Seeing as a boat is what you get into when a ship sinks, then perhaps you're better off in a boat in the first place, with ships sinking and all that. 8*) Rama rama ding ding, Richard Culpeper (I don't know the whys and wherefores. I simply know that when I worked on one, that is what everyone else called it.) Shawn Baker wrote: > Okay Richard, you've piqued my interest: why? saltwater? > > I thought a 'boat' was what you got into when the 'ship' sinks, and > surely these freighters are large enough to carry lifeboats. > > Shawn > > Richard Culpeper <culpeper_at_tbaytel.net> wrote: > :A Great Lakes Freighter is a boat, not a ship, despite what the > :designers might say. > > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Dec 29 2001 - 19:33:49 PST
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