Reasons why old CD owners have beards...

[Didereaux]

Okay, some guy on another board ask why most sail captains didn't shave. So, I got to mulling it over, it being a very sloooow morning, and came up with my top 10 list. I am sure there are those amongst us with even more knowledge of this subject than I, so I await their additions(with bated, not baited breath) ;)

10: To hide their lack of a chin
9: To store hardtack crumbs in for a late watch snack
8: Provide a pasture in which to raise little livestock for fun & profit
7: Cover up the skin cancer operation scars.
6: To hide from the FBI
5: To hide from their wives
4: So they can moonlight as Mall Santas for boat kitty funds
3: Draw attention away from their bald pates
2: To look like the drawings of Capn Ahab, or the guy on Gortons Fish Sticks boxes
1: To avoid shaving with salt water!

[bottomscraper]

11 Every minute spent shaving is a minute you could have been sailing.

[Neil Gordon]

You have any idea of how many boat units worth of blades, time, etc., etc., are consumed in face scraping?

Aside from that, each whisker is ultra sensitive to the slightest nuance of change in breeze, whether it be strength or direction. Bearded sailors are faster sailors, therefore, and look good doing it.

[Didereaux]

Neil,
I hope you noted my subtle sensitivity...I wrote old CD owners and not old owners of CDs. heheh

You realize of course that we give ourselves away on this issue. When we were kids Grandpa had whiskers, not a beard!

I shaved mine a few years back after having one for nearly twenty years. Admiral said I was starting to resemble the old wreck I actually am. ;)

[Carter Brey]

In 1976, the first CD27s were rolling off Andy V's production line in East Taunton, Massachusetts. Meanwhile, somewhere in South Florida...

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[barfwinkle]

If I can find a picture (others on this board may have some from 2000 or 2001 NE rondy) I'll post a beard for ya

That is a very nice pic Carter! As I have stated before your publist is far better than mine

Fair Winds

[Didereaux]

Carter,
That looks absolutely Karshian! Amazing.
( as in Yousuf Karsh)

btw is deBusseys Sonata for piano & cello in your reportoire? love that work.

[Steve Laume]

Saves time, water and sun screen.

[Carter Brey]

btw is deBusseys Sonata for piano & cello in your reportoire? love that work.

Dider, I have a CD of it somewhere, with Gilbert Kalish playing the piano. I'll stick it in the mail to you. You're right, that's a great piece. Late Debussy = tasty.

[Warren Kaplan]

I shave just about every day of my life to go to work. During a week's cruising in the British Virgin Islands, completed this past December, I decided to become a real sailorman! So, I left my razor in my seabag! It's only a week's worth of beard but my wife Julie said she'd never seen me that way and we've been married 36 years. Sad, ain't it! Take a squint at the tee shirt while your at it!





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[winthrop fisher]

hey carter you look better with it.
i have had it sense i was 16 and my wife says its soft.
besides i look like kenney rodgers with it.
the women like it.

[Steve Laume]

I think Winthrop hit it dead on. As part of any top 10 list, number ten should be, "chicks dig it". This would definitely apply to our very manly, dirty, salty, food incrusted, vermin infested, unkept, sunscreened, graying, sailors beards. Warren, great shirt, nice photo but I can't figure out what those things coming out of your hat are holding up. I wish I needed a straw hat right now, Steve.

[Warren Kaplan]

I think Winthrop hit it dead on. As part of any top 10 list, number ten should be, "chicks dig it". This would definitely apply to our very manly, dirty, salty, food incrusted, vermin infested, unkept, sunscreened, graying, sailors beards. Warren, great shirt, nice photo but I can't figure out what those things coming out of your hat are holding up. I wish I needed a straw hat right now, Steve.

Steve,
Two pairs of lines coming out of my hat...or it seems that way. The first pair is obviously going under my chin to keep my hat on in the wind.

The second pair actually has nothing to do with the hat. Its one line attached to the back of my eyeglasses on either side. It runs behind my neck into a little red "float" (you can see a little of the float just to my right of my neck wear it meets the tee-shirt). Its just a variation of the thingy that keeps my glasses from falling off. But with this one, should the glasses somehow get knocked overboard, the float will...well in theory...keep them afloat until my "man overboard" drill gets me back to them so I can pick them up. That's..uh....providing....uh... I can see them under those circumstances!

[Steve Laume]

Sorry Warren, I was just being my usual self. I was questioning the two metal horn like appendages. Its just my misplaced sense of humor that sometimes gets lost in the ether of the internet, Steve.

[Warren Kaplan]

Sorry Warren, I was just being my usual self. I was questioning the two metal horn like appendages. Its just my misplaced sense of humor that sometimes gets lost in the ether of the internet, Steve.

HA!. I never even noticed...even though I usually have enough of a photographer's eye to keep "trees" from growing out of people's heads in photographs. The two "metal horns", as I'm sure you surmised, are supports for the bimini (that just happened to grow through my skull during that week).