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[sailSAK]

So, I have tried, mostly, to stay out of this quagmire, but I have been following it. I shouldn't, but I have...

This: "sorry .. I am embarrassed to have to address these forum posts, from the same sailors that dwell upon dismissing my contributions"
gets me. Has there ever been a contribution?

All I have learned from this greatest travesty of bandwidth wastage is NOT to anchor next to any HRs with Portabotes. I am sure there are some wonderful HR owners, but seems like the risk far outweighs any potential gain. And, well, I have my own Halibut and I caught it myself.

[DDW]

Interesting that the HP35 is grouped with the new technology and the two plastic Davis sextants are listed with the "old science".

[slap]

This: "sorry .. I am embarrassed to have to address these forum posts, from the same sailors that dwell upon dismissing my contributions"
gets me. Has there ever been a contribution?

The only contribution danni-boy has made here is entertainment. Now if he would try to make a contribution here his credibility is so shot that no one would believe him even if he said something as simple as the sky was blue. So if by some miraculous chance danni-boy actually wrote something useful, it would have to be confirmed by someone else before I would believe it, which would render danni-boys "contribution" redundant (and therefore not useful).

[Patient]

This: "sorry .. I am embarrassed to have to address these forum posts, from the same sailors that dwell upon dismissing my contributions"
gets me. Has there ever been a contribution?

The only contribution danni-boy has made here is entertainment. Now if he would try to make a contribution here his credibility is so shot that no one would believe him even if he said something as simple as the sky was blue. So if by some miraculous chance danni-boy actually wrote something useful, it would have to be confirmed by someone else before I would believe it, which would render danni-boys "contribution" redundant (and therefore not useful).

You know I have lurked here for ages. I am almost ashamed to have my first post in a D_T thread, but all I can say is WOW. I have read through almost everything that DT has posted here, including the off-site archives. As much as I think Mr. End life crisis shouldn't be here, it also serves as a lesson of what NOT to do in almost every case. From using Kerosene in an anchor lamp to using an oscillator to diagnose a non NMEA compliant engine, it is all bad advice.

I don't pretend to know more than anyone about anything, in fact despite a long history of cruising the BVI when I was a kid, some racing in my late teens and early 20s, I have a lot to learn. That really is the wonderful and captiviating aspect of sailing. There is always something to learn. So, when someone such as D_T comes around and starts spouting his absolute bullshit incoherent hemmingway-esque (With fewer nouns) advice and mindless rehtoric, you are damn right he should be ousted as a complete "tool" and anything other than a contributing member to this community. Some of his recomendations were actually dangerous (Such as using Keroseine as Lamp Oil). So people like me that come here to read the "Shipping News" and seek advice about what to actually do in a certain situation, or what to put on the cutter I want to broker this fall, it really hits a nerve. When Mr. Tayliar actually DOES complete an idea, I do not walk away from it, I RUN away from it.

Good riddence as far as I am concerened.

[D-mon]

I have read the beginning 20 post and the ending 20 post of this thread and still cannot figure what the hell anyone is talking about ......but I have a feeling I should consider myself lucky?

(except Danny commited a fake suicide? Is that a cyber suicide? Never heard of that.)

[tigger12]

(except Danny commited a fake suicide? Is that a cyber suicide? Never heard of that.)

Someone logged in purporting to be his wife, announcing that he had committed suicide.

[D-mon]

(except Danny commited a fake suicide? Is that a cyber suicide? Never heard of that.)

Someone logged in purporting to be his wife, announcing that he had committed suicide.

wow.

I assume you guys are pretty sure it was a ruse...

I thought that crap was reserved for P/A

[B.J. Porter]

(except Danny commited a fake suicide? Is that a cyber suicide? Never heard of that.)

Someone logged in purporting to be his wife, announcing that he had committed suicide.

wow.

I assume you guys are pretty sure it was a ruse...

I thought that crap was reserved for P/A

No, there is some sicker shit happening over here. Some of the P/A actors are just that...this train wreck is real and ongoing.

Suggested starting points: http://forums.sailin...p...t&p=2127852

There really is some rich material, but it is hard to explain without you actually experiencing it.

[B.J. Porter]

So, I have tried, mostly, to stay out of this quagmire, but I have been following it. I shouldn't, but I have...

This: "sorry .. I am embarrassed to have to address these forum posts, from the same sailors that dwell upon dismissing my contributions"
gets me. Has there ever been a contribution?

All I have learned from this greatest travesty of bandwidth wastage is NOT to anchor next to any HRs with Portabotes. I am sure there are some wonderful HR owners, but seems like the risk far outweighs any potential gain. And, well, I have my own Halibut and I caught it myself.

[posted via Ouija Board]

No Porta-bote on my HR. We're not all nutters, in fact DT is the only fellow HR owner I've come across that is scary and goofy like this.

They're not terribly common boats in the U.S., so when we see one (of any size) we tend to introduce ourselves. Met some nice people and picked up on some good boat tips from that.

[slap]

This: "sorry .. I am embarrassed to have to address these forum posts, from the same sailors that dwell upon dismissing my contributions"
gets me. Has there ever been a contribution?

The only contribution danni-boy has made here is entertainment. Now if he would try to make a contribution here his credibility is so shot that no one would believe him even if he said something as simple as the sky was blue. So if by some miraculous chance danni-boy actually wrote something useful, it would have to be confirmed by someone else before I would believe it, which would render danni-boys "contribution" redundant (and therefore not useful).

You know I have lurked here for ages. I am almost ashamed to have my first post in a D_T thread, but all I can say is WOW. I have read through almost everything that DT has posted here, including the off-site archives. As much as I think Mr. End life crisis shouldn't be here, it also serves as a lesson of what NOT to do in almost every case. From using Kerosene in an anchor lamp to using an oscillator to diagnose a non NMEA compliant engine, it is all bad advice.

I don't pretend to know more than anyone about anything, in fact despite a long history of cruising the BVI when I was a kid, some racing in my late teens and early 20s, I have a lot to learn. That really is the wonderful and captiviating aspect of sailing. There is always something to learn. So, when someone such as D_T comes around and starts spouting his absolute bullshit incoherent hemmingway-esque (With fewer nouns) advice and mindless rehtoric, you are damn right he should be ousted as a complete "tool" and anything other than a contributing member to this community. Some of his recomendations were actually dangerous (Such as using Keroseine as Lamp Oil). So people like me that come here to read the "Shipping News" and seek advice about what to actually do in a certain situation, or what to put on the cutter I want to broker this fall, it really hits a nerve. When Mr. Tayliar actually DOES complete an idea, I do not walk away from it, I RUN away from it.

Good riddence as far as I am concerened.

An eloquent first post - all I can say is:

Fuck off, NOOB! And show us your wifes/girlfriends tits!

Welcome.

[oldgoatroper]

An eloquent first post - all I can say is:

Fuck off, NOOB! And show us your wifes/girlfriends tits!

Welcome.

Ditto.


"Tayliar" <-- that's good; a keeper, I think...

[D-mon]

An eloquent first post - all I can say is:

Fuck off, NOOB! And show us your wifes/girlfriends tits!

Welcome.

+3

[B.J. Porter]

Someone needs to explain to Dan that Blog Counter counts all of HIS visits too, every time he refreshes a page unless you tell it not to.

And most hit counters let you pick a starting number > 0; nothing is more deadly looking on your home page than a totally lame number of visitors.

I could almost believe 250,000 self-wanks by Daniel, he updates and refreshes his blog so often he's got to be putting several hundred refreshes a day on it. 250,000 real people from the real world? No way...

