To update...I'm in VA right now and will be inspecting the vessel in the AM.
To respond to
learning curve (I'm not one to back away from a challenge) - it's odd that someone with such a
screen name does not apprecaite the very process he adopted as a
screen name.
I didn't know you followed my little posts so intently as to be listing each off... very impressive. I don't even know what they all were, but it seems you have been keeping track.
Did it not occur to you that each thread was related? Asking fibergass over
wood (fishing boats) vs
steel (surplus boats and other
fishing boats)? Looking at
fishing boats (which are
fiberglass over wood)?
This thread about repowering a large steel boat (govt boat and others on my short list that are without power)? Did you think each of these was unrelated?
Anyway, if you're following my life so well, you'd see I was doing Oracle DBs for a bit in Jersey over the
winter on a
contract basis. The reason? I needed some
winter work and I have a pretty extensive background in
software development. I had a small sofware company in Manhattan that was put to rest by 9/11. It was at that point I took my 20+ years of sailing experience and turned it into a bit of a career. I was Mate on megayacht as a professional job at sea, not to mention
charter captain. I hold a 100 Ton Masters with Sailing Endorsement and STCW-95 (required to
work on the big boats in the megayacht industry).
If you must know all the details of my life (since you can't seem to piece it together by following the threads): We had violent drunks and cokeheads aboard our home while chartering last summer. The police had to take them off. For that reason, my wife and I decided chartering is not for us. Chartering was how we were to pay off the
Gulfstar. Since there is no more chartering, there is no more Gulfstar for us. Make sense? Should we have a conference call so I can really bring you up to speed on my life? Why the HELL do you even care enough to write all that crap in the previous post? More importantly, why the HELL do I find the need to defend myself?
What a whiney, fluffy forum this can be sometimes. Ugh. It's nice that we have some real info on here from real (and experienced people) to even it out a bit.
So what I'm saying in my previous rant is: When people hijack a thread that asks a pretty straight forward question, when they clearly have no professional background or information to add to the answer... that is just wrong. It's all fluff and has little to no value. Attacking the
project isn't productive or helpful.
PS: So what pictures would you like to see? Here are the ones of the Gulfstar I redid for our B&B On The
Water:
YachtWorld.com Boats and Yachts for Sale
How about the news story that
sold us out for the season, shown to all 5 boros in
NYC as well as upstate NY (more than 3 million viewers)?
http://real.ny1.com:8080/ramgen/real4/0017EA9A_060705_145059hi.rm
Travel With Val : Travel Videos
Need me to include photos of my megayacht
service? My business in Manhattan? Me sitting down doing some Oracle dev? Photos of the wife? ha ha ha
What other evidence would you like?
Maybe I can scan my Masters
License and put that up here for you too?
The
books from the
charter business? Some notes from the people that enjoyed their stay?
Just let me know... I'll post up whatever you need. ha ha