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[David Evans]

Well said, Amen.

Dave Evans

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:20 PM, George Buehler
<design at georgebuehler.com>wrote:

>   I spent 3 days trying to write a reply to this and gave up before my
> blood pressure peaked to stroke..  I don't know who this Tad character
> is but I suggest he go boff the neighbor's dog rather than write such BS
> about things he obviously knows nothing about.  The great seamen like
> Ross Anderson, a frequent poster here, and Don & Marge Macintyre who
> are, I believe, 3 time participants in the  BOC, and the others voyaging
> the world in  DIESEL DUCKS, are people who, to paraphrase what Lincoln
> said at Gettysburg; have knowledge that made their choice "beyond (some
> posters here) poor power to add or distract."
>   And dismissing IDLEWILD in these pages as a "stunt?"  MY GOD.  Ben
> and IDLEWILD sum up the very BEST of the human spirit.  Having a dream,
> believing it against all the boring and unimaginative nay sayers like
> some who post here, having the balls to TRY, and then succeeding.  Ben
> and IDLEWILD set records that will stand a long long time.  And they
> will ALWAYS be the first..  But that isn't why they did it.  It was
> Ben's dream to make that trip and he did it.  And to have him sneered in
> these posts as a "stunt" by some clown who has never done anything
> remotely as brave is appalling.  Anybody who can't see that really is
> beyond hope.  And just as appalling, NO national magazine including
> Passagemaker, ever mentioned it.  Could it be that I don't spend
> thousands in ads in their rags?
>    What a boring boring culture we have become if people, especially on
> these pages, can't understand that Ben had a dream and unlike me and
> you, DID IT.     Certainly there is enough positive things about
> cruising to write about rather than poking such undeserved  cheap shots
> as I've seen in these pages recently,
>
> Most Sincerely,
>
> George Buehler
>
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