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    Quote Originally Posted by Controlled Opposition View Post
    I'm not sure what you are implying about Moon. Are you calling him a Nazi or a Jewish supremacist? I don't pay a lot of attention to Moon because he is a one-trick pony. I've never detected any indication that he wants either you or me dead.
    Well, maybe not you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Well, maybe not you.
    Would you care to cite any indications? Probably not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Controlled Opposition View Post
    Would you care to cite any indications? Probably not.
    Well, when you consider the source and his actual capability to do what he says, you are right. Probably not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Stretch, your Dad was awesome! And his children prove it.
    Just me, one daughter, but he taught me a lot with kind, calm patience. Early in the morning before the passengers would arrive we'd go to the fuel dock in the marina. Starting around age 9 he'd let me take her back to the dock teaching me how to dock only using the throttles and gears, adjusting for wind and current, etc. Always learning SOMETHING. He indulged me. Always handed me the binoculars to look at the clearance table by an upcoming causeway and hoping the tide was up so I could blast the horn at the bridge tender to open up. Incorrigible kid.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    My dad (the long-legged seaman as Sailor puts it, LOL) loved the last 25 years of his life after the war peacefully cruising through the Intercoastal 6 days a week from 8 to 5 working for Gold Coast Cruises Sightseeing. They had a fleet of 6 boats if I remember correctly including one double decker glass bottom boat. Those boats' hulls were converted PT boats, shallow draft, steady and safe. In those days all the captains had come out of the Navy or Merchant Marines with licenses in glass frames posted somewhere at the helm. As time went on I actually don't know what qualifications might have been needed. Each boat embarked with a captain and 2 crew members. There was no radar on these boats then, but I always remember dad being on the ship-to-shore a couple times a day just checking on any weather or a quick chat.

    A little sample of the hulls...(I think it was most similar to the Higgins or Huckins)





    We also had our own boat in the 50's, looked a LOT like this photo I found in a Bing search...

    How cool is that!? Do you still get out and enjoy the water?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Boats are just a hole in the water in which one pours money into............
    That's what Mr. Owl says when I cast covetous eyes upon boats for sale...... lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    Just me, one daughter, but he taught me a lot with kind, calm patience. Early in the morning before the passengers would arrive we'd go to the fuel dock in the marina. Starting around age 9 he'd let me take her back to the dock teaching me how to dock only using the throttles and gears, adjusting for wind and current, etc. Always learning SOMETHING. He indulged me. Always handed me the binoculars to look at the clearance table by an upcoming causeway and hoping the tide was up so I could blast the horn at the bridge tender to open up. Incorrigible kid.
    Nice! His spirit lives through you Stretch. And that is a really, really good thing for everyone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    And this is the face that Middle America sees on the Democratic Party. People who think exactly like this moron.
    #WalkAway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatFowlWoman View Post
    That's what Mr. Owl says when I cast covetous eyes upon boats for sale...... lol
    So you say.

    A Story for Every Occasion™.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    How cool is that!? Do you still get out and enjoy the water?
    I wish!!!!
    I'm now a landlocked land shark in Ocala. I miss the Atlantic coast and that constant aroma of salt in the air. I have a couple friends on one the lakes here though and they have some "water toys" to play with when I'm over...row boat, 2 seater paddle boat, jet ski...not quite the same. And, a farrrrrr cry from the Cigarette boats I use to "play" with when I worked at Cigarette Racing Team in the late 80's back in Miami.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    I wish!!!!
    I'm now a landlocked land shark in Ocala. I miss the Atlantic coast and that constant aroma of salt in the air. I have a couple friends on one the lakes here though and they have some "water toys" to play with when I'm over...row boat, 2 seater paddle boat, jet ski...not quite the same. And, a farrrrrr cry from the Cigarette boats I use to "play" with when I worked at Cigarette Racing Team in the late 80's back in Miami.
    YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    I wish!!!!
    I'm now a landlocked land shark in Ocala. I miss the Atlantic coast and that constant aroma of salt in the air. I have a couple friends on one the lakes here though and they have some "water toys" to play with when I'm over...row boat, 2 seater paddle boat, jet ski...not quite the same. And, a farrrrrr cry from the Cigarette boats I use to "play" with when I worked at Cigarette Racing Team in the late 80's back in Miami.
    Oh WOW. Just wow. You had a need for speed, didja?

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    Actually, I've always been happy on a blow boat OR cruiser OR power boat. But, I won't lie...it WAS fun going out on those sea trials at CRT . More learning you see.........now it was all about poker runs and trim tabs and throttles...gotta know when to bring those tabs in or let'm out to get a smooth ride and turning on a dime without tossing everybody else out of the boat at 100+ mph. A whole new world, LOL!

    Here's a pretty smooth ride example in the Top Gun at Haulover Cut:

    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
    which has begun. To abort life is to end it.



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    Then you have one of these yahoos who has not yet discovered the joy of trim tabs.

    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
    which has begun. To abort life is to end it.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    Actually, I've always been happy on a blow boat OR cruiser OR power boat. But, I won't lie...it WAS fun going out on those sea trials at CRT . More learning you see.........now it was all about poker runs and trim tabs and throttles...gotta know when to bring those tabs in or let'm out to get a smooth ride and turning on a dime without tossing everybody else out of the boat at 100+ mph. A whole new world, LOL!

    Here's a pretty smooth ride example in the Top Gun at Haulover Cut:

    Nice Stretch!

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