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  1. We like the Johns Pass area specifically a condo across the street on the gulf beach side. It's an easy walk to Johns Pass (vs having to drive) which has restaurants and shopping. The pizza joint there is pretty good.

  2. On 2/28/2021 at 10:57 AM, troph said:

    Let me put it this way, first time docking he told my nervous teenager - you cannot damage this boat.

    That's a shitty instructor. Hopefully that experience doesn't ruin it for your wife or kids. I've had 5 sailing instructors over the years and they've all been fantastic. Three were ASA instructors. My docking training on a 48 ft cat was the complete opposite of yours. The instructor let me have the helm and said not to worry he'd jump in if I did anything really stupid (ie expensive).

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  3. 8 hours ago, troph said:

    ok adding a new topic...

    I'm one week away from the sailing certification restart!  so mariners, sailors!  what's the top list of makers for sea worthy vessels in your experience?  and what is your dream blue water sailing yacht.  just curious.  @Sbbruin @Viking@G650  does look like you can get more boat for the money than MYs and without a massive fuel bill a crew is more affordable. 

    The two monohullers have weighed in so now my turn. I love all sailboats and I'm the first one to hop into the cockpit and peep on every boat that enters the anchorage. "Ooo, that's a Ted Brewer... she's lovely!"

    However multihulls are the way to go. They are so much more comfortable at anchor and on passage. We've buddy boated with several monohulls and we feel guilty telling them how the trip went after we hear about their miserable experience. At anchor is even better. We were in Staniel Cay about 2 weeks ago when a blow came through with 35kt winds from the west (so no protection for the big anchorage). The anchorage cleared out 2 days before to hide between the Majors where the current is strong. There was a swell that rocked half the boats the day before and it was miserable for them. Two monos spun around each other and had their rode tangled. Another wrapped its rode around its keel. No one slept well since they were all crammed so tight.

    Except for the 3 cats that just took the brunt of the weather. We weren't protected but 3ft seas head-on just isn't a big deal and not at all unconformable. We all slept fine that night.

    My dream boats:

    Big FU money: Gunboat 68

    Normal FU money: Balance 526

    Realistic dream: an older Outremer 55

     

    If you were to stick to Florida and Bahamas then there's a lot of great cats. We have friends with a Gemini that has an 18" draft and it's a Bahamas cruising machine. Sooo many badass places you can get to.

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  4. I have fond memories of J&J's. I went to school near downtown Ft Worth and my dad would pick me up and we'd go there most days. He had a few Buds and I had catfish, frog legs, or gumbo. I love their weird hush puppies and their method of french fries is still my favorite today: fresh potato, sliced in the slicer 1 foot from the fryer, then into the fryer. So simple.

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  5. Florida is great cruising but for another 100 miles away you have epic cruising grounds in the Bahamas. A 50 Hatty there would be epic. Load it up with water toys.

    Only caveat is that Jan and most of Feb is kind of shitty with all of the cold fronts. March and beyond are glorious.

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  6. On 1/4/2021 at 5:20 PM, longhrnfan said:

    Miami is INSANE. Two people hit the the seaport bridge on saturday, including one dumbass sailboat that didn't clear it by like 20ft. People running without nav lights, jet skis at night. You probably saw our Hatt if you anchored off KB on Saturday. 

    We got there Sunday night so we missed seeing you. One more Miami special was listening to the drunk captains yelling at each other on 16 as they went home after sunset. 

    Next night there was a collision between two boats 3/4 of a mile up wind of us. There were 2 helos and 8-10 boats (coast guard, fl fire and rescue, police) searching the area.

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  7. We got back on the boat two months ago. Spent 6 weeks putting her back together and fixing things (new autopilot computer, gps, engines overheating, ...) and then left for the Keys. Spent a few days each in the Everglades, Marathon, Islamorada, and now in Miami. Miami is crazyville for boats. We rolled into our anchorage a few hours before sunset and there was at least 100 power boats from 20 feet up to 150 foot all partying. They left after sunset and we've now got the place mostly to our selves.

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  8. 11 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    I have a flight that departs morning the 21st.  It arrives at final destination on evening 22nd, using the shortest available routing offered by  United.

    Today on the 20nd, United sends email saying

    Ignoring the fact that sentence #1 is factually untrue and contradicts the legislation at destination, consider the improbability of fulling this apparent requirement:

    * All popular PCR testing sites only provide window of multiple days to receive results e.g. "3 to 4 days" (CVS, Walgreens) "Approximately 7 days" (Quest)

    * Test results received on 19th is too early.  Test results received on 21st is too late (flight will have departed)

    * The notice of this time-sensitive information being sent out on the evening of the 20th

     

    Idiocy.

