[Public-List] Owners was Canaries, Part 2

[Just Dave]

Sounds like the owner was pretty close to an idiot.  We should start an email loop or web page of people, products, and businesses to avoid.  But, the idiots are everywhere..... the tales I could tell about some of my bosses.
Dave Kruetzkamp ...the sea is full of drops of water, but some of those drops sparkle.> From: a30240 at earthlink.net> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:08:46 -0500> Subject: [Public-List] Owners was Canaries, Part 2> > Gord wrote "I am also resolved that while I want to go to sea again, next time it will be in my own boat and with a little time to enjoy it!"> > Amen> > A couple side stories.> * One of the schooner owners aboard was changing the oil prior to departure. The owner stopped him and gave explicit instructions (all wrong). The man changing the oil owns one of the top foreign/exotic car repair shops in the Washington region. After the trip and as we were jumping ship he left the owner a note reminding him to change the oil before making the trans-Atlantic leg.> * I was securing his spinnaker poles to the pulpit, set up for twin genoas, and he wanted me to use 1/8 trash nylon as slings. I used 3/8 three strand - spliced.> * "Watch out for that fishing boat, he is wandering all over the place", called up from the nav station. "David, we are watching it and it is a cargo ship. We can see his range lights and green, he will pass us two miles away." From below "OK, but keep an eye on the fishing boat." This took place 300 miles from land with perfect visibility and we were also watching the same radar picture.> > > I have sympathy for the folks that do deliveries for a living.> > Jim Davis> S/V Isa Lei> CT 35> > No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session> > Mark Twain> > _______________________________________________> These businesses support your Association:> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html> Please support them.> _______________________________________________> Public-List mailing list> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/public-list-alberg30.org
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