Perhaps you should charter a boat in the Grenadines and show that higher power what she's missing?
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I would also be in the reluctant camp to dismantle my watermaker. Yeah, I get it's just a gauge, but what if you or I bugger up the threads on either gauge or either our watermakers ? Not really likely but damn if don't happen sometimes. I feel like it would be lending you a piece of my engine. But probably I would give in and do it just to shut up the whining.
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Re: Things are not as good as in the 1840's...
In my worldly travels upon returning to a loved place its not the same. That 😍😍😍 has gone, or changed, or just not even looking like it was.
I was saying this to a friend when I was re-visiting the BVI's walking along Cane Garden Bay. He said "You remember the palms taller and greener, the sand whiter, the smiles broader, the restuarants more rustic but the food better and the prices lower, the sun warmer, the sky clearer?" Yes, I said emphatically. I'd swear on a pile of bibles!
He was a Detective Inspector on the Sydney Homicide Squad and decided to give me a lesson of witnesses and what they witnessed compared to what their minds remember they witnessed an hour ago, a week ago, a year ago, a decade ago etc. He told me how hard it is for a person to understand that their honest memory is a total back of pure bunkham. The car was not red it was white. The guy with the gun was small grey and wore a blue shirt instead of... Even when shown definitive photos shot at the time the witness will claim they were manipulated, photoshopped.
So I have a rule (I have many rules!!) to always re-visit a place as if I have never been there before.
If things have objectively, factually changed: The restaurant isnt there because a cruise ship terminal is. I can find something else or leave.
But usually its subjective: my interpretation of my memory is murder-witness-wrong.
Every place is better if you go in knowing you need to make the experience new, vital, exciting.
Finally, to prove my point: I bumpped into some newby cruisers. They bought a boat sailed away exactly 1 year ago, coudnt sail, had never been on a boat. Both 'high achievers' in city life. Both said they have made more close, dear friends in the last 12 months cruising that they had in the previous 30 YEARS.
Some would say YMMV... but I say get off your ass and say a meaningful "hello" to every person you meet and follow it up with a conversation, drinks, dinner on your boat, and let it lead to a lifetime friendship
Mark
In my worldly travels upon returning to a loved place its not the same. That 😍😍😍 has gone, or changed, or just not even looking like it was.
I was saying this to a friend when I was re-visiting the BVI's walking along Cane Garden Bay. He said "You remember the palms taller and greener, the sand whiter, the smiles broader, the restuarants more rustic but the food better and the prices lower, the sun warmer, the sky clearer?" Yes, I said emphatically. I'd swear on a pile of bibles!
He was a Detective Inspector on the Sydney Homicide Squad and decided to give me a lesson of witnesses and what they witnessed compared to what their minds remember they witnessed an hour ago, a week ago, a year ago, a decade ago etc. He told me how hard it is for a person to understand that their honest memory is a total back of pure bunkham. The car was not red it was white. The guy with the gun was small grey and wore a blue shirt instead of... Even when shown definitive photos shot at the time the witness will claim they were manipulated, photoshopped.
So I have a rule (I have many rules!!) to always re-visit a place as if I have never been there before.
If things have objectively, factually changed: The restaurant isnt there because a cruise ship terminal is. I can find something else or leave.
But usually its subjective: my interpretation of my memory is murder-witness-wrong.
Every place is better if you go in knowing you need to make the experience new, vital, exciting.
Finally, to prove my point: I bumpped into some newby cruisers. They bought a boat sailed away exactly 1 year ago, coudnt sail, had never been on a boat. Both 'high achievers' in city life. Both said they have made more close, dear friends in the last 12 months cruising that they had in the previous 30 YEARS.
Some would say YMMV... but I say get off your ass and say a meaningful "hello" to every person you meet and follow it up with a conversation, drinks, dinner on your boat, and let it lead to a lifetime friendship
Mark
Give me freakin break! If you don't want to be helpful person just don't. No need to make up a story of how there is a 1% chance of it going wrong.I would also be in the reluctant camp to dismantle my watermaker. Yeah, I get it's just a gauge, but what if you or I bugger up the threads on either gauge or either our watermakers ? Not really likely but damn if don't happen sometimes. I feel like it would be lending you a piece of my engine. But probably I would give in and do it just to shut up the whining.
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It has been up and running the whole time. The production is low and the other day I accidently turned the pressure up too high and it started making normal capacity. But i am not willing to run it over pressure so wanted to check to see if my gage is wrong. Currently takes 2.5 hour to fill a tank instead of 1.5How did you get around your problem, Don? Is your watermaker up and going again?
Mark
But that is a different topic.
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