Patrick - Nice clean-up. Thank you. I'm a digest reader also and get so bloody tired of paging through irrelevant history.
> Ever tried the fun game of catching a a mooring ball at your stern? I've > single handed > for 24 years, and thou still not an expert,...quite the trick to swivel > around,...hook the > ball, then walk the boat/ball around to the front (my 32' 10K sailboat)...not > easy...but > not hard either. Surely I'm not the first to do this ;-) I've tried this a few times. For me it has generally seemed easier to just put the bow of the boat at the mooring and walk forward to grab the pendant. As conditions deteriorate I leave more space for the bow to blow off toward the ball. I'm far from nimble and still end up with an easier job of it at the bow than catching the mooring at the stern and moving it. Perhaps I'm just too set in my ways. *grin* With regard to 'Animal Farm': aside from being a classic exploration of the sociological issues associated with extremes of class structure and Soviet-style government control (and a great counterpoint to '1984') it's a darned good book (technically a novella) and very easy to read. I read it for the first time in 6th grade and a handful of times since. George Orwell wrote well. You can read 'Animal Farm' free here http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html or here http://books.google.com/books?id=yDQJ6y2LSX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22animal+farm%22&source=bl&ots=kQSj_pXFm5&sig=oL4x9urllQQ3zLyr7Zj2-Kpb9U4&hl=en&ei=Gng1TOa5LcL_lgeT9dTSBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEYQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=false . I found a free audiobook here http://www.archive.org/details/GeorgeOrwellsanimalFarmRadioAudio . I have a delivery coming up and will listen to Animal Farm on watch. sail fast and eat well, dave S/V Auspicious _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
