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Re: Interesting Ship Of The Week - Geared Funicular Railway

Tim Flanagan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:54:52 -0000

That's pretty neat, John, but THAT'S NO SHIP! It's a geared funicular railway!

Anyway, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. :-)

Re: Australia’s Shocking Footage of Japanese Whaling - Video

Tim Flanagan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:06:03 -0000

I love meat, and I love fish. I even eat some mammals, especially delicious swine.

But big-game hunters in modern, civilized countries generally harvest mature males only. Even crab fisherman return the juveniles and females. The regulations require it, and everybody pretty much "gets it" why this might be important.

So what the hell's the matter with the Japanese Whaling Institute? I'm with the Australians on this one. Go to the mat with these guys.

Notice this argument doesn't even require that we acknowledge that whales might be "sentient" in the way we humans are. If that's the case, then they might actually have "rights", and killing them might be "murder".

I don't know anything about that. I'm just saying that good fish and wildlife management demands exercising reasonable restraint about what you harvest.

Re: Enjoy Ships? Fluent in Wiki? Help us launch a new feature.

Tim Flanagan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:04:20 -0000

As a former encyclopedia editor myself, I resent your tone, sir! :-)

Just kiddin'. Let's Wiki!

Re: Hitler’s Titanic - MS Wilhelm Gustloff

Tim Flanagan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:28:57 -0000

Thanks for the post. I had never heard of this disaster. Titanic, Lusitania, Bismark, Edmund Fitzgerald...THEM I've heard of! Funny how this little 9,000-casualty event escapes ones notice.

Re: Photo Of The Week - S/V Concordia

Tim Flanagan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:47:04 -0000

I looked at it and something was "wrong", so I went to look at the original, in the large size, and YIKES! The foreground vs. vessel scale doesn't work, the cloud doesn't really work, somehow, and the sunlight on the tops of the sails conflicts with the starry sky on the right. And then when you zoom in, you see the rough cut-n-paste edges, and...I say get rid of it.

Re: gCaptain Featured - Sail Magazine May 2008

Tim Flanagan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:14:36 -0000

Hey, good for you, John!

Re: gCaptain Birthday Givaway

Tim Flanagan — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:05:24 -0000

I love how gCaptain has become THE place to go for commercial maritime news. Oh, and I like it when gCaptain links to Navagear! :-)

Re: Fire Gear Locker - The Halligan Tool

Tim Flanagan — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:17:57 -0000

I WISH I could justify having this tool aboard my 22' fiberglass C-Dory, but I'd probably just drop it and accidentally hull the boat! :-)

Re: US Navy’s M80 Stiletto Finally Sees Action

Tim Flanagan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:12:07 -0000

They could use a few of these off the Somali coast.

Re: Top 10 Anti-Piracy Weapons For Future Use In Somalia

Tim Flanagan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:04:06 -0000

If it continues, those Blackwater folks may find some new customers. Might be a bargain, relative to the ransom, for a shipper to carry a small squad of guys who really like guns, really know how to use them, and know they can sleep nights after having used them, eh?