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I purchased a pair of Barska Deep Sea Binoculars a few years ago and this year found that they had fallen apart internally when I went to use them. To say the least I was very disappointed. This morning I was feeling slightly froggy and decided to address the situation. I put a review on opticspanet.com where I had purchased the binoculars and sent the below email to the manufacture, Barska. I am interested in seeing what kind of response I get from them. Right now I couldn’t see ever buying another barska product based on the quality of the binoculars I have right now. To spend over a hundred dollars on a set and then have them fall apart just sitting on the shelf is almost criminal. I hope it is a isolated incident in their product line. If they take it seriously then I will probably consider it to be fluke product and will give them kudos. If they don’t reply or blow it off I will take it as an indication that it is probably a fairly common occurrence that they don’t have much interest in rectifying. I run a business and it is amazing the difference in your customers response based not on never having a problem but on your response to a problem. I will post any replys I get here.
Handle every stressful situation like a dog.
If you can’t eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away.
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The wedding pictures are up and located in the gallery.. the link below will take you there.
scott
http://scottcarle.com/gallery/v/album/
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Ok everyone… here is where the wedding will be held. You should be able to get driving directions from just about anywhere to here through google maps. Just follow this link. Wedding Location
After clicking on the link you will see a map with a blue marker on it. The marker is where the church is. You can click on the marker and it will bring up a box that one of the features is to get directions to it. Please use that to get driving directions. If you are still having problems please give me a call at 843-465-6555
Just read a saying i really liked by an retired cop that had been a cop for 27 years. He was commenting that he didn’t support the new HR45 bill ( Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sale Act of 2009) for gun control and went on to quote what he said was an old saying.
“When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”
I personally know how true this is..
I was in the middle of the city…
I got robbed..
Police response time 45 minutes from when called…
Police dept distance from place robbed. about 1 mile.
We took Valkyr (a Downeaster 38, Mast head sloop cutter rig) out a couple of Sundays ago. It was supposed to be Angela, Zsanic, Jay, Eva, Barbara and me on the boat but a few days before we were scheduled to go out Angela found out she had to work. When she did she offered to let me captain the boat and take everyone out anyways. To be honest I have several people that have made similar offers of letting me take out their boats and I never have felt comfortable being responsible for their boats. Up till now I have always just said thank you for the offer but never taken them up on it. However, in this case, there were a lot of people looking forward to going out on Valkyr and it would be the only chance Eva would have to go sailing before she went back home to Slovakia. I have probably sailed as crew on Valkyr more than just about any other boat other than my own so I am very comfortable with how she handles and sails. The next positive is that Jay was going to be onboard and I knew that I had a very experienced boater and sailor to give a hand if I needed it.
We went sailing today from Valkyr’s new home. What a difference a face dock on the the ICW makes from being buried deep in a marina. Leaving is just a matter of pulling away from the dock. No backing and carefully missing the other boats in their slips or worrying about the current carrying you into them etc.. It also is really nice to sit on deck looking at the unobstructed view of the marsh across the waterway and watch the sun come up.
Surprisingly though not as long a haul to the ocean as from little river it was still a bit of a ride as the wind was on the nose most of the way to the inlet. On the final turn out the inlet we raised sails and sailed out. Winds were light so we had a long slow sail straight out till about 3:00 pm and then headed back. We had two large freighters pass us on the way in as they came out the Cape Fear Inlet. The first one did a bit to freak us out as they were on our port side approaching and wanted to cross bows with us so they could pass on our starboard. We went ahead and did as they asked and all passed safely but it was kinda weird that they wanted to do that.
I got to help Angela and Zsanic take Valkyr to her new home up in Southport. It’s sad that they are now more than a hour away but I have to say that the new digs are 1000 percent better. Valkyr now has a marsh view the a strong breeze almost all the time. You can come out and sit on deck in the morning with your coffee or hot chocolate (poisen of choice) and watch the fishing boats and private boats heading for Bald Head Island or Oak Island heading out while the sun comes up.
The trip up was a repeat of my last trip up on La Bon Vie. No wind and motoring the whole way. Not much to say about it. The trip was uneventfull and safe which is the important thing. We left the dock in little river about 10am and got to the dock in Southport about 4ish i think.
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After a lazy morning Orin decided we were going to motor back down the waterway to Little River. We spent a fairly quiet and uneventfull day on the water. Maybe 6 hours travel time.
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Spent the night on Walkabout. Jay and Barbara invited me and Zsanic to stay on their boat while we were up in southport instead of staying on La Bon Vie. Being a bigger boat and with less people spread out it was nice. 🙂 also the air conditioning didn’t hurt.
We helped Jay bring Walkabout to the fuel dock in the morning but had issues with the prop. He just about didn’t have any maneuverability because of the oyster and barnacle growth on the 3 bladed prop. The water is very clean compared to the Cokina Harbor back in little river so I volunteered to go look at the prop after we got to the fuel dock. It was bad. There was about one inch of solid oysters on each side of all the blades. Instead of pushing the boat forward as the blades cut through the water it was more like the prop was a rough club just beating the water. We couldn’t find a decent scraper so jay handed down the stainless barbecue spatula. It actually worked better than any other scraper I have ever tried to use. The big long handle gave you a good grip and allowed you to keep your hands farther away from the oysters, and the big spatula end did a great job of scraping the oysters and barnacles off and stood up the the hard pounding of driving it along the blades and against the hard shells. Afterward the difference in maneuvering and handling was amazing.
Spent the day motoring to southport for the race on saturday. We had hoped to sail but the wind was just not there. Most of the day the ocean was so flat you could see the clouds reflected in it.
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I went out on Valkyr with Angela and Zsanic yesterday. We were planning to go sailing but everyone on the boat was tired and the weather was really kicking. I would have been an challenging time sailing so we all voted to just anchor out behind Bird Island and grill some steaks and sausage. 🙂 It was the right choice!!!! The wind started out about 20 knots and we were gusting to 30 knots by the end of the day. It would have been some fun sailing but a lot of work.
We spent most of the day at anchor watching the antics of the power boaters out there. To be honest they just about stressed us out a few times. Several came real close to cutting our anchor line with their props. A group of 3 and then 4 boats that were rafted up drug their anchor about 40 yards and never even noticed till will told them. They finally stopped dragging after three of the four boats put down an anchor.
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