ORIGINAL: JWE
I hear you Mike, and I spanked Osterhaut pretty big time. I apologize for his lapse. There's a lot of background stuff going on, so I understand, but do not condone his posts on this thread.
Some of you have come out to Cali and sailed with me and met both me and Mike, so you know we are different; he's 4" shorter and 6" wider and none of it is fat. A fireplug in motion.
Yes, Mike and I, and several other people, share logins. The people who play Babes live in places with business/military servers that don't let them get to where they need to go, so my business (that is an acceptable destination) has a network that we all use. We are all friends, so anybody in the network can use anybody else's stuff.
It's called trust.
So, yeah, Mike has used my login; why not? So has Matt, Jeremy, Jim, woof !! And if I'm dinking around somewhere else and login here, and Mike has been there before me, so I drop in on an overlay, who gives a rats except for some forum winkie who don't know and just wants to be hero?
Anyway, I kicked Mike's butt, so no more Osterhaut Ondergang. (I really do like Mike, he's a prince with a genoa. If you guys ever come out, and I can get us all a ride on "Cunning Stunts", out of Southern YC, I might can get Mike to come out from Cali, and do some damage to the local yokels).
Ciao. John
Take care John! [:)]
BTW, few days ago wife and I watched "I Shouldn't Be Alive" episode "Shark Survivor" on "Discovery Channel" about 58 feet long yacht "Trashman" which sunk near US Atlantic coast in 1982.
Out of five people on-board just two survived.
Here is a book from the women sailor (very experienced) who survived:
"Albatross: The True Story of a Woman's Survival at Sea"
by Deborah Scaling Kiley
http://www.amazon.com/Albatross-True-St ... 0735101345
What puzzled me is how 58 feet long yacht sunk so easily...
Did you ever hear about this John?
Leo "Apollo11"
P.S.
On a sunny day in late autumn of 1982, a boat set out on a routine trip from Maine to Florida. There where five people on board, John Lippoth and his girlfriend Meg Moony, Mark Adams, Brad Cavanagh and Deborah Scaling Kiley. Although they would have to endure each other’s company for quite a while on the trip, they were all strangers except for John and Meg. From the start of the trip things were going south as John and Mark just could not see eye to eye and were both heavy drinkers. The weather started to deteriorate on the 2nd day at sea, and by that evening the waters where raging with 60 knot winds and 15ft swells. Brad and Debora stood first watch for over 11 hours in the storm, while John, Mark and Meg where all below deck drinking. When John and Mark were sober enough to take their turn watching, Debora and Brad finally got some rest. They were woken in the middle of the night by panicked voices, and stood up to realize the boat was filling up with water fast. It turned out that John and Mark lashed the steering wheel and went back to sleep instead of staying on watch above deck.
They untied the life raft but it immediately blew away. Luckily they had an inflatable zodiac boat on board, which they inflated and got on the water. Everyone managed to make it to the zodiac, but Meg was caught in the rigging, and when she finally made it, she had deep lacerations, almost to the bone, on her arms and legs. Once they reached the zodiac, they tried flipping it round, but the wind kept blowing it back, so they ended up treading water for the next 18 hours while waiting for the storm to pass. Meg was exhausted and the others had to constantly support her weight just so that she wouldn’t slip beneath the water.
The next day, the storm had calmed down and they managed to turn the zodiac around and get in. Looking into the water from the boat they could see hundreds of sharks around them, and they stayed with them for the rest of the trip. By the third day, Meg had severe blood poisoning, and would lie in an almost catatonic state, without movement or speech. Mark and John had started drinking sea water that night and were becoming increasingly incoherent and delusional. John was the first to go, as he thought he could see land. He simply said that he was going to the shop for some cigarettes, slipped over the side and swam a short distance. The people on the zodiac heard a scream and then just silence and John was gone. Around the same time, the delusional Mark said he wanted to cool off and slipped into the shark-infested waters, there was a thud beneath the zodiac, and the water around them turned red as Mark disappeared from view. During the fourth night, Meg died.
The next morning when Brad and Deborah woke up, Meg’s body was stiff and they rolled her into the sea. It was not long after that they saw a boat coming towards them. The boat saw them and hauled them on board to end their tormenting journey.
