That's a lot of bait to catch one little Bobfish.

But it worked!


"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in
message
anews.com.
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From a landlubber's perspective, a slip is a convenient
extension of the
land upon which he can transition to the water although he
never quite
feels comfortable there. A slip is set up by the
landlubber, for the
landlubber and is a device solely of the landlubber.

A slip may be viewed as a remote garage of sorts. It
'houses' the boat
and keeps it securely tied to land which any lubber thinks
is the
superior place to be. A safe place, a secure place and a
familiar. The
lubber considers a slip a jumping off place from the
security of land to
the dangers of the watery world. It's all rather like
coming out of the
womb and jumping right back in when it's more comfy to do
so.

Any way you look at it, a slip is just another lubberly
delusion. It's a
way of looking at the world with a land mass as the center
of the
viewer's existence.

Now, let's take a philosophical look at a mooring. A good
mooring is
where a sailor can secure his vessel in the vessel's true
environment -
the water and the weather and the current and the
unfettered elements. A
mooring is a convenient and safe place to stop a while for
rest, refit,
re-provision, etc. From a mooring a sailor may partake of
some of the
conveniences of civilization on the land yet reject the
myriad
disadvantages of living there. From a mooring a sailor
looks toward the
land and thinks. "Why do people want to live there? Why do
they bother
with their slipped boats as they are not capable of ever
looking at the
land from the water's standpoint like a real sailor does
day in and day
out?" A mooring perspective is one with the vessel as the
epicenter -
not the house and the slip which is a remote garage. And,
since the
sailor is the master of his moored ship the master is at
the center of
the very universe. His perspective is the real
perspective. He looks
from the water to the land not from the land to the water.
He is exactly
where he wishes to be. He does not fool himself into
thinking he would
rather be on the water but can't make the transition from
his land-based
cowardly existence.

So, to conclude, a slip is nothing more than the land
imposing it's way
of life upon the water while a mooring is a sailor's way
of taking what
he may need from the land without ever having to live
among the filth,
corruption and general stench and seediness of it.

Now, do you lubbers understand? Real sailors think you are
filth,
corruption and you STINK!

Wilbur Hubbard