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Old 27-10-2012, 02:58   #31
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Maybe the Dolphin was drowning from laughing too hard?
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Old 27-10-2012, 03:51   #32
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A magic engine, leather ceilings and go faster stripes ...
What´s not to like ?
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Old 27-10-2012, 04:33   #33
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Oh please, will not some one rescue this boat.
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Old 27-10-2012, 04:44   #34
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the guy is a "natural",mitt you got some serious comptition there if he decides to run.....
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Old 27-10-2012, 05:27   #35
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''under sail sailing throw storms like it aint **** chillin in catilin like a boss ''



That is my favorite. Isn't that from a rap song.
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Old 27-10-2012, 06:17   #36
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I need go faster stripes on my 20 year old station wagon. I am totally calling this guy.
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Old 27-10-2012, 06:29   #37
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an "above ground" gene pool fur shure dude.
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Old 27-10-2012, 06:31   #38
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A magic engine, leather ceilings and go faster stripes
It is a 70's boat, after all...
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Old 27-10-2012, 06:58   #39
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Whatever they are smoking don't travel to Florida via Texas as a previous CFer did last year. You COULD get arrested for it......
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Old 27-10-2012, 06:59   #40
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That's an interesting trim technique.
Yes, it is.

Couple things here...

So his boat is in chaos. He can;

1. Sheet out the main and fix that reef.

2. Drop the jib before it beats it's self to death.

3. Head up, drop everything and....

OR...

4. Grab a camera and start shooting video with a voice track.


His decision to choose #4 is an interesting one.


Also,

Note the shore power cord wrapped several times around the stantion (conviently missing it's upper life line).
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Old 27-10-2012, 08:02   #41
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I know it has been a long time since I was in school, but don't they teach composition or punctuation anymore?

Is knowing how to write English becoming the same as knowing how to program in COBAL?

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Ummm.... not to pick nits, but it's COBOL. Short for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.

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Old 27-10-2012, 08:44   #42
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Oh please, will not some one rescue this boat.
...or put it out of it's miserable existence.

Somehow I expected to find a Youtube video of him in another blow, him playing the deliverance theme on a banjo.
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Really, really love this guy. What went wrong with the majority of us onwards the '80th

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Just one of his many videos.






Captgracek32 - YouTube
I don't know which is worse -- that this is an example of his seamanship, or that he actually took video and posted it.

Makes me get all teary-eyed for the boat, though.

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Ummm.... not to pick nits, but it's COBOL. Short for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.

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And the fact that you knew that and was able to relate it using good grammar and proper punctuation shows just how old you are!

(and I knew that too - sorry for the mistake!)

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