit, though. Feeshfinder/Depthfinder Garmin Fishfinder 340C with an AirMar hole in the bottom of the boat transducer. The new boat has a flat pad at the crotch of the vee at the transom, designed for a shoots-straight-down dual frequency dual beam transducer and temp gauge. VHF ICOM handheld M72. The only party I would call in an emergency, the Coast Guard, has huge towers on the Bay, so "reach" is not an issue. Just about everyone else uses cellphones, even for "ship to ship." Fuel Flow Meter - still working on this one. Shortwaisted Tom? Oh well, I guess that's better than being short, wasted Tom. :-) I have no reason to insult Tom. Shortwaisted Tom is a mildly humorous play on SW Tom. Short, wasted Tom is insulting. Chuck should stick to regurgitating CG warnings here.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - That's good advice Jim. By the way, I look forward to the next post in your series, "Why I once again didn't go boating this weekend." That's certainly more a compelling post than a USCG video about the dangers of riptides on beaches, isn't it? |
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Yo - Shortwaisted Tom
On Jul 23, 4:24?pm, HK wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote: On Jul 21, 6:02?am, HK wrote: You still on the road? After much aggravation and some research (the BassPro shop in Norfolk was a big help- they have almost everything on display), I've narrowed down the electronics search for my new boat. GPS Plotter Lowrance Globalmap 7200 with a Nauticpath chip. I like the screen and ergonomics of the new Lowrance unit better than the similarly priced Garmin units. I am still thinking about the Northstar Explorer 660, but after reading its manual, I think it has too many damned features that I will not use. Nice unit, though. Feeshfinder/Depthfinder Garmin Fishfinder 340C with an AirMar hole in the bottom of the boat transducer. The new boat has a flat pad at the crotch of the vee at the transom, designed for a shoots-straight-down dual frequency dual beam transducer and temp gauge. VHF ICOM handheld M72. The only party I would call in an emergency, the Coast Guard, has huge towers on the Bay, so "reach" is not an issue. Just about everyone else uses cellphones, even for "ship to ship." Fuel Flow Meter - still working on this one. Shortwaisted Tom? Oh well, I guess that's better than being short, wasted Tom. :-) I have no reason to insult Tom. Shortwaisted Tom is a mildly humorous play on SW Tom. Short, wasted Tom is insulting.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Which is exactly why I observed that Shortwaisted Tom is better than being short, wasted Tom. Had you referred to him as short, wasted Tom that would have been insulting. File under "humor", Harry. |
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Yo - Shortwaisted Tom
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:46:10 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote: Which is exactly why I observed that Shortwaisted Tom is better than being short, wasted Tom. Had you referred to him as short, wasted Tom that would have been insulting. File under "humor", Harry. I've been called worse things in my time. Mostly begining with...That...and moving on from there. :) |
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Yo - Shortwaisted Tom
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message oups.com... On Jul 23, 4:39?pm, "JimH" ask wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... Chuck Gould wrote: On Jul 21, 6:02?am, HK wrote: You still on the road? After much aggravation and some research (the BassPro shop in Norfolk was a big help- they have almost everything on display), I've narrowed down the electronics search for my new boat. GPS Plotter Lowrance Globalmap 7200 with a Nauticpath chip. I like the screen and ergonomics of the new Lowrance unit better than the similarly priced Garmin units. I am still thinking about the Northstar Explorer 660, but after reading its manual, I think it has too many damned features that I will not use. Nice unit, though. Feeshfinder/Depthfinder Garmin Fishfinder 340C with an AirMar hole in the bottom of the boat transducer. The new boat has a flat pad at the crotch of the vee at the transom, designed for a shoots-straight-down dual frequency dual beam transducer and temp gauge. VHF ICOM handheld M72. The only party I would call in an emergency, the Coast Guard, has huge towers on the Bay, so "reach" is not an issue. Just about everyone else uses cellphones, even for "ship to ship." Fuel Flow Meter - still working on this one. Shortwaisted Tom? Oh well, I guess that's better than being short, wasted Tom. :-) I have no reason to insult Tom. Shortwaisted Tom is a mildly humorous play on SW Tom. Short, wasted Tom is insulting. Chuck should stick to regurgitating CG warnings here.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - That's good advice Jim. By the way, I look forward to the next post in your series, "Why I once again didn't go boating this weekend." Yeah, our idea of boating is heading out in weather that is warm and sunny...........a concept apparantly foreign to you. What 2 days of summer do you expect to lose the parkas to show off your sweatshirts this year? |
