From: OzOne on
On Fri, 21 May 2010 20:02:11 +1000, Sylvia Else
<sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote:


>> You should try something challenging then...Like sailing around the
>> world in a small boat solo.....Of course you will have an advantage
>> over Miss Watson, You are older and possibly stronger.
>
>Challenging?
>
>Unpleasant? For sure. Boring? Definitely. Tiring? Most likely.
>Dangerous? Quite possibly, though it was an ocean going yacht, no doubt
>self-righting, with modern navigation equipment and communications.
>
>But challenging? Somehow I don't see it.
>

Of course you don't...You've never been at sea in a yacht.




OzOne of the three twins

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From: OzOne on
On Fri, 21 May 2010 21:03:42 +1000, "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote:

>
>"Sylvia Else" <sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote in message
>news:4bf65a25$0$1235$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
>
>> Challenging?
>>
>> Unpleasant? For sure. Boring? Definitely. Tiring? Most likely. Dangerous?
>> Quite possibly, though it was an ocean going yacht, no doubt
>> self-righting, with modern navigation equipment and communications.
>>
>> But challenging? Somehow I don't see it.
>
>Yeah, I don't either.

Of course not...You've freely admited that you have no interest, hence
knowledge of yachting.




OzOne of the three twins

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From: OzOne on
On Sun, 23 May 2010 14:13:11 +1000, Sylvia Else
<sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote:


>
>To my mind, something is challenging when it presents problems that take
>effort and ingenuity to overcome, and indeed which might be too
>difficult to deal with.

Mmmm, let see, playing seamstress a number of times on a 30' x 12'
heavy duty sail that was torn from luff to leech (you are familiar
with those term are you not?)

Rigging a fuel system using containers and hoses scavenged from other
parts of the yacht,
Repairing solar panels at sea surrounded by salt water,


Any of the above required effort and ingenuity to overcome, and any
could have mean't abandonment of the voyage....to name just three.
>>




OzOne of the three twins

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From: Sylvia Else on
On 24/05/2010 10:51 PM, OzOne(a)Crackerbox-Palace.com wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2010 14:13:11 +1000, Sylvia Else
> <sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> To my mind, something is challenging when it presents problems that take
>> effort and ingenuity to overcome, and indeed which might be too
>> difficult to deal with.
>
> Mmmm, let see, playing seamstress a number of times on a 30' x 12'
> heavy duty sail that was torn from luff to leech (you are familiar
> with those term are you not?)
>
> Rigging a fuel system using containers and hoses scavenged from other
> parts of the yacht,
> Repairing solar panels at sea surrounded by salt water,
>
>
> Any of the above required effort and ingenuity to overcome, and any
> could have mean't abandonment of the voyage....to name just three.
>>>
>

But whose ingenuity?

http://www.jessicawatson.com.au/_blog/Official_Jessica_Watson_Blog/post/A_Working_Engine!/

"Thanks Jim, Iain and Dad for the ideas"

Sylvia.
From: Noddy on

"Sylvia Else" <sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote in message
news:4bfb3489$0$13664$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...

> But it's still just a task to be performed. Or does the fact that she's a
> teenage girl somehow make it more challenging?

It seems to for Oz, but then in his usual style of blowing things out of all
reasonable proportion he'd have everyone believe that what she was doing was
as difficult as performing open heart surgery with nothing other than a
plastic knife and fork.

She was a skinny little 16 year old kid out on her own. How difficult could
it have been? :)

--
Regards,
Noddy.