Welcome CRANKY YANKEE

Subject: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:32 AM

Let's welcome new member CRANKY YANKEE to Mudcatdom. He is Jody Gibson (see his "Hello Captain" thread), sailor, raconteur, singer, and a wonderful character. I met him ten years ago while working aboard a replica of the HMS BOUNTY (and hadn't run into him since - what a surprise to see him on the 'Cat!) Square-rig sailing and chanteying run through this man's veins, and, as I remember him, he was far from "cranky." The man was a sparkplug of upbeat energy. So, welcome, and we look forward to more of your posts.

-chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:34 AM

Make that his "Good Morning Captain" thread.

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: wdyat12
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:55 AM

Welcome to Mudcat CRANKEE YANKEE! Were you on HMS Bounty in the port of Bath in 1997?

wdyat12

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:22 AM

Welcome Cranky Yankee, I am already guilty if encouraging you to post more, after reading your other thrad.**BG**

Seriously, it is a pleasure to see you here and I hoep we do get to read lots more of your tales and memories.

Thanks for joining in the fun!

kat

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: wdyat12
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:24 AM

kat,

What are you doing up this hour of the morning? Feeding the cats?

wdyat12

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 08:33 AM

wydat12, you're gonna be in trouble for saying "HMS Bounty" instead of "HMAV Bounty." See - I've been reading. (Saw her in Portsmouth last summer.)

Cranky Yankee, welcome! I've enjoyed posts about your experiences thus far, and look forward to more.

--Jeri, who's been on ferries, fishing boats, row boats, canoes and a cruise ship once, but never a square-rigger. (At least not when it was under sail.)

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 10:01 AM

Welcome aboard as well from one who still tools around Sheepscot Bay and Robinhood Cove in his 40-year old Boston Whaler. We used to have a sixteen-foot catboat to sail around in, and then there was a five-masted schooner delelict across the cove, the Mary F. Barret, that we used as our pirate ship.

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: wdyat12
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 12:58 PM

Roll&Go-C,

So your the other guy still tooling around the Sheepscot in a 40-year old Boston Whaler. I'll look for you this summer.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 01:04 PM

Fair wind in yer sails, skipper.

gnu

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 01:17 PM

I'll throw a welcome in here as well. I've already had several PM's back and forth and its a pleasure to have the man around here. As it turns out, I may have seen the boy when we were both little more than boys back in Newport (Cup Races) in '67. You're a great addition to the 'Cat and I'm happy to have you aboard.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 02:27 PM

Well, wdy, it was really 3 hours earlier than what our posts say, at least here, because we're two hours behind the Mudcat and then that little jump ahead thing this morning added another hour, so let's see, that was really 122a, my time, before the jump ahead, and I noticed you were up, too, which was really 322a, your time,then 422, so I was going to ask you the same thing! "Whaddya doing up this time of the mornin'...feeding the stove?"**BG**

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:36 PM

Welcome to Mrs. Cranky as well. She seems to have almost as much time at sea as her Mate (That's a pun, guys) and a wonderful sense of humor.

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: CarolC
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 05:41 PM

Welcome to the Mudcat, CRANKY YANKEE!

Carol

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 07:19 PM

Hey Kendall! You've got another Cranky Yankee to play with. Welcome Jody.

All the best.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: kendall
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 08:30 PM

hrumphh

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 03:02 AM

CY, Kendall's not really cranky. Curmudgeonly, yes. Cranky, no. But he really gets pissed if his guitar gets damaged by UPS. Bummer, Kendall! Good luck with the repair/reimbursement.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: wdyat12
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 03:43 AM

Yes, feeding the woodstove kat and talking with you.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Hollowfox
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 03:21 PM

Welcome to the party!

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Kim C
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 03:28 PM

He seemed a little cranky to me but since I am cranky myself on a fairly regular basis it's okay. ;-) Howdy!

Cheers---------- Kim

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 04:43 PM

Seamus, I would not want to be the UPS man delivering Kendall's broken guitar! Inexcusable! Makes me want to smack the whole bunch of them. And I am rarely cranky. Bitchy, yes. Cranky, no. Hope tio see the Captains face-off some day soon.

