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#21
Tales and Trip Reports / Re: Retrieving the Irish Penna...
Last post by Riley Smith - Sep 12, 2026, 07:32 AMYou bring up a good point Noemi, and one of my most useful things on an EXPEDITION is a FANNY PACK. Yes, I DO know how it looks. How it works is another story because it keeps MANY things in reach of your hands. And can be adjusted, unlike pockets on pants. One reason I like it is that most of the time when I'm sailing, I'm wearing swim gear and the pockets on them are an afterthought and mostly useless. One of those packs keep the phone, knife, a whistle, maybe some paracord, matches, or whatever else I deem important close at hand. Got some old dated flares that will fit too.
I have used a belt type, manually inflatable PFD which sort of equals out the fanny pack look, so both of them stay out of the way. I say "have used". In a side comment on this whole thing, I need to upgrade. The old pack is ....OLD, and I haven't tested it in a couple of years. I'm sure the CO2 cartridge is in need of attention. That one goes on the list of things this article has brought up to my personal level of attention.
One OTHER thing that I wanted to ask Charles is how would a SELF-INFLATING PFD have affected this outcome, both pros and cons. Inquiring minds would like to know!
Thanks Bean, for barking at 5am for a milk bone.
I have used a belt type, manually inflatable PFD which sort of equals out the fanny pack look, so both of them stay out of the way. I say "have used". In a side comment on this whole thing, I need to upgrade. The old pack is ....OLD, and I haven't tested it in a couple of years. I'm sure the CO2 cartridge is in need of attention. That one goes on the list of things this article has brought up to my personal level of attention.
One OTHER thing that I wanted to ask Charles is how would a SELF-INFLATING PFD have affected this outcome, both pros and cons. Inquiring minds would like to know!
Thanks Bean, for barking at 5am for a milk bone.
#22
Just Trailers Q&A / Re: Wheel Camber
Last post by No Kin Jones - Sep 11, 2026, 06:33 PMLate to the party as usual but, Mr. Brennan is right on all counts. And I know this because I retired from a tool & die company that owned an axle company.
Dan
Dan
#23
TSBB General Talk / Re: Just a reminder that a mem...
Last post by Brian N. - Sep 11, 2026, 05:01 PMI was teaching in my classroom which had a fair view of the twin towers and lower Manhattan. At first there was the smoke, and a bit of confusion as to exactly where it was from. Then the second tower was hit and the Assistant Principal had put on the news. The school was put on lockdown. I thought of my sister who worked in one of the towers, students were crying, many who had parents who worked at the trade center or nearby buildings. One of the worst days of my life. My sister was fine, she had left her office early for a meeting in another building, but students lost loved ones. My wife's cousin arrived late to work (the first plane had already hit) and turned around and went home.
Not to demean the spirit of your essay, it is very good, illustrating the American spirit. But I had mostly feelings of grief, horror, unknown fear. I tried to remain professional, helping my students deal with the fear of lost loved ones, and what might happen next. The idea of demonic attacks was not foreign to many of my students, as some came from very repressive countries. Who could have imagined such an attack on US soil? The war on terror had started. Still, I cried this morning as I watched the reading of the names of the lost and tolling of the bell.
I visited the 911 Memorial soon after construction. It is perfect, with water cascading into a void. As a side note - my school has a large agriculture program (yes in NYC) and we had a role in propagating shoots from the survivor tree.
One more thing - I can't tell you whether it was an hour or 3 hours after the towers were hit, but we heard the thunder of fighter jets directly over the school. I cannot convey the screaming, crying and panic. True horror and fear to the point students were shaking ( as was I) and almost to the point of total meltdown.
Not to demean the spirit of your essay, it is very good, illustrating the American spirit. But I had mostly feelings of grief, horror, unknown fear. I tried to remain professional, helping my students deal with the fear of lost loved ones, and what might happen next. The idea of demonic attacks was not foreign to many of my students, as some came from very repressive countries. Who could have imagined such an attack on US soil? The war on terror had started. Still, I cried this morning as I watched the reading of the names of the lost and tolling of the bell.
I visited the 911 Memorial soon after construction. It is perfect, with water cascading into a void. As a side note - my school has a large agriculture program (yes in NYC) and we had a role in propagating shoots from the survivor tree.
