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....metric too. *Pic*
By:John Caldeira
Date: 1/9/2008, 4:57 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: A Simple Retractable Skeg (Steve Dorrington)

: Thanks John
: And in metric too. That's excellent.

I'm glad spelling doesn't count! :-).

I do a lot of work overseas, so have pretty much switched to metric unless the person I'm addressing doesn't understand.

At times it is embarrassing that the U.S. is one of the only 3 countries in the world that have not officially adopted the metric system (the others being Liberia and Myanmar/Burma). It's difficult to speculate how much this failure to adopt the simple world standard has hurt my country in it's global competitiveness.

John (Dallas, Texas)

Messages In This Thread

Strip: A Simple Retractable Skeg *LINK* *Pic*
John Caldeira -- 1/6/2008, 4:51 pm
Re: Strip: A Simple Retractable Skeg
Gennie -- 1/8/2008, 8:43 am
A Different Retractable Skeg
Reg Lake -- 1/8/2008, 11:15 am
Re: A Different Retractable Skeg *Pic*
Gennie -- 1/8/2008, 12:22 pm
Re: A Different Retractable Skeg
Reg Lake -- 1/8/2008, 1:44 pm
Re: Strip: A Simple Retractable Skeg
Steve Dorrington -- 1/8/2008, 4:08 am
Re: Strip: A Simple Retractable Skeg *Pic*
John Caldeira -- 1/8/2008, 5:20 pm
Re: Strip: A Simple Retractable Skeg
Steve Dorrington -- 1/9/2008, 4:37 pm
....metric too. *Pic*
John Caldeira -- 1/9/2008, 4:57 pm
Re: ....metric too.
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 1/10/2008, 1:18 pm
But, but, but, Noah built in Cubits :) *NM*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/10/2008, 2:31 pm
Re: ....metric too.
TOM RAYMOND -- 1/10/2008, 12:51 pm
Re: ....metric too.
Steve Dorrington -- 1/9/2008, 7:35 pm
Re: Strip: A Simple Retractable Skeg
Bryan Hansel -- 1/6/2008, 5:17 pm
Replacing the bungee
John Caldeira -- 1/7/2008, 7:43 am
Re: Strip: A Simple Retractable Skeg
Kudzu -- 1/6/2008, 6:52 pm
Excellent, John -- Thanks! *NM*
Kurt Maurer -- 1/6/2008, 6:24 pm