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Old 07-26-2012, 09:15 PM   #41
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Most every marina has one or two of these eccentrics. . . Usually they're just an old curmudgeon looking for a little respect of their boating knowledge and some attention.

My dock mate of 13 years, a 36' sailboat, with one of these old beer drinking (is Miller Highlife really beer?) red eyed, opinionated “old salts" living on board. He would gripe about everything and everybody, but really he had no family, was just lonely and friendless. We called him the hermit of Guemus Island. LOL

Finally he couldn't stand being around people anymore and he loaded up his boat, sailed off to SE Alaska and we haven't seen him since. It's sad seeing people get like this, they probably weren't always this way. Makes you wonder what went wrong in their world?

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Old 07-26-2012, 09:33 PM   #42
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Most every marina has one or two of these eccentrics. . . Usually they're just an old curmudgeon looking for a little respect of their boating knowledge and some attention.

My dock mate of 13 years, a 36' sailboat, with one of these old beer drinking (is Miller Highlife really beer?) red eyed, opinionated “old salts" living on board. He would gripe about everything and everybody, but really he had no family, was just lonely and friendless. We called him the hermit of Guemus Island. LOL

Finally he couldn't stand being around people anymore and he loaded up his boat, sailed off to SE Alaska and we haven't seen him since. It's sad seeing people get like this, they probably weren't always this way. Makes you wonder what went wrong in their world?

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Most of the opinionated old blowhards I've met follow mostly the same manner as you mention in your post. Lonely with self esteem issues for the most part.

Loneliness is explained by there (anti)social skills.

FWIW had it been my wife that was dressed down by the guy in the opening post, he'd most likely have gone for a swim.
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Don Moon said
To me the best set up is a single with a bow thruster. It is the best of both worlds.[/QUOTE]


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Old 07-26-2012, 10:11 PM   #44
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[QUOTE=GonzoF1;95989]You should find a new club to be a member of.

Don't you truly believe this to be the appropriate club for Ancora? He couldn't get into mine.
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To me the best set up is a single with a bow thruster. It is the best of both worlds.

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Carey, I especially like the protection of a big keel and a skeg. It also gives good directional stability. That is if you don't get that big keel perpendicular to the current in a tight place. The simplicity of one engine with handling similar to a twin screw boat. To me it just seems a great set up. I loved the one I had. Just wish it was larger.
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Old 07-27-2012, 04:32 AM   #46
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There is a family in Boston that grew up on one of the Boston Harbor Islands. The mother and 2 daughters and both sons are all tugboat captains . I used to be a deckhand for the mother, (Judy) and she was a top notch boat operator who handled a 110' single screw tug with ease. She was in her 60's back then. Both of the daughters were very skilled captains as well and a joy to work with.
One of the daughters dated the Commanding officer of the Pt Allerton Coast Guard Station (Hull , Ma) in the early 90's and he admitted to her being a much more skilled "Boatman" than he. I would put their skills against most of the people I have worked with-myself included.
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Old 07-27-2012, 07:23 AM   #47
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Old 07-27-2012, 08:03 AM   #48
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I think everybody is missing the point in their rush to defend the use of electronics while docking. There's nothing wrong with using all the tools in the arsenal but maybe the original comment had more to do with boasting about having done that. Go ahead and use all the toys but if you strut up the dock boasting about it afterwards then all comments are fair game.
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Old 07-27-2012, 09:09 AM   #49
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I think everybody is missing the point in their rush to defend the use of electronics while docking. There's nothing wrong with using all the tools in the arsenal but maybe the original comment had more to do with boasting about having done that. Go ahead and use all the toys but if you strut up the dock boasting about it afterwards then all comments are fair game.
Perhaps I misunderstood the OP but I read it to say the guy was bragging about his wife handling the docking. Something that many TF members have expressed their wives never do. There are many threads in the archives asking the question of how to get the wife to take the helm for tight quarters docking.
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Old 07-27-2012, 09:34 AM   #50
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Perhaps I misunderstood the OP but I read it to say the guy was bragging about his wife handling the docking. Something that many TF members have expressed their wives never do. There are many threads in the archives asking the question of how to get the wife to take the helm for tight quarters docking.
True...but isn't bobofthenorth also pointing out the overzealous defense of using thrusters, etc when the bottom line is the respect all seaman show to the guy who sails it into the dock or uses a single screw, single handed and spring lines and makes it look easy?
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To me the best set up is a single with a bow thruster. It is the best of both worlds.
Even better: Our little 32 footer came with a stern thruster as well as a bow thruster. Was contemptuous at first but now find it very nice to have. Someday might come in handy should I ever have to make a first time visit to a marina.

Every man should be able to thrust both bow and stern.
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Even better: Our little 32 footer came with a stern thruster as well as a bow thruster. Was contemptuous at first but now find it very nice to have. Someday might come in handy should I ever have to make a first time visit to a marina.

Every man should be able to thrust both bow and stern.
David, a propeller on a beanie cap is not a thruster!
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Every man should be able to thrust both bow and stern.
That's when you need a good chiropractor on speed dial.
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Speaking of womens driving boats, Carey will remember this one.

A mutual friend in the San Juans bought a surplus LCM6 landing craft a number of years ago and started a barge service in the islands, ferrying construction equipment and supplies from island to island. He got a long-term contract to provide the barge service to a tiny private island on which the owner was having a VERY expensive and large house built. This required lots of barge deliveries on an almost daily basis for a couple of years.