[C Koch]

Something else that needs to be explained to Daniel Tayliar (love it!):

The graphic representations of maritime areas and adjacent coastal regions produced on paper (fine or otherwise) are called charts, not maps.

[D-mon]

Something else that needs to be explained to Daniel Tayliar (love it!):

The graphic representations of maritime areas and adjacent coastal regions produced on paper (fine or otherwise) are called charts, not maps.

Maps /charts

ropes/ lines


GET IT RIGHT PEOPLE!

[Timo42]

See what you did..., don't pilots call them charts too? Bad Timo, more cheap vodka for you, no rum

[briartrtpd..]

oh dear ...

the engine is warming .. we're off in just a few minutes. I noticed my hit-counter approaching 250,000, enjoy!

captain dan

Daniel

is this hits of your keyboard, or your fist on your dick?

[Patient]

An eloquent first post - all I can say is:

Fuck off, NOOB! And show us your wifes/girlfriends tits!

Welcome.

Thanks for the welcome!

Love this place, I'll work on the photos, does a pic from www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com count?

[Timo42]

An eloquent first post - all I can say is:

Fuck off, NOOB! And show us your wifes/girlfriends tits!

Welcome.

Thanks for the welcome!

Love this place, I'll work on the photos, does a pic from www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com count?

You do that and we will work up a number six on you You knew someone would look

You need to watch the initiation video and report back. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=cZNhvJjGH_4

[B.J. Porter]

oh dear ...

the engine is warming .. we're off in just a few minutes. I noticed my hit-counter approaching 250,000, enjoy!

captain dan

Daniel

is this hits of your keyboard, or your fist on your dick?

249,943 of which were made by DT no doubt.

I suspect, given Daniel's apparent complete lack of technical acumen with regards to things internet and Web related, that he's probably not found the setting to make Blogger send you an e-mail when you get a new comment.

So he's probably out there every few minutes seconds, refreshing the page to look for comments. The counter he is using is reasonably rudimentary (I checked it out for my blog) - if you Refresh the page it counts it as a new hit which it really shouldn't do. Nor, I suspect does Dan have the wherewithal to figure out how to discount his own computer from upping his hit counts.

If he was a little sharper on the technical front he'd realize that by setting the blog to automatically e-mail him new comments he would automatically get a notification every time he posted a new comment with a sock puppet and the rest of the deafening silence in his inbox meant he didn't have to refresh the page every 45 seconds.

[Jon Eisberg]

hey guys - you bet I think most RADAR reflectors are a poor investment. did you ever consider that you could have parked a sailboat over your Halibut gear and found it easy enough?

too funny ...

captain dan

Danni-boi, that's one of the more ridiculous statements I've heard from you. If you spent even 1/10,000 of the hours I've spent peering in radar screens, you would not say that. For more than 40 years, it's been the custom and practice to use octahedral reflectors to mark and locate non-reflective objects at see. Commercial fishermen still use them today, despite the availability of higher-tech, but also more expensive and less reliable alternatives.

Think about it, Danni: The livelihoods of fishing crews depend on locating their gear swiftly, efficiently and reliably during their brief fishing seasons. Billions of dollars are at stake each year, and even one lost string of gear could deplete each crewman's share by $10,000 or more PER TRIP! They rely on them because they work very well.

They light up bamboo poles very well, and they enhance the existing reflection of fiberglass sailboats. I know this because I spent years on the water looking at the blips with my own eyeballs.

You know, Whisper, I don't think DT appreciates how silly he sounds. Remember, he just says anything, anything off the cuff to try to appear to have served up a scornful rebuttal to his detractors. It is not within his mental makeup to ever allow that he just might, might be mistaken...

This whole radar reflector thing is old hat, we went thru this whole drill with him on CSBB 2 years ago..

As always, however, there remain the unanswered questions from him, I've never gotten him to touch this one:

If he thinks radar reflectors are so ineffective, why does he still have the same Firdell Blipper tacked to his mizzen that was there the day he bought SEQUEL?

And, has he still no clue that there are few reflectors out there that offer LESS bang for the buck than the Firdell? Certainly, it wins the windage/worthlessness ratio hands down... Perhaps he's too timid to go aloft to the first set of spreaders on his mizzen to retrieve it?

All his blather about cruisers testing their OWN devices, he remains blissfully ignorant of the various tests on reflectors that have been conducted, or the work of someone like Philip Gallman, PhD...

Damn, go off sailing beyond the reach of wifi for a few days, it's amazing what one can miss here, and out there... LOL!

[B.J. Porter]

Gawd this guy is an embarrassment.

Can you imagine taking your blog, publicizing it as a sailing blog on actual, real sailing related places - then spending the whole time attacking other people over the internet with it?

Seriously - there's a link to his joke of a blog on the Hallberg-Rassy web site, where fortunately for them there is a disclaimer of the content on the links. Imagine some poor guy clicking that link trying to find out information about say, a Hallberg Rassy 42, and stumbling into that cesspool of vitriolic nonsense.

Even worse is the time this guy spends gnawing his own spleen. Here he is, allegedly sailing off on vacation for the week, yet he can't wait to anchor out and pick up a Wifi single so he can post the stream of nastiness he's been chewing on since he left the slip in the morning. Does he think about anything else but trying to bully people on the internet?

Unbelievable that a grown man can do that without any self consciousness.

[lord_nougat]

May your winds be "bodacious" or whatever!

[B.J. Porter]

May your winds be "bodacious" or whatever!

DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK. SERIOUSLY. I MEAN IT: http://www.bodaciousmagazine.com/

[oldgoatroper]

May your winds be "bodacious" or whatever!

DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK. SERIOUSLY. I MEAN IT: http://www.bodaciousmagazine.com/

Heh, heh...

I know someone who would love that site.

I once received an email with a Krispy Kreme swimsuit calender attached. I could only manage quick glances at the thing without it turning my stomach.

Too bad I don't have it anymore to share with you all...

<edit>

Google image search yields up the goods...

"Join our Donut-A-Day Diet Club! Call 1-800-IMA-TONN"


October is SEX-EEE!

[C Koch]

May your winds be "bodacious" or whatever!

DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK. SERIOUSLY. I MEAN IT: http://www.bodaciousmagazine.com/

AAACCCKKK!!!! Note to self: Always, ALWAYS... take Bj's advice.

[sded]

All his blather about cruisers testing their OWN devices, he remains blissfully ignorant of the various tests on reflectors that have been conducted, or the work of someone like Philip Gallman, PhD...

Phil and I worked together back in the dark ages when we had the same customer. He is the real deal, not a poseur. Probably shouldn't mention him at the same time as DT.

[B.J. Porter]

May your winds be "bodacious" or whatever!

DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK. SERIOUSLY. I MEAN IT: http://www.bodaciousmagazine.com/

AAACCCKKK!!!! Note to self: Always, ALWAYS... take Bj's advice.

I meant it.

[oldgoatroper]

The knob is at it again...

"...lamp to using an oscillator oscilloscope [edited for correctness] to diagnose a..."


edited for correctness ~~ corrected


DT's writing rule #1:

Always use as many words as possible even when fewer will suffice.


DT's writing rule #2:

Whenever possible .. make up your own puctuation.


DT'2 writing rule #3:

The more divergent ideas contained in a paragraph or sentence reduces the need for capitalization.

[briartrtpd..]

Well the video of the new chart plotter never arrived.
I'd say that the delay leaving on friday delayed the pick up of the new plotter saturday morning along with the new outboard.