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JimH wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message oups.com... On Jul 23, 4:39?pm, "JimH" ask wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... Chuck Gould wrote: On Jul 21, 6:02?am, HK wrote: You still on the road? After much aggravation and some research (the BassPro shop in Norfolk was a big help- they have almost everything on display), I've narrowed down the electronics search for my new boat. GPS Plotter Lowrance Globalmap 7200 with a Nauticpath chip. I like the screen and ergonomics of the new Lowrance unit better than the similarly priced Garmin units. I am still thinking about the Northstar Explorer 660, but after reading its manual, I think it has too many damned features that I will not use. Nice unit, though. Feeshfinder/Depthfinder Garmin Fishfinder 340C with an AirMar hole in the bottom of the boat transducer. The new boat has a flat pad at the crotch of the vee at the transom, designed for a shoots-straight-down dual frequency dual beam transducer and temp gauge. VHF ICOM handheld M72. The only party I would call in an emergency, the Coast Guard, has huge towers on the Bay, so "reach" is not an issue. Just about everyone else uses cellphones, even for "ship to ship." Fuel Flow Meter - still working on this one. Shortwaisted Tom? Oh well, I guess that's better than being short, wasted Tom. :-) I have no reason to insult Tom. Shortwaisted Tom is a mildly humorous play on SW Tom. Short, wasted Tom is insulting. Chuck should stick to regurgitating CG warnings here.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - That's good advice Jim. By the way, I look forward to the next post in your series, "Why I once again didn't go boating this weekend." Yeah, our idea of boating is heading out in weather that is warm and sunny...........a concept apparantly foreign to you. What 2 days of summer do you expect to lose the parkas to show off your sweatshirts this year? Warm and sunny? Welcome to the PussyBoaters Club. I'm the current sergeant at arms. I don't like boating in cold, clammy weather. And I married a southern belle. If she can't go out in a bathing suit or shorts and a tee-shirt, she's not interested. |
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Yo - Shortwaisted Tom
HK wrote:
JimH wrote: "Chuck Gould" wrote in message oups.com... On Jul 23, 4:39?pm, "JimH" ask wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... Chuck Gould wrote: On Jul 21, 6:02?am, HK wrote: You still on the road? After much aggravation and some research (the BassPro shop in Norfolk was a big help- they have almost everything on display), I've narrowed down the electronics search for my new boat. GPS Plotter Lowrance Globalmap 7200 with a Nauticpath chip. I like the screen and ergonomics of the new Lowrance unit better than the similarly priced Garmin units. I am still thinking about the Northstar Explorer 660, but after reading its manual, I think it has too many damned features that I will not use. Nice unit, though. Feeshfinder/Depthfinder Garmin Fishfinder 340C with an AirMar hole in the bottom of the boat transducer. The new boat has a flat pad at the crotch of the vee at the transom, designed for a shoots-straight-down dual frequency dual beam transducer and temp gauge. VHF ICOM handheld M72. The only party I would call in an emergency, the Coast Guard, has huge towers on the Bay, so "reach" is not an issue. Just about everyone else uses cellphones, even for "ship to ship." Fuel Flow Meter - still working on this one. Shortwaisted Tom? Oh well, I guess that's better than being short, wasted Tom. :-) I have no reason to insult Tom. Shortwaisted Tom is a mildly humorous play on SW Tom. Short, wasted Tom is insulting. Chuck should stick to regurgitating CG warnings here.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - That's good advice Jim. By the way, I look forward to the next post in your series, "Why I once again didn't go boating this weekend." Yeah, our idea of boating is heading out in weather that is warm and sunny...........a concept apparantly foreign to you. What 2 days of summer do you expect to lose the parkas to show off your sweatshirts this year? Warm and sunny? Welcome to the PussyBoaters Club. I'm the current sergeant at arms. I don't like boating in cold, clammy weather. And I married a southern belle. If she can't go out in a bathing suit or shorts and a tee-shirt, she's not interested. Harry, Let's be honest, considering you spend all your time online cut and pasting political articles, and maybe have put on 30 hrs a year, you really don't enjoy boating at all |
