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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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I saw a tug moving up the Canal yesterday on the way home that was
making quite a wake.

I wonder if they warned him?

Last June when I took "Pangea" through the canal enroute to Scituate I hit
the canal at the worst time and could only manage 3 kts. against a 4.5-5 kt
current. The little GB chugged along, throwing (for it) a pretty decent
wake.

Halfway through the canal, I noticed the patrol boat following in our wake.
He finally pulled up beside me, waved, and passed.

I think he felt sorry for me.

Eisboch

Today in History...

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:20:50 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
. ..

A can of cat food, an old frozen burrito...what else would one find in the
Galactic Emperor's fridge?

Hey ... just to make your day ...

As I type, I am listening to the marine radio. The Army Corp of Engineers
patrol boat just nailed a 52 footer transitting the Cape Cod Canal for
excessive wake. The operator claimed to be doing under the speed limit (10
kts), but they still got him for excessive wake.

Sometimes in the canal it's almost impossible not to make a wake, other than
waiting until slack tide to transit. The current can run as high as 7 knots
(although usually its more like 4-5 at the worst time). If you try to
transit against the current, you can leave quite a wake, even though you are
barely making any headway.

BTW ... the guy got a written warning.

I saw a tug moving up the Canal yesterday on the way home that was
making quite a wake.

I wonder if they warned him?

Inconsiderate *******!

Today in History...

Eisboch wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
...
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...

I saw a tug moving up the Canal yesterday on the way home that was
making quite a wake.

I wonder if they warned him?

Last June when I took "Pangea" through the canal enroute to Scituate I hit
the canal at the worst time and could only manage 3 kts. against a 4.5-5 kt
current. The little GB chugged along, throwing (for it) a pretty decent
wake.

Halfway through the canal, I noticed the patrol boat following in our wake.
He finally pulled up beside me, waved, and passed.

I think he felt sorry for me.

Eisboch

Obviously you need a transom bracket and an eTec.

Today in History...

HK wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

Other than discovering Pike's Peak, nothing much happened Today in
History...

Just thought you'd like to know.

What would we do without our Overlord of the Unknown Universe?

All these things happened on Nov 15th according to wikipedia:

* 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of
Northumbria.
* 1315 - Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft
ambushes the army of Leopold I of the House of Habsburg.
* 1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
* 1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.
* 1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the
Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
* 1791 - The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University,
opens its doors.
* 1806 - Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant
mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains
(it was later named Pikes Peak).
* 1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea
with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman
burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
* 1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da
Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
* 1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
* 1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
* 1935 - Canada and the United States sign the reciprocal trade
agreement in Washington.
* 1935 - Manuel Quezon is inaugurated as the first president of the
Philippines.
* 1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
* 1941 - Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and
deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with
the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
* 1942 - World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
* 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a
decisive Allied victory.
* 1943 - Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that
Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in
concentration camps". (see Porajmos)
* 1948 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie
King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3
terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.
* 1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for
assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
* 1958 - Morocco promulgates a press code.
* 1959 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at
their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
* 1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.
* 1966 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the
Atlantic Ocean.
* 1966 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near
Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
* 1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the
191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of
his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
* 1969 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the
American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
* 1969 - Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000
protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a
symbolic "March Against Death".
* 1969 - Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant
in Columbus, Ohio.
* 1970 - The Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon.
* 1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip
microprocessor, the 4004.
* 1976 - René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become
the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of
independence.
* 1978 - A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
* 1979 - A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking
in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the
plane to make an emergency landing.
* 1983 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.
* 1985 - A research assistant is injured when a package from the
Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
* 1985 - The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle
by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret
FitzGerald.
* 1987 - Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14
jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton
International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
* 1988 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is
launched on her first and last space flight.
* 1988 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of
Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
* 1988 - The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in
the Netherlands.
* 1990 - Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches
with flight STS-38.
* 1990 - Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990
"Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.
* 1993 - 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a
crop-duster in Cuba.
* 2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from
Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people
* 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party
of China.
* 2003 - The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place,
to be followed by additional bombings on November 20.
* 2004 - New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey leaves office, three
months after resigning due to a gay extra-marital affair. State Senator
Richard Codey takes over as interim governor.
* 2005 - Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8
variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
* 2006 - The Al Jazeera English news channel is launched.

