> "MichaelO." <sefj...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:tf3%7.25222$B61.9794794@news1.rsm1.occa.home.com...
> > I don't know . . . what's wrong with that rule.  I don't allow smoking
> > aboard for two reasons.  First of all I have a gas outboard.  Secondly I
> > don't smoke.

> Funny, but it used to be considered "good manners" to provide an ashtrah
for
> a guest who smoked.

> Last year, in Spain, a non smoker commented "No need to hide your
> cigarrette, you are not in Emgland now".

> I refuse to crew on any "non-smoking" boat.  For God's sake, who ever
heard
> of a smoker causing a boat to blow up?  If your gas is leaking, then you
> have a problem anyway.  Somebody "lighting up" on deck is very unlikely to
> pose a safety threat.  If your boat is so badly maintained that you have
to
> ban smoking for safety reasons, then I wouldn't feel safe getting aboard
> anyway.  If you are so short on hospitality that you wouldn't allow me to
> smoke, then I wouldn't want to sail with you.  You may well think that
"that
> is your loss"!  Is it?

> Your second reason "I don't smoke", is very odd.  I can remember,  that
> about 30 years ago, nearly everybody *liked* the smell of tobacco.  Now,
> Californians, and other politacilly correct people,  claim that they do
> *not* like the smell of tobacco.  Weird.

> Regards

> Donal
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> Regards

> Donal
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