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Karlo Posts: 2 Registered: July 2005	Re: SNAGGED A TRAP? CUT A TRAP? SET A TRAP? LOST A TRAP? Fri, 08 July 2005 21:46 Has this ever happened? The grim faced doctor comes out of the boy's sick room and faces the exhausted, worried parents, "It's out of my hands now." The boy's mother sobs, he continues,"There is only one thing that might help, LOBSTER." "If he could get some fresh hard shell into him he just might pull through." The boy's father pulls on his coat and hoping against hope that he can make the trip to the coast and back before it's too late disapears into the night. The doctor calls through the open door, "DON'T FORGET THE BUTTER!" Not gonna happen! Eating lobster is not essential! Its bought with discretionary money. Its a liesure pastime! These are the same dollars that cruising people spend. In addition to poking about on the water in Maine my wife and I rent a cottage each year on Sprucehead. Each day maybe four or five times a day the same two or three lobstermen come in to do whatever. They always come in at a very impressive speed and turn in VERY close proximoty to moored sailboat. Often times the spray they make clears the lifelines of the moored boat. This strikes me as not only dangerous and un-seamanlike and possibly actionable but slightly rude. What precious cargo are the conveying back to the starving masses that requires such an awsome display of, I'm guessing at least, 300 horsepower. My point, at long last, is that no one is truly independent and that a realization of our interdependence might temper some attitudes. And to my cruising cousins I would like to say that floating around dressed like dandies in overly ostentatious boats in the face of hard working watermen has its consequences as well. Did I manage to tick every one off? [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	SNAGGED A TRAP? CUT A TRAP? SET A TRAP? LOST A TRAP?	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:12
	too many buoys	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:13
	Reply to Nat	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:14
	Thanks Curtis	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:15
	lobstermen are farmers	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:16
	float free zones	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:17
	Re: float free zones	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:18
	2nd the Cheasapeake solution	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:24
	"Traps" are appropriately named!	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:19
	Re: "Traps" are appropriately named!	seaglass	Fri, 09 April 2004 21:14
	Happy swimming	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:20
	Swimming and hacking	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:21
	Lobster Pot concerns.....follow up...	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:22
	Thanks Nat	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:23
	FYI..Here are the rules & regulations of the Lobsterin'	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:23
	Clearing up a few misconceptions	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:28
	Lobster Pots	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:29
	Too many lobster buoys?	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:32
	Re: Too many lobster buoys?	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:33
	Cruisers aren't innocent...	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:34
	Nicely said	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:34
	Yes	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:36
	I support lobstermen and women, but...	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:38
	Re: I support lobstermen and women, but...	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 11:58
	Re: I support lobstermen and women, but...	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 12:00
	A few comments about Glissando's comments..	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 12:02
	lobster buoys?	admin	Wed, 13 November 2002 12:07
	venting - last sail of the year I hooked 100 feet of line	andy	Fri, 15 November 2002 09:57
	Re: SNAGGED A TRAP? CUT A TRAP? SET A TRAP? LOST A TRAP?	Iceman	Fri, 14 March 2003 23:38
	Re: SNAGGED A TRAP? CUT A TRAP? SET A TRAP? LOST A TRAP?	Karlo	Fri, 08 July 2005 21:46
	Nah, that old yachtie vs local doesn't cut it anymore,	Tom Young	Sun, 10 July 2005 06:43
	Re: SNAGGED A TRAP? CUT A TRAP? SET A TRAP? LOST A TRAP?	StarboardJon	Sun, 10 July 2005 20:55
	Re: SNAGGED A TRAP? CUT A TRAP? SET A TRAP? LOST A TRAP?	MEblkbears	Sat, 10 June 2006 13:52
	Re: SNAGGED A TRAP? CUT A TRAP? SET A TRAP? LOST A TRAP?	Curtis Rindlaub	Sat, 10 June 2006 14:00
	Re: SNAGGED A TRAP? CUT A TRAP? SET A TRAP? LOST A TRAP?	Highlander	Mon, 18 February 2008 12:10
	Re: SNAGGED A TRAP? CUT A TRAP? SET A TRAP? LOST A TRAP?	spar	Thu, 10 July 2008 18:24

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