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Alan D. Hyde
06-06-2006, 02:36 PM
http://www.latitude38.com/changes/Changes06-06.html

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Alan
Ross M
06-06-2006, 03:17 PM
Great read - thanks!

""While Carl was ashore, I anchored Tootsie between a pair of ferrocement sailboats - a green cutter from Oregon and a black ketch from Washington. While waiting, I began to hear an unbelievable stream - in English - of profanity, ranting, and death-threats over the VHF. Looking around with the binoculars, I soon figured out that the source of the outrage was the guy on the Oregon boat, who was directing it toward a hippie-looking group on the Washington boat. Next I heard several pings - and realized that the Oregon guy had a rifle and was shooting at them! It was only a pellet gun, but still I didn't like being in the crossfire all that much. The next scene was even wilder, as the antagonists got into their outboard-powered inflatables and engaged in a ramming battle! The Washington boat's dinghy, with another dinghy lashed alongside, rammed the Oregon dinghy at speed, capsizing one dinghy, throwing two people into the water - including the Oregon guy - and sending his dinghy zooming round in circles with the motor at full throttle. It was total pandemonium! Miraculously, the Oregon guy managed to catch his dingy and crawl aboard, then retreat to his boat while hurling dire threats at his attackers. Shortly thereafter, the Mexican Navy showed up to board both yachts. I decided to change neighborhoods by re-anchoring near an American schooner - whose skipper informed me that the two ferro boats had been in the harbor for a whole year, and their skippers had been fighting continuously!"

Reads like something from The Large Furry German Woman thread :D
Alan D. Hyde
06-06-2006, 03:21 PM
... almost as good as the Patagonian cruising piece... :D

Alan
John B
06-06-2006, 04:43 PM
Hmmm ferro boats. Remind me never to get one.
Concordia...41
06-06-2006, 05:11 PM
Hmmm ferro boats. Remind me never to get one.

Well John it does sound like they're just the ticket for repelling pellet-gun fire :D
paladin
06-06-2006, 05:17 PM
get a rifle and aim at the waterline...stone boats sink......:D
Paul Pless
06-06-2006, 05:22 PM
Indeed, we were more than a little disappointed to hear that a concession is being built at Cape Horn, complete with docking facilities, so that cruise ship passengers may go ashore.

sounds kinda lame, for lack of a better word...
John B
06-06-2006, 05:31 PM
Look , I've got nothing against floating footpaths. I went on once and we raced an anchored dinghy for 2 hours. We nearly beat it.