Will it ever appear ?
was he able to cancel the order now the boats on the market?
does he know the difference between maps and charts?

just so many questions left unanswered

[palindrome]

Well the video of the new chart plotter never arrived.

Shouldn't that read MAP plotter ?

Pal

[C Koch]

The knob is at it again...

"...lamp to using an oscillator oscilloscope [edited for correctness] to diagnose a..."


edited for correctness ~~ corrected


DT's writing rule #1:

Always use as many words as possible even when fewer will suffice.

DT writing rule #1A:

Always use a long, obscure, PAW word even when a shorter, more common word will suffice.

[oldgoatroper]

Something else that needs to be explained to Daniel Tayliar (love it!):

The graphic representations of maritime areas and adjacent coastal regions produced on paper (fine or otherwise) are called charts, not maps.

You know I just brushed by this comment yesterday and didn't give it much thought. Often folks who have only been sailing a short amount of time make such mistakes with charts and lines and what not. Then it dawned on me, don't pilots also refer to "maps" as charts? Wouldn't someone with the number of hours flying commercial routes that DT has claimed to flown naturally call 'maps' 'charts'?
Since I am a curious fellow I thought I would do a little research...........
Mypilotstore.com
Sporty's.com/pilotshop
Skyvector.com
Looks like DT is going down in flames!

Parallel to the above:

The very first thing that I was told in my first SCUBA lesson was "they're called fins, not flippers." Apparently, all new students are taught this.

Now when I hear someone calling them "fins", that's a pretty good indication they are a certified diver -- yet it is not a certainty that they are.

However, when someone calls them flippers, you pretty much know for sure they haven't any SCUBA training...

[Timo42]

The knob is at it again...

"...lamp to using an oscillator oscilloscope [edited for correctness] to diagnose a..."


edited for correctness ~~ corrected


DT's writing rule #1:

Always use as many words as possible even when fewer will suffice.


DT's writing rule #2:

Whenever possible .. make up your own puctuation.


DT'2 writing rule #3:

The more divergent ideas contained in a paragraph or sentence reduces the need for capitalization.

Come on you guys are being too hard on him, remember he said that he didn't learn to write until he got to Stanford

[tigger12]

DT's writing rule #1:

Always use as many words as possible even when fewer will suffice.

Never use a small word when a diminutive one will do.

[Shife]

Er, that would be cretin.

"Angeline's no cretin, Boss. She's Puerto Rican."

[Albatros]

I'm utterly amazed, how come nobody has asked so far, now that he's wielding a camera ... the obvious question : show us Miss Oregon's tits doing a tassel job ? those would be his very first informative and interesting shots, he can redeem himself CUM laude !

[Jon Eisberg]

I'm utterly amazed, how come nobody has asked so far, now that he's wielding a camera ... the obvious question : show us Miss Oregon's tits doing a tassel job ? those would be his very first informative and interesting shots, he can redeem himself CUM laude !

C'mon 'tros, give him time, it may be included in some of the bodacious video/imagery he is apparently still uploading/sorting through... though, at least for me, his site appears to have gone strangely blank of content, again - there has been another "convergence" of some sort, it would seem...

Three things we will definitely not be seeing from yet another midwinter battle with the Great Strait, however:

a glimpse of his Raymarine 90-series plotter in his cockpit...

his spinnaker/chute and its sock/snuffer, whatever he's calling it now...

the infamous Tripod Bridal in deployment...

[sculpin]

Three things we will definitely not be seeing from yet another midwinter battle with the Great Strait, however:

a glimpse of his Raymarine 90-series plotter in his cockpit...

his spinnaker/chute and its sock/snuffer, whatever he's calling it now...

the infamous Tripod Bridal in deployment...

You'd think he would seize on an opportunity to take a picture of all this new gear on Sequel as a means to prove or at least give credibility to his claims of being a field tester for Raymarine. But all he's got time for is to take a picture of a HP calculator...

DT - take some pics of the new gear - multi function display, super plotter, and the AIS... it's called proof...

[Whisper]

I'm utterly amazed, how come nobody has asked so far, now that he's wielding a camera ... the obvious question : show us Miss Oregon's tits doing a tassel job ? those would be his very first informative and interesting shots, he can redeem himself CUM laude !

C'mon 'tros, give him time, it may be included in some of the bodacious video/imagery he is apparently still uploading/sorting through... though, at least for me, his site appears to have gone strangely blank of content, again - there has been another "convergence" of some sort, it would seem...

Three things we will definitely not be seeing from yet another midwinter battle with the Great Strait, however:

a glimpse of his Raymarine 90-series plotter in his cockpit...

his spinnaker/chute and its sock/snuffer, whatever he's calling it now...

the infamous Tripod Bridal in deployment...

Why is he working so hard to defend calculators? I have two on my boat, not counting the iPhones--and one is solar powered. I also have slide rules and tables, which also work just fine. There's nothing wrong with calculators--just don't bet the life of your crew on them working when you need them most.

I must say, however, that in the 40+ years I've been on the water, I have NEVER lost a chart overboard--unlike DT's suggestion. I keep the appropriate chart taped to the chart table, where I can plot on a nice, smooth, dry, wind-free surface. Wrestling charts in the cockpit never works well for me because of the wind, spray, uneven writing surfaces, and spilling beer. Also, I keep the most recent manually-updated old charts as backups when I replace them.

Somehow, I envision DT battling a 5-knot breeze in the cockpit while struggling to fold the Texaco map that got him there, and he and the map get blown into the drink. That's a good time for Debbie to use all the Raymarine MOB gizmos. Or, not.

[svgreatwhite]

When there is a large electro magnetic pulse that destroys all the electronics, then the people who remember how to use slide rules and still own them will RULE THE WORLD!!!!!

[Jon Eisberg]

I must say, however, that in the 40+ years I've been on the water, I have NEVER lost a chart overboard--unlike DT's suggestion.

Probably a holdover from the time his Porta-Bote flipped whilst being towed in a gale, and he lost the oars and other gear he'd neglected to remove beforehand...

Methinks his mind conjures up all sorts of monsters hidden beneath the bed of venturing 100 miles offshore, or simply puttering about the Archipelago... For example, one of his primary arguments in favour of autopilots over windvanes, is the likelihood of a vane being damaged or ripped off by a collision with another boat... LOL!

True to form, our favourite Drama Queen's old slide-rule could not possibly have found its way into a landfill, like every other discarded one on the planet... His must be, with great ceremony, "tossed overboard", and now litters some shore of Puget Sound...

[Albatros]

on seeing those vids and his sales list, again one of the major questions comes up : why is that book about kroozing routes there, why is that ship equipped like it's about to set off for a mars (non-analogous, purely digital) voyage, equipped to the teeth, there is more redundancy there than on most of the big cargo's I worked on ... when all the sucker is doing is making 25 mile runs in the same 100 mile radius, anchoring, wifi'ing and that's it, geez, what a life, can imagine the guy's frustration, maybe he should have wrapped that anchor around his missus' neck instead of his sockpuppet's and finally put his money where his mouth is.
saw a mid 90's HR42 (his is early 80's) on sale that is equipped on same level as his list, and it goes for 50k Euro less ... would that be the price of his bodaceous ego and fame ?

[sculpin]

Somehow, I envision DT battling a 5-knot breeze in the cockpit while struggling to fold the Texaco map that got him there, and he and the map get blown into the drink. That's a good time for Debbie to use all the Raymarine MOB gizmos. Or, not.

... and listening to his TomTom GPS say "turn left now"...

[MaxLength]

I'm utterly amazed, how come nobody has asked so far, now that he's wielding a camera ... the obvious question : show us Miss Oregon's tits doing a tassel job ? those would be his very first informative and interesting shots, he can redeem himself CUM laude !

