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Hi,

I've been frequenting a wonderful fishing forum full of great local
folks, but I've been wishing for a similar board for boating. I've seen a
few "Canadian" forums, but they all seem centered around the east (as is
can.rec.boating). Is there a boating forum with a West-coast flavour?

If not, I'm thinking of setting one up. Anyone wanna join?

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36

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Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

If not, I'm thinking of setting one up. Anyone wanna join?

You don't have one of the best records when it comes to getting it up.
Many of us remember your twirl with The Boats of Rec.Boats and the early
pull out.

--
Skipper

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Skipper wrote:
Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

If not, I'm thinking of setting one up. Anyone wanna join?

You don't have one of the best records when it comes to getting it up.
Many of us remember your twirl with The Boats of Rec.Boats and the early
pull out.

--
Skipper

Good work, Psuedo. Right away with the personal remarks. That should go
a long way toward resolving your expressed concern that the group is so
far OT.

Lloyd; You may as well decide to start a buggy whip factory. The era of
the internet forum has come and gone, killed off IMO by the search
engine.

If a guy wants to know why his outboard won't start, how to splice
3-strand,or when the salmon season is open in the Srait of Georgia,
he'll run a search engine. Going to a discussion group provides a ton
of conflicting advice- offered by people of varying crediblity and
experience, and no real way to vet who is talking through his/her arse.
The forum format brings in a bunch of non-boaters who turn it into a
chat room for the exchange of bitchy personal remarks, and extra-bitchy
personal remarks reserved for folks of either more liberal or
conservative political stripe. Look at the mess here in rec.boats. When
a boating related post gets 2-3 responses but a thread titled, "George
Bush is a _________" or "NG participant X is a _________" generates
150-200 name-calling exchnges *that* defines the character and tone of
the NG as it exists.

For gosh sakes, if you start one of these things maintain the ability
to moderate the worst trolls and most destructive posters. Rec.boats is
a prime example of people shelfishly hijacking a forum and filling it
with bull guano.

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Lloyd; You may as well decide to start a buggy whip factory. The era of
the internet forum has come and gone, killed off IMO by the search
engine.



Good observation, Chuck. I had not thought of that. Rec.boats used to be a
depository of boating experience and helpful information. Now-a-days it is
an outlet for political bull****.

Eisboch

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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:12:45 -0700, chuckgould.chuck wrote:


Skipper wrote:
Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

If not, I'm thinking of setting one up. Anyone wanna join?

You don't have one of the best records when it comes to getting it up.
Many of us remember your twirl with The Boats of Rec.Boats and the early
pull out.

--
Skipper

Good work, Psuedo. Right away with the personal remarks. That should go
a long way toward resolving your expressed concern that the group is so
far OT.

Lloyd; You may as well decide to start a buggy whip factory. The era of
the internet forum has come and gone, killed off IMO by the search
engine.


Probably true if all you want is advice. (OTOH, I'm trying to get the
modem running on my Linux laptop, and although there's THOUSANDS of
websites with "help", most are out-dated or just plain wrong)

But I now belong to a (gently moderated) fishing forum that's local, fun,
full of interesting, knowledgeable folks, and the main reason I'm now
fishing more than sailing. So it CAN be done!

And yes, I'd moderate it, and probably choose the members somewhat
(There's probably over a millions boaters in BC alone: add the Washington
ones like you, and there's several million. I'm guessing several have
computers, and would like to chat about boating...)

Lloyd

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Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

You don't have one of the best records when it comes to getting it up.
Many of us remember your twirl with The Boats of Rec.Boats and the early
pull out.

I'll be choosing my members somewhat. Don't worry: you WON'T be invited!

Interesting retort. Suppose that *is* your best defense when presented
with undisputed phacts. Also indicates what a phorum moderated by
someone with your track record would be like. As Mel Brooks said, "It's
good to be king."

--
Skipper

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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:35:49 -0500, Skipper wrote:

Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

If not, I'm thinking of setting one up. Anyone wanna join?

You don't have one of the best records when it comes to getting it up.
Many of us remember your twirl with The Boats of Rec.Boats and the early
pull out.

I'll be choosing my members somewhat. Don't worry: you WON'T be invited!

Lloyd

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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:12:45 -0700, chuckgould.chuck wrote:


Skipper wrote:
Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

If not, I'm thinking of setting one up. Anyone wanna join?

You don't have one of the best records when it comes to getting it up.
Many of us remember your twirl with The Boats of Rec.Boats and the early
pull out.

--
Skipper

Good work, Psuedo. Right away with the personal remarks. That should go
a long way toward resolving your expressed concern that the group is so
far OT.



Just another comment on Potential Members:

Note this this will be a forum for WEST COAST CANADA, with some interest
for what you Americans call the Pacific Northwest. So, that rules out
anyone from California, or east of the Rockies.

And THAT rules out virtually EVERYONE on this board, except Chuck.

I'd say that would get rid of all the childish name-calling and politics.

Lloyd

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Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

Just another comment on Potential Members:

Note this this will be a forum for WEST COAST CANADA, with some interest
for what you Americans call the Pacific Northwest. So, that rules out
anyone from California, or east of the Rockies.

And THAT rules out virtually EVERYONE on this board, except Chuck.

I'd say that would get rid of all the childish name-calling and politics.

That quite an enemies list you have there Lloyd. So, if the only member
of this forum that would be invited to attend your coronation is that
lying architect of personal destruction, Chucky. Why didn't you just
send him an email?

BTW, why is it you have no comment about my factual observation that you
abandoned the Rec.Boats pitcher site out of peak and put very little
effort into it?

--
Skipper