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:46 AM

Wydat12

Nope

Spaw

I know I have a baby face . I'm 72 now and just beginning to show my age. at the time you mention I was in my early 40's. Thanks for the compliment anyway. My most notable esperince concerning my "Baby Face" was way back when the legal dinking age in NY was 18. (l957) I was 28 years old, wearing my Air Force Uniform T/Sgt stripes and all. I was Chief Air Traffic Controller at Sufolk County Air Force Base. I was in a bar with my kid brother , barely 18 at the time. The waitress asked for my identification and not my brothers. AAh those were the good old days.
Capt Kendall.

When we meet someday, (hopefully) we can talk about "going to windward" suffice it to say, "Rose" does 45 degrees any time she wants to. My miniature (22 ft) full rigged ship "William K Covell" could do 40 under optimum conditions. If I can figure out how to send photographs over this machine I'll send you a picture of "William K" I "ship rigged" an "International Tempest" (The O'Day semi-planing keelboat that they use in the Olympics) and single handed it (after I got jammed under the "Goat Island Causeway" a few times working out how to do it)

Jody

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: kendall
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 08:58 AM

Back when I was married, we had what was originally an American Fiberglass 16 foot sloop. Then, it sorta became a gaff rigged sloop with a flying jib and a 4 foot bowsprit. I named her PRETENSE. She turned many a head, especially when my wife and I were sailing naked!

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 09:05 AM

You sailors should see the adventures of "Commodore Gail" in the Scarces Songs 1 file on my website. www.erols.com/olsonw

--former Puget Sound Naval Shipyard worker (and Keyport Naval Torpedo Station worker).

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 10:29 AM

gee..I thought Hoagy Carmichael was back

"I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues" written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1943. He later claimed the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest was a joke. (but this is the way it was entered in ASCAP)

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 10:39 AM

Tell ya' Crank.......Age is in the bones of the holder and right now you're still just a strapping young lad...............And remember, you're only as old as the women you feel! Just ask Mrs. Crank!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Joy Bennett
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 10:41 AM

Hi there Cranky Yankee!!! from another one -- one of these days we'll put faces to names/handles.

welcome aboard!

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 12:00 PM

Cranky Yankee: Welcome aboard! I've enjoyed your previous thread and learned a bit from them too. Don't know if my answer to your question about my mudcat handle came through on the other thread. I'm American of SCottish and Irish descent with a little English and Swiss thrown in to keep the pot in turmoil. I portray an Irish born career soldier when I reenact(U.S. Civil War). Did all of my sailing on a bird farm. Except for a day cruise on the Natalie Todd out of Bar Harbor, Maine. It was a hell of a lot of fun. Hope to put a face to the name but until then welcome aboard. Kindest reguards, Neil

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 05:34 PM

Hey, "Cappy".

NO NUDES IS GOOD NUDES.


can anyone tell me how to send photographs or music over the internet? I'm such a greenhorn.

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: kendall
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 06:17 PM

You are only as old as the woman you feel? Good heavens...I'm extinct!

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:17 PM

That may be but we won't tell her you said that. LOL;-) Neil

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: kendall
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 09:26 PM

Tell who?

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 01:53 AM

Just be sure your fingernails are not too sharp. *BG*

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 04:38 AM

Wdyat12

NOPE.
JERI:
"The Bounty" is the only ship I can think of that has the word "the" in it's official name. So it's HMAV "THE BOUNTY".

Irish Sergeant: Go to your Personal Page, there's one there from me.

gnu

. GNU: GNU ONE VERSE POEM BY jODY gIBSON.
if your wildebeast is acting up,
And you don't know what to do
Just take it out to the woodshed
And paddle your own G=nu.
(PRONOUNCE THE "G" AS A "HARD g
(FROM HERE ON, PROPER PRONUNCIATION)

I never gnu until very recently that another name for "Wildebeast" is GNU>
This opens up a whole new Poetry, song, Play thing, Diesn't it?
Donna, (mAfAZOO) says that I ought to change my name top "Nebuchadnezar" because I do BABYLON. bY THE WAY, dID YOU KNOW THAT ALL THE PSYCHIATRISTS IN bAGHDAD KNOW HUSSEIN?

hEY cAPT kENDALL, your one word reply was perfect. I wish I'd thought of it.
G'Night all
Jody Gibson,
MD, DDS, LLD

wHAT'S?

