Old Tyme Boat Brochure Photos, Amusing attire

I'm working on a filler piece this evening that recounts the history of the local Bayliner dealer. (The firm just celebrated its 50th anniversary, although it did not sell Bayliner for some years after it was founded).

I've got three brochure photos for some really old Bayliner models. A Mutiny, a Discovery, and a Cornet. These boats are 16, 17 and 19 feet in length.

Back in the day, models posing in some boat brochure photos were dressed in business suits! The skipper is dressed in a shirt, jacket, tie, the whole works. In one photo of the suit and tie boater, his female passenger is dressed in a business dress and sports a "bee hive" hairdo. In another photo, two women are out in a boat, and one of them is wearing a very modest two-piece bathing suit. It was probably considered "risque" in its era.

I'd love to know upon what basis you characterize me as "Commodore Chucky". I have never served in that capacity in any club. (Board Chairman is a different office, attending to the business aspects rather than the social aspects of the organization). I have not even been a member of any yacht club for a few years. But then again, the truth has never been an important element in your endless bowel movement of personal attacks has it, Psuedo? How sad to end up in life as a broken down, bitter, boatless old man with nothing to do but crank out bitchy little insults to virtual strangers all around the world. Man, that has got to be one depressing fate. Sorry for your loss (of self respect), Psuedo.

The real Skipper appeared, for all intents and purposes, to be a member of the KKK. He really launched some zingers about blacks and jews a couple of times. I used to belong to a yacht club, but I've never belonged to any organization that preached hatred and intolerance. Given the choice between one and the other, I'd take the yacht club any day.

GFYS. (Stands for: good for you, "skipper", of course).

Filter him, 'cause it's sounding more and more like he's for real.

-- John H

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan

Skipper has made a few comments about your integrity and you go ballistic. JimH should not have allowed your personal attacks on him to piss him off, but it did. Maybe you owe him an apology, you know what they say about Karma.

ps - This Skipper is Dave Mann from Derby Kansas. He is the person you meet in person, it is not a Pseudo.

<chuckgould.chuck@gmail.com> wrote in message

Un-friggin-believable.

Curiously, I worked for an "admiral" back in my newspaper days. When I got promoted to the copy desk, I worked a stint under the supervision of the world news editor. He had been an admiral in WW II, and out of affection (he really was one of the favorite characters at the paper), everyone addressed him as "Admiral XXX."

Oh...and we called the managing editor "chief." He hated it, which, of course, is why everyone called him chief. But he was another of the well-loved newspaper characters there.

My father's boatyard was almost next door to a snooty yacht club in the same harbor. He joined because I wanted to race sailboats in the junior program when I was a kid, but he refused to get involved in the hierarchy. For fun, we went to social events at a blue collar boat club, where no one was an "ossifer with a title."

-- Skipper

If you're marketing a go-fast boat these days, two endowed models in bathing suits is mandatory fare.

jps