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[Tight Lines]

I guess i was just bein cute about the time off sailing for a bit part. Wasnt in for long but it was good for me. I was a bit of a know it all at the time and getting knocked down a peg or two did me right. The America's cup was something else. Just man against nature but also against man. Having the money later kinda broke me of my need to compete. Most places i went i knew i was the richest feller in the room so nothing to do but be the man i guess. Nowadays i just enjoy simple things. When you've had it all you know it just aint worth the chase. To me anyway. Some just enjoy the game and keep on.

I was fascinated with it when I was a senior in college. America3 won it in '92 and Bill Koch was all over the local papers. The yacht ended up in Wichita eventually which is kind of cool. He used to say winning it was 60% technology and 40% people. Not sure if that's right, but it looks like a grueling, punishing and at the same time exhilarating race experience.

 

[livinoutdoors]

I was fascinated with it when I was a senior in college. America3 won it in '92 and Bill Koch was all over the local papers. The yacht ended up in Wichita eventually which is kind of cool. He used to say winning it was 60% technology and 40% people. Not sure if that's right, but it looks like a grueling, punishing and at the same time exhilarating race experience.

Yeah thats a pretty good way to put it. The people in that community are absolutely driven. If it wasn't sailing it would be bull riding. Or climbing mountains.

 

[Tight Lines]

Hey genius, it all started in the South. None of them would exist without what happened down here first. It was invented down here. I know you still hate my guts from that thing before and I’m fine with that but know what you’re talking about once in a while.

I don't hate you. I don't know you. Hate takes a lot of useless energy. Don't have time for that...especially via the internet...I enjoy your posts...seriously...

 

[Danuwoa]

I don't hate you. I don't know you. Hate takes a lot of useless energy. Don't have time for that...especially via the internet...I enjoy your posts...seriously...

That’s good I guess.

 

[1eyefishing]

My wife haa done some sailing.
Her God-father is this guy...



To this day, less than 400 ships have made the NW Passage.(across the top of Canada) He did it twice (in his sloop Cloud Nine, which my F-i-L brokered for him when they got out of the navy) because the first time he had to be broke out by an icebreaker and didn't consider it a success. I think he was something like #112.

[he became the first American skipper to transit the Northwest Passage in one season.]
[Swanson’s exploits earned him the Cruising Club of America’s Blue Water Medal, the Royal Cruising Club’s Tilman Medal, and he was inducted into Cruising World’s Hall of Fame. He will surely be missed by those whose lives he touched]
-Latitude38.com


He was on the cover of Cruising World twice.
Most remarkable man I have ever met. By far.
Wife and I made it to his 80th BDay gathering where he invited every sailor from around the world to speak of their adventures with Roger. Icredible 3 hrs to hear.
Even my wife had some good stories to tell on the stage.
I don't believe I am cut out for it.

 

[JB0704]

I find lot of this very confusing.

 

[JB0704]

I never sailed, and I don't travel a whole lot. Def not outta the country. Eye reckon if I sailed I may be more likely to do so since I do not fly.

 

[Railroader]

I got an old buddy that had money. Sailed, flew airplanes and even got a helicopter license. Raced boats, dirt track, he was rich and crazy.

He even went on a few African safaris. He said that was his favorite of all the crazy crap he's done.

Now, he's near 80, the money's spent, but he's had a heckuva good time.

Got some good stories.

 

[JB0704]

......I did wake up this morning the proud owner of goats. So there is that.

 

[livinoutdoors]

Yeah Africa is pretty dang neat. Never been on a safari per se. When i went it was more of a research trip. We flew into Kinshasa and then traveled overland for a bit. We took a guide boat out of Bandundu. We stayed on the river mostly. I was hard to sleep near the banks though. Thousands of biting insects and the constant thread of Hippos made for some long nights.

 

[Tight Lines]

......I did wake up this morning the proud owner of goats. So there is that.

I love goats. Wish I had some. I bought my first one at the livestock sale in Bartlesville, OK when we were living on the dairy farm. I was 4 years old and talked my grandmother into buying him when we were looking at steers and horses...named him Loco. Used to terrorize my Mom when she was in the yard tending to the garden.

