--- In [email protected], "TREVOR BURRIDGE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> big snip !
>
> And, by the way, Iâ?Tm 52, overweight and most definitely not
looking
> for a boyfriend, a lover or a significant other, okay!!!
> regards,
> Lynette
>
> Well said that woman!
>
> I really cant believe the pettiness of the initial replies this
lady has
> received.
>
> Sniping at her ability to pay her way. Not one suggestion of any
positive
> value. Just a complete acceptance that this lady is here to free
load!
>
> What happened to the "can't promise anything but come along to a
GIG and
> meet a few boaters" approach. ? Reassuring to see that a worthy
suggestion
> comes from a poster who himself has been sniped at recently. But
also
> refereshing that some people read posts in such detail.
>
> The replies have suggested the waterways are a closed club and we
don't want
> any more live aboards or continuous cruisers on them. Yet on the
other hand
> gripe and moan at every increase the BW revenue machine introduces.
>
> What happened to all the cheery happy boaters?
>
> Hides under the saloon table !
>
> Trevor
>
I had no intention of being petty or sniping, but from where I sit
(and by the look of it a number of others) all too often people jump
into livaboarding without any real knowledge of simple things like on-
going costs, moorings etc.
If the poster had expressed herself as per her second post she might
have got a different response, but not from me.
The sooner those who have a "romantic & cheap" notion of livaboarding
get disabused of their view the better for them. It will save much
cost and stress in the long run. I think she has now accepted (even
if she had not before she asked) that this notion needs lots of
research so now we can be asked more sepcific questions and I am sure
she will get all the usual help.
Tony Brooks
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