Posted on 11/28/2013 11:24:48 AM PST by Rex1971
Edited on 11/28/2013 11:27:18 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Anyone who opposes the Affordable Care Act is a subhuman. It is a great law but lying republicans are trying to destroy it. I signed up with no problem on the website. Republicans want to repeal my new insurance. Obama is a hero!
How long did you live on the sailboat? Did you do a lot of sea or inner waterway sailing in all kinds of weather so that you knew it was a good fit for you? See, I can’t envision myself trying to keep a boat afloat during a three-day storm.
I hope you have fastened it gently lest Wreath Protective Services come knocking.
Yup.
I have to head to work in it later, going to love the displays of [un]intelligence on the highways here.
And nobody said anything about Jacob and his ultimate of bad days.
You got Vlad some puzzles at Stein Mart this afternoon, but you can get him something else, too, if you’ll be here for Christmas.
It’s on the security door, and is “tied” with plastic-coated wire, so it may bump in the wind, but it won’t come off. ;o]
Just got called over to an older gentleman’s boat, who let me know he needed me to do some heavy lifting for him tomorrow, whose Dremel tool set I borrowed. The rudder on his sailboat was custom made by the brother of another liveaboard, who came here in a houseboat and traded it for a mastless 50’ sailboat. His other brother is a imechanic and has sold cheap get-around cars to sailors arriving on the docks for years, now sadly fighting spinal cancer, but unbelievably ignoring doctors and still working.
Anyway, the point is the liveaboard community is a seperate society and networking is what finds the info or parts or person to teach you.
There’s a site called livingaboard.com, that has a forum, and every sailing forum has a liveaboard section somewhere. If I were the newbie, if I found a cheap deal with enough room in a liveaboard community I’d just live the life, it’s an inexpensive life if you choose it to be so. If you like the life, you’ll have seen a lot of boats and gone out on a few, plus having already adjusted to the drawbacks...less room, storms, always a “to do” list. You’ll know exactly what you want.
Shopping for an initial startup fixer-upper, for a single or couple, 5k would get you something. Even 3k, I would still shop. But shop the docks, not ads. Take a vacation visiting marinas, liveaboard marinas are guaranteed to be full of people with advice, make friends.
One last thing, there’s a two month adjustment to living aboard, or at least there was for me. I’d lived aboard when I was a young man, and this boat was bigger, so I thought moving back from land to liveaboard would be a snap. It wasn’t. But after two months it’s like I was reconciled or reconnected, I had to have the boat rock me to sleep, I had to hear the wind moan in the rigging, I had to cuss a blue streak when a big wave hits just as I put coffee in the coffeemaker *g*
Biggest mistake people make is thinking everything has to be perfect before making the switch, then after waiting all the years and spending all the money finally do, and found out they could have done it so much cheaper and earlier. Or change their minds and are stuck with the investment. There’s one world class cruising boat I know, not cheap, a middle aged guy and his wife bought it, paid someone to teach them to sail it, but tbey’re afraid of the huge thing and there it rots. If the same couple had bought an old but solid 30’ for less than 10k they could have something sailaway that’s easier to learn on, that could have been upgraded into an ocean crosser, instead of 100k+ in something huge they’re afraid to take out of the slip.
But I’m cheap so I have a skewed view. Lunchtime!...no, wait, it’s almost dinner...which reminds me, I haven’t had breakfast...yikes. Must ingest mass quantities...bye
Who was I supposed to get a present for I thought it was Dan.
It's notions like these that guided my design philosophy in setting up our three space-bourne Habitats.
We gathered in all the plants, seeds, people, and tools we'd need for an extended walkabout between the planets, and then we took off for "where no man has gone before".
Our Habitat design has three Habitats rotating around a common axis of rotation, for artificial gravity, but each one operates on its own time schedule. They are eight hours apart so that at any particular time some folks will be naturally more awake. That's how we split up the watches.
While we are not technically under way, we still have to keep an eye peeled around our neighborhood for wandering big rocks, and speeding smaller ones. Still, the Asteroid Belt is a good place to pick up useful materials, and we do.
Eventually, when the rest of the human race catches up with us, we'll be like a trading post out here. Trinkets and googaws our specialty. Bring your own oxygen.
I’ve always liked the three-habitat idea. There’s always somebody to hang out with.
Ha! Your family is united by strong beliefs. (Probably not what they meant.) Do you keep fresh spinach around the house or do you use frozen? Making a sandwich out of frozen spinach sounds soggy. Never mind.
We lived in our 27 or 28 foot motor home a couple of years ago. The back half is lined with deck plating and doohickeys that you can tie down your household goods or vehicles when you relocate (it's called a "Fun Mover"--V 10 engine--hauls large trailer--forget capacity). We had four big dogs and five cats. We were happy as clams.
The thought of coming home bone-tired and ready to sack out only to find that something's leaking--well, you're a better man than I.
Thanks for the insightful commentary and enjoy your dinner!
One other thing—full time and weekend RVers are a pretty friendly group and share information freely, both on the road and online. Your community sounds like the seaside counterpart of the full-timers. Sounds fun but wet. (I still swim like a fish—don’t know where the aversion to living on the water came from—weird.)
It's half the reason we built a transport system, the spherical elevator cars in the spaghetti tubes. They allow you to move between Habitats as easily as high-rise dwellers move between floors.
The other main reason for the system was because we couldn't have cars, or other internal-combustion devices.
Yes, you will.
Immediately after returning home from purchasing a replacement...
;-)
Unless...
..there was a pillowcase to inhabit..
Yes, she did have a thing for nesting inside the pillowcase.
And the crunchy bag too.
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When working maintenance in the coolant loop rooms, advise the crew to wear the approved respirators or the act of breathing will be an indescribable agony.
-signed the mad science team
“We apologize for the Popsiclation of some intrepid tourists who left warning signs unheeded.”
Workers in the Thrust Ring have discovered which outer hull surfaces are suitable for making flash-frozen ice cream. They go to a nearby Habitat and sell it during their lunch hours.
I was popsiclated last weekend when I raked leaves.
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