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01-09-2021, 17:29
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Cruising sailboat herder

Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Delivering some boat somewhere
Boat: THEN: Indefatigable Bristol Caravel #172; NOW: 50-ton master on other people's boats
Posts: 887
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Re: Hello
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Originally Posted by skipmac
Oh no. A Delta. You're going to drag for sure, wreck your boat and kill a couple dozen innocent bystanders in the harbor. 
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Excellent! Now we can have a go about my Delta vs your CQR
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We ran aground at 2300. Dad fired off flares all night, to no avail. In the morning, Mom called the Coast Guard and demanded to know why they had not responded. "But ma'm," came the abashed reply. "Yesterday was July 4th!"
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01-09-2021, 17:31
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#17
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Cruising sailboat herder

Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Delivering some boat somewhere
Boat: THEN: Indefatigable Bristol Caravel #172; NOW: 50-ton master on other people's boats
Posts: 887
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Re: Hello
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Originally Posted by Tayana42
DMF Sailing, you do know you can get vaccinated against that Delta…
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You mean before it gets out of control and moves quickly across the anchorage?

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We ran aground at 2300. Dad fired off flares all night, to no avail. In the morning, Mom called the Coast Guard and demanded to know why they had not responded. "But ma'm," came the abashed reply. "Yesterday was July 4th!"
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01-09-2021, 18:06
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#18
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 573
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Re: Hello
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Originally Posted by DMF Sailing
You mean before it gets out of control and moves quickly across the anchorage?
 
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Ah. never get out of control in australia.....not with bar codes on your forehead and the drones reading them as you go "walk about"
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01-09-2021, 19:36
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#19
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,307
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Re: Hello
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Originally Posted by DMF Sailing
Excellent! Now we can have a go about my Delta vs your CQR
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Retired the CQR and stuck it in the shed next to the Bruce (bet that will get a rise out of someone).
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The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.
Sometimes it's necessary to state the obvious for the benefit of the oblivious.
Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
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01-09-2021, 19:38
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#20
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,307
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Re: Hello
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Originally Posted by Tayana42
DMF Sailing, you do know you can get vaccinated against that Delta…
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I think it's too late. Seems like he's already infected with the Delta variant.
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The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.
Sometimes it's necessary to state the obvious for the benefit of the oblivious.
Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
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01-09-2021, 19:56
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#21
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Cruising sailboat herder

Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Delivering some boat somewhere
Boat: THEN: Indefatigable Bristol Caravel #172; NOW: 50-ton master on other people's boats
Posts: 887
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Re: Hello
Quote:
Originally Posted by skipmac
I think it's too late. Seems like he's already infected with the Delta variant. 
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Skip, no need to pull my chain; you've rode me pretty hard with this thread drift. You can be cqr in the knowledge that my choice was anchored in well-grounded theory. I'm set in my ways, and I've been inrocnalated against posters who are a drag. Sorry if I delta blow to your ego.
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We ran aground at 2300. Dad fired off flares all night, to no avail. In the morning, Mom called the Coast Guard and demanded to know why they had not responded. "But ma'm," came the abashed reply. "Yesterday was July 4th!"
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01-09-2021, 20:17
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#22
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,307
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Re: Hello
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Originally Posted by DMF Sailing
Skip, no need to pull my chain; you've rode me pretty hard with this thread drift. You can be cqr in the knowledge that my choice was anchored in well-grounded theory. I'm set in my ways, and I've been inrocnalated against posters who are a drag. Sorry if I delta blow to your ego. 
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Well no way I can top that.
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The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.
Sometimes it's necessary to state the obvious for the benefit of the oblivious.
Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
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01-09-2021, 22:25
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#23
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Lake City MN
Boat: C&C 27 Mk III
Posts: 2,648
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Re: Hello
I’m just going to hide in my fortress
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Special knowledge can be a terrible disadvantage if it leads you too far along a path that you cannot explain anymore.
Frank Herbert 'Dune'
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01-09-2021, 23:47
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#24
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: La Ciudad de la Misión Didacus de Alcalá en Alta California, Virreinato de Nueva España
Boat: Cal 20
Posts: 21,590
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Re: Hello
Welcome
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Num Me Vexo?
For all of your celestial navigation questions: https://navlist.net/
A house is but a boat so poorly built and so firmly run aground no one would think to try and refloat it.
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02-09-2021, 00:17
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#25
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Cruising sailboat herder

Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Delivering some boat somewhere
Boat: THEN: Indefatigable Bristol Caravel #172; NOW: 50-ton master on other people's boats
Posts: 887
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Re: Hello
Quote:
Originally Posted by skipmac
Well no way I can top that. 
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We'll bury the hatchet over a couple of bruce
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We ran aground at 2300. Dad fired off flares all night, to no avail. In the morning, Mom called the Coast Guard and demanded to know why they had not responded. "But ma'm," came the abashed reply. "Yesterday was July 4th!"
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02-09-2021, 08:08
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#26
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,307
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Re: Hello
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Originally Posted by DMF Sailing
We'll bury the hatchet over a couple of bruce
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In that case I'll stop wining.
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The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.
Sometimes it's necessary to state the obvious for the benefit of the oblivious.
Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
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