Joe.. great pictures... so what are all the levers for?

Also, that is one huge frikkin fish. I'm not sure that's where I would want
to be if it wakes up. :-)

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"Joe" wrote in message
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Morning bitch boy,

Your life still sucks, you are forced to sail **** island sound again,
and a dinner cruise at that. The fecal spray off your bow should spice
up your giant plate of slop.

You know you are almost at 16000 days old and you havent sailed
anywhere but the crap laiden LIS. Are you a coward afraid of open
water? Yes you are.

Just think, 16000 days and you have never sailed the mighty Mississippi
river, plowed the same water as Mark Twain. Check out this tug
wheelhouse, he's only pushing 25 barges Robert, that tells he's on the
upper river. Can you even understand what the real Capt. is doing with
all those handles?
http://www.imaginagrapher.com/transp...t_house%20.jpg

I had the pleasure of moving this tug from Ill to LA.
http://www.orbitals.com/pic/motor02/big/r31.jpg

I admit I was only pushing 2 of these
http://maritime-explorations.com/binh%20thuan%202.jpg
And a crewboat and a standby boat moving all the vessels to a new
mooring facility for GATX. The Tug worked the lower river and could
handle 100- 220 ft barges, it had 3 EMD's diesel electric, cort nozzles
a VP props, and a crew of 16.

Oh the EMD is a 3000HP engine, about a million dollars each. You can
not buy them new, the train companies buy them all up, the marine
industry rebuilds them and uses them.
http://oldriverbillzumwalt.members.k...s/EMD-16-2.jpg

If you had ever run the Mississippi you would find the water so cold
that when you pumped on drilling water in the winter the decks would
sweat, It's cool running downriver at 24 kts and having an extra 8 kts
of river speed in socked in fog. If you do not have a radar endorsement
it's hard to get a gig on the Mississippi because half the year the
lower river is socked in thick. You have a radar endorsement right
Capt?

If you have the chance " Capt" Rob run the river on Christmas eve, all
the coonasses build big bonfires on the rivers levy to guide in Papa
Noel. SW pass has the most BTW
http://www.poche.org/homepage/bonfire_small.jpg

After you get out of the river you should head to the Flower gardens
it's only 110 SSE of W pass. I've only spent 3 years there before it
was turned in to a national marine reserve.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explor.../photolog.html
Best I caught was a 225 pound Warsaw Grouper... here is a bigger 403
pound one.
http://www.yourfishpictures.com/data...403_Warsaw.JPG
The divers working the rig swore there was a warsaw over 1500 pounds,
they were scared he might eat them. I've only taken RedCloud to the
Gardens 3 times.

After you leave the Flower Gardens head west young man to Port
Mansfiled , the last port before Mexico. A quiet little town with the
best fishing one earth.
See the rusty roof bldg?
http://www.seawatchrealty.net/_accou...sting/25-1.jpg
Terry and I alone ran a 120 foot boat from that dock for over a year,
infact that year we worked 360 days...It was the perfect job in the
perfect port, Mooron would love it, Kickass pot only cost about 100
dollars a pound. The locals loved us, always bringing dinner to the
boat. My only bad memory of the area was being washed overboard in 11
ft seas.

You might want to hit port Aransas if you are in the area, That were
we race to most years in the Harvest Moon Regetta, 160NM each way
http://i.pbase.com/u40/gtrinklein/la...07.TheRaft.jpg

As you can see Robert there are many places on earth way better than
the **** lake your wife's boat sails on, you should get her permission
to sail it somewhere before you stroke out and die.

Capt. Joe