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03-11-2011, 20:09
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,191
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
Just spray that diesel/oil combination in the intake to get that engine started. Keep cranking it'll start.
Yeah, right! Diesels don't start and run if the injection isn't timed right. A few hundred dollars and lots of time to recover from that one.
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03-11-2011, 20:17
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#92
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 31,084
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
"Marry that girl.... she's perfect for you...."
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You can't oppress a people for over 75 years and have them say.. "I Love You.. ".
"It is better to die standing proud, than to live a lifetime on ones knees.."
Self Defence is no excuse for Genocide...
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03-11-2011, 21:47
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#93
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: NSW Australia
Boat: Traditional 30
Posts: 1,980
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
That steels boats aren't a hassle to maintain. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, sold the boat and went back to Tupperware.
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03-11-2011, 21:49
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#94
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: NSW Australia
Boat: Traditional 30
Posts: 1,980
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by boatman61
"Marry that girl.... she's perfect for you...."
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I suffered that advice too. Boats are so much cheaper to get rid of.
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03-11-2011, 23:26
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#95
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Vancouver BC
Boat: 1993 Hunter H28
Posts: 152
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
The man in the information office for False Creek Vancouver anchoring and permits told me his favorite place to anchor was just past the Cambie Street Bridge off Science World and suggested I do the same.
Trouble is the bridge clearance is 42 feet (and I need 48 feet)! 
BTW He knew what I was sailing having helped me dock.
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04-11-2011, 06:15
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#96
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Coos Bay, Oregon
Boat: Valiant 40 (1975)
Posts: 4,073
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
"She's got a few minor issues but basically a very sound boat" And "this home is just what you are looking for!"
Bottom line- if they are really anxious to sell it, there is a reason.
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05-11-2011, 15:34
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#97
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 1
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You'd better stop that or you'll go blind!
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05-11-2011, 16:07
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#98
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 10,012
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Randy Fugate
You'd better stop that or you'll go blind!
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That's a medical fact.
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05-11-2011, 16:10
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#99
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Brisbane Australia [until the boats launched]
Boat: 50ft powercat, light,long and low powered
Posts: 4,409
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by s/v Beth
Bottom line- if they are really anxious to sell it, there is a reason.
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Doesn't mean it has to be a bad reason
Some people are just unsuited to yachts, or their needs change or have medical issues or financial issues forcing sale etc.
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05-11-2011, 16:54
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#100
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Prairie Village, KS
Boat: Advance Flying Junior, 13'
Posts: 11
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by sww914
A home is the most important investment you can ever make, rents will only ever go up so if you buy it's like locking down the rent price forever |
Yeah, that a a fun couple of years in CA. Not.
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05-11-2011, 17:52
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#101
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Quaker Hill, CT (just above the US Coast Guard Academy)
Boat: Silverton 34 Convertible
Posts: 200
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey
That's a medical fact.
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Now THAT's Funny...LL
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06-11-2011, 19:44
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#102
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2011
Location: New Orleans
Boat: 74 Westsail 32'
Posts: 108
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rakuflames
The first thump was her back pack rolling off the vee berth onto the floor.
The second thump was .....
not yet ....
the porta-potty tipping over onto her back pack.
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WOW...If that isn't a worst case scenario i'm not sure what is. This story makes me really glad we have a reefing system. 
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06-11-2011, 20:13
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#103
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Boat: Mirage 27 in Toronto; Wright 10 in Auckland
Posts: 773
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by sww914
and if I get tired of that view I can exchange it for any view I want.
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well, except maybe for looking down a mountain slope at the valley below.
Connemara
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06-11-2011, 22:09
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#104
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
mountain top is not in the ocean unless you are on the volcano as it erupts into a mountain, then ye'd best be careful......
someone told me not to buy a formosa.....rofl
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07-11-2011, 02:52
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#105
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 10,012
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Re: What's the Worst Piece of Advice You've Ever Received ?
Can't say I rely on advice from others - but certainly I have given myself lots of dumb ar#ed advice over the years 
Does that count? 
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