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On Jul 24, 4:19?am, "JimH" ask wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message oups.com... On Jul 23, 4:39?pm, "JimH" ask wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... Chuck Gould wrote: On Jul 21, 6:02?am, HK wrote: You still on the road? After much aggravation and some research (the BassPro shop in Norfolk was a big help- they have almost everything on display), I've narrowed down the electronics search for my new boat. GPS Plotter Lowrance Globalmap 7200 with a Nauticpath chip. I like the screen and ergonomics of the new Lowrance unit better than the similarly priced Garmin units. I am still thinking about the Northstar Explorer 660, but after reading its manual, I think it has too many damned features that I will not use. Nice unit, though. Feeshfinder/Depthfinder Garmin Fishfinder 340C with an AirMar hole in the bottom of the boat transducer. The new boat has a flat pad at the crotch of the vee at the transom, designed for a shoots-straight-down dual frequency dual beam transducer and temp gauge. VHF ICOM handheld M72. The only party I would call in an emergency, the Coast Guard, has huge towers on the Bay, so "reach" is not an issue. Just about everyone else uses cellphones, even for "ship to ship." Fuel Flow Meter - still working on this one. Shortwaisted Tom? Oh well, I guess that's better than being short, wasted Tom. :-) I have no reason to insult Tom. Shortwaisted Tom is a mildly humorous play on SW Tom. Short, wasted Tom is insulting. Chuck should stick to regurgitating CG warnings here.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - That's good advice Jim. By the way, I look forward to the next post in your series, "Why I once again didn't go boating this weekend." Yeah, our idea of boating is heading out in weather that is warm and sunny...........a concept apparantly foreign to you. What 2 days of summer do you expect to lose the parkas to show off your sweatshirts this year?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Your remark precisely illustrates a difference in boating philosophy. Some people own a boat not because they are particularly enamored with boating or being afloat, but because in this life at least they can't walk on water and need a boat to pursue some other activity. That activity might be fishing, getting out to to duck blind, scuba diving, etc. In Harry's case, ("won't go boating unless my wife can get into her bathing suit"), and perhaps in yours the boat is primarily for sun bathing or maybe functioning as a swimming float. One doesn't use a fishing boat when it isn't fishing season, doesn't use a duck boat when it isn't hunting season, and doesn't use a tanning platform when it isn't warm and sunny. Totally understandable. But ask a guy who only uses a boat to go fishing to describe his recreational pursuit and he will normally say "fishing". A fellow who paddles a pram out to the duck blind will tell you that he's "hunting", etc. Point being, a lot of people who hang around boats for various purposes have very little interest in boating for its own sake and are a lot more interested in "Sports Afield" than in "Passagmaker" or "Boating" magazine. No problem with that, it's absolutely OK. Hopefully the fishers, hunters, and sunbathers are also able to understand that not everybody shares their unique perspectives. Many people enjoy the *boating* experience in its own right. Even on a cloudy day, they would rather be out on the water enjoying the scenery, doing some exploration, watching the wildlife, or maybe dropping the hook or taking a buoy at a state park to spend a few hours with a good book and be away from all the household hassles. There are a lot of folks who wouldn't attend a neighborhood wienie roast on a day when they could go boating, and maye even fewer who would post a bite by bite account of the weekend barbecue and then disparage boating-related posts (like a link to a USCG video) in a *boating* NG. There are 100's of ways to enjoy a boat. The more intelligent folks, (and I