Funny you should mention that. I was just in contact with Mr. Tayliar and suggested that he use the theme of his latest post --"old meets new - convergence" [link] -- to reveal (at last) Miss Oregon's old titties with his newfangled camera technology. A "convergence" that, I suspect, more than a few casual readers of his blog (and there are only a few readers in total) might be interested in. Or, not.

The response from him has, so far, been a deafening "stay tuned".

[B.J. Porter]

I'm utterly amazed, how come nobody has asked so far, now that he's wielding a camera ... the obvious question : show us Miss Oregon's tits doing a tassel job ? those would be his very first informative and interesting shots, he can redeem himself CUM laude !

C'mon 'tros, give him time, it may be included in some of the bodacious video/imagery he is apparently still uploading/sorting through... though, at least for me, his site appears to have gone strangely blank of content, again - there has been another "convergence" of some sort, it would seem...

Three things we will definitely not be seeing from yet another midwinter battle with the Great Strait, however:

a glimpse of his Raymarine 90-series plotter in his cockpit...

his spinnaker/chute and its sock/snuffer, whatever he's calling it now...

the infamous Tripod Bridal in deployment...

Not on the bow anyway, and I don't WANT to think what he might be doing with it in his cabin.

[D-mon]

May your winds be "bodacious" or whatever!

DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK. SERIOUSLY. I MEAN IT: http://www.bodaciousmagazine.com/

AAACCCKKK!!!! Note to self: Always, ALWAYS... take Bj's advice.

I meant it.

Fat chicks need love too

[oldgoatroper]

the infamous Tripod Bridal in deployment...

Not on the bow anyway, and I don't WANT to think what he might be doing with it in his cabin.

This is the picture that came to my mind...

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[DDW]

Why is he working so hard to defend calculators? I have two on my boat, not counting the iPhones--and one is solar powered. I also have slide rules and tables, which also work just fine. There's nothing wrong with calculators--just don't bet the life of your crew on them working when you need them most.

Nothing wrong with slide rules at all. Want more accuracy? Get a bigger one. The one I have for example, is very useful on a boat. Very accurate due to its size, and doubles as a life raft should the boat go down. Hard to fit in a standard pocket protector though... Dan'l would understand....


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Oh, by the way, the WD40 is for speed calculations.

[sculpin]

Why is he working so hard to defend calculators? I have two on my boat, not counting the iPhones--and one is solar powered. I also have slide rules and tables, which also work just fine. There's nothing wrong with calculators--just don't bet the life of your crew on them working when you need them most.

Nothing wrong with slide rules at all. Want more accuracy? Get a bigger one. The one I have for example, is very useful on a boat. Very accurate due to its size, and doubles as a life raft should the boat go down. Hard to fit in a standard pocket protector though... Dan'l would understand....


 Sliderule.jpg   118.82K   43 downloads

Oh, by the way, the WD40 is for speed calculations.

That's a slide rule? I thought it was a folding oar...

[DDW]

Why is he working so hard to defend calculators? I have two on my boat, not counting the iPhones--and one is solar powered. I also have slide rules and tables, which also work just fine. There's nothing wrong with calculators--just don't bet the life of your crew on them working when you need them most.

Nothing wrong with slide rules at all. Want more accuracy? Get a bigger one. The one I have for example, is very useful on a boat. Very accurate due to its size, and doubles as a life raft should the boat go down. Hard to fit in a standard pocket protector though... Dan'l would understand....


 Sliderule.jpg   118.82K   43 downloads

Oh, by the way, the WD40 is for speed calculations.

That's a slide rule? I thought it was a folding oar...

Yet another use. Try rowing your dinghy with a damn HP35. Hard on it, and not much speed either.

[C Koch]

the infamous Tripod Bridal in deployment...

Not on the bow anyway, and I don't WANT to think what he might be doing with it in his cabin.

This is the picture that came to my mind...

 deploybridaltripod.jpg   18.85K   28 downloads

Close, but the hat ain't right. Anyone good at photoshop?

[svgreatwhite]

Why is he working so hard to defend calculators? I have two on my boat, not counting the iPhones--and one is solar powered. I also have slide rules and tables, which also work just fine. There's nothing wrong with calculators--just don't bet the life of your crew on them working when you need them most.

Nothing wrong with slide rules at all. Want more accuracy? Get a bigger one. The one I have for example, is very useful on a boat. Very accurate due to its size, and doubles as a life raft should the boat go down. Hard to fit in a standard pocket protector though... Dan'l would understand....


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Oh, by the way, the WD40 is for speed calculations.

I tried to buy one of these off ebay, but I could not keep up with the bidding!

Instructors in both my high school and college had big slide rules like these above the chalk boards. The instructors and students could work problems together. My second year of college actually had a slide rule course. I still have the text book. It was funny to see some of the students carry around their Post slide rules on their belts. Even when I went to work in 1973 in the aerospace industry, we used slide rules and the company also provided trig tables(yuck). I did not buy my first scientific calculator until 1976. By then, some of the engineers were wearing their calculators on their belts.

The last few years I thought it was funny to see the looks from the new engineers when I would pull out a slide rule at work and ask them if they knew how to use it! I still enjoy using them.

[oldgoatroper]

the infamous Tripod Bridal in deployment...

Not on the bow anyway, and I don't WANT to think what he might be doing with it in his cabin.

This is the picture that came to my mind...

Close, but the hat ain't right. Anyone good at photoshop?

Oops, I forgot to add it...

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[DDW]

The last few years I thought it was funny to see the looks from the new engineers when I would pull out a slide rule at work and ask them if they knew how to use it! I still enjoy using them.

Actually for chain calculations where 4 decimal accuracy isn't required, a good slide rule operator can beat a guy punching buttons easily. It is hard to wear my high accuracy version on the belt - whacks you in the face every step. A real chick magnet though.

[stickboy]

OK I finally gave in and watched the video and put a voice to our smiling punching bag. All along I have thought he is truly disturbed but now putting some intonation to the thought processes I realize he's just a pure bullshit artist. In a personal face to face situation I suspect he can keep the verbal diarrhea flowing to smother his ignorance, where as in the written format his stupidity lingers in dead air for all to analyze.

Picture "Of course I'm an airline pilot, have been for years! Can I get you another glass of wine? Did I tell you about the time we almost hit a tanker crossing the Straights? Good thing I had the latest model of Three-Letter-Acronym onboard that I was testing for Raytheon. Sure, I've been doing research for them for years! Did we tell you what we're having for dinner? It's going to be BODACIOUS!!" and as long as the shit flows fast enough it never bites him in the ass.

Yea, we love our maps. Sheesh. What a blowhard.

[Timo42]

Wish I knew what happened to my dad's Curta calculator, I was the only kid in class with a HP45 calculator when Dad got a HP67c, rember the magnetic strips? Still have his sliderule though, after the battery died the 45 was just a paperweight but the sliderule is still working just fine

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[DDW]

Wish I knew what happened to my dad's Curta calculator, I was the only kid in class with a HP45 calculator when Dad got a HP67c, rember the magnetic strips? Still have his sliderule though, after the battery died the 45 was just a paperweight but the sliderule is still working just fine

Hey I still got an HP65, with the magnetic strips. Its programmable, don't cha know. Pretty slick in its day. Maybe I'll get it out and set dress my saloon table with that and the old plastic sextant, put it up on the internet!

BTW, those Curtas are worth quite a bit of change these days I understand.