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Les from Hull
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 08:27 AM

A big welcome from Hull, the original home of Bounty (built here as 'Bethia' before she was purchased for the Royal Navy and renamed), and also home to the UK's premier Shanty Festival.

As for ships with 'The' in the name how about USS The Sullivans?

Les

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 08:55 AM

See you at the personal page Cranky Yankee

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: JedMarum
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 09:35 AM

Cranky Yankee Isn't that a redundant term? ;-)

Welcome captain! I have to ask every Mudcat sailor if they knew my freind Billy Dunlop. He was from Maine, and sailed his 9'1" boat across the Atlantic and back - got lost on his way to Australia,, while attempting to circumnavigate the world back in the early 80's, never heard from since. Wonderful man, colorful character. I sailed with him once or twice out of Rhode Island (Apanaugh) in his 38'. Great trips, I'd never sailed before.

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: kendall
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 10:25 AM

Old Maine proverb, Cranky,.."Brevity is the soul of wit."

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 10:51 AM

KENDALL
? PERHAPS.

les from hull.
That makes two!

KENDAL.
tHAT'SJUST THE SORT OF THING MAIN FOLKS WOULD SAY. Becaus, eexcept for you, I find that Main people seem to be caught up in their own Mystique, at least they appear to be that way to outsiders. Perhaps they're not so "Quaint" when they'r amongst their own kind./Maybe it's because they're not really Yankees. See, I can be cranky when I put my mind to it.
Being as how Newport's entire economy depends on topurism, I for one, try to be as pleasant as possible when I give them directions to "The Bridge".

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: GUEST,Melani
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 02:34 PM

Welcome again, Capt. Yankee! PLEASE send a photo of your tiny square-rigger--I would love to see it!

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: kendall
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 04:50 PM

Maine people did not create "quaint" that was hung on us by outsiders who would like to be Mainers.

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 07:52 PM

Capt Kendall. O.K. ( and gladto hear it)
Had a friend who ran the "We aint quaint" Lobster co. I worked at sea with him for a while, he used to sell lobsers to tourists, "Right off the Boat" for a buck more each than they could buy them in a supermarke.
I'm working on Capt Bailey of HMS Rose to have a sing fest on board sometime in the next couple of months. There will probably be a film crew there filming footage for "History of Sea Chanteys" Which I'll narrate. But I don't want to be the only singer, so if I can get some of you Mudcatters to commit, once the date is set, I'd be grateful.
Rose is going to be based in Newport for at least a couple of months. If I know Richard Bailey, it wouldn't be too hard to get him to take us sailing or a couple of h ours,
Jody.

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: kendall
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 10:38 PM

You can count me in, if I have a voice! sounds like a great idea!

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 09:38 AM

Be nice to be aboard the HMS Rose again; we never got to sail on her, just sang songs to those coming aboard to look her over while she was tied up at the Maine Maritime Museum. Still, I can't help wondering how any work will get down while we're all trying to get agreement on what version of a shanty we'll sing for the job, let alone what key we'll sing it in. Maybe it'll help if someone's around "making free with the cat." (Sorry, Spaw!)

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 04:29 PM

Welcome aboard from one water lover to another!

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 10:32 PM

Jody, check your personal messages. I left one for you.

-chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: Chip2447
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 05:45 AM

Ahoy, is this where I comment on a salty dog? In all, okay some seriousness..... DOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEOUUUUUUUUUU Ding ding Ding ding Cranky Yankee arriving... Ding

Welcome aboard....

Subject: RE: Welcome CRANKY YANKEE
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 08:21 PM

Someone asked me about my children and I can't find the thread