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• Guns on board...
  • Never had guns aboard.
  • I agree with you Dave
    • And a lot of nuts own guns.
    • No gun needed
  • I carry aboard when I'm in NH but not Ma.
    • Why the change of heart?
      • There's been no incident if that's what you're wondering.
        • OK, good explanation.
          • Somehow I just don't think this is going to scare anyone off
            • This dog scared an intruder off our boat several months ago.
              • Ya think?!!!
            • You'd be surprised. Those terriers start yapping, it's the sound of death by a thousand small bites.
    • Flare gun is about it...
      • From what i heard flare gun rounds are only effective in Hollywood
        • What? Haven't you watched Captain Ron??
  • Most effective thing for defense on board is
    • Wasp spray.
      • Yep..that's some potent stuff too
      • Sure, but if you store stuff on your boat like me...
      • How about...
      • Wasp spray may or may not be effective
      • bear spray
    • I keep a sawed-off shotgun under the bed.
      • Two problems with that.
    • I disagree. The most effective thing for defense on board is an ANCHOR! But which anchor and how much chain...
      • what size chain?
        • 300 feet of 3/8.
      • Rob, you're right. The most important
  • How many times over the years have I
    • While I am
  • We had a gun on board for a while.
    • Dan, all my hard work hiding that
      • A good idea to toss it as it turned out
        • That is exactly correct! Don't believe you "can't get caught" -- you're only kidding yourself.
          • NYC has very tough gun laws also
            • I do carry pepper spray - it's very effective
              • I was going to install a pepper spray system on TD
          • FYI Title 18, §1001
            • When I calculate the odds
  • We don't need them up here.
    • Do you have any of that foolishness like our infamous lobster wars up there, Peter?
      • Does the name Ronnie Ross ring a bell?
        • No, but it's a familiar theme. I just finished the book Matinicus by Dary Scott.
          • Just finished Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water.
            • dang it, sorry about the pic.
            • Bizzare history on Isle of Shoals.
              • There was a film made of the book
            • Book aside, interesting cockpit arrangement.
            • cockpit table
        • Yes.
      • Not that I know of...
  • No guns onboard, in fact, I've never even shot a gun ...
  • Only twice
  • I have always been a supporter of guns on board.
    • If you use that setup
      • What fall out? I figure it would
        • You really think the aftermath would go down like that?
          • No, I don't think it would go down that way.
    • In Bonaire....
  • We've been boarded once in the middle of the night. It was spooky.
    • Scary!
    • That takes place quite often in some places.
      • I avoild those places.
        • I was talking about the relatively safe places.
          • That's funny Dan! Back '89 when I was in
  • In the Dominican Republic
    • They must have rebuilt that dock.
      • Same dock
        • There was a second story restaurant in Luperon
          • I remember that restatrant.
    • I was there in '93...
      • In 92 I sat at the bar next to the Navy Boat at that dock and ordered a beer. Tasted like shit,
        • Blye, Back in the late 80's the beer of
  • I've been on both ends of the barrel and I can tell you from experience which was the better outcome...
    • That's precisely
      • These primal fears are what the NRA counts on
        • Its worse than that...
        • Cruising in the states doesn't count.
      • Not to digress but to digress on folks unbidden coming onboard...
  • guns aboard
  • "I should know better"- +1
  • Misunderstandings
    • the cost of living
      • So you would shoot a 12 year old trying to steal your dinghy?
  • Is there a God? Is there only one true God? If so, which God? Does the Easter Bunny have only one mate?