[Whisper]

Why is he working so hard to defend calculators? I have two on my boat, not counting the iPhones--and one is solar powered. I also have slide rules and tables, which also work just fine. There's nothing wrong with calculators--just don't bet the life of your crew on them working when you need them most.

Nothing wrong with slide rules at all. Want more accuracy? Get a bigger one. The one I have for example, is very useful on a boat. Very accurate due to its size, and doubles as a life raft should the boat go down. Hard to fit in a standard pocket protector though... Dan'l would understand....


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Oh, by the way, the WD40 is for speed calculations.

That's a slide rule? I thought it was a folding oar...

Yet another use. Try rowing your dinghy with a damn HP35. Hard on it, and not much speed either.

OK, now I have Wild Turkey spewing out my nose!!!

[Jon Eisberg]

I'm fully in awe for the careful staging of the cruising route book (the one he doesn't really need, except for dreaming), the piccie machine and the jaunty cap, he ain't yet on par for a director's oscar, but for staging and propping he can be shortlisted in the 5th grade oscar division.

Yeah, that's fucking classic, like walking into a cheap Las Vegas motel room, and finding a Gideon's Bible on the night table...

well, I suppose when the Sea is your Church, and Sailing your Religion, ol' Jimmy becomes your Jesus, and Cornell's tome your Bible, and it's never far from reach...

Really, though, I would have thought he'd favour the Admiralty's OCEAN PASSAGES OF THE WORLD, I believe it also includes a better description of the four-metre breakers often encountered on that route...

I also thought the weather forecast playing in the background was a nice touch, as if departure was imminent... However, the High Seas Forecast on SSB would have been a bit more impressive...

Can't wait for our ex-airline pilot's video of him going through his Pre-Departure Checklist, that would be a classic... (grin)

[svgreatwhite]

Wish I knew what happened to my dad's Curta calculator, I was the only kid in class with a HP45 calculator when Dad got a HP67c, rember the magnetic strips? Still have his sliderule though, after the battery died the 45 was just a paperweight but the sliderule is still working just fine

Hey I still got an HP65, with the magnetic strips. Its programmable, don't cha know. Pretty slick in its day. Maybe I'll get it out and set dress my saloon table with that and the old plastic sextant, put it up on the internet!

BTW, those Curtas are worth quite a bit of change these days I understand.

There are a few of these for sale on ebay, and yes they are pretty expensive for basically a collectable. Sure would go well with my slide rule collection..........

[Albatros]

LOT'S MORE



yep, he's a semantic genius


or should that be


ye'p; hez a zemanti'c zeniuz ?


boy o boy, am I staying tooned for the list where the difference will be made between a baby Steinway, a juvenile Bechstein and a mature Bosendorfer... gone sailing.

[Jon Eisberg]

LOT'S MORE



yep, he's a semantic genius


boy o boy, am I staying tooned for the list where the difference will be made between a baby Steinway, a juvenile Bechstein and a mature Bosendorfer... gone sailing.

LOL! Well, at least Gatekeeper will soon know once and for all whether a Lofrans windlass is a bodacious winner, or a big-time loser...

Think he'll still be claiming the 2-knot boost he gets from the Hasse high-clewed genoa?

Think we'll finally see a piccie of his ATN snuffer?

If his Firdell Blipper is such a loser, why wasn't it long-ago "dismissed" from his mizzen?

One can only pray it will be in the form of another cinema-verite', no?

"All right, Mr. DeMille - we are ready for your close-up..."

[DDW]

as an engineering student at the University of Texas in 1968, the slide-rule was my nemesis. I hated that darn thing .. and dropped out of more than one engineering and physics class because of its recalcitrance and refusal to yield correct answers!

I found that to be an interesting admission. It is a poor workman that blames his tools.

[Jon Eisberg]

LOT'S MORE



yep, he's a semantic genius

'tros, a delicious coincidence just occurred to me...

Imagine how it would pain him to know his faulty use of the English language has been corrected by someone from across the Pond -
one of those lowland Bananians for whom English is likely only their 3rd or 4th language? LMFAO!

Think he'll ever figure that out? (grin)

[Jon Eisberg]

as an engineering student at the University of Texas in 1968, the slide-rule was my nemesis. I hated that darn thing .. and dropped out of more than one engineering and physics class because of its recalcitrance and refusal to yield correct answers!

I found that to be an interesting admission. It is a poor workman that blames his tools.

Never, ever, have I run across someone so chronically beset by recalcitrance - from head-hoses to slide rules, the list is neverending, the word his favourite universally descriptive P-AW...

[oldgoatroper]

I wonder when the blog entries that are more than one week old are going to "sail on to doublereef.wordpress.com"

Does he ever actually do anything that he says he's going to -- to completion?

Or at least, to some stage beyond an initial brouhaha start?

[slap]

as an engineering student at the University of Texas in 1968, the slide-rule was my nemesis. I hated that darn thing .. and dropped out of more than one engineering and physics class because of its recalcitrance and refusal to yield correct answers!

I found that to be an interesting admission. It is a poor workman that blames his tools.

Didn't danni-boy claim to have gone to Stanford? Or maybe he meant Sanford.



"We buy and sell junk". Sounds like danni.

[MaxLength]

as an engineering student at the University of Texas in 1968, the slide-rule was my nemesis. I hated that darn thing .. and dropped out of more than one engineering and physics class because of its recalcitrance and refusal to yield correct answers!

I found that to be an interesting admission. It is a poor workman that blames his tools.

Didn't danni-boy claim to have gone to Stanford? Or maybe he meant Sanford.

"We buy and sell junk". Sounds like danni.

I hope he enlightens the blog-reading public as to what exactly he needs a Honda generator for in the San Juans? I've always considered them useful as an emergency/backup power source, but not for regular use by any means...and certainly not in a place as, frankly, suburban as the San Juans or Port Townsend and Friday Harbor!

If they don't have municipal noise bylaws, they ought to now, as the hordes of Doublereef wannabe cruisers show up, Honda generators a-blazin' on their foredecks..."but officer, Captain Dan himself advised me to get one...I read it on his BLOG!"

[Jon Eisberg]

I wonder when the blog entries that are more than one week old are going to "sail on to doublereef.wordpress.com"

Cut him some slack, OGR, he's "just relaxin'..."

he's so laid back on his Spring Break, he's no longer even bothering to make up names for those leaving Comments to his blog, they're all just "Anonymous" now...

Of course, the "one guy" who mentioned his fear of damaging a vane in a "collision offshore" never wrote such a thing.... LOL!

[Jon Eisberg]

I hope he enlightens the blog-reading public as to what exactly he needs a Honda generator for in the San Juans? I've always considered them useful as an emergency/backup power source, but not for regular use by any means...and certainly not in a place as, frankly, suburban as the San Juans or Port Townsend and Friday Harbor!

If they don't have municipal noise bylaws, they ought to now, as the hordes of Doublereef wannabe cruisers show up, Honda generators a-blazin' on their foredecks..."but officer, Captain Dan himself advised me to get one...I read it on his BLOG!"

Guess you missed it, the relevant entries/Comments of a week or two ago have since been deleted from his blog...

He admitted the Honda is his principal means of keeping his batteries charged during the 250 days each year he claims to be at anchor...

Entirely plausible, of course, as he has neither solar nor wind power on SEQUEL at the moment...

[Jon Eisberg]

Does he ever actually do anything that he says he's going to -- to completion?

Of course not....

Over two week now, and we're still staying tuned for the answer to his quiz of why some guy's Marinco 30-amp plug melted down without tripping the breaker, or for him to defend his position that solar panel controllers are a "dollop of snake oil..."

