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- From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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- Subject: [Homestead] Boats---personal accessories
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:13:14 -0700
A PFD is a "personal flotation device"---you need it, plus two-way communications, navigation equipment. I piloted a boat during November bad weather from Long Island to the Chesapeake one time---left it because the owner lied about it being diesel-powered (it was Chevrolet gas engine with a feeble car tranmission instead of Twin Disc marine transmission), the two-way radio didn't work and there wasn't enough rope or chain to permit the weak anchor (no spare) to reach bottom.
The owner didn't have life jackets either. I jumped ship at the W.R. Grace fishing camp on a south-facing shore---only sand shore for miles around, chartered an airplane and flew home with theW.R. Grace favorite real estate broker
Read in the newspaper the boat owner drowned a cou[le days later and the remnants of the boat drifted ashore on Smith Island. Good-Oh!!. I would have drowned him myself a number of times, beginning with his lies about having a diesel, and when the
shear pins in the outdrive kept breaking in eighty miles of open sea. I really don't like hanging over the stern in icy seas without a life jacket---or even with one. Couldn't teach the stupid bastard the difference between a can buoy or num buoy, so he constantly kept running aground on the Inland Waterway---not good for the seams, had to head for a marine repair facility near Tom's River to stop them from leaking.
http://foldingkayaks.org/accessories.shtml
- [Homestead] Boats---personal accessories, Tvoivozhd, 08/31/2004
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