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CoTex

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  1. 1 hour ago, G650 said:

    Yeah that is the eternal debate on tethering. It is so circumstance dependent there really is no one answer.

    I can tell you if you are in a spot where your tether is long enough to let you go all the way into the water while the boat is moving, there is no way even a young fit person would be able to get back onboard unassisted. Any kind of speed at all and you better have a knife to cut the tether loose or you will get drowned and beaten to death on the hull.

    Pulling one’s self up on a stationary j/24 from the water is no small task.  If the boat is moving - you will require substantial assistance to reboard.

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  2. Oh, and I’ve spent most of my life thinking that killing and capturing whales and dolphins was an obvious mistake, but I also see that this pod of whales has chosen to not politely share the ocean.

    I kinda think eradicate this bad pod.  Not because I like killing whales but because I think this is some learned behavior and I would rather try to stop it now than wish I had later.

    can we call in the Japanese and trade this pod for something else?

  3. Hypothetical question - if you had a pod of killer whales that behaved badly.  Wrecked sailboats, etc.  hooligans.

    and you knew that over time they would commingle and teach the other pods, throughout the seas and oceans similar bad habits, would you be doing all whales a favor by exterminating the hooligans?

    Similar thought - If someone killed these bad actor whales, what is the loss to man/mankind/existence?  Gain?

  4. 6 minutes ago, GoPokes83 said:

    I used to sail quite a bit. Was once helping a friend take a 23ft Hunter to Isla Mujers from Corpus and 2 days out in the gulf in some fairly decent swells we almost landed directly on a pair of sleeping pilot whales that looked close to the size of the boat. (Probably 15 ft or so, but still looked huge in a small boat.) Scared the shit out of me! I’ve seen a couple of semi submerged cargo containers from a distance and wondered what was in them. A new Ferrari or a bunch of illegal Chinese workers?

    That’s a slow small boat for that passage, and when I think of Hunters I think of dock barges, not bluewater craft.

    Did that thing have a shitter?  Any means of generating electricity?

  5. The universe has a way of getting even and these whales are gonna settle some scores.

    I’m no whale expert but I’m pretty confident in this.  Unless someone has a way to train them to stop, they’ll keep doing this until they’re killed.  The question is - when do sailboat guys become more important than whales have a right to live guys?

  6. 16 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

    That wheelbarrow technique seems like a great way to get the shit bitten out of you when the dog releases its current target and switches to you. But I've never tried it so ... dunno.

    Imagine the interview when you’re in the ER later that night (that is if you survive because, ya know, pit bulls kill people).

    ”what were you trying to do CoTex?”

    ”well, I was gonna pick the pit bull up by the back legs and then, if that didn’t work, I was gonna stick my finger in its ass.”

    ”and when the dog stopped biting —- and started biting you, what were your thoughts?”  
     

    “My first thought was that I shouldn’t have tried to put my finger in an angry dog’s ass.  My second thought was, I really shouldn’t have tried to put my finger…”

    “And why did you do this?”

    ”I read on the internet that pit bulls don’t bite if you pick them up by the hind legs and finger their bums.”

    ”do you try everything you see on the internet?”

    ”uh, err…”

    ”are you from Florida, or aggy?”

     

  7. 2 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    Isn’t Austin College really expensive? Maybe that was part of the humble brag.

    I’ve been proceeding on the assumption that a private school which really wants a student tries to get the number close to the cost of public school.

    And if it’s a private school that doesn’t really want you, well f u Rice.

  8. Humblebrag incoming.  Child was invited to visit Austin College for sports.  They don't do sports scholarships but, at least, forever she'll be able to truthfully say "I could have played in college."  

    Anyone know anything about Austin College? 
     

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  9. UIL Regional tennis fan this morning.  Lost but fought hard, drive home and final review for APUSH national exam tomorrow w child.

    It’s nice to get a day to just devote myself to child.  College in 15 months and I’ll miss this.

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  10. 14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I planned ahead and grabbed a spot at a few locations.  My wife promised to decide this afternoon.  If @Bevo will pay attention to this thread I'll post the moment I release the other reservations.  He might be able to snag one.

    You're misplaying your hand.  Try "For a hundred bucks I'll change the name on my reservation at _______, to @Bevo."

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  11. Having lunch in Norman OK, and there’s a big table next to me full of loud people.

    they’re trying to introduce someone not from Oklahoma to country music.  One guy says “always listen to George Strait or Clint black.  They’re the only ones that are good and they’re virtually indistinguishable.”

    Now I’m having an existential crisis.  All my education, hard work and discipline have brought me to this point where I’m in Norman Oklahoma listen to this nonsense.  Mistakes were made.

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