BoatBanter.com - View Single Post

wrote:
Hey, everyone. You have all sure been busy posting away here while I was
incommunicado. We finally got phone service established here on our boat,
so I'm back to normal emailing. Oh, yeah...I forgot to mention...we are now
living aboard Chanteuse, escaping the cold winter up in MI (they've already
had 6 inches of snow and expect 6" nore tonight...too bad, so sad).

Wait until the river freezes over... well, that doesn't
happen *every* year so maybe it won't...

We're just taking life esasy for right now and staying away from going out
into the Atlantic....the weather off Cape Hatteras to Cape Fear is
frightening....45-50 knots with 20 foot waves. Not what I want my first
encounter with the Atlantic to be!

That's because you're a bunch of fin-keel pansies! Capt
Mooron would be ashamed of you!

... We've met a bunch of lovely people,
including one Doug and Kathy King, who are great folks, interesting to talk
to, and enjoyable to be with.

True.

She forgot to mention that we look like movie stars and are
incredibly modest.

... We are now official liveabords since
we installed the requisite blue tarp over our boom when we had a downpour
yesterday...sure makes a difference not having the rain come pouring down
the hatch.

Blue tarp, check. Now you have to put a hibachi on the dock
before you can claim to be "true liveaboards."

... We're also shopping for a new mainsail before taking off to do
any serious cruising. Haven't decided whether we're going to go north or
south yet.

Well, don't take my advice or anything, but you'd be crazy
to head north for a few months yet.

... I brought my fishing gear with me and on a warmer day will go out
to the beach to surf fish. I caught a 1.5# crappe off the dock the other
day and cooked it up for dinner. So, that's where I've been and am....good
to be back.

Welcome back and say hello to Chopper for me. BTW you can
also catch flounder (very good eating) & bluefish (ditto) &
sturgeon (said to be good by some) in the river... in fact a
world's record sturgeon was caught about 100 yards from your
slip, it was somewhere around 9' feet long. Saw it in the
paper hanging from the bridge trestle that afternoon... this
was back in the 1960s IIRC.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King