This is a very old thought experiment first discussed by Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Plato in c. 500–400 BC.
It asks the question whether a ship is the same ship even if all of its parts and all of its planks have been replaced. Also, if all the old parts and all the old planks were kept then restored and reassembled which of the two ships would be the original ship?
When I was a child growing up my family was involved in the Chesapeake Bay Boat Show that took place at the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore, in 1980 the boat show moved the Baltimore Convention Center. Later it was renamed the Baltimore Boat Show at which time it was no longer the Chesapeake Bay Boat Show. I am extremely happy to be a part of the Chesapeake Bay Boat Show again. This time in Timonium, Jan. 21-23. Please come and see us there and ask yourself, is the Chesapeake Bay Boat Show back? Just like the Ship of Theseus.
The Ship of Theseus and ROCK Music.
In the 1970’s a band goes on tour and they are still touring in 2022. However, they may not have any original members. So, are they still the same band?
I don’t think so. Journey was never Journey after Steve Perry left.
Here are a few others… YES to Heart, Quiet Riot, The Little River Band, Thin Lizzie, The Hollies, Judas Priest, and Blood, Sweat and Tears. In terms of music a band with no original members is really just an over-expressed tribute band. Not every group can hang out as long as say U2, the Rolling Stones or them there Coral Reefers!
Writing about Coral
Reefers… TATS: Are you familiar with the abbreviation TATS? It stands for Trips Around the Sun and it is Jimmy Buffett’s way of saying Happy Birthday.
However, whoever you are or whenever your birthday, our trip around the sun at this moment is as far from the Sun as it is basically going to be. At this point each time the Sun goes up and comes down, the Sun is a little bit closer and the days just slightly longer. My TATS ends every year on February 13 Just as the days are getting a bunch longer and Spring is right around the corner, sometimes it is even a on a Friday. So, wherever you are or will be in the “Trip around the Sun” let’s have a prosperous and awesome New Boating Year!
Dock bars you have to cross the train tracks to get to: (Yes, these are trips by car or pick-up truck)
I have said since my Mariner Magazine days, that any dock bar you have to cross the railroad tracks to get to has got to be a great dock bar. A few examples I have been to recently include: Lees Landing in Port Deposit, The Hard Yacht Café in Dundalk, but my original was down in Dumfries, Virginia and owned by Tim Bauckman. Sadly, it closed this past fall. Tim’s Rivershore was the best! After a long fight with developers, Tim’s lost its lease.
That was a loss I will long remember and regret.
Seems like I need a new place, so please me know of others dock bars you need to cross the railroad tracks to get to!
The IRS suspected a fishing boat owner wasn’t paying proper wages to his deckhand and sent an agent to investigate him.
IRS AUDITOR: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them”.
Boat Owner: “Well, there’s Clarence, my deckhand, he’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1,000 a week plus free room and board. Then there’s the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90 percent of the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, And I buy him a bottle of Bacardi rum and A 30 pack of Natural Lights every Saturday night so he can cope with life. He also gets to sleep with my wife occasionally”.
IRS AUDITOR: “That’s the guy I want to talk to – the mentally challenged one”.
Boat Owner: “That would be me. What would you like to know”?
I think many of us will understand the captain’s feelings on that one! Signs of High Times compliments of Wallingford Sign Company.
What the Non-Boating Humans did!
On a sad note… there exist non-boating humans. Maybe they just weren’t introduced to boating as kids. Maybe they just don’t realize how awesome the boating world is or maybe, just maybe they don’t read Upper Bay Boating! But whatever it is, the non-boating humans tend to not be as happy as we on the water BE! I bet Ted Bundy never waterskied! Wayne Gacy needed a paddleboard. Lizzy Borden’s parents needed to get Lizzy a rowboat! They would have lived longer.
