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On May 19, 2:39*pm, HK wrote:
Martin Schöön wrote:
writes:

Man, to keep this in perspective, this is a freakin' aircraft carrier!
I know that there used to be someone here who claimed to have piloted
a boat around the horn, but to drench the bow of an aircraft carrier
is something else!

http://www.break.com/index/giant-wav...t-carrier.html

Once upon a time (late 1980s) when rec.boats was actually a boating
(read sailing) forum and was to an impressive degree frequented by people
with real nautical experience (multiple Round the World Races, Navy...)
someone started a bragging match: "Who has been through the worst
storm at sea?"

The guy who 'won' had serviced on a nuclear air craft carrier
(Nimitz type of thing) and on the way into Japan they were over-
run by this typhoon and got pooped several times.

rec.boats is mostly populated by non-boaters these days, by boating
nincompoops who, for example, ask which brand of high-tech two cycle
outboard oil would be the best to use in their four cycle outboard, and
by amateur guitar players, amateur beer brewers, old farts who think
they had something to do with the production of grandchildren, golfers
who shoot in the 90s, and an absolute idiot who pretends he is a
construction engineer but who knows nothing about construction or
engineering.

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Harry, tell us about your experience rounding the horn.
What do you have against people who try to use their minds for things
like learning new hobbies, or those who like to get out and get a
little exercise? I've never, ever told anyone here I was a
"construction engineer", that is just another of your lies. Go back to
Chuck's and do your petty childish name calling over there.

Around the Horn
 

On Mon, 19 May 2008 12:20:39 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 19, 2:39*pm, HK wrote:
Martin Schöön wrote:
writes:

Man, to keep this in perspective, this is a freakin' aircraft carrier!
I know that there used to be someone here who claimed to have piloted
a boat around the horn, but to drench the bow of an aircraft carrier
is something else!

http://www.break.com/index/giant-wav...t-carrier.html

Once upon a time (late 1980s) when rec.boats was actually a boating
(read sailing) forum and was to an impressive degree frequented by people
with real nautical experience (multiple Round the World Races, Navy...)
someone started a bragging match: "Who has been through the worst
storm at sea?"

The guy who 'won' had serviced on a nuclear air craft carrier
(Nimitz type of thing) and on the way into Japan they were over-
run by this typhoon and got pooped several times.

rec.boats is mostly populated by non-boaters these days, by boating
nincompoops who, for example, ask which brand of high-tech two cycle
outboard oil would be the best to use in their four cycle outboard, and
by amateur guitar players, amateur beer brewers, old farts who think
they had something to do with the production of grandchildren, golfers
who shoot in the 90s, and an absolute idiot who pretends he is a
construction engineer but who knows nothing about construction or
engineering.

Some of us just come here for the unintentional humor the idiots post.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Harry, tell us about your experience rounding the horn.
What do you have against people who try to use their minds for things
like learning new hobbies, or those who like to get out and get a
little exercise? I've never, ever told anyone here I was a
"construction engineer", that is just another of your lies. Go back to
Chuck's and do your petty childish name calling over there.

Please, let's all promise to ignore him.
--
John *H*

Around the Horn
 

wrote:
Man, to keep this in perspective, this is a freakin' aircraft carrier!
I know that there used to be someone here who claimed to have piloted
a boat around the horn, but to drench the bow of an aircraft carrier
is something else!

http://www.break.com/index/giant-wav...t-carrier.html


I wonder how well those jets handle that kind of sal****er bath?

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WaIIy wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 2008 12:20:39 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Harry, tell us about your experience rounding the horn.
What do you have against people who try to use their minds for things
like learning new hobbies, or those who like to get out and get a
little exercise? I've never, ever told anyone here I was a
"construction engineer", that is just another of your lies. Go back to
Chuck's and do your petty childish name calling over there.

I don't know why everyone doesn't killfile crause.

If you ignore him, he will go away.


What a giggle you are, Wally.
Did your peabrain spit that answer out for you?

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On Mon, 19 May 2008 20:17:39 -0400, DK wrote:

wrote:
Man, to keep this in perspective, this is a freakin' aircraft carrier!
I know that there used to be someone here who claimed to have piloted
a boat around the horn, but to drench the bow of an aircraft carrier
is something else!

http://www.break.com/index/giant-wav...t-carrier.html


I wonder how well those jets handle that kind of sal****er bath?

Pilots probably carry a lot of Windex to get the salt off the canopy.
--
John *H*

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On Mon, 19 May 2008 07:37:43 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Man, to keep this in perspective, this is a freakin' aircraft carrier!
I know that there used to be someone here who claimed to have piloted
a boat around the horn, but to drench the bow of an aircraft carrier
is something else!

http://www.break.com/index/giant-wav...t-carrier.html

I wonder how long that Sea Knight on the bow will be in maintenance
after that ride.

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On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:07:34 -0400, John H.
wrote:

I guess if one were in a much smaller boat, like a 25'er, one would just
stay on the crest of one of those waves and ride it out.

Until you get caught in the curl and it breaks down on you, or you go
flying off the front edge into the trough. If you haven't done so
already, go read the "Perfect Storm", the book not the movie. There
is almost an entire chapter devoted to all of the ways you can sink a
boat in a storm.

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On Mon, 19 May 2008 23:32:47 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:07:34 -0400, John H.
wrote:

I guess if one were in a much smaller boat, like a 25'er, one would just
stay on the crest of one of those waves and ride it out.

Until you get caught in the curl and it breaks down on you, or you go
flying off the front edge into the trough. If you haven't done so
already, go read the "Perfect Storm", the book not the movie. There
is almost an entire chapter devoted to all of the ways you can sink a
boat in a storm.

I reckon a smiley face would have been appropriate after my comment. Who
knows, there's liable to be some here who may try it! :)
--
John *H*

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John H. wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 2008 23:32:47 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:07:34 -0400, John H.
wrote:

I guess if one were in a much smaller boat, like a 25'er, one would just
stay on the crest of one of those waves and ride it out.
Until you get caught in the curl and it breaks down on you, or you go
flying off the front edge into the trough. If you haven't done so
already, go read the "Perfect Storm", the book not the movie. There
is almost an entire chapter devoted to all of the ways you can sink a
boat in a storm.

I reckon a smiley face would have been appropriate after my comment. Who
knows, there's liable to be some here who may try it! :)


Nice try at a recovery. Perhaps you should occupy yourself, as you have,
by sending snotty emails and private messages to those you don't like,
because it is obvious you know nothing about boats.

Have you figured out that your new outboard uses four cycle oil, not
high tech two cycle oil? :)

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On May 20, 6:55*am, HK wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 2008 23:32:47 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:07:34 -0400, John H.
wrote:

I guess if one were in a much smaller boat, like a 25'er, one would just
stay on the crest of one of those waves and ride it out.
Until you get caught in the curl and it breaks down on you, or you go
flying off the front edge into the trough. *If you haven't done so
already, go read the "Perfect Storm", the book not the movie. *There
is almost an entire chapter devoted to all of the ways you can sink a
boat in a storm.

I reckon a smiley face would have been appropriate after my comment. Who
knows, there's liable to be some here who may try it! * :)

Nice try at a recovery. Perhaps you should occupy yourself, as you have,
by sending snotty emails and private messages to those you don't like,
because it is obvious you know nothing about boats.

Have you figured out that your new outboard uses four cycle oil, not
high tech two cycle oil? *:)- Hide quoted text -

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Have you figures out that no one at all cares about your input here.
If he did not know, that's why he asked.. If he knew everything
already, he would already be over there with the backpatters and
blowhards, exchanging the same old information on lights, and how to
pee off a dock;)