--- "bindlestiff_boxer" wrote:
> Just ask any sailor, or take a peek in their repairs locker for
> yourself. There will be lines of every size, and shape stashed away.
> Sailors can't bear to toss out a hunk of line, no matter how small it
> is ... "just in case" =LOL=
> Enjoy!
> ---Bindle Babe

If the resident pirate can slip a word in here...
This is not a case of "Little Old Lady Syndrome". When you're several
miles from shore, you can't run to the corner store for repair
supplies, so you make repairs from "what's at hand". Therefore, you
*never* throw out anything that maybe useful.

When a board warps and your ship has sprung a leak, you stuff the
crack with that "frayed, hopelessly knotted, four inch scrap of line"
and then you paint it over with tar to make it waterproof. After
that, you log it so proper repairs can be made when you get to port.
But that's why sailors never throw anything overboard if they can help it.
-- Dagonell the Pirate

Hey, Bindle Babe!

The Grampa I'm talking about was my dh's Grampa. He wasn't a sailor, but my dad loves
to sail his Flying Scot, the Gute Fahrt! I carved the Gute Fahrt and planned to include it in
a series called "Treasure Island." I should have waited, since I see some others would
actually plant in areas difficult to access. If you check out the photos in new_boxers, you
will see the stamp I will plant next year at Clear Lake. The other stamps from Treasure
Island that became HH's are: Pinky Pie's Happy Feet, Link's Chillin' and my personal
traveller, Peace Out.

MY Grampa never threw out ANYTHING when it came to correspondence. He died in 1984
before the ubiquitous personal computer. He had every piece of correspondence in
triplicate filed in his office. I often wonder how life would be different if he had known the
possibilities.

I agree we all need lines/sheets too.

~speedsquare