To be fair, we do have to demonstrate some patience, here... Think of all the time, for example, it must take him to find all those online brochure photos of all the crap he has on SEQUEL....

[Point Break]

Wish I knew what happened to my dad's Curta calculator, I was the only kid in class with a HP45 calculator when Dad got a HP67c, rember the magnetic strips? Still have his sliderule though, after the battery died the 45 was just a paperweight but the sliderule is still working just fine

I still have my old slipstick...............in its custom leather belt case!!! It was especially cool and had the extra strong suspension thingees on the slide for super accuracy and ease of use. I shudder to think what I paid for it back then..................

[Point Break]

Can't wait for our ex-airline pilot's video of him going through his Pre-Departure Checklist, that would be a classic... (grin)

Doesn't that give any of you video/parody experts any ideas? In the right creative hands, a video camera and you tube could be a CA classic moment. I'm just saying...........................

[Timo42]

I wonder when the blog entries that are more than one week old are going to "sail on to doublereef.wordpress.com"

Does he ever actually do anything that he says he's going to -- to completion?

Or at least, to some stage beyond an initial brouhaha start?

Well he does have a son...

[sculpin]

Does he ever actually do anything that he says he's going to -- to completion?

Or at least, to some stage beyond an initial brouhaha start?

Well he does have a son...

Which probably only required his attention for what, 3 minutes? Maybe 5? Having a son is easy. Having a son who respects you???

[Albatros]

Think of all the time, for example, it must take him to find all those online brochure photos of all the crap he has on SEQUEL....

And that out of all that crap, for somebody calling himself a sailor, captain to boot, damning all of us armchair and weekend sailors, eternally showing off the cruising routes books, musing about Moitessier ... without a millisec of hesitation it's a generator that comes out on top of his list, now that is really telling something. Yer 'onor, I rest my case, amen.

[sculpin]

Think of all the time, for example, it must take him to find all those online brochure photos of all the crap he has on SEQUEL....

And that out of all that crap, for somebody calling himself a sailor, captain to boot, damning all of us armchair and weekend sailors, eternally showing off the cruising routes books, musing about Moitessier ... without a millisec of hesitation it's a generator that comes out on top of his list, now that is really telling something. Yer 'onor, I rest my case, amen.

And not just a generator, a cottage type unit! It's a great concept on the surface, but I would be nervous to use this method - how do you store it (gas fumes?)? How do you ensure the carbon monoxide doesn't migrate into your cabin (not a proper exhaust setup)? How do you ensure it survives and is useful in a real sailing environment?

OK, so lets say I'm 3 days into a 6 day downwind leg, need to charge the batteries, in lumpy seas... I've got a gas powered thing lashed on deck somewhere, I'm hoping the exhaust doesn't go down the companionway, and I'm hoping the weather doesn't kill it... interesting plan.

The fact he is so pleased with this speaks volumes about the type of "cruising" he does.

[Jon Eisberg]

And not just a generator, a cottage type unit! It's a great concept on the surface, but I would be nervous to use this method - how do you store it (gas fumes?)? How do you ensure the carbon monoxide doesn't migrate into your cabin (not a proper exhaust setup)? How do you ensure it survives and is useful in a real sailing environment?

OK, so lets say I'm 3 days into a 6 day downwind leg, need to charge the batteries, in lumpy seas... I've got a gas powered thing lashed on deck somewhere, I'm hoping the exhaust doesn't go down the companionway, and I'm hoping the weather doesn't kill it... interesting plan.

The fact he is so pleased with this speaks volumes about the type of "cruising" he does.

Nah, you're forgetting he's The Master of Multi-Purpose, word is that he had Etienne Gregoire design a special attachment to his ATN sock that vents the exhaust out the top of the sleeve...

I'm sure it was all explained in his Passagemaking Primer to Hawaii on zensailing.com, how seamlessly that sort of battery charging melds with sailing beyond the 100-fathom curve...

[oldgoatroper]

Well, I can certainly understand that a person might be philosophically opposed to stem cell research or philosophically opposed to the women's vote or philosophically opposed to capital punishment or even philosophically opposed to space exploration or two-stoke engines but what phuquing moral (or otherwise) ground is Danni-boy standing on when he says he is "philosophically opposed to wind-generators on a boat"?

Am I missing something, here? Or is our little plaything just blathering, as usual?

[sailSAK]

Well, I can certainly understand that a person might be philosophically opposed to stem cell research or philosophically opposed to the women's vote or philosophically opposed to capital punishment or even philosophically opposed to space exploration or two-stoke engines but what phuquing moral (or otherwise) ground is Danni-boy standing on when he says he is "philosophically opposed to wind-generators on a boat"?

Am I missing something, here? Or is our little plaything just blathering, as usual?

Propellers are for airplanes. Duh.

[lord_nougat]

Well, I can certainly understand that a person might be philosophically opposed to stem cell research or philosophically opposed to the women's vote or philosophically opposed to capital punishment or even philosophically opposed to space exploration or two-stoke engines but what phuquing moral (or otherwise) ground is Danni-boy standing on when he says he is "philosophically opposed to wind-generators on a boat"?

Am I missing something, here? Or is our little plaything just blathering, as usual?

Maybe they cause the bodaciousness quotient to plummet.
I bet if we all stay tuned, he'll explain it all, but not in terms mere mortals will be able to comprehend, of course.

[MaxLength]

Well, I can certainly understand that a person might be philosophically opposed to stem cell research or philosophically opposed to the women's vote or philosophically opposed to capital punishment or even philosophically opposed to space exploration or two-stoke engines but what phuquing moral (or otherwise) ground is Danni-boy standing on when he says he is "philosophically opposed to wind-generators on a boat"?

Am I missing something, here? Or is our little plaything just blathering, as usual?

Propellers are for airplanes. Duh.

That's the easiest and probably most acceptable way to weasel out of anything --as in, "I'm philosophically opposed to abortion", or whatever. Using that rhetorical tactic automatically says to others "end of story/unacceptable to me/no more questions asked". For how can you question the rightness or wrongness or someone's "philosophy"? Which is very odd coming from someone claiming to be such a technophile. How in the world someone could philosophically opposed to wind generators (or solar panels --or autoplots for that matter) on a boat is beyond me. How? Well, it's quite simply inane, which Captain Dan is good at.

I'd like to hear another reason for his opposition to wind generators (and solar panels, etc.) apart from philosophical objections (whatever in the hell that really means)!

For what it's worth, I'm not philosophically opposed to Honda generators on boats --but I am most assuredly philosophically opposed to running them in places where anybody else could hear them, including my wife on board, anchorage neighbors, etc. (unless it was for an emergency or something and not for a long period of time). But for the love of God, if you're going to be "philosophically opposed" to something on a boat, let it be a diesel engine...or a Honda generator, for that matter. But a wind generator? How about egg beaters on a boat? Actually, here's something I'm philosophically opposed to on a boat: soft drinks like Coca Cola, etc. None of that crap on my boat, even if it is a rum mixer! Takes up too much storage space, tastes like shit (unless mixed with alcohol), and it's bad for you! Alcohol packs more punch for volume of storage space, tastes good, and is only bad for you in large quantities (your mileage may vary )

[palindrome]

Phucktard, does it again with his generator big thumbs up. Hmm lets say he sits at anchor for a few days and wants to charge up. Considering he is running more electric shit, than the combat and control center on your average missle cruiser, I figure he has to be down 200 amps at least. Now according to you know who he

"adjusts engine output proportional to electric demand. this allows me to set my Xantrex charger at ~33% which throttles the generator down close to idle if required. very quiet

Whatever the hell that means, I mean how in hell to you set the charger at 33%. but I digress at 40 amps output from say a truecharge 40 it would take 5 hours of putt puttt putt. But wait there is more as we all know, well everyone but Phucktard, the batteries can't absorb that much juice without gassing and over heating so now Phucktard is sitting in a bay with the genset going for a minimum of ten hours to top up and he is opposed to wind generators, WTF?

