[B]A bit of trivia before Steve Foster makes fun of my beer again.[/B]
[B]Read about Capt. Pabst here[/B]
He may make fun, but I have never seen him turn one down. Except upside down.
My dream is to just be able to afford to open a small pub in a harbor town near the docks and name it the Scuttlebutt or affectionately just “the Butt” where the first beer would be on the house if you had an MMD (one per customer only & no coupons or substitutions please otherwise…I’d go broke!) Of course, the place would be filled with photos of ships and stuff pilferred off of them like lanterns, nameboards, fire axes, anything nautical.
Does anybody recall if that bar at Barbours Cut terminal which sits right on the Houston Ship Channel is still there? That place must have had 400 liferings hanging from the overhead. Now that was a great seaman’s dive!
[QUOTE=c.captain;47624]Does anybody recall if that bar at Barbours Point terminal which sits right on the Houston Ship Channel is still there? That place must have had 400 liferings hanging from the overhead. Now that was a great seaman’s dive![/QUOTE]
Ah…the “Goat Ranch”…I don’t know if it’s still there. Been 20 years since I’ve been there.
[QUOTE=injunear;47627]Ah…the “Goat Ranch”…I don’t know if it’s still there. Been 20 years since I’ve been there.[/QUOTE]
[B]c.capt. - Looks like it’s gone from what this link shows.[/B]
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“My dream is to just be able to afford to open a small pub in a harbor town near the docks and name it the Scuttlebutt…” - c.captain
[B]I would name mine “[I]BARNACLE BABES’” : )[/I][/B]
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[B][I]Yeah, a maritime museum/bar that would be cool…[/I][/B]
Mine would be “The Drunk Seagull”
Cheap beer and free wi-fi
c.capt. - Looks like it’s gone…
Balls!..what happened to the days when a seaman could go ashore and get a bloody drink? F’ng EXXON VALDEZ took all the fun out of going to sea, but even without the E/V I’m sure that the lawyers would have eventually ensured that all the enjoyments of seafaring be relegated to the scrapyard of maritime history. Can’t trust them merchant mariners, they’re all just trouble and lawsuits waiting to happen 
[QUOTE=c.captain;47624]and stuff pilferred off of them like lanterns, nameboards, fire axes, anything nautical.[/QUOTE]
You should talk to Capt Bill Preston, I think he’s on the Deep Ocean Clarion, from what I hear he’s got [I]THE[/I] collection for pilfered sh1t (If you find brass dividers or anything stenciled with my name, tell him I want them back! ).