    Same day or 24 hour test results are possible. I'm hoping to travel to the Bahamas next month and they require a negative test result 5 days or less before arrival. There are a few labs that offer 24 hour results in Miami/Ft Lauderdale. The difference is that those labs are doing the test in-house vs CVS/Walgreens send them off to be tested elsewhere.

  9. 4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    What patents could they have on said design?  I could see if it was some kind of specialized filtration system that's going to keep that extremely clean or something.

    It's a great gig, because maintenance will never end.

    I'm assuming that since Leander is coughing up a bunch of tax breaks, it will be open to the public, unlike a lot of these other lagoons throughout Texas.  It's going to be the Caddyshack pool.

    I didn't dig up the patents so I'm not 100% certain but I believe I remember seeing one was for a much more efficient filter that allowed the water to be turned over a lot less frequently than a normal pool. These things are huge and turning them over at a normal pool rate (2-4 times a day) would require massive pumps, filters, and electricity.

  10. 2 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    Thank you.  This new one is beefy as fuck.  How’s the cat?

    Lonely but safe and sound. We've not been on the boat in 6 months however we're finally going back in 2 weeks.

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  11. 14 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    So epilogue on this bitch.  Finally got the new one installed.  Turns out the prior owner, when he replaced the engine (maybe 20 years ago), the new install didn’t allow for a stock replacement, so I ended up having a custom one fabricated (I.e. $$).  But I’m finally back in business.

     

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    The stock exhaust elbows on these small diesels are such shit. Custom is the way to go and your's looks great.

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  12. My parents spoil the shit out of their grandkids so we have about 30+ nerf guns as a result. They've got everything from the tiny single shooters up to the dual 25 mag dual barrel machine gun.

    I'm not a fan of the guns with clips as once you've blown your load you're a dead man. My favorite is the Double Down as it is fast to reload, cock, and fire:

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  13. 4 hours ago, G650 said:

    All this coverall talk reminds me of my buddys South African dad. His jumpsuit game is on point. Has a fantastic red one with racing stripes.

     

     

    Meanwhile, its a grim day up here.

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    No wind?

  14. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well we aren't talking about "some APIs," we're talking about specific Java APIs, and not the ones without implementations, which wouldn't seem to involve copying anything.

    And how much copying is enough to constitute infringement is not a question raised here.  The standard is "substantial similarity."  To constitute copying, something is pretty much going to have to be a verbatim copy.

    It appears that your attitude is emblematic of "software anarchists," who believe they should be able to copy anything with impunity.

    If you are willing to provide more concrete examples, that might be helpful.

    Google didn't copy the implementation. If I recall they specifically did a clean room implementation.

    Here's a simple example from java itself. The java.sql package is an API: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html?java/sql/package-summary.html

    Database vendors implement this API so java apps can use their databases. Here is PostgreSQL's implementation https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/publicapi/index.html

    Is PostgreSQL infringing the copyright of this API? Can Oracle (also a database vendor) sue PostgreSQL for copyright infringement?

    What PostgresSQL did is the exact thing that Google did, only Google implemented a much larger API.

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  15. Fuck Oracle. Google is in the right.

    Some APIs don't even provide an implementation and it's up to 3rd parties to provide one by design. If I write an implementation for such an API am I infringing the copyright? I would love to know what percentage of an API I need to copy for me to infringe the copyright. Is it 1 method? All methods? Somewhere in between?

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  16. 1 hour ago, Eastwood said:

    I little chit chat about the item they picked quickly followed up with "do you have any trade-ins for today? (they came in obviously empty handed but unless we ask literally everyone, someone up the food chain is going to give us a ton of shit)  *rattle off the latest special about trade-ins* Anything you want to preorder? *talk about the cool new games coming out* Would you like to subscribe to Game Informer? You'll get 10% off of your used purchase today and for one year blah blah blah blah..." GameStop quickly lost all of its charm as a haven for gamers and became so obviously revenue driven that it is now viewed the way it is today, disdainfully corporate.

    This reminded me of the last time I went to gamestop when the first WoW expansion came out. "Did you preorder?" "Nope!" "We only have copies for those who preordered."

    I went to bestbuy down the road and they had a pallet of expansions 15 feet past the entrance. How does a company that sells washing machines do a better job of serving gamers than a game store?

     

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