Pal

[svgreatwhite]

The part I find comical is that he gets on BJ about buying a two stroke outboard but shuns a wind generator in favor of a two stroke gas powered genset.
Now I get that that wind generators make an annoying sound (not that that Honda is quiet) and frankly I wouldn't have one on my boat, but then again I have no qualms about a two stroke outboard. But if DT wants to go on like some hippy-dippy nature boy all concerned about the environment, then he should not be such a hypocrite and run his little genset for hours on end. Then again none of us should be surprised at his endless selfishness I suppose.

The Honda generators are four stroke. And they are quieter, but it seems clumsy to rely on it for charging batteries. I would hate to have to carry around all the extra gas. Small diesel gensets are pretty efficient and sound a lot quieter than a honda. Some friends that just got back from a four year cruise to the South Pacific in a 43 foot Brewer had a small diesel genset and I believe it only put out DC. If they needed AC they went thru an inverter. It supplied all their needs even when they anchored for several months in Kiribati. Don't know if they had solar or wind generation.

[sculpin]

Phucktard, does it again with his generator big thumbs up. Hmm lets say he sits at anchor for a few days and wants to charge up. Considering he is running more electric shit, than the combat and control center on your average missle cruiser, I figure he has to be down 200 amps at least.

Pal

That assumes he actually has all that Raymarine stuff he claims to have. Anyone can pull pictures of fancy gear off the internet. And don't forget that the refrigeration does not work (or at least didn't work until recently). So on the hook the daily draw would be fairly minimal... a benefit of having non-functional systems!

[Whisper]

Phucktard, does it again with his generator big thumbs up. Hmm lets say he sits at anchor for a few days and wants to charge up. Considering he is running more electric shit, than the combat and control center on your average missle cruiser, I figure he has to be down 200 amps at least.

Pal

That assumes he actually has all that Raymarine stuff he claims to have. Anyone can pull pictures of fancy gear off the internet. And don't forget that the refrigeration does not work (or at least didn't work until recently). So on the hook the daily draw would be fairly minimal... a benefit of having non-functional systems!

The phucktard is having a 3-way conversation with himself in the comment section. Nothing new--the same old shit. Narcissists never change their meme. The dude needs heavy duty therapy, which could help, but will never save him. He'll deteriorate until death.

[B.J. Porter]

Phucktard, does it again with his generator big thumbs up. Hmm lets say he sits at anchor for a few days and wants to charge up. Considering he is running more electric shit, than the combat and control center on your average missle cruiser, I figure he has to be down 200 amps at least.

Pal

That assumes he actually has all that Raymarine stuff he claims to have. Anyone can pull pictures of fancy gear off the internet. And don't forget that the refrigeration does not work (or at least didn't work until recently). So on the hook the daily draw would be fairly minimal... a benefit of having non-functional systems!

The phucktard is having a 3-way conversation with himself in the comment section. Nothing new--the same old shit. Narcissists never change their meme. The dude needs heavy duty therapy, which could help, but will never save him. He'll deteriorate until death.

The whole comment thing is beyond strange. You notice how all the Pro Daniel comments are all anonymous? And all the anti-Daniel comments from alleged SA'ers are also anonymous?

You'd think with his endless patience making sock puppets here he'd do the same thing with Google accounts just to give himself credibility.





(wait for it...within 48 hours expect lots of "comments" from registered Blogger users...with no blogs on their public profiles. I think tonybilardi.blogspot.com is still open.)

[Jon Eisberg]

"adjusts engine output proportional to electric demand. this allows me to set my Xantrex charger at ~33% which throttles the generator down close to idle if required. very quiet

Whatever the hell that means, I mean how in hell to you set the charger at 33%. but I digress at 40 amps output from say a truecharge 40 it would take 5 hours of putt puttt putt. But wait there is more as we all know, well everyone but Phucktard, the batteries can't absorb that much juice without gassing and over heating so now Phucktard is sitting in a bay with the genset going for a minimum of ten hours to top up and he is opposed to wind generators, WTF?

Pal

Heart Freedom and Xantrex chargers do have a "Power Share" adjustment for this sort of application, when a depleted battery bank woulld be demanding a rate of charge which could overload the AC source powering the charger (in this case, a Honda portable generator)... I have a Honda 1000 reserved for emergencies, but unless I dial the Power Share mode on my older Heart Inverter/Charger down considerably using the Link 2000 control panel, the Honda will shut down from overloading immediately...

That is the only reason for using the Power Share feature, however... To do so to dampen the sound of the Honda makes no sense whatsoever, as you mention such a tactic only increases the amount of time you'll be running the thing to obtain an equivalent charge...

Really, the folks at Honda might want to obtain a testimonial from this clown, for his claims of living at anchor 250 day/s per year for 5 years now, and his Honda being the sole source of battery charging on a 42-foot liveaboard boat, he must have put tens of thousands of hours on the fucker by now... Shit, no wonder he uses their brochure photo...

Yeah, we can only hope he further elucidates his "philosophical opposition" to windpower, perhaps it somehow dovetails with his objection to Windvanes as opposed to autopilots - "old school technology", and all that? (grin)

He's right, of course, about "solar power not always being an option"... yeah, especially when you don't have any - auto-rotational, or not...

[Jon Eisberg]

The whole comment thing is beyond strange. You notice how all the Pro Daniel comments are all anonymous? And all the anti-Daniel comments from alleged SA'ers are also anonymous?

You'd think with his endless patience making sock puppets here he'd do the same thing with Google accounts just to give himself credibility.

You gotta love the fact that he goes through the trouble to spell the word correctly (disguising his signature penchant for British spellings) when a sockpuppet inquires as to which teak-deck caulking Miss Oregon favors, but then doesn't even bother to address the simple question in his subsequent reply...

LMFAO!

[oldgoatroper]

You gotta love the fact that he goes through the trouble to spell the word correctly (disguising his signature penchant for British spellings) when a sockpuppet inquires as to which teak-deck caulking Miss Oregon favors, but then doesn't even bother to address the simple question in his subsequent reply...

LMFAO!

Heh, heh...

Questions to Danni-boy are merely -- and only -- opportunities for him to either ignore or scorn the questioner. And that seems to hold for his own sock puppets, as well...

[Jon Eisberg]

The Honda generators are four stroke. And they are quieter, but it seems clumsy to rely on it for charging batteries. I would hate to have to carry around all the extra gas. Small diesel gensets are pretty efficient and sound a lot quieter than a honda. Some friends that just got back from a four year cruise to the South Pacific in a 43 foot Brewer had a small diesel genset and I believe it only put out DC. If they needed AC they went thru an inverter. It supplied all their needs even when they anchored for several months in Kiribati. Don't know if they had solar or wind generation.

Well, I for one am happy I managed to overcome my philosophical aversion to wind generation before heading down to what has been a very windy Bahamas so far this winter...

Here on Cat Island, regular gas at the service station in New Bight is going for $5/gallon, diesel is $6... The upside would be, one would get a decent amount of exercise toting jerry cans back to the boat, it's a fair bit of walking back to the dinghy landing...


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Ah, well... perhaps he just doesn't believe in getting something for nothing?

[Soñadora]

Great pic Jon!

