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On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:47:43 -0700, "
wrote:

... So you can cruise and you can
telephone. But it's not the same as doing one or the other and doing it
well. ...


I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying that I'm cruising less well
when, lets say, just for the sake of historical accuracy, I'm anchor
down in Kanton Atoll on a day when it's so calm I can't tell where the
air ends and the water starts and so hot that even the flies have
taken cover in the shade I call my father on my Iridium phone? Are
you telling me that this offends you in some way? Do we need to be
reduced to sail cloth pants and latitude sailing to be cruising
"well"?

-- Tom.


Of course it offends him. He's sitting in a trailer-sailer where he
has lived for the past 20 years and nobody will talk to him on the
phone..


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom)