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Around the Horn
John H. writes:
On Mon, 19 May 2008 19:16:50 +0200, (Martin Schöön) wrote: 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. You may be thinking of rec.boats.cruising, which has a lot of sailor types thereon. Nope, this was before rec.boats got 'branches', if memory serves. I have never attended r.b.c. We had a 'club pendant' (is that the word??) designed and someone working at the linear particle accelerator in Stanford printed and sold t-shirts---I still have one. We had rec.boats 'summit' dinner at one of the yacht clubs to the north of S.F. (no not Sausolito, the name eludes me) in mid-June 1997. There was a list of people willing to host (take for a sail) rec.boaters on the road. I got out sailing on the S.F. Bay and Chesapeake Bay that way. I took a guy from N.Y. sailing on my cat here in Sweden. We have 'moved on' since those days. -- Martin Schöön "Problems worthy of attack show their worth by hitting back." Piet Hein |
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