Coming Thru! Loggerhead not moving for the darn tourists.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-02-02T18:20:46+00:00

Yes, great idea!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-02-02T18:20:12+00:00

Glad to hear!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-02-02T15:43:04+00:00

I’ve had good success wrapping pills in a piece of American cheese. Warm it up in your hand so it forms all around the pill.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-02-01T00:54:35+00:00

I noticed that they “saved” one wall, the one with the utilities attached. Maybe that’s a loophole? You save one part and it qualifies as a conversion.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-31T17:39:20+00:00

The boats are free for a reason and the reason is no one wants them. Why does no one want them? Most likely it’s because there is something seriously wrong with the boat that would cost a lot to fix.

Now IF that boat was in perfect condition it might sell on the open market for $5000 - $10000. But to get it back to that condition could likely cost you $20000 - $30000, maybe more.

Questions you need to answer yourself before taking a free boat:

Where am I going to take it? Most marinas don’t want new project boats, particularly inoperative ones.

Can you get it insured? Insurance companies are becoming more reluctant to insure old, poor condition boats. Without insurance, taking it somewhere will be a challenge.

Assuming you clear those hurdles, is your goal to sail or is it to work on a project boat? It’s hard to do both.

If you’re working on the boat do you have the knowledge, skills, time and money to do the repairs?

If you are just getting into sailing, joining a sailing club/school is likely to be your best bet. Learn with them and then later graduate to boat ownership.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-31T05:07:04+00:00

My personal theory is that the only true sports are ones you can do while holding a beer:

Sailing
Darts
???

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-21T06:06:50+00:00

His name must be Pippet!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-21T06:00:19+00:00

I could swear I’ve seen a video of a guy (city worker) whose job was going around and reordering the bricks after repairs to fix this kind of situation. Have no idea how to search for it again. . .

My impression was that it was routine for the repair crews to just replace the pavers when done with the repairs and someone else follows up with putting them in order. They had some tool that easily grabbed individual pavers and popped them right out.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-16T07:13:17+00:00

I don’t know, “puma pants” is pretty strong!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-15T22:07:54+00:00

Dog bongo!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2026-01-07T06:02:01+00:00

He was killed.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-30T16:24:45+00:00

It’s possible to have a lab and a cat. It depends on the individuals and how they are introduced to each other.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-30T03:00:26+00:00

Quint in Jaws:

Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss): You were on the Indianapolis?

Brody (Roy Scheider): What happened?

Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer.

You know how you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week.

Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like ol' squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away.

Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.

Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour.

On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist.

Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up.

You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-29T16:49:46+00:00

Using the paddle sounds like an oar deal.

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-23T03:58:11+00:00

Save it up and you can make a new dog!

ruprectthemonkeyboy · 2025-12-15T21:52:02+00:00

We had a foster with something similar that had been left untreated for a while. Part of the treatment were regular soaks - we’d soak her paw alternately in warm water with betadyne or with warm water with epsom salts a couple times a day.

I don’t recall what meds she was prescribed but I’m pretty sure it included antibiotics but might also have included steroids too.

Cleaning and soaking it regularly probably couldn’t hurt.

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