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Sea Ray is celebrating 60 years of remarkably crafted boats. In honor of our 60th anniversary, check out this humorous vintage article from the 1959 Inland Waterway Guide provided by Waterway Guide Magazine.
NOTICE: To Regular Visitors
1. The captains of these boats you see here are only boys who know absolutely nothing about the upkeep of yachts, navigation, or handling such craft, and will appreciate any information you may give them that will help. If you were in the Navy, be sure and mention it, for yachting is practically the same.
2. If you walk down the dock and see any nice clean white rubber mats lying there, be sure and walk over them (not around them) for the boys have nothing else to do but scrub and clean these boats and equipment, and love to keep busy. If you have walked across the parking lot through any oil, be sure and walk over the rubber mats twice—going down, and coming back.
3. If any of the boys are putting on varnish, be sure and light up your cigar or cigarette and stand to wind’ard so the ashes will blow into the fresh varnish. It helps no end.
4. Always ask personal questions regarding the boats, for the captains will be glad to tell you all they know.
5. If you want a drink of water from the hoses, put your thumb over the end when you turn it on until it gets cold, making sure you spray every boat within reach, including the windows, and the captain will come right out with a chamois and dry it up again. He won’t say anything.
6. If a boat is docking, be certain to yell at the captain and tell him whether or not he’s doing it right, and put his docking lines where YOU think they ought to go. He might get into trouble if some kindhearted soul wasn’t there to give him a bit of advice.
7. If you want to have your picture taken on board a yacht, just give your camera to a friend. Then climb aboard and pose anywhere you want to. If your shoes have nails in them you won’t slip on the smooth decks.
8. If a captain is running his motors to warm them up, be sure to tell him his carburetors should be adjusted, and that the pinging noise proves his valves need attention, or the motor generator is set ahead too far. He won’t know what it’s all about unless you tell him.
9. All in all, tell him he has a swell life riding around on a yacht, and that he should pay the owner for the opportunity instead of the owner paying him. There’s nothing to his kind of job except to stop whatever is being done and answer a hundred important questions from visitors.
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Feature from
Sea Ray is celebrating 60 years of remarkably crafted boats. In honor of our 60th anniversary, check out this humorous vintage article from the 1959 Inland Waterway Guide provided by Waterway Guide Magazine.
NOTICE: To Regular Visitors
1. The captains of these boats you see here are only boys who know absolutely nothing about the upkeep of yachts, navigation, or handling such craft, and will appreciate any information you may give them that will help. If you were in the Navy, be sure and mention it, for yachting is practically the same.
2. If you walk down the dock and see any nice clean white rubber mats lying there, be sure and walk over them (not around them) for the boys have nothing else to do but scrub and clean these boats and equipment, and love to keep busy. If you have walked across the parking lot through any oil, be sure and walk over the rubber mats twice—going down, and coming back.
3. If any of the boys are putting on varnish, be sure and light up your cigar or cigarette and stand to wind’ard so the ashes will blow into the fresh varnish. It helps no end.
4. Always ask personal questions regarding the boats, for the captains will be glad to tell you all they know.
5. If you want a drink of water from the hoses, put your thumb over the end when you turn it on until it gets cold, making sure you spray every boat within reach, including the windows, and the captain will come right out with a chamois and dry it up again. He won’t say anything.
6. If a boat is docking, be certain to yell at the captain and tell him whether or not he’s doing it right, and put his docking lines where YOU think they ought to go. He might get into trouble if some kindhearted soul wasn’t there to give him a bit of advice.
7. If you want to have your picture taken on board a yacht, just give your camera to a friend. Then climb aboard and pose anywhere you want to. If your shoes have nails in them you won’t slip on the smooth decks.
8. If a captain is running his motors to warm them up, be sure to tell him his carburetors should be adjusted, and that the pinging noise proves his valves need attention, or the motor generator is set ahead too far. He won’t know what it’s all about unless you tell him.
9. All in all, tell him he has a swell life riding around on a yacht, and that he should pay the owner for the opportunity instead of the owner paying him. There’s nothing to his kind of job except to stop whatever is being done and answer a hundred important questions from visitors.
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