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Old 03-05-2008, 08:35 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Seriously, as I sit here, something big is hauling ass down the carquinez strait...
Well, I personally don't appreciate the smog that blows from the Bay Area through the Carquinez Straits down into the San Joaquin Valley! OTOH, I appreciate it when the cool breezes from the Bay Area flow through the Straits to cool off the SJV!

Living in the peace and quiet of the Sierra Neveda foothills has made me less tolerant of the constant noise of freeways when I'm visiting in SoCal.

Bottom line... I guess we all have our pet peeves and annoyances when it comes to noise pollution. But, I do love various watercraft!

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Old 03-05-2008, 10:16 PM   #12 (permalink)
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That reminds me of the other thing that makes me laugh.

Most people who brag about being up in the mountains (Lake Tahoe people specifically) tend to drive huge SUVs and trucks, but they hate smog and pollution. Which is uh.. created.. oh nevermind XD
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That reminds me of the other thing that makes me laugh.

Most people who brag about being up in the mountains (Lake Tahoe people specifically) tend to drive huge SUVs and trucks, but they hate smog and pollution. Which is uh.. created.. oh nevermind XD
No, smog and pollution is the result of too damm many people crammed into too little space. Which is why (at least until the rest of Kalifornia moves here, I can drive my Hemi and my 454 powered boat and still breathe clean air. But it's changing fast here too...... next stop....Wyoming?.....
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LOL.

So then, the pollution is just a lot of farts and stuff in the air. Lovely!

Where I am, there's several things that can make your evening miserable depending on the way things are:

*The sugar factory
*Neighbors who put raw wood in their fireplaces the second the temperature dips below 68 outside
*BBQs of questionable food (it's rather ethnical here)
*The dude at the end messing with his boat and stinking up the whole neighborhood. His driveway can't be more than 30ft from my bedroom window, and there are times in the morning when I'd like to go there and kick him in the balls.

I know you're going to just blame me for being Californian. :P

Looking at the pic in your sig, our houses here are generally about that far apart too :P

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Oot, I don't blame you for being a Kalifornian; you can't help it. I used to be one too but I'm reformed

That picture in my sig was actually taken in my parents' driveway - - that's my dad's silver SRT8 next to my magnesium "C". We've got subdivisions here too but the crowds are nothing like you have to deal with.
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I'd rather have a full frontal labodomy than live anywhere (yes, anywhere) in California!

It's so nice being able to do what I want and not have neighbors run at the mouth... It was so nice to be able to do full blown waterbox burnouts in the driveway with a open headdered big block pro street car, and no one said a damn thing... Rev the big block boat in the driveway with the thru hulls open? No problem!

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Inferno, I don't mean any offense by this, but what's the point of a boat if it's just like home (or in the case of your boat, more plush than my home), only on water? There are some things that I don't find appealing but can see how someone else might, but a boat like that is one of those things I just don't get.

I suppose I should disclaim that as far as I'm concerned if you're on the water you ought to have sails (and ONLY sails).

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Marlin,

Why be uncomfortable? I go out and spend the weekends on the hook with my boat. I take my 2KW Generator with me and food and drink and I can prepare small meals, and lounge in comfort. This is my third boat, I've had a Bowrider a Cuddy and now a small Express Cruiser and I'd never look back. I really want a fourty something foot express but I just don't have the capital to foot the bill for a half mill boat

Sails do nadda for me... I want to get away from work on the weekends, not go out and do work. And to captain a sailing vessel it's constant work. It's bad enough having to put this small beast back on the trailer, button it up and take is home.
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Hmmm, I mean, I guess I get it, it's luxury, but isn't being at home even more luxurious?

The ideal to me is not a big sailing craft, but just some small, 22' tops, sailboat with nothing and nobody but myself (yes, 22' is small enough to be handled by one), my camera gear, some good eats, and a book or two.

Oh, and thanks a lot guys, now I miss Davidson where it took nothing more than a student ID to get a sailboat and all the time I wanted on the 50+ square miles (and over 500 miles of shoreline) of Lake Norman.

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you can't wakeboard or tube or ski behind a sailboat But my LS6-454 chevy seems to do the job adequately!

Nothing against sailboats, mind you....just not my thing. Plus in my opinion there's nothing sweeter than the sound of that Big Block Chevy with the thru-transom exhaust gurgling just below the water line.... unless it's the sound she makes when you hit the throttle

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