Bob, you may again be barking up the wrong tree! We are already all sailors here.
I will relay a short story. I am a photographer in the Washington DC area and I have covered the Washington Auto Show for decades. This year's show was the end of January and the major thrust of the show for the past few years has been a public policy show with emphasis on green cars. Congress always comes and the mfgs are egger to feed them the newest corp lines. This year there was a small group discussing the advantages of hybrid vehicles. The discussion progressed to getting people to move in that direction for their leisure activities. I chimed in and said that I have a Hybrid Boat. I got loads of stares and one mfg rep from (company with a blue oval) looked at me with disbelief. "Really, I don't know of a single hybrid boat available!" I shrugged and said well, this past summer I spent most every weekend on The Chesapeake Bay on my boat and burned just over 3 gallons of fuel! He was a disbeliever... finally he asked what make hybrid boat do I own. I told him it was a sailboat. The others in the discussion all laughed when I said a small outboard and SAILS. He went away deflated. Joe McCary Aeolus II West River, MD www.aeoluswestriver.net joe at photoresponse dot comn From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 1:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IC27A] Rising Ocean Levels Besides, I must confess to another agenda - to convert gas-guzzling boaters to sailors. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
