sailingpj

You know, I bet I could actually sell dehydrated water. All you have to do is crush up some Alka Seltzer and say it is dehydrated Pelligrino or something. I know people who would by it. Thunderbolt, I didn't know you could sell that stuff. Maybe I should suggest that as a new fundraiser for my ship.

Where on the river are you planning on going? I'm just curious because there is no swimming allowed in many Florida State parks this time of year. That is for the protection of the manatees.

Well, though this is not serious, it is definitely contentious. I just put it in I&P because I didn't think it merited being put anywhere else. Why is April Fools day the one day a year we can try to put a smile on people's faces?

I figured that this would be more fun to send scouts out after than a snipe.

Have any of you up in the Northwest seen this thing on your camping trips? It sounds really cool. I would love to see one before they become extinct. The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm. Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are amphibious, spending only their early lif

There is this thing called Abulita. Apparently it is mexican hot chocolate. It is very good. You just heat some milk and put this chuck of cocoa/sugar into the milk. Wisk and add heat until all of the cocoa bar thing is dissolved. Pour into a mug and serve. This is the best.

There is a strong likelihood that your son's phone would just use up all it's battery searching for a signal before he gets a chance to use it.

Engineer, thank you. I just realized that your comments on this subject are exactly what Mrs. X would say, and has said. You are raising many of the objections that are likely to be raised. That is very helpful. They way I shall reduce those objections when they come up is by reminding them that they will have a chance to comment on our plans before we execute them. I will also remind them that most of the crew is trained in first aide, we have a couple lifeguards, and there are always at least two officers on the boat when we take it out anyway. qwazse, I like your idea, I think I will g

Thank you everyone for you advice. It has given me a lot to think about. I'm going to share it with the other members of the quarterdeck. Hopefully we can get this resolved here soon. Engineer61, I believe that I and the other members of the quarterdeck do have the necessary abilities to put together a plan, then execute it. As Eagle said I did staff Jambo. I have also done several deliveries of sailboats. Actually, just a month or two ago my Boatswain and I took a 41' trimaran from Key West too Miami. The owner of the boat brought along a few friends, all of whom knew nothing about saili

Currently in my ship there is a group of 5, sometimes 6, or us that are really trying to step up and take charge. The problem is that a couple of the adults block it every chance they can get. They don't seem to think we are capable of planning anything, or executing said plan. Take this last couple of weeks. The group of us was trying to get together to put together the first draft of an annual calender. The first problem we encountered was one of the parents/leaders finding a reason why we couldn't meet for the next month and a half. We turned to skype, and Google, and had a very succes

One big thing you need to get help on when starting up is membership. I have been a part of a couple ships that always had problems because of a lack of membership, both youth and adult. It is probably a good idea to get a few youth interested before you actually submit the charter paperwork or make any commitments to boats. Especially boats. No matter how small, they are expensive to maintain, and a pain to store. Don't let that scare you off though; just keep that in the back of your head. I know a guy who started a ship up with no members except himself last september or october. As fa

"And sailingpj - while I understand what you are saying, there are those adult volunteers who have offered to help with the web site designs and layouts for the older Scouting programs, and we are told "No, a youth needs to do it." " Really? The three people who are listed as keeping the site up to date are all adults. http://www.seascout.org/team.html#TEAM I know because I emailed them with a couple links that were broken. They got fixed very quickly too which was nice. Eagle92, You are right about that, though I have never found the search function very useful. Maybe it i

Be glad you aren't Sea Scouts, at least scouting.org looks kinda pleasing to the eyes.

Thanks moosetracker, you made my point better than I did.

You know, I have been riding a bike around the SF bay area for at least five years now. Done plenty of riding in the city too. For a while I rode my bike 7 miles each way to school. 14 miles a day, and half of was up hill. I even commuted to the 8th grade across the Golden Gate bridge on my bike. The only time I ever got hit by a car was when I was making a left turn. I had to cross a lane of traffic, looked, saw a break, signaled, and started crossing. The person driving the car behind me was distracted and didn't notice I was there until I heard her squealing behind me. I got a couple scrape

Yup.

He is aware of the problem and approval has been given for the Sea Scout icon to be added to the be a scout site, but he does not know when that will happen.

"when you call, ask if there's a way you can be part of the solution." Actually, I am considering putting in an application to be the National Boatswain for 2011-2012. I don't know much about web development, but I am a pretty good speaker. That would be one way to help out and play to my strengths.

Well, that list is still not good. They show no ships in the South Florida council. That is most definitely completely wrong. I am in one ship there, and have seen 3 others. Gulf Stream council only shows 2 out of the 5 ships.

That is one of the better lists I have seen. Only a couple of inaccuracies that I know of. The biggest problem that I see is that they only list the council contact info, and at least for the councils in the San Francisco area there is no mention of Sea Scouting on there websites. It is even hard to find info about Venturing on some of the sites. How do you get to this page from www.scouting.org? I looked a little but in 10 minutes I was unable to find a pathway there. If I, even knowing exactly what page I am looking for, can't find this then how is the general public going to find it?

Yeah, I met him twice now, that is why I know he is the person to talk to. I have his card, so I have his his email and phone number and I can find the address online. If you think he will respond to an email then that is what I will send.

Oh yeah, I am not just ranting here, I plan on sending a letter to Keith Christopher, National Director, Sea Scouts, BSA. What do you think though? Should it be an actual letter in the mail, an email, or a phone call?

So I was just looking and saw that Sea Scouts are not recognized on the beascout.scouting.org site. I cannot find Sea Scouts ships there. Not the ship I am a part of in the South Florida Council. Not the ship I was a part of in the Gulf Stream council. Not any of the ships we have done things with. None of the ships I know in California. This is crazy. On the scouting.org site there is three sentences about Sea Scouts, and a link the the seascout.org website. I could go on about that, but that is a different topic. How are people suppose to find out how to join a ship? How are people

"We sometimes institute a "cook" rule and need to define cooking as the combination of at least two ingredients (not including water) and the application of heat." acco40: Do you really have scouts so uninterested in cooking that you have to define cooking? What do they try to do? And how do you cook oatmeal if you don't count water as an ingredient? All you do there is boil some water and pour the oats in. That is only one ingredient. As for banning things, none of the ships I have been in have had a ban on anything that wasn't illegal for people under 21. We had one person who wa

Yeah, if you are driving east from San Francisco you are very likely to see wind farms and cows sharing the land. The thing that bothers me is that in the dozens of times that I have gone by the wind farms most of the windmill are not turning. You will normally see only 2-3 out every 10 windmill spinning. That is definitely not due to a lack of wind. The beautiful golden grass is normally bent over almost to the ground due to the wind, and the windmills that are spinning are going quite rapidly. If you drive around Marin (a county just north of San Francisco) you are very likely to see pl