Boat Forum / Boats / March 2008

Recession fears rise on more job cuts
Fri Mar 7, 2008 7:35pm EST
By Glenn Somerville
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers unexpectedly cut jobs in February at

Not OT, because boats use it too ......
(From Hemmings Motor News)
Environmental lawsuits block ethanol expansion
So let’s get this straight: Ethanol is supposed to be the gasoline

This what I want to do...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhkbSUIpR-s
or this will do...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7QriGZBV0s&feature=related

No one has mentioned this yet here, but he has died of cancer. He was
a great blind guitar player with a unique style. He laid his guitar on
his lap and fretted it with his left hand kind of like playing a piano.

As anyone who has rafted up on Lake Lanier on any holiday weekend knows,
there just never seems to be enough beach area.  Thanks to our 2 year
drought, that lake of beach area seems to be solved.
Slide number 5 is a photo of the area of Lanier where I spend most of my

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful.
It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts
his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost
with pleasure.

A huge nasty Nor'easter winter storm grounded my son's flight from St. Louis
to Cleveland.  We have not seen him since January 4th.
The bad news is that we are expected to go into blizzard conditions late
tonight and the storm is expected to last through Saturday.

Hey, Gene, I'm making a lift, sort of a dumbwaiter if you will. My
bar, screen room, patio, deck and pool are in the back of my house,
which is a daylight basement. Above is a deck coming off of my kitchen
one floor up. So, I'm thinking of using #25 carbon steel roller chain.

...has lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs since George W. Bush took office.
Two Hundred Thousand Manufacturing Jobs.
Any bets on which way Ohio votes this fall?

Hey Krausie, I have a friend who is a boat dealer.  I showed him your
previous post, and he is wondering how in the world you did it?
From a previous post by Harry Krause about his activities as he took over
his father's boat dealership:

Rec.boats has had lots of discussion on the best boat wax/polymer, but I
don't believe I have ever read one of the WORST product.
About 8 years ago, I "experimented" with Starbrite Premium Marine Polish
with Teflon.  After 30 days, the boat was showing black streaks from air

....for gel coat.... very aggressive, but yields a slick finish.....
http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1%7C10918%7C12212%7C309352&id=641949
....right down the street from Tom.....

You have to watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEWyTHvOo54

OK,  a local guy has a "boat" a pretty good sized cuddy, and his
outdrive is locked up. Well, He found out that it's got an OMC
outdrive. He doesn't know which.
Did OMC still use "Stringers" in 1988? or were they the "Cobra"