Rasputin22
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Lookin' good on the Bayou...
SV Seeker
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Foiling Optimist
Super Anarchist
This is like the journey to take the Ring to Mordor. Only it's a journey to take Seeker to Margaritaville.
Israel Hands
Super Anarchist
So you are saying that Dougie has put on the ring and gone into stealth mode?
Actually this will provide more entertainment than before. Nothing better than crowdsourced sleuthing.
Diarmuid
Super Anarchist
*has look around the Internet*
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Yeah, that seems about right.
I'm all for a LOTR-stye quest overlay here, as long as it ends with the "least of boats" being hoicked into a volcano. Is La Soufrière on St Vincent still rocking? And who is Gollum in this scenario?
Rasputin22
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I checked the Pirates Cove webcams this morning but the cam on the waterfront that showed Seeker hasn't updated overnight. I may have to get off my ass and drive over there. One of the best events they sponsor is the Dog Olympics. Probably the most dog friendly bar/rest I have ever seen.
Max Rockatansky
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Who anchors in front of Pirate's Cove? You're supposed to anchor in Roberts Bayou. G.zeus
Sail4beer
Usual suspect
Sail4beer
Usual suspect
His Redditors have gotten hold of a satellite image of the boat at anchor to answer the question whether Doug is using the Sanitation system or the bucket and chuck it method.
Foiling Optimist
Super Anarchist
Pretty sure Doug is Gollum here, though there are limits to any analogy. Also, ending up as a hurricane risk anchor-out in some jetsam collecting backwater of American life is not exactly mount doom, but it does feel like there needs to be a properly monumental dénouement here.
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Rasputin22
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Just watched the video of the passage out of the Miss R through the Industrial Canal in New Orleans. Confirms my worst fears for the Seeker. Doug was bragging about the locals he picked up to help him through the lock and multiple bridges. Two of them were Naval Architects and I would love to hear their impressions of their short voyage on Seeker. I bet they still have wounds healing on their tongues from biting them so as to not laugh out loud while they were still onboard! The third guy was introduced as a NA as well but he corrected that telling Doug he was in Salvage and that he 'had Doug's back'. Doug had better keep his phone number on speed dial...
Toward the end, Doug is bragging about the Pirates Cove Marina in Pensacola he found over the phone. Turns out he has been at Pirates Cove Bar and Grill in Alabama for over a week and I am not sure he has figured out the difference yet...
Toward the end, Doug is bragging about the Pirates Cove Marina in Pensacola he found over the phone. Turns out he has been at Pirates Cove Bar and Grill in Alabama for over a week and I am not sure he has figured out the difference yet...
Sail4beer
Usual suspect
I can’t figure out who is worse, Brent or Doug. I mean in every way possible.
Sail4beer
Usual suspect
MRS OCTOPUS
Anarchist
Hey, don’t get me wrong, Doug seems pretty unusual, but I really don’t understand all the hate .
There is a lot of unseaworthy crap out there with inexperienced halfwit jockeys.
Doug aint no orphan.
His antics seem to be providing hours of entertainment to the stalkers here, which gotta be a good thing I suppose.
As a long term cruiser myself, I see very little difference between Doug’s behaviour and a large percentage of the other liveaboards out there poisoning the well .
Probably more a sign of the times we now live in, where the days of respect for others has well and truly gone out the window.
From a recent cruise, we noticed…
1 / most chain their dinghies on very short painters to pontoons, limiting the number of others that can use the facility.
2/ overstay time limits on public pontoons, stopping others from using the resource.
3/ dump shopping trollies near boat rumps rather than return them.
4/ anchor very close to water front homes.
5/ run portable petrol generators all night in anchorages.
6/ run noisy wind generators 24/7.
6/ tear through anchorages in high speed tenders with no regard to their wash on other anchored vessels.
7 / empty holding tank in anchorage as soon as sun goes down.
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This appears to be standard cruiser behaviour. Not just Dougs.
I wonder how many of those posting here, are guilty of similar acts of arseholiness, selfishness, and stupidity.
Just say’n.
There is a lot of unseaworthy crap out there with inexperienced halfwit jockeys.
Doug aint no orphan.
His antics seem to be providing hours of entertainment to the stalkers here, which gotta be a good thing I suppose.
As a long term cruiser myself, I see very little difference between Doug’s behaviour and a large percentage of the other liveaboards out there poisoning the well .
Probably more a sign of the times we now live in, where the days of respect for others has well and truly gone out the window.
From a recent cruise, we noticed…
1 / most chain their dinghies on very short painters to pontoons, limiting the number of others that can use the facility.
2/ overstay time limits on public pontoons, stopping others from using the resource.
3/ dump shopping trollies near boat rumps rather than return them.
4/ anchor very close to water front homes.
5/ run portable petrol generators all night in anchorages.
6/ run noisy wind generators 24/7.
6/ tear through anchorages in high speed tenders with no regard to their wash on other anchored vessels.
7 / empty holding tank in anchorage as soon as sun goes down.
+ ++
This appears to be standard cruiser behaviour. Not just Dougs.
I wonder how many of those posting here, are guilty of similar acts of arseholiness, selfishness, and stupidity.
Just say’n.
MRS OCTOPUS
Anarchist
Yer, I am not saying we have to like or respect the guy, maybe just shrug and ignore.
You obviously haven’t done a lot of cruising if ya think that anchoring setup is crazy worth commenting on, there’s a LOT more crazy shit going on in the real world.
A close friend just completed a circumnavigation in a old rusty home built POS , no bulkheads, no insulation, a candle for a cabin light, a sextant, old charts he scrounged, with a home made sail built from shit dragged out of a yacht club skip. With no electricity, no engine and one all round white kerosene lantern for nav lights.
Hes now heading off again.
Those lost containers are far more scary to me that lil ol Doug.
Just say’n.
Fah Kiew Tu
Curmudgeon, First Rank
Latadjust
Super Anarchist
Guys, "Mrs. Octopus" is Doug's mom.
Does the real world also have youtube channel and all the social media too? "Social experiment" head injuries? Doug wants the attention. And eyeballs are needed for monetization.
Max Rockatansky
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Ayyymen. Exactly the ”cruiser” behavior I’ve observed also. I blame YouTube.
Max Rockatansky
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In a marina near Mobile Alabama is another steel boat, built by a Midwestern farmer, who took it down the Tenn-Tom.
Was on his way eastward and caught some weather. Attempted to anchor in Pensacola Pass, somehow got his leg caught in the chain and lost the leg.
AFAIK, the boat is still at the marina, occasionally visited by the farmer. It is really rather sad