One more thing - I can't tell you whether it was an hour or 3 hours after the towers were hit, but we heard the thunder of fighter jets directly over the school. I cannot convey the screaming, crying and panic. True horror and fear to the point students were shaking ( as was I) and almost to the point of total meltdown.
#24
TSBB General Talk / Re: Just a reminder that a mem...
Last post by jtweigandt - Sep 11, 2026, 04:35 PMNot unexpectedly.. I should have said Duck Duck Go... far more links show up than on google... what's that tell you? And Google AI overview "The phrase references a widely shared post 9/11 open letter emphasizing .....blah blah blah" without of course linking to the post. So we do indeed see what Google wants us to.. Here's hoping a few independant search engines stay alive.
#25
TSBB General Talk / Re: Just a reminder that a mem...
Last post by Charles Brennan - Sep 11, 2026, 04:10 PMJT, Thanks, for your kind words.
I never bring it up on my own accord, after that one time I severely sprained my arm, from trying to pat myself on the back!
There used to be a lot more returns from a Google search but it looks like after 25 years, we're down to about one or two.
Just as well.
Very few of the links on-line, are unadulterated; seems like people can't resist editing what I wrote, or adding their own agenda, from time to time.
But as an example of good computer hygiene, in terms of back-up and archiving, here is the original text for anyone interested:
Hit the buildings, Missed America.
An open letter to a terrorist:
Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America. You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America. You used helpless American bodies, to take out other American bodies, but like a poor marksman, you STILL missed America.
Why?
Because of something you guys will never understand. America isn't about a building or two, not about financial centers, not about military centers, America isn't about a place, America isn't even about a bunch of bodies. America is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go someplace where you can earn as much as you can figure out how to, live for the most part, like you envisioned living, and pursue Happiness. (No guarantees that you'll reach it, but you can sure try!)
Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany: "If you can not see my point, then feel my pain." This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country where we don't have to see your point. But you're free to have one. We don't have to listen to your speech. But you're free to say one. Don't know where you got the strange idea that everyone has to agree with you. We don't agree with each other in this country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection of guys that don't agree, called States. We united our individual states to protect ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on the spot. You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country.
If you're free enough.
Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That's an unfortunate image to project to the world, but it comes of feeling free and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too, because people start to forget that when you attack Americans, they tend to fight like a cornered badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812, was when England burned Washington D.C. to the ground. Didn't turn out like England thought it was going to, and it's not going to turn out like you think, either. Sorry, but you're not the first bully on our shores, just the most recent.
No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either. We were the FIRST and so far, only country in the world to use nuclear weapons in anger.
Horrific idea, nowadays? News for you bucko, it was back then too, but we used it anyway. Only had two of them in the whole world and we used 'em both. Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan Project. Told me once, that right up until they threw the switch, the physicists were still arguing over whether the Uranium alone would fission, or whether it would start a fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything. But they threw the switch anyway, because we had a War to win. Does that tell you something about American Resolve?
So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to point to some real estate, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we're probably at war with random camps, in far-flung places. Who think they're safe. Just like the Barbary Pirates did, IIRC. Better start sleeping with one eye open.
There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country, looking for opportunity, looking for liberty, looking for freedom. Even if they misuse it. The Marielistas that Castro emptied out of his prisons, were overjoyed to find out how much freedom there was. First thing they did when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in prisons. It was a big PITA then (especially in south Florida), but you're only the newest PITA, not the first.
You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't live in America, America lives in US! American Spirit is what it's called. And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won't change it. Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit. Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner, then it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit.
Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.
Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming.
Charles Brennan
I never bring it up on my own accord, after that one time I severely sprained my arm, from trying to pat myself on the back!
There used to be a lot more returns from a Google search but it looks like after 25 years, we're down to about one or two.
Just as well.
Very few of the links on-line, are unadulterated; seems like people can't resist editing what I wrote, or adding their own agenda, from time to time.
But as an example of good computer hygiene, in terms of back-up and archiving, here is the original text for anyone interested:
Hit the buildings, Missed America.
An open letter to a terrorist:
Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America. You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America. You used helpless American bodies, to take out other American bodies, but like a poor marksman, you STILL missed America.
Why?
