Buddy, there ain't no line with coral on one side and sand on the
other...though there is a line with protected coral on one side and unprotected
on the other.

He doesn't get it and there ain't no sense in trying to explain it. He
reads about the Caribbean.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
"Trains are a winter sport"

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
...
If any of you putzes sailed and lived aboard real boats
you would not feel any need to go play sailor on some
stupid tourist trap multi-hull.
Just imagining the gallons of puke you're walking on
should be enough to give any sane person pause. . .
CN

Close. If any of us lived aboard a boat like yours, we couldn't afford to
charter.

John Cairns



"SAIL LOCO" wrote in message
...
I'm bummed out reading this. This is the first year in the last half
dozen
that we are not doing the BVI thing. We've always rented cats from TMM
also. Tabago 35, Athena 38, Lagoon 380 and a Belieze 43.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
"Transsexuals are a winter sport"

OzOne wrote in message
...
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 07:38:02 -0500, "Scott Vernon"
scribbled thusly:

Can't imagine any "older" woman "throwing" an anchor big enough
to
hold a "40-something cat".

Shut up ozone, it's a funny story.

SV

Ahhh ever The American.....you'll believe any story without
considering the facts ;-)

I'm pointing my gun towards Australia tonight and firing off a few
hundred rounds. Maybe I'll get lucky.

SV

OzOne wrote in message

Jesus Mooron, have you ever looked at a chart of a coral area?
Have you ever dived anywhere near coral?

Cripes Ozone... I've dove in more oceans than you have and I can tell you
that it's easy to spot coral outcrops in shallow water. I've worked as a
commercial diver. If you ever sailed the BVI's or Bahamas... you'd know the
regulations regarding anchoring. All overnight areas have moorings and it's
not permitted to drop hook into or around coral reefs. Any idiot who drops
all chain to a coral reef is still in a situation of fouling his chain... I
know since I've been called to dive and untangle quite a few in my time.


Buddy, there ain't no line with coral on one side and sand on the
other...though there is a line with protected coral on one side and
unprotected on the other.

I beg to differ Ozone.... the line is clearly defined... as clearly as the
scope of your rode.


And yes, combination chain and rope is common.

I know... tell Loco

CM

OzOne wrote in message ...
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:47:50 GMT, "Capt. Mooron"
scribbled thusly:

Heh... I've cut several moorings in my time.

CM

I'm surprised someone hasn't shot you.

Everyone knows I pack and will return fire....

As an aside.... this idiot decided to place his new mooring right next to
mine in Yellowknife Bay. It was so close that both vessels would impact beam
to on their swing radius. I asked him to place it further away but he
insisted that the location was perfect for him and suggested if I was
nervous .. I should pull my established mooring and move it. I just walked
down into the cabin of my boat and waited till he went back to shore to move
his sailboat out to new mooring. I dove over the side with my 3' bolt
cutters and I cut the chain at the base while he was gone. I was toweled off
and enjoying a drink in the cockpit when he returned with his boat... his
mooring ball was drifting out to the lake in the breeze. He paid a diver
[after trying to hire me to replace the chain] to hook it back up... I cut
it agin within 30 minutes of the diver leaving. He showed up again and his
mooring ball was gone... so the idiot drops a hook!!

Now Overproof has a steel toerail.... and the wind was shifty that night....
I woke that night to my boat smacking into his broadside and it seems his
hull got all scratched up. When I got out on deck he was trying to fend my
boat off... wanna know what he said... he yelled at me and told me to move
my boat! I'm on a mooring! He's anchored! I pulled a bottle of rum out....
loaded my Mossburg .12 ga. and told him I would place 8 slugs to his
waterline if he scratched my toerail. I fired a shot into the air and he
pulled anchor and left. Never saw him in the mooring field again!
He belonged to my yacht club.... he eventually fell off his boat when he
was drunk and drowned. He was a Frenchman!

CM



CM

"SAIL LOCO" wrote in message

He doesn't get it and there ain't no sense in trying to explain it. He
reads about the Caribbean.

Oh.. I see... I spend years living, diving and sailing in more tropical
areas than you have ever been to and now you claim to be an expert on reefs
because you charter in the BVI's for a week each year??


CM

Capt. Mooron wrote in message
news:QAoMd.98761$Ob.70163@edtnps84...
As an aside.... this idiot decided to place his new mooring right next to
mine in Yellowknife Bay. It was so close that both vessels would impact
beam
to on their swing radius. I asked him to place it further away but he
insisted that the location was perfect for him and suggested if I was
nervous .. I should pull my established mooring and move it.

interesting stuff snipped

He was a Frenchman!

That says it all! French yachtsmen, on entering a new anchorage, always
assume that the boat already there has gone in the best place, so they
anchor themselves as near to you as possible even if the rest of the bay is
empty. I have had my anchor rode fouled in this way by a French yacht in an
otherwise empty bay.
Another time, I was alongside the quay in Concarneau. A French motor yacht
came in and could not berth alongside so had to raft outside some other
yachts.
Next day he was hovering around my yacht for a while and then finally asked
me when we were going. I said I was staying until the following day. "But I
want your berth" he said...

That was a good story Unky Moron, tell us another.



"Capt. Mooron" wrote
As an aside.... this idiot decided to place his new mooring right
next to
mine in Yellowknife Bay. It was so close that both vessels would
impact beam
to on their swing radius. I asked him to place it further away but
he
insisted that the location was perfect for him and suggested if I
was
nervous .. I should pull my established mooring and move it. I just
walked
down into the cabin of my boat and waited till he went back to shore
to move
his sailboat out to new mooring. I dove over the side with my 3'
bolt
cutters and I cut the chain at the base while he was gone. I was
toweled off
and enjoying a drink in the cockpit when he returned with his
boat... his
mooring ball was drifting out to the lake in the breeze. He paid a
diver
[after trying to hire me to replace the chain] to hook it back up...
I cut
it agin within 30 minutes of the diver leaving. He showed up again
and his
mooring ball was gone... so the idiot drops a hook!!

Now Overproof has a steel toerail.... and the wind was shifty that
night....
I woke that night to my boat smacking into his broadside and it
seems his
hull got all scratched up. When I got out on deck he was trying to
fend my
boat off... wanna know what he said... he yelled at me and told me
to move
my boat! I'm on a mooring! He's anchored! I pulled a bottle of rum
out....
loaded my Mossburg .12 ga. and told him I would place 8 slugs to his
waterline if he scratched my toerail. I fired a shot into the air
and he
pulled anchor and left. Never saw him in the mooring field again!
He belonged to my yacht club.... he eventually fell off his boat
when he
was drunk and drowned. He was a Frenchman!

CM



CM

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
...
That was a good story Unky Moron, tell us another.

Now Now... off with you... chores to be done... and If I told you another
.... you'd only get too excited. Now Git!

CM

Scott Vernon wrote:

That was a good story Unky Moron, tell us another.

Indeed it was Scotty! I do believe that Mooron has been fibbing to us about his occupation, he is in fact a fiction writer, he is usually employed by
Penthouse to write letters for the "Forum" section.

Cheers
Marty