Reply #155: Arrrgh! [View All]

I did SF Bay in a 23 ft and 26 ft sail boat. No self-tacking/easy rigging stuff. I sailed to Angel Island... if I could paste photos in this text field like you mentioned (I tried it but it doesn't work - I use a unix based Mac for video editing), I could show one of me with a nice CA honey on top of Angel Island.

You are DEFINATELY a more experienced sailor than I, though I do know 'port' from 'starboard', and I watched lots of Errol Flynn swashbuckler movies when I was a child. I told my mother that I was going to be a pirate when I was 4 years old! Remember, Southern Louisiana was a hot bed for pirates, including the infamous Jean Lafitte who help beat the shit out of the British at the Battle for New Orleans (where I actually found a real, 18th C lead slug when I was a kid).

As for firearms... I'm a pacifist, but I'm a dead shot. My great uncle who's 90 years old and still lives in New Mexico was a rancher and a gun maker, and still has a firing range. I could shoot all I wated as long as I made my own bullets (loaded black powder, firing pin, etc). So, I can handle firearms, but only as a necessity. You are right about certain places, where firearms are a must. When I was driving on the Pan American highway from Managua to Guancaste I was almost killed by banditos with AKs.

Ok, time for bed. Mein Deutch ist sehr schleck aber hablo Español muy bien e falou portugûes muito melhor. I'd make a handy shipmate, but I have much work to do here in the USA first... I'm trying to finish another grad degree, but it sure is hard being unemployed with no health insurance and with a democracy to save and all...

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