Maybe - he seemed to like quiet!
I fished from about 5 years old until I started looking more like a Bill Dance blooper, so I now just watch.
If you have never watched Bill Dance Bloopers, I highly recommend them. They will keep your heart healthy!
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Can't wait for the Bill Dance Chevy Chase fishing experience.
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MookieIf you have never watched Bill Dance Bloopers, I highly recommend them. They will keep your heart healthy!
What about Garden Dance Bloopers?
You need to have excursions sailing around the berthed SS United States.......
Wizlish, Garden Dance Bloopers will be on the 25th anniversary golden special edition blu-ray boxed set. I'm afraid you'll have to be happy with the regular single DVD for now, since I paid a bunch of marketing consultants who told me to do it this way.
Murray, "around the berthed SS United States", the best I can do is alongside, since berthed means one side is tied to a pier.
When we moved my boat from Essington, PA to its current home in northeast Philly May 2011 one of my companions pointed out the SS United States's 2 propellors on the "fantail". I had no idea what a fantail was, I kept looking at the spot where I'd expect propellors to be, the bottom of the boat. Finally I saw them on the deck at the back of the boat. They were indeed huge. My next trips that far south weren't till 2014, by which time the owners had sold one of the propellors for scrap.
By the way, real sailors call the back of the boat the stern. The front is the pointy end.
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gardendance one of my companions pointed out the SS United States's 2 propellors on the "fantail". I had no idea what a fantail was
Here you go.
gardendance Wizlish, Garden Dance Bloopers will be on the 25th anniversary golden special edition blu-ray boxed set. I'm afraid you'll have to be happy with the regular single DVD for now, since I paid a bunch of marketing consultants who told me to do it this way.
Quoting Patrick: "By the way, real sailors call the back of the boat the stern. The front is the pointy end."
From the Glossary in The Bluejacket's Manual 1944: "Fantail: the part of the stern of the ship extending abaft the the sternpost; the after section of the maindeck on destroyers and cruisers." "Abaft: behind, or farther aft. The mainmast is abaft the foremast." And, "Bow: forward part of a vessel."
"Sternpost," however, is not in the glossary.
Johnny
I always have problems with port and starboard. It reminds me of being at Grandma's house. She'd say something was on the west wall of the front porch. I'd tell her I didn't have a west hand, only a left or a right hand.
Port and starboard, or so I've heard, are leftovers from some ancient boats that didn't have a rudder in the middle of the back of the boat, but rather a long steering oar that stuck out on one side, usually the right side since most folks are right handed. They called the platform steerboard. Since that steering oar stuck out to the right they couldn't easily have the dock on that side, so the other side of the boat was the side that they tied to the port.
Going on two hundred years ago, had you spoken of the "port side," you would not have been understood, for the opposite side of "starboard" was then "larboard." Or, had you been traveling on the Mississippi, you might have spoken of "stabbord" and "labboard." (Reference: Life on the Mississippi, by the well-known Sam Clemens)
Rail. Trains. Gotta say stuff like that once in a while since this isn't sailing quarterly magazine.
gardendanceRail. Trains. Gotta say stuff like that once in a while since this isn't sailing quarterly magazine.
Wanswheel -- help me out. Scientific American Supplement, April 20, 1878. Last article, and picture...
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