At the time our friend's daughters were something like 13 and 15 years old or thereabouts. They'd been born in the islands, grew up in the islands, and had been around and in boats pretty much most of their lives.

Gary drove the LCM most of the time but when it came to loading and unloading, he and his wife dealt with that together. The sloping beach on the island where the house was being built was swept almost constantly by strong currents running parallel to the shore. So even though the LCM's bow was on the shore, the rest of it was out in the current. Which meant that someone had to be "running" the boat the entire time using power and rudders to hold the boat up against and perpendicular to the ramp no matter what the current swirls and sweeps tried to do to the boat. So constant power and rudder changes to keep the boat in place. And with the challenges of unloading and loading some pretty big pieces of equipment, the boat had to be held in place for an hour or more sometimes.

With Gary and his wife busy with loading and unloading dump trucks and concrete trucks and loads of lumber and whatnot, it became the responsibility of the two girls to operate the LCM itself and keep it pinned to the shore even though the current was trying to peel it off the island.

Generally just one of the girls went along on any given trip, but both them were equally adept at controling this heavy, clumsy, twin-engine LCM.

Nobody, including Carey and I, who had known the girls long enough to realize their talents, was surprised by this at all. But the construction workers and truck drivers were pretty much stunned when Gary and his wife appeared on deck and started doing the unloading and loading and they learned that the person up in the wheelhouse controlling the fate of their dump truck or concrete mixer or backhoe or grader was a 13 or 15 year old girl. I guess the expressions were pretty funny to see. But it didn't take long for these guys to learn to respect those two little girls and what they were capable of.
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Great story Marin, Oft said from the mouth of babes

In this case from the hands and minds.

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Back in the 80's I was helping a couple to bring a new Heritage East 36 double cabin from Clearwater, FL to Chattanooga. I was just to get them to Orange Beach, AL. They had never done any ocean cruising and the owner wanted to run the boat himself to get the feel of it. We started our crossing from Cedar Key to Dog Island off Carabelle.

The seas started at about 2' and built to 5. They were nervous as cats, but when we had the sea bouy at Dog Island in site they both relaxed and got a little giddy. As we started in the pass, the wife said that she wanted to steer. I told them it was a bad idea as we were facing a falling tide current. He said that it would be OK, and moved out of the seat. This happened just as the waves were steepening. She turned the boat then turned it some more. We were going into a serious broach situation. I jumped up, pushed her away, juiced the port engine, and cranked the wheel to starboard. We got straight just in time for about a 6 footer to pick up the stern. They both about crapped.

I got them to Orange Beach, but not without about ten stories to tell. They never took the boat to Tennessee. They listed and sold it in Orange Beach. That was the end of their boating. He said he didn't know why anyone would want to boat on the coast.

I would say that they were about equal in boat handling. He just couldn't get a grasp of the attention it takes to cruise. He believed the boat ads.
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Before they built the bridge to Ford Island (in Pearl Harbor) the normal way of getting back and forth was by a 50 foot Utility Boat (aka, the small boat). Most of the coxswains for the boats were typically 18-21 year old women. As a young man of the same age, I remember being really impressed by the boat handling skills most of them had. I suppose their motivation was 100 jeering sailors if they came into the landing a little hard.
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Not totally boating related but in the later 1980s I spent a week on the USS Constellation filming aircraft operations, specifically F-18 carrier qualifications. The Constellation was the first carrier to get the F-18 which required major modifications to the catapults, so the carrier qualifications were something of a big deal.

The ship at the time was conducting war games against the USS Forestall (IIRC) about 1,000 miles out in the Pacific so I and the cameraman who accompanied me were flown out the Constellation from San Diego in a C-2, a stubby Grumman twin turbo cargo plane a bit like a miniature C-130. The C-2 went by the moniker "Cod" for carrier onboard delivery.

The five "man" crews of the Cods we rode out and back on were all female. Young, cute girls including the two pilots. I thought it was cool that these girls were landing on the wires and taking off on the catapults just like the macho F-14, F-18, and A-6 pilots but my co-worker didn't. He firmly believed a woman's place was barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen and he grumbled the entire time about how girls shouldn't be trying to do a man's work.

He left the company a few years later but he'd be having a tough time if he was still here--- a good portion of our experimental and production flight test pilots are female now.
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Several years ago, while taking a J-110 from Annapolis to Providence, we were sailing up the coast of NJ toward Ambrose Light, planning to spend the night behind Sandy Hook. We got into thick fog at about 10 p.m. and, since there was no radar on the boat, we were navigating by GPS, the depth finder and the radio.

We had picked up the owner's 20-something daughter in Cape May, who I'd only casually met and who stood all of 5'2". At about this time, the owner turns to the girl and says, "OK, Erica, she's all yours." I was more than a little concerned about him handing off the helm to this child because we could hear large ships passing us in the dark. They would raise us on the the radio and ask us to hold our course. We made it without incident, but I was more than a little relieved when we were finally moored on a ball that night. We hit the bunks without much conversation.

The next morning, the owner pointed across the bay to a large navy vessel and said, "See that ship? It carries munitions and that's as close as they'll allow it to the City. It's Erica's job to pilot that ship into this harbor." I knew she was in the Navy, but had no idea she had those qualifications. That was when a light went on that the times really were a changin'.
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