[Public-List] Public-List] End of 2014

[daniel joseph walker via Public-List]

I read that many years back. I remember someone was washed overboard and he acted like it was no big deal. Correct me if I have "disremembered" that part but I was put off by that. Forgot the yard fees.
Dan

George Dinwiddie via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>Gord,
>
>It is a good read. I can forgive the affluence and overlook the politics 
>(which doesn't appear in the book), but the description of stealing the 
>boat out of the yard without paying a disputed yard bill never set well 
>with me.
>
>  - George
>
>On 12/31/14 10:01 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List wrote:
>> Good morning friends....
>>
>> I¹m looking forward to 2015 and hope you are too.....  I noted our new
>> correspondent's message about replacing toe rails.... I¹ve declared aloud
>> here at our house that I¹m going to declare war on our deck edge leaks this
>> year.  This will involve repairing the leaks under the six life line
>> stanchion bases as well as under the toe rail.  The rail is very thin from
>> decades of sanding so I¹m shaping up to replace it after doing a cloth tape
>> and epoxy job on the joint.   Compared to what I¹m doing with the wooden
>> boat this shouldn¹t be too horrible a job (except for getting at the genoa
>> track bolts adjacent to the second fuel tank I put in on the port side a few
>> years ago).
>>
>> There.  I¹ve said this aloud (again).  Maybe I¹ll do it this year....
>>
>> One of my sons bought me William F. Buckley¹s AIRBORNE, A SENTIMENTAL
>> JOURNEY for Christmas.  I can¹t believe I¹ve not read this great book
>> before.  I¹ve been aware of it since it was first published, have held a
>> copy in my hand in various book stores over the years, but have to admit I
>> was put off it three ways.  One was that reviews commented on the luxury of
>> the yacht (the schooner CYRANO which among other things sported a piano)
>> This offended the younger me with regard to a belief that one should suffer
>> when at sea.  Another problem I had was the cover illustration, which
>> didn¹t, I thought, make the boat look attractive to my eye (yes, I was and
>> perhaps still am that picky) Last, Buckley seemed to me to represent what I
>> thought in my student days was an incomprehensible and distasteful political
>> viewpoint.
>>
>> Well I¹m most of the way through the book already, and have to say it¹s a
>> wonderful read.  Whatever Buckley was politically, he was a very witty
>> writer and his love of seamanship has overshadowed whatever it was that
>> repelled me thirty years ago.  I can even overlook the luxurious
>> appointments of his yacht.
>>
>> Hope you all have a great New Year¹s eve, and I¹m looking forward to sharing
>> sailing and yacht maintenance stories with you next year.
>>
>> Bye for now -
>>
>> Gord
>> #426 Surprise
>>
>> PS I was driving through Burlington Ontario yesterday and saw a white hulled
>> A30 under a tarp on a driveway ­ does she belong to anyone on this list?
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