Boat url (Neil)

Neil, when you put the url in, you can make the text a link (cntrl "L" in Netscape/mozilla or cntrl "K" in outlook). Or, just put brackets on each side and that will keep the url together: <http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/pl_boat_detail.jsp?&units=Feet&checked_boats=1512052&lang=en&slim=broker&&hosturl=thunderbirdyachtsales&&ywo=thunderbirdyachtsales&> or it should :-Þ Best, Marsh Neil McBride wrote: >Check out this boat that is currently for sale, was sailed by both >Bob and Ted Kennedy. I've had the pleasure of being aboard this >boat, and she is much more beautiful than the photos suggest. > >http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/pl_boat_detail.jsp? >&units=Feet&checked_boats=1512052&lang=en&slim=broker&&hosturl=thunde >rbirdyachtsales&&ywo=thunderbirdyachtsales& > >Neil >"Optima" Cal 2-29 >Victoria > > >--- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, Rodney G Johnson <rjohnson24@...> >wrote: > > >>VICTURA (JFK's sailboat) is a 25' Wianno Senior. A still active >> >> >racing > > >>class on Cape Cod to this day, although a few years ago there was a >>tragic fire at the Crosby Yacht Yard that destroyed a number of the >>fleet. Most owners had placed orders for new boats before the >> >> >following > > >>Summer, a lot of the new boats are fiberglass hulls instead of the >>original wooden boats, but they are Seniors! The Wianno Senior >> >> >does have > > >>a small cabin, but really.....is a daysailing racer and despite the >>longer length they seem almost smaller than a CAL 20. >>The was a Nat Herreshoff-designed class called the Herreshoff 15 >> >> >or "E > > >>Boat", very similar to the Wianno Senior but without the cabin. >> >> >The H-15 > > >>is an older design, but not much older! They were also built as the >>"Watch Hill 15", but with a marconi-rig. >> >> Rod >> >> >Johnson, > > >>"NODROG" >> 1970 CAL >> >> >21, #285 > > >>On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:29:37 -0000 "sail_c2" >><clcampbell@...> writes: >>--- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, Marsh Wise <marsh@> wrote: >> >> >>>I guess we best not mention FDR or JFK who also sailed?! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I have two sailing-related comments about those guys. FDR's >> >> >sailboat > > >>is in the Mystic Seaport museum. The card identifying it notes that >>FDR had the symptoms of polio when he woke up the next day, and >> >> >that > > >>he spent his last healthy day sailing that boat. I found that >>immensely moving. If I were going to be significantly disabled (and >>his limitations were harder to compensate for back then), it would >> >> >be > > >>nice to have spent my last good day sailing my boat with family or >>friends as opposed to sitting in the office, for example. >> >>And my Dad always laughed about JFK's boat. He had read during the >>years of his administration about the Prez sailing "the family >> >> >yacht," > > >>and imagined some vast, costly vessel. Later he saw a photo and was >>surprised that it was about the same size as the boat we sailed. (I >>seem to recall that it was a Herreshoff or of similar pedigree, >> >> >which > > >>does distinguish it). >> >>Chris Campbell >> >> >> > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >