Re: [bolger] Yella Proa Sea Trials? (OT reply)
In a message dated 02/19/2001 10:<BR08:<BR15 AM
Eastern Standard,pongo19050@...writes:
Customs vary by geography. This was taught me by an experience in Oz a couple
decades back. I'd been offshore a number of times on Gulf of Mexico oil rigs
and platforms. You wear hard shoes, long pants, shirts, and you drink no
alcohol. In Oz, they wore sneakers, stubby shorts, no shirts, and THEY ISSUED
THEM BEER!!!!!
Now, *both* of those regimens *cannot* be right :-)
Things are different with those crazy Eastern shore folx ;-)
Cheers/Carron
Eastern Standard,pongo19050@...writes:
> I really question the sanity of those two. I do everything possibleAndy,
> to avoid capsize in this weather. They go out for capsize drills. I
> can only think of two good things about small boat sailing in the
> winter in the Northeast: bilges dry(freeze) quickly and no "personal
> water craft."
Customs vary by geography. This was taught me by an experience in Oz a couple
decades back. I'd been offshore a number of times on Gulf of Mexico oil rigs
and platforms. You wear hard shoes, long pants, shirts, and you drink no
alcohol. In Oz, they wore sneakers, stubby shorts, no shirts, and THEY ISSUED
THEM BEER!!!!!
Now, *both* of those regimens *cannot* be right :-)
Things are different with those crazy Eastern shore folx ;-)
Cheers/Carron