Boat Forum / Sailing / November 2004

Ganz.
Arghhhh, barf.
CN

What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.
Gordon

5 points (Impress me with your genius)
You just bought a new boat and notice the prop is old and brittle.
You replace it with an identical prop.  After motoring around for a
while you find the top speed of the boat is much lower, estimated to

   I'm looking for "Foul weather jacket", XXXL size. Could anyone point me
to the store/retailer, selling those? (UK preferred)
Thanks.

With the possible demise of red diesel has anyone considered using cooking
oil as fuel?
Does anyone already use it?
What are the disadvantages?

Brought the boat compass from the boat into the house recently observing an
air bubble at least the size of a shilling.
So made a mental note to ask about procedure for 'topping up such a
compass'. Outside temperature at the time was about +4 C, about +40 F.

At 8.00am tomorrow.
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Best of luck and fair winds!

http://www.suntimes.com/output/laney/cst-edt-laney29.html
a teaser: This from a soldier who served with Kerry on Kerry's
boat.
"I had confrontations with him there. He nearly got us rammed by the VC one night because he wasn't watching the helm. I heard the

Is he the stand-in for Sponge Bob Square Pants?
CN

Grisoft AVG free anti-virus protection works great.
I have used NAV in the past and did not care much
for its constant interference and disk usage in
the background.

Have you thought of sailing Central America?  Belize, Roatan, Costa Rica and
Panama.   The San Blas Islands of Panama are a good destination.  Or, go
through the Canal and Up the west Coast of Costa Rica (much better than the
e. coast).

http://www.almightyzeus.com/gals/lonnie/sport/pictures/001.jpg
Could it be?
CN

cientists working off the west coast of Africa have identified sardines as
an unexpected factor in global warming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/science/earth/23fish.html

Q:  What's better than a defeated Democrat?
A:   Millions of defeated Democrats with their
      butts kicked 52 to 47 percent as we saw
      in the recent presidential election popular

The headliner in our 1970s Westerly Tiger which has been stored, is falling
away from the underside of the f.glass deck.
The headliner is/was an off white-vinyl material with a foam backing. In the
forward/focsle cabin it is also applied to some of the 'walls' as well as