 

[Throwback]

I love goats. Wish I had some. I bought my first one at the livestock sale in Bartlesville, OK when we were living on the dairy farm. I was 4 years old and talked my grandmother into buying him when we were looking at steers and horses...named him Loco. Used to terrorize my Mom when she was in the yard tending to the garden.

When I was about 10 or so my dad got me 2 Nannie’s and a Nubian Billy that probably weighed 150 pounds . They were fine till one day I was putting hay in their pen through the bull wire fence. He butted my hand against the fence and i thought for a minute he had broke my hand.

Next day I went down there with an aluminum baseball bat and when he lunged at me I beat the brakes off him as hard as I could till I ran out of steam.

Problem solved.

It also works with ornery bulls ask @Spotlite

 

[JB0704]

When I was about 10 or so my dad got me 2 Nannie’s and a Nubian Billy that probably weighed 150 pounds . They were fine till one day I was putting hay in their pen through the bull wire fence. He butted my hand against the fence and i thought for a minute he had broke my hand.

Next day I went down there with an aluminum baseball bat and when he lunged at me I beat the brakes off him as hard as I could till I ran out of steam.

Problem solved.

It also works with ornery bulls ask @Spotlite

A bat was my original goat control plan but Ive been warned not to try n whoop a goat with a bat.......sed the goat wouldn't quit no matter what. My new strategy will be to use a super soaker n bucket of corn to get his mind on other things.

Ain't got a billy yet, though. Just a bunch of little nannies. Ill get a billy later on this summer.

 

[JB0704]

I love goats. Wish I had some. I bought my first one at the livestock sale in Bartlesville, OK when we were living on the dairy farm. I was 4 years old and talked my grandmother into buying him when we were looking at steers and horses...named him Loco. Used to terrorize my Mom when she was in the yard tending to the garden.

I been working on this plan for a long dang time, spent way more $$ gettin my land ready for goats than I will ever make selling goats. Lotta folks hate em, but for some goofy reason I just really wanted a buncha goats running around. These ones I have are pert wild right now so we got em in about an 12 x 12 lean to. Hoping they calm down a little in the next day or so where we can move em into a bit bigger space. But, rigt now I am all kinda happy.

 

[Spotlite]

When I was about 10 or so my dad got me 2 Nannie’s and a Nubian Billy that probably weighed 150 pounds . They were fine till one day I was putting hay in their pen through the bull wire fence. He butted my hand against the fence and i thought for a minute he had broke my hand.

Next day I went down there with an aluminum baseball bat and when he lunged at me I beat the brakes off him as hard as I could till I ran out of steam.

Problem solved.

It also works with ornery bulls ask @Spotlite

Yup!!! Oh Lord between two of my Billys, Tarzan and Monkey……I learned how to fight!!!!

And one bull I had to have a bat to feed……and a few others that tore up gates and pens……I learned to jump fences.

If I’d had a bad dog to chase me any distance……..between all that I’d been one bad fighting track star running hurdle jumping machine lol

 

[livinoutdoors]

When I was about 10 or so my dad got me 2 Nannie’s and a Nubian Billy that probably weighed 150 pounds . They were fine till one day I was putting hay in their pen through the bull wire fence. He butted my hand against the fence and i thought for a minute he had broke my hand.

Next day I went down there with an aluminum baseball bat and when he lunged at me I beat the brakes off him as hard as I could till I ran out of steam.

Problem solved.

It also works with ornery bulls ask @Spotlite

Usually a billy will keep on keepin on till he cant. I guess yours werent all that rowdy. Ive seen a buck fight a mostly grown boar hog and not back down till he was seperated.

 

[livinoutdoors]

When we were all done with the river survey we came inland a bit, where they were building a new railway. When we got there the workers had a nervous look to em. Like something was off. After we setup camp the word got round to us. Men were being killed in the night. Drug off into the darkness and never recovered.

 

[Nicodemus]

When we were all done with the river survey we came inland a bit, where they were building a new railway. When we got there the workers had a nervous look to em. Like something was off. After we setup camp the word got round to us. Men were being killed in the night. Drug off into the darkness and never recovered.

Tsavo?

 

[livinoutdoors]

Tsavo?

Yessir

 

[sinclair1]

Love me some Fullbacks