Because of something you guys will never understand. America isn't about a building or two, not about financial centers, not about military centers, America isn't about a place, America isn't even about a bunch of bodies. America is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go someplace where you can earn as much as you can figure out how to, live for the most part, like you envisioned living, and pursue Happiness. (No guarantees that you'll reach it, but you can sure try!)
Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany: "If you can not see my point, then feel my pain." This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country where we don't have to see your point. But you're free to have one. We don't have to listen to your speech. But you're free to say one. Don't know where you got the strange idea that everyone has to agree with you. We don't agree with each other in this country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection of guys that don't agree, called States. We united our individual states to protect ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on the spot. You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country.
If you're free enough.
Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That's an unfortunate image to project to the world, but it comes of feeling free and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too, because people start to forget that when you attack Americans, they tend to fight like a cornered badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812, was when England burned Washington D.C. to the ground. Didn't turn out like England thought it was going to, and it's not going to turn out like you think, either. Sorry, but you're not the first bully on our shores, just the most recent.
No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either. We were the FIRST and so far, only country in the world to use nuclear weapons in anger.
Horrific idea, nowadays? News for you bucko, it was back then too, but we used it anyway. Only had two of them in the whole world and we used 'em both. Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan Project. Told me once, that right up until they threw the switch, the physicists were still arguing over whether the Uranium alone would fission, or whether it would start a fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything. But they threw the switch anyway, because we had a War to win. Does that tell you something about American Resolve?
So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to point to some real estate, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we're probably at war with random camps, in far-flung places. Who think they're safe. Just like the Barbary Pirates did, IIRC. Better start sleeping with one eye open.
There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country, looking for opportunity, looking for liberty, looking for freedom. Even if they misuse it. The Marielistas that Castro emptied out of his prisons, were overjoyed to find out how much freedom there was. First thing they did when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in prisons. It was a big PITA then (especially in south Florida), but you're only the newest PITA, not the first.
You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't live in America, America lives in US! American Spirit is what it's called. And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won't change it. Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit. Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner, then it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit.
Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.
Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming.
Charles Brennan
#26
TSBB General Talk / Just a reminder that a member ...
Last post by jtweigandt - Sep 11, 2026, 01:26 PMCharles Brennan wrote an essay that night and posted it here. (or at least the old here) I read it the morning of the 12th, and it took off world wide.. Radio, TV, various print and internet outlets. Funniest was when they translated the tagline Windrose 19, Florida into a 19 year old from Windrose Florida.. what writing from a 19 year old. But it was seriously good writing, and deserves another look. To this day all you need to find it is to google "You hit the buildings, but you missed America" or just about any variation of that phrase. And we knew him when.
#27
TSBB General Talk / Re: Paging Charles Brennan
Last post by Ed - Sep 11, 2026, 07:48 AMThank you very much Charles. Sailing Saturday, so I'll confirm placement of battery box, 10 gallon water blivet under Vberth/pump/shower head in cockpit locker, and where/how I'll mount the usb/cig combination.
#28
TSBB General Talk / Re: Morning Walk on Atlantic B...
Last post by Riley Smith - Sep 10, 2026, 10:08 PMoH YEAH! Mornings on the beach are fab! Nice pics, Doug.
#29
Seaward / Re: Seaward Circuit Breaker Pa...
Last post by Charles Brennan - Sep 10, 2026, 04:54 PMDoug 26RK,
Here ya go:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ra901+switch&channelId=500&clpRedir=Y&plpRedirect=mhFallback
Hope this helps,
Charles Brennan
Here ya go:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ra901+switch&channelId=500&clpRedir=Y&plpRedirect=mhFallback
Hope this helps,
Charles Brennan
#30
Seaward / Seaward Circuit Breaker Parts
Last post by doug 26RK - Sep 10, 2026, 04:15 PMLooking for rocker switches for boat circuit and circuit breaker lower half of the board.
the switch says RA 901/911 T 85u |0(4)A 250V~
the circuit breaker says
ETA 250 V ac 28 V DC
hopefully someone understands this and can point me in the right direction.
I'm doing to figure out photo posting soon.
thanks
doug
the switch says RA 901/911 T 85u |0(4)A 250V~
the circuit breaker says
ETA 250 V ac 28 V DC
hopefully someone understands this and can point me in the right direction.
I'm doing to figure out photo posting soon.
thanks
doug