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Yep, you Christians sure picked a good day for a holiday. How come you always make it on a sunday, though? Wouldn't it make more sense for it to be on a weekday so you could get more time off?

Looks a lot more stable with the black one...

Our Jack Russelll talks to the dolphins, and they talk to him. It's the strangest thing. He barks at all the fish we catch, and will bite them if he can get close enough. But not with dolphin. When we see dolphin, quite often we stop the boat. The dogs ears go up. The dolphin come over to the boat, and they stare at each other from about six feet away. The dolphin circles around and keeps coming back, and the dog is completely quiet.

"Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do, Do not wait to shed your light afar; To the many duties ever near you now be true, Brighten the corner where you are. Refrain: Brighten the corner where you are! Brighten the corner where you are! Someone far from harbor you may guide across the bar; Brighten the corner where you are! Just above are clouded skies that you may help to clear, Let not narrow self your way debar; Though into one heart alone may fall your song of cheer, Brighten the corner where you are. Here for all your talent you may surely find a need, Here reflect the bright and Morning Star; Even from your humble hand the Bread of Life may feed, Brighten the corner where you are. " (thats always been MY motto!)

That is pretty cool.

Ha, we have NO plans to get rid of the Contender. It rocks offshore. We were out all afternoon again today. But would be nice to have something to spend a weekend on. And we will still need the flats boats. Thats a different thing entirely.

Thanks to all of you for the input. There wouldn't be any survey, as I would have to fly a surveyor in from somewhere etc. I don't know the year of this one,but did find out the owner is asking $ 75K for it. Probably a bit more than we would want to spend for just having a boat we could sleep on. We will probably keep the Contender and keep our eye out for that 34 foot Gemini sailboat deal. Same money.

We were at the marina today, after taking a little sixty mile run in the Contender, and noticed a boat we have not seen before, siting on a trailer with a For Sale sign on it. It's a Pro Sport ProKat 2860 Walkaround. We have long been interested in an 'over nighter' for these shallow waters, and in looking up the specs I see that this boat has a draft of 13 inches. I don't know the boat, at all. I am used to seeing World Cats here, there are a lot of them, and a few Glacier Bays and some Twin Vees.... Anyone know anything about the ProKat 2860? Visually, it looked good. Twin Yammie 200s on it.

Send us some. We have to buy the stuff by the truckload.

Here's a link to the official report, which does have equipment lists, etc. in it. http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/PDFs...CISS_Report.pdf

No kidding. We have the short haired, short legged version. At least I can be reasonably sure that once he got up to around sixty pounds or so his feet wouldn't reach the ground any more. Oh, no doubt he would figure something out, but it would buy us some time to run.

Ah, well we couldnt do that. Dooley would eat until he puked, then he would rest a couple seconds, and start over again. I think he would gradually get it under control enough so that in time he would just become the worlds first 250 lb Jack Russell.

Does he tell you exactly when it's time to feed him? And does he keep trying to advance it slightly?

Well, since "From the Creator of The Hull Truth" is right there in the masthead or whatever you call it, I assume mentioning that one is acceptable. And since we know some of the THT IB disciples are snooping here, I thought it appropriate to point out that in the fifteen months since I got banned forever from THT they have not figured out my alternate name on there. AdamT mentioned his, and they banned him again. So I am not going to mention mine. But hey THT, I have access to all of it. And you can't figure it out. ha ha ha....

Well, if you ever need another set of hands to fish, or go boating, or even to work on an engine, my youngest son (22) lives in Waquoit and is a fanatic and a mechanic.

Boy, I know that song. Move another six or seven hundred miles south and you don't even have to break stuff yourself. The environment does it for you.

We had never had one of the small breed dogs before. I never had much use for the yippy little critters, always had labs, couple spaniels, etc. Then we knew we were going to be travelling a bit and decided to try this Jack Russell Terrierist. He was only about six weeks old when we got him. Terriers are different. Based upon a lifetime of experience with mostly black and golden labs, and now having spent over five years with this JRT, I have some ideas on that. Most of the breeds I have had in the past were basically dogs bred to help with hunting. I shoot the duck, or pheasant, and the dog runs or swims out and brings it back to me. Or leads me to the birds and stands still while I shoot them. Labs seem to live to make you happy. That's their thing. JRTs are bred to be independent killers. Watching this thing kill six rats in something like two minutes was really startling. No playing around like a cat, these dogs are all business and hyper efficient. A quick, violent head shake, then a skull crunch, and move on. They are looking for the next rat before the last one has stopped shuddering. He thinks he can kill anything his size or smaller for sure, and some things bigger than he is. I really don't think he pays attention to size. People have told me of them killing squirrels, for example. Close enough to a rat, I guess. He will charge three or four sixty lb dogs, barking and growling with his hackles up and it's rare that they don't all run from him. ( I think he tells them he is a lawyer from New Jersey) When he smells a rat, he becomes totally focused on tracking it down. He will stay outside way past his dinner time, til midnight or until we go get him, patiently working to find a rat. It becomes his whole reason to be there. He wants to kill it. Not fetch it, not point it out to me so I can kill it. HE wants to kill it. It's an obsession. The whole attitude is different. I know it's funny to think of a seventeen pound dog as being a natural born killer, but it's true. Little SOBs are way too smart for their own good, too. His major saving grace is that he is almost fearless ( except for thunder-related things) and loves boats and loves to swim.

Falmouth/Waquoit for many years, then Sandwich/Forestdale for a few years, then back to Falmouth/Woods Hole before I finally left.

oh, yes....there is a fiddling forum, too..

I am a member of several forums, including FCB and SFC. I am hardly ever active on the other ones, just checking in from time to time or when I have a specific question I am researching. I am on forums for Sailing, Cruising, Catamarans, R/C helicopters and aerial photography, a Land Rover forum in the UK, a knee rehab group,a couple woodworking and tool sites, and now here. I am still a member of Continuous Wave, the Boston Whaler forum, a panga forum, etc. that I rarely visit. That would be question-specific. The Land Rover forum has saved my butt, with those guys talking me through a clutch replacement, etc. I was banned for good from THT, and also from a snooty sailboating forum in the UK. They would tell you that sometimes I don't play well with others. Especially them.

Oh, it probably has to some extent. But I ain't complaining. Hey, it was down to 70 degrees this morning, or even slightly below. I think that's the third time this winter already. We are keeping a wary eye on this trend.

I am not against cell phones in cars. But I do think that there should be some way to make sure the car is not moving before being allowed to make or receive a call. The phone should just log messages until the driver pulls over someplace safe and it becomes operable. A cell phone is a distraction to a driver. Don't you just love getting behind one of these cell phone addicts who have to use their hands to express themselves when they are talking on the phone? They are paying attention first to what the conversation is, and the world outside them spinning by at 70 mph only gets their attention when something out of the ordinary crops up. Not good.

We have no intention to. We only go to New England, or the Northeast US in general, when We have to for some function or other. Last September we had a wedding to attend in NYC, for example. We were in Houston last week, and it was too crowded, too cold, too rainy, and just basically too far north. I think if we ever moved again it would be south, or west. Endless summer gets addictive.

Okay, I sent you a PM on that.

I am kinda, in a way, 'from' Cape Cod in that I lived there from '80 until '03. I don't live there any more, and will probably never live there again. I have two ex wives and two sons living there now, and we sometimes visit the Vineyard. Does that count?