Barge crushes $1.5 million yacht in Stamford Harbor

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Barge-crushes-1-5-million-yacht-in-Stamford-13239624.php Helen sez "their allways doubled parked" One let's muiltahull ... Edward

On 9/19/2018 1:25 PM, Edward Stancil e.… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] wrote: > > > https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Barge-crushes-1-5-million-yacht-in-Stamford-13239624.php I've always wondered whether people with $1.5 million yachts have the same affection for their boats that those of us who sail, repair, and maintain our good old, but inexpensive, boats do. Maybe having a paid crew is the basic dividing line. The ultra-rich just show up and use the boat. Everything else is done for them. They're not out there after work with a bucket of vinegar, scrubbing the summer's growth off the boottop stripe like I was after hauling the cal 20 for the season last week. The total market value of my two boats is certainly less than $10,000 but I would be distressed if either were damaged like that. They are my old friends and protectors. I take care of them and they take care of me. I've just finished my 20th season of sailing the Cal 20 and the other boat is still in her 51st season. Money or a similar boat would not be a complete replacement for either one. I always think about that when I see hurricane photos. Chris Campbell > >

Chris, I'd guess they're rich because they love their money, and love what it can purchase. This fellow was two weeks from departing for the Panama Canal and the South Pacific, in search of Bloody Mary, the gal we all love....(HD 720p) Songs from "South Pacific", Rodgers & Hammerstein | | | | | | | | | | | (HD 720p) Songs from "South Pacific", Rodgers & Hammerstein Click this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKnlF2bjPBc for Part 2. Music from Rodgers & Hammerstein's South ... | | | On Thursday, September 20, 2018, 8:34:15 AM PDT, ccampbell cc… [at] lsnm.org [Cal_Boats] <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> wrote: On 9/19/2018 1:25 PM, Edward Stancil e.… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] wrote: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Barge-crushes-1-5-million-yacht-in-Stamford-13239624.php I've always wondered whether people with $1.5 million yachts have the same affection for their boats that those of us who sail, repair, and maintain our good old, but inexpensive, boats do. Maybe having a paid crew is the basic dividing line. The ultra-rich just show up and use the boat. Everything else is done for them. They're not out there after work with a bucket of vinegar, scrubbing the summer's growth off the boottop stripe like I was after hauling the cal 20 for the season last week. The total market value of my two boats is certainly less than $10,000 but I would be distressed if either were damaged like that. They are my old friends and protectors. I take care of them and they take care of me. I've just finished my 20th season of sailing the Cal 20 and the other boat is still in her 51st season. Money or a similar boat would not be a complete replacement for either one. I always think about that when I see hurricane photos. Chris Campbell

On 9/20/2018 1:56 PM, Gerald Sobel so… [at] yahoo.com [Cal_Boats] wrote: > > > Chris, I'd guess they're rich because they love their money, and love > what it can purchase. This fellow was two weeks from departing for the > Panama Canal and the South Pacific, in search of Bloody Mary, the gal > we all love....(HD 720p) Songs from "South Pacific", Rodgers & > Hammerstein <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeXvaHZj5tw> Only old people will remember that, sadly. I grew up on my parents' Rodgers & Hammerstein original-cast LPs. R&H captured a lot about being American that others don't. Also consider Meredith Willson ("The Music Man" and "Unsinkable Molly Brown"). If I'm in the car alone I'll bellow along and often enough get choked up still. I never quite figured out the appeal of Sondheim and his oddball subjects and tuneless tunes. Maybe I'm too harsh on the rich folks. Some are bright and accomplished and interesting. Those are the ones who can fix, maintain, navigate, and sail their own boats. Then there are the other ones, the ones who are good at making money and buying stuff. They're the ones who pay others to do anything involving skill or labor and are helpless at doing anything themselves. I know a wealthy guy who was puzzled at why his boat trailer hitch kept popping off the ball as he drove along. He was lamenting that he had to take it in to "the shop" for a diagnosis and repair. I took a wrench and tightened the adjusting nut on the coupler and the problem was solved in 20 seconds. He was astonished that a person like me, with a desk job and some years of education, could understand the use of wrench or the function of that nut. For him, it was one of the mysteries that hired people took care of. He was the one who made money I cannot even comprehend before the mortgage crisis of 2008. We would sometimes discuss sailing. He had plans to own a boat "some day," but it couldn't be an ordinary small boat. It had to be at least 50 feet. Some day. Now he has a neurological disorder, a progressive one, and "some day" most likely means "if there's an afterlife." Me, I prefer to take my sailing in the here and now, even if it is in demeaningly small & cheap boats. Somehow the joy of sailing lets me shrug off the humiliation of doing it in a 20 footer. Chris Campbell

Our Marina del Rey is full of someday sailboats that never leave the dock. I'd say, for every ten boats, one will ever leave its slip, which is understandable...anything larger than a dinghy can be beyond most people's capacity, which is to say, so is a dinghy, which will probably tip over, dump them in the water, and drown them. When the Marina was new, the owners were mostly Vietnam war time and Apollo program aerospace engineers, and almost all of them were being used, and the Main Channel was like a major freeway with no rules of the road and unlimited access. And my home made kit, second owner (me) modified (from cat to sloop rig) 13' Glen-L plywood catamaran made perfect, K turns when I had to tack. Woohoo!Jerry of Ye Olde Shpritz, the original Cal. On Thursday, September 20, 2018, 12:48:22 PM PDT, ccampbell cc… [at] lsnm.org [Cal_Boats] <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> wrote: On 9/20/2018 1:56 PM, Gerald Sobel so… [at] yahoo.com [Cal_Boats] wrote: Chris, I'd guess they're rich because they love their money, and love what it can purchase. This fellow was two weeks from departing for the Panama Canal and the South Pacific, in search of Bloody Mary, the gal we all love....(HD 720p) Songs from "South Pacific", Rodgers & Hammerstein Only old people will remember that, sadly. I grew up on my parents' Rodgers & Hammerstein original-cast LPs. R&H captured a lot about being American that others don't. Also consider Meredith Willson ("The Music Man" and "Unsinkable Molly Brown"). If I'm in the car alone I'll bellow along and often enough get choked up still. I never quite figured out the appeal of Sondheim and his oddball subjects and tuneless tunes. Maybe I'm too harsh on the rich folks. Some are bright and accomplished and interesting. Those are the ones who can fix, maintain, navigate, and sail their own boats. Then there are the other ones, the ones who are good at making money and buying stuff. They're the ones who pay others to do anything involving skill or labor and are helpless at doing anything themselves. I know a wealthy guy who was puzzled at why his boat trailer hitch kept popping off the ball as he drove along. He was lamenting that he had to take it in to "the shop" for a diagnosis and repair. I took a wrench and tightened the adjusting nut on the coupler and the problem was solved in 20 seconds. He was astonished that a person like me, with a desk job and some years of education, could understand the use of wrench or the function of that nut. For him, it was one of the mysteries that hired people took care of. He was the one who made money I cannot even comprehend before the mortgage crisis of 2008. We would sometimes discuss sailing. He had plans to own a boat "some day," but it couldn't be an ordinary small boat. It had to be at least 50 feet. Some day. Now he has a neurological disorder, a progressive one, and "some day" most likely means "if there's an afterlife." Me, I prefer to take my sailing in the here and now, even if it is in demeaningly small & cheap boats. Somehow the joy of sailing lets me shrug off the humiliation of doing it in a 20 footer. Chris Campbell