[edit] Births

Today in History...

Jack Redington wrote:
HK wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

Other than discovering Pike's Peak, nothing much happened Today in
History...

Just thought you'd like to know.

What would we do without our Overlord of the Unknown Universe?

All these things happened on Nov 15th according to wikipedia:

* 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of
Northumbria.
* 1315 - Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft
ambushes the army of Leopold I of the House of Habsburg.
* 1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
* 1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.
* 1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the
Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
* 1791 - The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University,
opens its doors.
* 1806 - Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant
mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains
(it was later named Pikes Peak).
* 1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea
with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman
burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
* 1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da
Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
* 1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
* 1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
* 1935 - Canada and the United States sign the reciprocal trade
agreement in Washington.
* 1935 - Manuel Quezon is inaugurated as the first president of the
Philippines.
* 1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
* 1941 - Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and
deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with
the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
* 1942 - World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
* 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a
decisive Allied victory.
* 1943 - Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that
Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in
concentration camps". (see Porajmos)
* 1948 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie
King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3
terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.
* 1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for
assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
* 1958 - Morocco promulgates a press code.
* 1959 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at
their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
* 1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.
* 1966 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the
Atlantic Ocean.
* 1966 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near
Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
* 1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the
191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of
his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
* 1969 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the
American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
* 1969 - Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000
protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a
symbolic "March Against Death".
* 1969 - Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant in
Columbus, Ohio.
* 1970 - The Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon.
* 1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip
microprocessor, the 4004.
* 1976 - René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become
the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of
independence.
* 1978 - A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
* 1979 - A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking
in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the
plane to make an emergency landing.
* 1983 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.
* 1985 - A research assistant is injured when a package from the
Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
* 1985 - The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle
by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret
FitzGerald.
* 1987 - Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14
jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton
International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
* 1988 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched
on her first and last space flight.
* 1988 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of
Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
* 1988 - The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the
Netherlands.
* 1990 - Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with
flight STS-38.
* 1990 - Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990
"Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.
* 1993 - 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a
crop-duster in Cuba.
* 2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from
Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people
* 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party
of China.
* 2003 - The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to
be followed by additional bombings on November 20.
* 2004 - New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey leaves office, three
months after resigning due to a gay extra-marital affair. State Senator
Richard Codey takes over as interim governor.
* 2005 - Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant
with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
* 2006 - The Al Jazeera English news channel is launched.

[edit] Births

SW Tom was responsible for all the bad stuff on that list.

Today in History...

"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
...
Eisboch wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
...
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...

I saw a tug moving up the Canal yesterday on the way home that was
making quite a wake.

I wonder if they warned him?

Last June when I took "Pangea" through the canal enroute to Scituate I
hit the canal at the worst time and could only manage 3 kts. against a
4.5-5 kt current. The little GB chugged along, throwing (for it) a
pretty decent wake.

Halfway through the canal, I noticed the patrol boat following in our
wake. He finally pulled up beside me, waved, and passed.

I think he felt sorry for me.

Eisboch

Inconsiderate *******! ;)

Could have given you a push.

Today in History...

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:20:50 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
. ..

A can of cat food, an old frozen burrito...what else would one find
in the Galactic Emperor's fridge?

Hey ... just to make your day ...

As I type, I am listening to the marine radio. The Army Corp of
Engineers patrol boat just nailed a 52 footer transitting the Cape
Cod Canal for excessive wake. The operator claimed to be doing under
the speed limit (10 kts), but they still got him for excessive wake.

Sometimes in the canal it's almost impossible not to make a wake,
other than waiting until slack tide to transit. The current can run
as high as 7 knots (although usually its more like 4-5 at the worst
time). If you try to transit against the current, you can leave
quite a wake, even though you are barely making any headway.

BTW ... the guy got a written warning.

I saw a tug moving up the Canal yesterday on the way home that was
making quite a wake.

I wonder if they warned him?

Inconsiderate *******!

The Tug Captain or the ACE Patrol Boat Commander?