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08-12-2006, 13:49
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Building a Bateau TW28
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Iroquois, Ontario
Boat: Bateau TW28 Long Cabin
Posts: 3,585
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Christmas Boating Wish List
What's on your Christmas "Boating" Wish List?
Me? I'd like a set of those double crimping ratcheting plier thingies and a decent wire stripper thingie for doing the wiring jobs we all love to hate.
I would imagine boating electronic gizmos are high on a lot of peoples lists but we'll wait till the boat gets built and put in the water before we invest in a lot of that stuff.
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Yours Aye! Rick
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"It's not the boat "you built" until you've sworn at it, bled on it, sweated over it, cried beside it and then threatened to haul the POS outside and burn it!"
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08-12-2006, 13:52
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Brighton, UK
Boat: Privilege 37
Posts: 3,769
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I have two simple wishes:
That the scumbags who broke into my boat and stole most of my electronics boil in hell
That my right hand which has had a carpal tunnel op soon gets back into operation (repairing very slowly at the moment)
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"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss."
Robert A Heinlein
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08-12-2006, 13:56
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Pickering, Ontario
Boat: wharram tiki 46
Posts: 24
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an IDEAL anchor windlass, Lavac Popular head, Sailrite sewing machine, a new Makita minigrinder. just getting started
mike
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08-12-2006, 14:25
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,191
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A 16MM bronze or stainless set screw for my Gori prop nut.
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08-12-2006, 15:45
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Building a Bateau TW28
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Iroquois, Ontario
Boat: Bateau TW28 Long Cabin
Posts: 3,585
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Originally Posted by ssullivan
Maybe a deckhand to work for a month this spring... you know... head hoses, waxing, bilge scrubbing. |
Lori wants to go for a ride on a sailboat Sully. Should I send her down to see you? 
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Yours Aye! Rick
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"It's not the boat "you built" until you've sworn at it, bled on it, sweated over it, cried beside it and then threatened to haul the POS outside and burn it!"
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08-12-2006, 15:49
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Marlborough Sounds. New Zealand
Boat: Hartley Tahitian 45ft. Leisure Lady
Posts: 8,038
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Unfortunatly I can't afford them, but a pair of selftailing primary winches.
Oh and some fine weather. Somehow I think I have as much influence on that as I do of affording the winches.
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Wheels
For God so loved the world..........He didn't send a committee.
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08-12-2006, 16:34
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: San Francisco, CA
Boat: Nordship 40ds
Posts: 3,865
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I'd like a month to work on my boat in San Diego and someone other than me to pay off my credit card at the end of the month. With Rum and OJ served at 5:15pm. On a more realistic note I want some racheting crimpers (like Rick) Strippers (the wire kind)and one of those terminal kits from ancor marine. I might be able to get two of those.
BTW Knotybuoz I heard a situational joke that I know you would appreciate:
Here's the situation. Person A is whining about having to pick something up.
You respond "If I was half the man that your mother is I could pick that up over my head with one arm."
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Fair Winds,
Charlie
Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea. Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns -- and even convictions. Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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09-12-2006, 19:20
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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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Please Santa can I have a sixpack of $10 /hour monkey boy's.?
I've been a good boy.
Seem's like a couple of years I could get guy's to do a bit of cash in hand labour for $10/hr.
Now those same monkey boys seem to be getting $20+ / hr.
Probably wouldn't mind if the skill level and speed had gone up, but their still the same piss drinking , dope smokers they allways have been.
These low unemployment rates sure drive wages up.
Dave
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10-12-2006, 05:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: New Bern, NC (Fairfield Harbour)
Boat: 1994 Prout Manta Catamaran
Posts: 248
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Dinghy Davits. Easy to use, out of the way Dinghy Davits Installed and working Dinghy Davits, paid in full from some bank account other than ours.
But I'm so blessed, I'm rich with what I have.
Entlie
Sailing Catamaran Sunspot Baby
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but carries my heart as a stowaway."
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10-12-2006, 06:28
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Brighton, UK
Boat: Privilege 37
Posts: 3,769
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Originally Posted by Entlie
Dinghy Davits. Easy to use, out of the way Dinghy Davits Installed and working Dinghy Davits,
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I wanted some as well, so bought the larger Plastimo removable ones. I then had my steel man modify them to be non-removable and supported + the solar panel supports. cost £300 for the davits, £200 for stainless work - solar panel was a tiny bit more but is 180 watt!
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10-12-2006, 08:31
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 112
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Rick, if the holidays find you in Toronto at all, take yourself down to Supremetronic on Queen St. W. There you will find the crimpers and strippers you desire for well under half what you see them listed for in the West Marine catalogue. They don't say anchor on them but I have cut open crimps made by the pair I purchased there and the anchor brand ones and they are equal. Then have a street vendor hot dog for me, and maybe throw a snowball! (Life finds me in California for now)
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10-12-2006, 09:27
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,191
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Hey Talbot,
Nice shot of you on the boat. Looks like you are moving quite nicely. Sorry about your electronics. The folks that got them will surely have heaps of bad karma pressing upon them.
Merry Christmas
JohnL
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10-12-2006, 15:07
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Building a Bateau TW28
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Iroquois, Ontario
Boat: Bateau TW28 Long Cabin
Posts: 3,585
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Bah Humbug!
Lori brought me back one of these from St. Catherines. Ya think she's tryin' to say somethin' to me? Guess this would be the perfect gift for the beer drinker that's not overly enthusiastic about Christmas!
Premium cask ales, bottled and canned beers from the Wychwood Brewery
 Merry Christmas! Bah Humbug!
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Yours Aye! Rick
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"It's not the boat "you built" until you've sworn at it, bled on it, sweated over it, cried beside it and then threatened to haul the POS outside and burn it!"
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10-12-2006, 16:23
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All I want is the winning lottery numbers for next week. The rest will take care of itself.
Talbot, you get me those numbers, and I will personally deliver your theives to your cellar
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