Mentor educating the unteachable

I don't have any beef with you and your postings - it is after all just the internet but even this bold claim of what would seem to be a significant custom build vessel based upon that mooring fee has aroused a morbid curiosity in me.

Dude, if you are genuine about owning a yacht, you should be able to answer these questions on basic seamanship and put us all out of our misery.

1) If you put your port engine into forward and starboard engine into reverse, tell me what you boat does if there are no effects of current or wind on the boat. The answer also depends on whether your boat is stern or shaft drive so I'll need to know that too.

2) Puerto Banus operates stern to moorings - can you tell me how you negotiate a stern to mooring without crashing into the dock?

3) If you are moored up to a dock on your port side and there is significant wind of say 30knots pushing your vessel onto the dock, how do you depart without causing significant damage to you expensive GRP hull?

4) What is the distress signal you should give if you're vessel is incapcitated but not in immediate danger? Also what channel you do this on?

5) What signs do you look for to see if somebody is in immediate danger of drowning (and I don't mean bobbing up and down in the water)?

Dude - if you can answer these coherently, I for one would believe that you may own a boat.

Ooh..he can't even Google the answers on a couple of those... I have ODT on ignore, what's he *done* now?

I know man - you only know if you've helmed and done enough close quarters dockside sh1t.

Claims he has a yacht in Puerto Banus and pays 125k Euro per annum for mooring. This may be true but I thought I would at least try and validate it with some seamanship.

You're a sailor if I remember rightly - Jeanneau?

Black Goose, anyone who disagrees with you is on your ignore list, it's the only way you can keep track of the ones that have not called your bluff yet

But then again you won't see this post 'cause I'm on your ignore list as well...but everyone else will see it....there's your first mistake goosey baby...

That's a fair question.

Here is the time line.

I've been investing and trading since 1964.

I came up with my current strategy in Feb 2010. I did computer simulations (back testing) on five years worth of data divided into two parts so that I could test against data the system had never seen. I did prototyping (paper trading) for five months to smooth out the methods of interfacing with the market. I did pre-production testing (small money trading) for one month. I reviewed my strategy with my son who is an economist because of his extensive math skills. I got the idea of teaching this to others while teaching him. I set up a separate broker account to be used exclusively for this strategy so that I could have auditable evidence of real money trades in case I went through with my training idea. I began the final phase, full production (serious money trading) on Sept 1, 2010.

I use the engineering analogy for the stages of qualifying a system because I'm a retired software engineer and manager of multi-discipline engineering teams. This process is well understood in engineering. I just apply it to qualifying my trading and investing strategies as well.

I joined this forum on Sep 29, 2010.

Robster, it's seriously gone over your head has it not?

Early bird gets the worm, in your case, not!

My you're a quick individual. Be careful not to cut yourself on your razor sharp intellect.

Wow, that's er..*impressive* . No sadly I don't own a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 54...but I'm seeing 2008's for 350K Euros atm and plenty that you can take over the lease so I haven't given up hope that I'll be debt free and own a two year old before I reach my half century...5 years to go..