I should know this, but what kind of boat do you have?

[slap]

Really, the folks at Honda might want to obtain a testimonial from this clown, for his claims of living at anchor 250 day/s per year for 5 years now, and his Honda being the sole source of battery charging on a 42-foot liveaboard boat, he must have put tens of thousands of hours on the fucker by now... Shit, no wonder he uses their brochure photo...

Deb is a school teacher who has to work 180+ days a year. Assume at least 190 days. So that would mean that she has at most 175 mornings/year without having to go to the school. So at least 75 mornings a year they get back to the slip, and she is off to her school to teach. Now if there are some nights where they stay in the slip due to weather or other reasons, that number would get even larger. Let's assume 10% of the time the weather is bad, the heads don't work, the Thai prawns too small, so they stay at the dock. That would mean 158 mornings/year w/o school, so 92 mornings/year they have to get back to the slip so she can go to work.

SO,

Does he just drop the anchor while in the slip? That way he could still use shore power, and Deb can get to work on time. Or does he go out just a mile or two, anchor for the night, and back in the slip in the morning? If so, why can't he anchor his boat properly after dropping anchor around 700-1000 times (last summer, someone on CA saw him dropping anchor - it wasn't a pretty sight). Or could 250 days at anchor just a bodacious exaggeration? Stay tuned......

[B.J. Porter]

Really, the folks at Honda might want to obtain a testimonial from this clown, for his claims of living at anchor 250 day/s per year for 5 years now, and his Honda being the sole source of battery charging on a 42-foot liveaboard boat, he must have put tens of thousands of hours on the fucker by now... Shit, no wonder he uses their brochure photo...

Deb is a school teacher who has to work 180+ days a year. Assume at least 190 days. So that would mean that she has at most 175 mornings/year without having to go to the school. So at least 75 mornings a year they get back to the slip, and she is off to her school to teach. Now if there are some nights where they stay in the slip due to weather or other reasons, that number would get even larger. Let's assume 10% of the time the weather is bad, the heads don't work, the Thai prawns too small, so they stay at the dock. That would mean 158 mornings/year w/o school, so 92 mornings/year they have to get back to the slip so she can go to work.

SO,

Does he just drop the anchor while in the slip? That way he could still use shore power, and Deb can get to work on time. Or does he go out just a mile or two, anchor for the night, and back in the slip in the morning? If so, why can't he anchor his boat properly after dropping anchor around 700-1000 times (last summer, someone on CA saw him dropping anchor - it wasn't a pretty sight). Or could 250 days at anchor just a bodacious exaggeration? Stay tuned......

I was under the impression he anchored out and she kayaked in every morning or some such nonsense. If she took the Portabote he'd be stranded.

[svgreatwhite]

Really, the folks at Honda might want to obtain a testimonial from this clown, for his claims of living at anchor 250 day/s per year for 5 years now, and his Honda being the sole source of battery charging on a 42-foot liveaboard boat, he must have put tens of thousands of hours on the fucker by now... Shit, no wonder he uses their brochure photo...

Deb is a school teacher who has to work 180+ days a year. Assume at least 190 days. So that would mean that she has at most 175 mornings/year without having to go to the school. So at least 75 mornings a year they get back to the slip, and she is off to her school to teach. Now if there are some nights where they stay in the slip due to weather or other reasons, that number would get even larger. Let's assume 10% of the time the weather is bad, the heads don't work, the Thai prawns too small, so they stay at the dock. That would mean 158 mornings/year w/o school, so 92 mornings/year they have to get back to the slip so she can go to work.

SO,

Does he just drop the anchor while in the slip? That way he could still use shore power, and Deb can get to work on time. Or does he go out just a mile or two, anchor for the night, and back in the slip in the morning? If so, why can't he anchor his boat properly after dropping anchor around 700-1000 times (last summer, someone on CA saw him dropping anchor - it wasn't a pretty sight). Or could 250 days at anchor just a bodacious exaggeration? Stay tuned......

He claims that he only is in a slip in the marina from October until March or April. Then they anchor out in the harbor or on cruises the rest of the time. Friday Harbaor does has a number of boats that anchor out in lieu of using the marina. He says that his wife then takes the kayak ashore daily to go to work.

[Jon Eisberg]

I should know this, but what kind of boat do you have?

It’s called a Chance 30-30…

Designed by Britton Chance in 1970, and built like a brick shithouse by Allied Boat Co. in upstate NY… You might recall a 30’ Allied Seawind was the first fiberglass sailboat to circumnavigate, mine was their rare venture into building more of a cruiser/racer, I think they built about 45, total – it’s a pretty rare boat, I’ve only ever seen a couple of others…

Mine happens to be Hull #1, and she has compiled an impressive racing record. Launched as BOOMERANG, she kicked ass in Long Island Sound and New England racing circles for a few years… Very heavy displacement, as a result considerable interior volume, sails well and makes a decent pocket cruiser, by today’s standards… I gutted and repowered her, so she bears no resemblance below to the original as built by Allied…

So, Brit Chance did get a few right…. Say whatever you want about him, the guy sure could draw a nice sheerline…

It’s a pity that – like the boats that so many of us here sail – she’s too puny by dt’s measure to be considered “a real cruising boat…" (grin)


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[Jon Eisberg]

Does he just drop the anchor while in the slip? That way he could still use shore power, and Deb can get to work on time. Or does he go out just a mile or two, anchor for the night, and back in the slip in the morning? If so, why can't he anchor his boat properly after dropping anchor around 700-1000 times (last summer, someone on CA saw him dropping anchor - it wasn't a pretty sight). Or could 250 days at anchor just a bodacious exaggeration? Stay tuned......

C’mon guys, it’s simple math… You can’t afford an HP35 calculator, or something? Thank you, OGR:

we anchor out 8 months a year. October to March we are at the marina. during those four months we anchor out two times per week with only a few exceptions based on weather. that is to say, we are at anchor more than 250 days per year, but approximately 250 days contiguously is accurate. it's fairly simple math. let's call it 245 days, shall we Jon?

slap, you gotta remember to think along the lines of Dog Years with this guy… He just doesn’t run on the same clock as the rest of us, his “Three-Month Circumnavigation of Vancouver Island” was more like 7 weeks, or thereabouts…

Remember - he also claimed 19,000 hours of flight time, as well…

Dude definitely has a pretty well documented propensity for bodacious exaggeration, no? (grin)

[sculpin]

It’s a pity that – like the boats that so many of us here sail – she’s too puny by dt’s measure to be considered “a real cruising boat…" (grin)


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Great pic. Kinda underscores the irony that DT is scornful of your abilities as a cruiser, yet here is a pic of your boat significantly far from home - undeniably Lunenburg. And all DT can provide are pictures within what, 100 miles of his home base?

[oldgoatroper]

we anchor out 8 months a year. October to March we are at the marina. during those four months we anchor out two times per week with only a few exceptions based on weather. that is to say, we are at anchor more than 250 days per year, but approximately 250 days contiguously is accurate. it's fairly simple math. let's call it 245 days, shall we Jon?

slap, you gotta remember to think along the lines of Dog Years with this guy… He just doesn’t run on the same clock as the rest of us, his “Three-Month Circumnavigation of Vancouver Island” was more like 7 weeks, or thereabouts…

Remember - he also claimed 19,000 hours of flight time, as well…

Dude definitely has a pretty well documented propensity for bodacious exaggeration, no? (grin)

October to March == four months?

Let's see...

October --> 1
November --> 2
December --> 3
January --> 4
February --> 5
March --> 6

I didn't get any extra months in there that don't belong, did I?