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Oscar
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Initially Posted - 07/19/2007 : 19:42:57

Smith Island. Check your cruising guide, on it and Tangier, just below it. Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore. Interesting place. A bit trashier than I thought it would be.... then again, I'm sure Mother Nature has attempted, and at times succeeded in blowing these people off the island, and after the umpteenth trashing I would probably be a bit weary of cleaning up too....then again, it appears the plastic culture has taken a solid hold here....

So I'm in Ruke's store/restaurant (did you know corrugated cardboard is a building material?) and notice, amongst the factory made white bread and two gallon bottles of Pepsi, Crest toothpaste......$4, oh well, we're almost out. Back on the boat I realize I have been had.....same font, colors, but it says Crescent....and it's MADE IN CHINA.....a quick visit to the FDA website confirms I am holding 1 of 300 toxic tubes of toothpaste distributed in MD and DC.... there's three more in the store.

So tomorrow I need to explain to this old lady in an old store about recall, and toxic knock offs from China..that she needs to return them whence they came, and contact anyone she has sold them to... Problems that have come to her from a world which to her only exists on the television far far away from her slowly eroding island, barely above sea level, where most people are called Crockett, Pruitt, Evans or Tyler..... Then again, I bet she bought them in Crisfield at a dollar store for 95 cents.....

Phew. What a world.....

Lady Kay IV, Dragonfly 25 # 54 Former C30#618-C250WB#618-C42#76

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 07/19/2007 : 20:05:56

Oscar--have you read Tom Horton's An Island Out of Time? If not, now that you've been there, I think you'll like it. BTW, Tangier is in VA, which raises some issues... (...and some shooting now and then.)

Oh, what about Tilghman, Kent, and Hooper's Islands? They seemed populated when I was there. (Yes, they're more like peninsulas separated by inlets...)

Good luck with the poor old lady... Glad you didn't antifreeze your mouth!

Edited by - Dave Bristle on 07/19/2007 20:23:19

Oscar
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Response Posted - 07/19/2007 : 21:05:58

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Oh, what about Tilghman, Kent, and Hooper's Islands? They seemed populated when I was there. (Yes, they're more like peninsulas separated by inlets...)<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I think what makes the difference is the fact that they have bridges.....you can drive on to them. Smith and Tangier are close to an hour boat ride or 48 hours in my case.

Edited by - Oscar on 07/20/2007 06:51:56

Champipple
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Response Posted - 07/19/2007 : 21:12:39

so could you cook that tooth paste down with some alcohol out of the stove and a little ethelyene glycol and smoke the rocks?

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 07/19/2007 : 22:31:55

I think the Crescent already has the ethylene glycol in it!

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 07/20/2007 : 06:53:53

DI-ethylene glycol......that's the stuff that's causing the problem......it is, allegedly, in there.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 07/20/2007 : 10:08:06

So you can essentially use it if you start running low on coolant!!!!

(i know it is di-ethylene but I couldn't resist)

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 07/20/2007 : 20:31:42

Returned the toothpaste this morning. They seemed genuinly concerned.

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Oscar--have you read Tom Horton's An Island Out of Time? If not, now that you've been there, I think you'll like it.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Got my copy today in the giftshop. You're right, it's good.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 07/21/2007 : 07:07:18

"Genuinely Concerned?" that doesn't make for a good story.....

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 07/21/2007 : 17:09:24

We left Smith Island this morning. Its a place I will never forget....there is so much right with the place, but also a few things wrong.....and they're killer items.

Way I see it it will become either become a tourist trap, or be bought by wealthy second home people that may, a la Fisher Island, restrict access. Or, more likely it will die. First the community, then the island itself will return to the sea. It's been eroding steadily for centuries.

As a token of my appreciation for their hospitality, I twisted a crab-pot line around my prop shaft on the way out....

I mean, these people put those things EVERYWHERE, including in the middle of the main channel in and out of the place.

I had ducked those, and a few more when I got outside the breakwall. In 20-25 knot winds and 4 foot seas I was putting up sails and missed one.....autopilot ran right over it, stupid thing. Choked the engine down hard and I was out of the motoring business,

Had a great sail up to Salomons where I tucked under Drum Point and in the lee anchored and used the last of my air bottle to clean things up down below..... It was the fourth one this year.....after two years of not hitting a one, I am now fed up with this....

I have to haul soon and paint the bottom, it's been two years.....and I'm getting THESE:

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 07/21/2007 : 18:17:08

How does that line reconnect .....is it Magic?

(better include an emoticon before somebody thinks I'm serious)

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 07/21/2007 : 19:28:22

It's aliiiive.....

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 07/22/2007 : 10:33:54

I'm hoping my 225 ponies and stainless prop will make short work of one of those... They're all over the place here, too, including a few in the main channel of the Mystic River. Brilliant!

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willy
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Response Posted - 08/02/2007 : 10:02:24

Oscar
Did you have any problem understanding those folks down there? Did they speak some archaic "Elizabethen English"?
My Dad was originally from Massey, (corn, cows, & soybean)...not far from where you keep your boat and people had a hard time getting the words through his Eastern Shore twang! (poosh your auto-Mobile off the side of the road and will check the tars on er.)
Willy

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