[Rhodes22-list] RE:Curse Ships (was Right-of-Way)

[Herb Parsons]

My wife an I did a Windjammer cruise once, and the captain (an island guy from Bequa) was great.

We started the first day passing a great big cruise liner. He called us all together and said "Dere are two things dat float on da wadda. Dere are boats, and dere is shit. Dis, is a boat. Dat," pointing at the cruise ship " is shit.  Dis is what we do to big pieces of shit, floating on our wadda:"

With that, he loaded up a small imitation cannon he had mounted on the cap rail, and proceeded to "shoot" at the big piece of ... ooops, I mean cruise ship with blanks.

I'm assuming they were blanks.

Personally, I think ANY "sailor" that's done a cruise on a cruise liner, or is thinking of doing one, should be honor bound to do a Windjammer cruise as well, preferably first.


Herb Parsons

S/V O'Jure
1976 O'Day 25
Lake Grapevine, N TX

S/V Reve de Papa
1971 Coronado 35
Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast

>>> 3drecon at comcast.net 7/27/2006 7:24:58 am >>>
Michael,

     Usually I plow through your typos with little notice (no offense intended) but what is a "curse ship" (e.g. ". . .freighter and curse ships: the just big. I mean real big")?  Do you mean the Flying Dutchman? ;')   
     It gave me my first smile of the day.

Philip


-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Michael Meltzer <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com> 

> Fishing: Short handed crews that are running their boats on autopilot and 
> the have no respect for the reconconational boaters. 
> 
> The racing sailboats: the define the whole sound as their course and will 
> always claim stand on, spotting the course can be fun 
> 
> 100+ton barges on tows: their will just plow ahead at 6 knots 
> 
> ferries: the high speed one are 40+ knots any like straight lines 
> 
> slow ferries: they are also 100+ tons and like straight lines, at speed it 
> take them a while to turn and they can not see small boat up close(shaded by 
> the hull) 
> 
> freighter and curse ships: the just big. I mean real big 
> 
> the rule of the road: if after hitting you I can fix my damage for 1 gallon 
> of paint it cheaper than spending 3 gallons of fuel to avoid every boat 
> 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list- 
> > bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Herb Parsons 
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:40 PM 
> > To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org 
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Right-of-Way 
> > 
> > I'm curious too. Commercial fishing vessels are stand on over sail boats, 
> > when they're engaged in fishing. ANY boat (commercial or other) limited in 
> > their ability to manuever and in a channel is stand on over a sailing boat 
> > as well. But I believe that the blanket statement that all commercial 
> > vessels have the right-of-way over any sailing vessel is incorrect. 
> > 
> > Herb Parsons 
> > 
> > S/V O'Jure 
> > 1976 O'Day 25 
> > Lake Grapevine, N TX 
> > 
> > S/V Reve de Papa 
> > 1971 Coronado 35 
> > Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast 
> > 
> > >>> Tatflies at cs.com 7/26/2006 10:29:26 pm >>> 
> > Bill, 
> > 
> > Why do commercial vessels have the right-of-way over any sailing vessel 
> > (unless limited in their ability to manuever)? 
> > 
> > Tom T. 
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