would hope that includes you, Harry, and me), are normally capable of realizing that other people using a boat may have different purposes and priorities. There is certainly a major distinction between choosing to use a boat for only about 20 hours a year, and being unable to swim in 50-degree water or living where the majority of days are cloudy or raining. A person is only marginally able to be considered a boater when that person normally makes other choices wth recreational time and dollars, but active boaters will enjoy different activities in a variety of climates and make allowance for days that aren't all going to be hot and sunny. Please consider that there may be folks in the NG who are at least as interested in boating-related items as they are in the recipe for your home brewed steak sauce or a list of the neighbors who attended your last backyard cookout. Particularly of late, I don't often comment when folks want to use this NG as a blog. People are free to imagine that everybody checking out the boating NG is on pins and needles to know what the local weather is in Frog Holler, Arkansas or how Aunt Matilda's arthritis is progressing. On the other hand, it's hardly appropriate for the general bloggers, boat-for-sale spammers, and others who post primarily OT to pee and moan about the presence of boating related items here. |
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Yo - Shortwaisted Tom
On Jul 24, 7:04?am, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:19:40 -0400, "JimH" ask wrote: "Chuck Gould" wrote in message roups.com... On Jul 23, 4:39?pm, "JimH" ask wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... Chuck Gould wrote: On Jul 21, 6:02?am, HK wrote: You still on the road? After much aggravation and some research (the BassPro shop in Norfolk was a big help- they have almost everything on display), I've narrowed down the electronics search for my new boat. GPS Plotter Lowrance Globalmap 7200 with a Nauticpath chip. I like the screen and ergonomics of the new Lowrance unit better than the similarly priced Garmin units. I am still thinking about the Northstar Explorer 660, but after reading its manual, I think it has too many damned features that I will not use. Nice unit, though. Feeshfinder/Depthfinder Garmin Fishfinder 340C with an AirMar hole in the bottom of the boat transducer. The new boat has a flat pad at the crotch of the vee at the transom, designed for a shoots-straight-down dual frequency dual beam transducer and temp gauge. VHF ICOM handheld M72. The only party I would call in an emergency, the Coast Guard, has huge towers on the Bay, so "reach" is not an issue. Just about everyone else uses cellphones, even for "ship to ship." Fuel Flow Meter - still working on this one. Shortwaisted Tom? Oh well, I guess that's better than being short, wasted Tom. :-) I have no reason to insult Tom. Shortwaisted Tom is a mildly humorous play on SW Tom. Short, wasted Tom is insulting. Chuck should stick to regurgitating CG warnings here.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - That's good advice Jim. By the way, I look forward to the next post in your series, "Why I once again didn't go boating this weekend." Yeah, our idea of boating is heading out in weather that is warm and sunny...........a concept apparantly foreign to you. What 2 days of summer do you expect to lose the parkas to show off your sweatshirts this year? Jim, having visited there quite often, I can tell you that the boaters in Seattle are fair weather boaters, like you, but they also enjoy boating in weather which is not quite so fair. Maybe there a hardier breed, who knows. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Our typical Pacific NW weather is normally so overcast and grey that we consider any day when winds are less than 20 knots "fair weather". :-) If winds are as benign as 15, that's about as close to perfect as we can ever expect. 10 knot winds are a rare treat, and dead calm is almost unheard of. 2-3 footers, steep and with at least occasional whitecaps are par for the course in our sal****er areas- and most of us are convinced we ive in one of the best boating environments on the planet. (Shhhh!) But we're not ridiculous. I'm as adventurous as the average boater up this way, and I seldom venture out in anything over 20 knots and absolutely will not leave the dock is it's blowing 25. This is supposed to be "pleasure boating", and when the wife is scared and you're discovering just exactly what you failed to properly secure (because it's flying across the cabin), that's not a pleasant experience. |
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