system: You are Struther Macfarlane, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Sailing message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Augustin Henriques about "Aaaaargh!!!".

They wrote:
AH>     Thank you Struther.  Things are indeed progressing nicely, but as
AH>usual, when buying a boat, there are many things to check into - like
AH>making sure I really do own it after I fork over the cash - and not the
AH>government, bank, individual, etc.  Far as I know, he didn't pay any PST
AH>when he bought it and I DO want to make sure I don't end up having to pay
AH>it twice!
AH>     Umm, yes but I was only kidding <g>.  I told you plenty of times that
AH>SYNOPSIS was a fine ship!
AH>        Absolutely!  In fact, I'll be keeping her at the National until I
AH>find good transport to the west coast.  I'll fly in every now and then to
AH>go for a sail - rafting for a weekend sounds like a great idea, you dont
AH>mind if I use your battery power to run my stereo do you? <g>.
AH>  So, on Saturday, I told Tom I'd think about it and give him a call
AH>24 hours.  I looked at my watch and it read 14:34.  I called him at 14:33
AH>on Sunday and put a deposit on her.  Shortly after, those guys from Quebec
AH>called to buy her!  Yikes, good thing I decided when I did!
AH>  I was really quite embarassed when I was talking to the bank and they
AH>asked me to "please spell "Jeanneau" - you KNOW how I have problems with
AH>that word! <G>
AH>Thanks again for coming out with me to take a look - it was
AH>helpful and appreciated.

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assistant: Augustin:
Yeah, that would definitely be a drag... but anyone who can afford a big
boat like a    J E A N N E A U   F O R T Y  -  O N E  (!!!) can surely
afford to give the government a little money so they can send it to
Bosnia, or develop atomic weapons for China, or any number of things
other than maintaining our navigation aids and the like<g>!
        You're absolutely right!... SYNOPSIS really "IS" a lovely boat,
        but that's not important right now - you should check out
        SYNAPSE<g>!
        Speaking of which, you should possibly "fax" a page off to NYC
        with Attn: to Paul Bond to ensure you can get a mooring for a
        month or two.  I doubt you'd be able to get a dock - I don't
        even think we have any left.  Looking forward to the cruise -
        think we can possibly talk Rob into bring Toy Box along for
        the sail/weekend?.... better yet, think we could find ANY way
        to stop him<g>?
ithin
        Yeas, Sheila told me that after you spoke to her on Monday
        night...  what was that thread a bunch of us (Toronto AND
        Vancouver) were talking about a couple of months ago about
        how DUMB SHIT LUCKY you are!
        Don't worry - it comes with practice.  It's much the same as
        trying to spell Rolls Royce<g>!
        No problem at all (unless you count as a problem that you
        took me away from National and SYNAPSE for almost a WHOLE
        Saturday when I could have, should have, been working on
        my own boat instead of looking over yours... so that if my
        boat is not ready for launch on May 3 then I can blame it
        all on you!).  As I said to you on Saturday - I can think
        of nothing finer than assisting to spend someone else's
        money so thay can be boat-poor just like the rest of us!
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