Subject: Ellen MacArthur, Tthe Reluctant Heroine
From: "Simple Simon"
Date: 08/05/2003 14:37 Pacific Standard Time
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As usual, that idiot Shen44 is saying I 'disappeared'. Hey, can't
a fellow go sailing without the peanut gallery engaging in wishful
thinking? Of course Shen44 wishes his nemesis would just go
away but that is not to be his fate, and yours either, Jeff Morris!
ROFL Sailing, my stern tube packing!!!
You sequestered youself below to try and devise some response (typically lame)
to get yourself out of your latest mess
But, it is you, Jeff , whom I am addressing here.
Fact: there is no such classification in the pecking order of
a towboat. A towboat has no status in and of itself. A vessel
towing is just another motor vessel until and unless it is
restricted in its ability to maneuver. Need I remind you of
the pecking order which represents ALL classifications
of vessels.
New NUC
Reels RAM
Catch CBD
Fish Fishing
So Sailing
Purchase Power
Some Sailplane
Now, tell me, Mr. Morris, which of the above does a towboat
fit into?
Huh? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
Oh! You admit that a towboat fits nowhere in the pecking order?
It fits into the "power" section of the pecking order.... which typically you
don't seem to understand.
Well, good! Because that's a fact. A towboat has no special status
in the pecking order.
Question of semantics. It's special status is a "motorboat".
Until and unless a towboat is restricted in its ability to maneuver it
remains just another motorboat. Once it becomes restricted in its
ability to maneuver it then becomes a RAM.
Which we all know, but what does that have to do with the question at hand?
I have to wonder just what about the pecking order do you, Shen44
and otnmbrd not understand?
We understand it and realize it can't exist in fog for all the reasons you
state.