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From: John M M. <jo...@sm...> - 2002-10-02 18:17:44
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>> Given the mood the other message was in it must be... >> >>> Did the 56.1 foot Ocean Star (worth about $500000) sailing boat: >>> >>> [ ] Run aground HARD. >>> [ ] Almost pull a catamaran in two pieces during an "anchor duel". >>> [ ] Crash into another sailing boat full of angry Germans :-) >>> [ ] Crash into the dock >>> [ ] Crash into a lamppost folding it to the ground >>> [ ] Crash into a roadsign folding it to the ground >> Mm I think I took a look at the replugin and didn't have any issues. Dropping it into the tree will be fine. Boat's and drinking eh. Ok I'll relate a boat story since this happened two week, we had an old wooden fishing boat in at the local small marina being retrofitted all last winter, say $300,000 plus excluding the cost of the 65! foot boat. Needed lots of serious calking done above the water line. On monday the crew decides move it 5 miles east to do the calking. They steam at full power out of the marina belching lots of smoke. About 10 minutes later they realize the hold is filling with water because the bow wave trickled in between the boards, which lowered the boat which made it leak faster!. In the panic that set in they managed to sink it in a major shipping channel in about 50 feet of water. I think they raised it last week, however the $300,000 of restoration work is screwed after being in the saltwater for 10 days. Ah of course it means more work because now you get to rebuild the engine and replace all the new electronics, etc. It's unclear who is paying for all this at this point. -- ======================================================================== === John M. McIntosh <jo...@sm...> 1-800-477-2659 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com ======================================================================== === |