RickB
Scraping Paint
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- Oct 20, 2007
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- CHB 48 Zodiac YL 4.2
What the hell are you talking about? What safe haven, what toy boat?
Safe haven: On 10/29 on the Bounty thread you posted that you were in Boothbay and left there at the same time the Bounty left "[FONT="]She left when we did." [/FONT]
Like it or not, believe it or not, your boat was designed and built as a recreational vessel,it is a toy boat no matter what you are doing with it or would like to believe it is.
Which one, always reachable in your dinghy in weather and seas that made your toy boat untenable, or it was too late to change your mind by the time the storm arrived as predicted?We also felt the level of danger was very, very, very unlikely to ever reach life threatening as shore was always reachable in our Boston Whaler. By the time we got her settled in and the wind direction settled into it's final pattern it was too late to leave without undue risk
I like the "walk off the boat" line ...Our vessel is taller then the water was deep. Our dingy is an unsinkable Boston Whaler. If we were to drift or break free the shore behind us would allowed us to walk off the boat.
The Bounty was taller than the water was deep too. Reread your own comments about the Bounty captain and his choice to leave Boothbay at the same time you did.
Sorry, Daddyo, but compared to that paragraph, my posts are pretty gentle.Your tone is getting more belligerent by the entry. Stupid, stunt, Darwin, amateurish, fool, crime, jail are a few of your choices. Your utter disregard for the facts is beyond comprehension considering I have taken the time to type them out for you. I will not respond to your Neanderthal bullying any longer. Your language does not have a place here and I ask that the moderators reconsider your membership.
You called for jail for the Bounty captain and your own comments regarding that captain who left the same place at the same time you say you did seem a bit hypocritical.
Calling for my membership to be revoked because I point out that praising a dangerous and irresponsible act embarrasses you is an interesting way to silence criticism of a foolish and negligent act that risked not only your own life but your wife and - please tell me you didn't have children on board - whoever was ignorant enough to stay with you.
You have every right to kill yourself however you wish but to lead others into a situation where the outcome is only decided by luck earns only ridicule. It was crass stupidity and by the sound of it, personal deceit. I am sure you have to pretend you knew what you were doing and had even a microscopic degree of control, but now that you spilled the beans and gathered praise from your recreational peers you are forced to defend the indefensible. You got lucky and didn't kill yourself or your family, that's all the good that can be said.
Silencing me doesn't change the facts. Pointing out that you and your "crew" survived an incredibly foolish act is not bullying. Hopefully my comments will give others something to think about.
Just for grins, go back and read the first 20 posts or so of this thread.
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