BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - Deceptive hydro drivers :-), New museum.

On 16 May 2004 01:47:23 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:
I spent time this afternoon at a gathering that included a bunch of ex hydro
drivers. As somebody said, "The old drivers are easy to pick out of the crowd,
they're the guys who are walking with limps."

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I met an ex hydro driver this spring who had blown over backwards at
somewhere around 200 mph. He had more than just a limp, but also a
lot of great stories. That said, none of these guys do any serious
navigating and their opinion of knots vs mph doesn't count for much in
my book. Most of them run on protected inland waters and have
probably never looked at a chart. The only people who like mph are
inland boaters, and those who'd like to inflate their numbers.

Maybe I'm wrong Chuck but I've never thought of you as an inland
boater.