Random Thoughts

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Originally Posted by K6BSO

He let the subscription lapse so he could get "Minnesota Illustrated" instead.

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How could you let that slip away?

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Originally Posted by K7SGJ

Do you still get the Lube Digest?

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No, not any more. It's so condensed that it goes right through me.

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Originally Posted by NA4BH

No, not any more. It's so condensed that it goes right through me.

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Like a bullet train?

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Originally Posted by K7SGJ

Like a bullet train?

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Faster

Like hot lava?

http://www.kivitv.com/news/meridian-...uts-on-burglar

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Originally Posted by KG4CGC

Like hot lava?

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It was like having fuzzy handcuffs on.

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Originally Posted by NA4BH

It was like having fuzzy handcuffs on.

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TML

Too Much Lube

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Originally Posted by K7SGJ

Too bad they don't just forget about technology of the day, and start sending out the old ones, starting with Volume 1 Issue 1.

That was when the rag was interesting.

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Honestly, that should be an option.

Power is finally back on, 32 hours after it went out. Nice to be back in the 21st Century again.

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Originally Posted by K6BSO

Power is finally back on, 32 hours after it went out. Nice to be back in the 21st Century again.

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Wow....

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Originally Posted by K6BSO

Power is finally back on, 32 hours after it went out. Nice to be back in the 21st Century again.

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Did'ja hear a lot of generators running in the marina?

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Originally Posted by KG4CGC

Did'ja hear a lot of generators running in the marina?

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Not a lot of them, no. Some of the large yachts had theirs going but there are not many of those at this marina. Most of the boats here are between 30 and 40 feet (and unoccupied) with only a few really large boats. There's one 60+ foot powerboat down at the end of my dock and a very large fiberglass hulled staysail schooner a couple of rows to the north. I've walked over and looked at that thing, it's truly rugged and massive but I can't figure out for what purpose it was built. I think it might have been a blue water ocean racer—there's a class of offshore schooner racing—because there are almost no portlights.

Just FYI, at 30'-1" LOA, my boat is the smallest one they would allow for a live-aboard.

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Originally Posted by K6BSO

Not a lot of them, no. Some of the large yachts had theirs going but there are not many of those at this marina. Most of the boats here are between 30 and 40 feet (and unoccupied) with only a few really large boats. There's one 60+ foot powerboat down at the end of my dock and a very large fiberglass hulled staysail schooner a couple of rows to the north. I've walked over and looked at that thing, it's truly rugged and massive but I can't figure out for what purpose it was built. I think it might have been a blue water ocean racer—there's a class of offshore schooner racing—because there are almost no portlights.

Just FYI, at 30'-1" LOA, my boat is the smallest one they would allow for a live-aboard.

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LOA: "Life On Acid."

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Originally Posted by K6BSO

Not a lot of them, no. Some of the large yachts had theirs going but there are not many of those at this marina. Most of the boats here are between 30 and 40 feet (and unoccupied) with only a few really large boats. There's one 60+ foot powerboat down at the end of my dock and a very large fiberglass hulled staysail schooner a couple of rows to the north. I've walked over and looked at that thing, it's truly rugged and massive but I can't figure out for what purpose it was built. I think it might have been a blue water ocean racer—there's a class of offshore schooner racing—because there are almost no portlights.

Just FYI, at 30'-1" LOA, my boat is the smallest one they would allow for a live-aboard.

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I'm guessing that is what they call a pothole in the water?

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Originally Posted by KG4CGC

LOA: "Life On Acid."

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LOA: Length Overall.

I did some intensive investigation of that big schooner (i.e., I asked the dockmaster). Turns out that it was a racer. It competed in the Whitbread Round the World Race.

Must've hit a portlight and bent a rim causing retirement. It's hard to change tires on those things.

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Originally Posted by NA4BH

Must've hit a portlight and bent a rim causing retirement. It's hard to change tires on those things.

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But you do fixery. Right? Right up your alley.

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Originally Posted by NA4BH

Must've hit a portlight and bent a rim causing retirement. It's hard to change tires on those things.

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This is what the thing looks like. Never saw another like it:

http://i.imgur.com/Y6Cr3y8.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/lseLvL7.jpg

These winches alone are worth more than my entire boat:

http://i.imgur.com/WnJKP0p.jpg

The thing is for sale, BTW. $200K would take it.

They have a deck full of butt plugs.

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Originally Posted by NA4BH

They have a deck full of butt plugs.

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http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c7...psyjznchc5.jpg

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Originally Posted by NA4BH

They have a deck full of butt plugs.

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That's what a butt plug looks like? I wouldn't know—unlike some others here.

Looks like the DickDockmaster got it wrong—Stella Serena was built as a pleasure craft, not as a racer. Here's the sale listing.

http://www.boatersresources.com/img.php?t=1&id=4774924

Pleasure craft? Deck full of plugs? Does that boat slide into its slip really easy?

The domain is available.

http://www.rnkws.com/www.bobslubes.com

The spring shack cleaning....

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Originally Posted by KD8TUT

The spring shack cleaning....

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Is that a before or after photo?

"What evil lurks in the White House? The Rat knows" I know-ADEE do! Jack Stephan

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Originally Posted by K7SGJ

Is that a before or after photo?

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Definitely after....

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Originally Posted by K7SGJ

Is that a before or after photo?

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:lol: Damn!

Cleans up nicer than a diamond in a goats ass for sure!

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Originally Posted by WZ7U

Cleans up nicer than a diamond in a goats ass for sure!

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Er-how many diamonds have you found this way and how long did you have to look?

Speaking of diamonds, I sent a letter to Halle Berry asking her to come live with us. I anxiously await her reply. I am assuming it has been lost in the mail system for 6 years. Hey, the Post Office is always finding stuff lost in the system. Maybe I should hand deliver the next one. Damn, she is a real cutie.

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Originally Posted by AA1OH

Er-how many diamonds have you found this way and how long did you have to look?

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Several, and it only takes a glance.

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Originally Posted by KD8TUT

The spring shack cleaning....

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Where are the radios ? Everyone knows that a radio weighs at least 500 lbs and resembles a refrigerator.

Can't you see the CB right in the middle under the screen with the waterfall? :lol:

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Originally Posted by WZ7U

Can't you see the CB right in the middle under the screen with the waterfall? :lol:

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Uniden?

From the maintenance manual for my jib furler:

1. Remove bearing assembly from the headstay.

2. Hold the bearing over a box so that when the balls fall out, which they inevitably will, they won't roll into oblivion.

I like that type of straightforward style in a manual.