Raising Kids On A Boat

[masalai]

Tim, Never heard your memory aid - that I can remember. . . & now I'm confused, locally True to Mag, add the variation East... Dam now I'm feeling old - should I have known that? - shrugs shoulders and pleads innocence/ignorance

Not many seem to have your depth of literary knowledge - several in the local fraternity have suggested "Its all about being a poufter?" so I may leave any thought of "Flaneur" out

Tim, travel broadens the mind, enhances the spirit and guides your attention to things that really matter...

[timgoz]

Hi Mas,

The add west applies when working downward. Going the other way (up) it would be add East. It does work. When the lady from livingaboard did not recognize it, I was suprised, as she is a US resident. The feminine version differs: "True Viking Maidens Demand Compensation After Marriage". Those women are always thinking, eh?

Regarding travel; My girlfriend has been to 26 countries, but never OZ. Her sister Nino ( I call her "Vino", because she loves wine), was over your way for awhile last year. We do want to see Austraila. I'd prefer Berg's area and/or Tasmania, as I am not suited to warm climates.

Tim

[safewalrus]

Originally Posted by masalai

Arrrrrr, beaten again & I was going to call my new boat "masalai" and scare the 5hit out of the local pirates... How does "Flaneur" sound for a boats name?

best I could do given the short notice - if I can get it in! you'll need to stroke it a bit!!

[masalai]

Safie - - - So, Pizza bob was not the first?
Tim, - - - How are you going to bypass the equator???? Hope for one of those "polar flips"?

[charmc]

Don't think I want to know what that guy standing in the stern is fixin' to do ...

[masalai]

Not me... Pee of the stern is OK but turn facing aft to deliver...

[Frosty]

I used to P off the back of the boat but I had forgotten how to do it properly. There is definately some serious wind direction calculation involved.

Last time I did it I remember thinking "its all coming back to me now"

[Landlubber]

You could write a song about that Frosty, some shiela did once, she was quite young, I wonder if she was wet behind the ears!

[timgoz]

Somebody needs to bump Charlie past the 500 mark.

Mas, An airconditioned jetliner should do the trick.

Frosty, speaking of "it all coming back", many years ago when I was a teenager, we were driving home from a party, and a female passenger vomited out the car window, only problem was, the window was the whole way up. As most of what she had in her was liquid, things got real messy.

Tim

[masalai]

Tim, I hope you made that messy person clean it all up!!! - That is "sooo sad" as my lovely lady would say... (LL definitely is... "the better half")

I'd love to give Charlie more points, but I am still inhibited, even though he deserves more, so I can only plead..... for others to donate to the points bank of the venerable, noble and charming - - Charmc......

[masalai]

Landlubber, was it something like "The wayward wind"?

[safewalrus]

or could it bring a whole new meaning to 'getting your own back?'

[Brent Swain]

A freind had a couple of teenage daughters on a circumnavigation. If they began hanging out with a sleazy crowd, there was no arguement. Time to leave. If they hung out with a good group of kids they would stay a little longer. When he couldn't tell them anything to their faces, he and his wife would sit in the main cabin and discuss things they wanted the girls to overhear. Those ears were listening.
Kids I've seen grow up on boats were far more practical and self reliant than those who grew up ashore and were far less influenced by "Peer pressure. "They learned to do their own thinking rather than be programed by group thinking. All were later glad their parents took them away from such ******** influences.
Brent

[safewalrus]

Brilliant ability you have there Brent - bet your a real wow at parties! I wonder did they ever discuss you?!