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KingOfTheApes wrote: On Aug 19, 3:43*pm, Morten Reistad wrote: In article , Two meter troll wrote: On Aug 15, 7:21 am, ComandanteBanana wrote: On Aug 15, 3:20 am, Two meter troll wrote: Hey, where's the real place with humans, Alaska, Scandinavia? any place where you get actual sailors. I worked the gulf for a while and was on the whole unimpressed. what i observed was a total lack of licensing, no familiarity with either inland or international rules of the road, skill levels in boat handling and navigations somewhere around those of a brain damaged squid, drunkenness at the helm, no enforcement at all, trash all over the place, a disregard for every one else on or in the water, and an over whelming attitude that folks don't actually have to follow any rules. * In short; Bubbas (I cant actually think of anything that acts as slovenly and boorish as the majority of southern boaters). In Scandinavia the greater Oslo Fjord area is like this. Sheltered waters, lots of yuppies with daddys gofast-boat; as you call them ; "bubbas" with cabin cruisers, and rich drunkards with cigar boats. The first day of main holiday you can barely get through on the VHF ch 16 because of all the disaster messages. Fortunatly, the vast majority of damage is self-inflicted. [1] When I was in Norway in 2000 everything looked good and unpolluted, but I noticed you were being fed too many American TV shows. Garbage TV is the same everywhere. I guess what happened is that some people bought into the "American dream" (those who could afford it anyway), and started doing like in No, we don't have much of the industrial pollution. Rules for the oil industry are strict; and the plants tend to have localised pollution, and are put in some desolate place between steep mountains. The cruise ships don't go to those fjords. They even put back some water in the waterfalls for the tourists to watch. Normally any waterfall of any size would have been put in pipes to make hydropower. the series "Miami Vice." But I assure you, that those cigarette boats do pollute, and leave a trail of garbage while terrorizing kayakers and other civilized people. Nowadays, we MAKE a lot of those boats. And the Swedes make a lot of the engines. Also sold in America. The entrepreneurs among us saw Miami Vice, and thought "I can make those cheaper and better". -- mrr |
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