"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
oups.com...
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Fall in a lot of places and your main concern is getting dry. Fall in
around here, and you need to be concerned with staying alive. Just
another day in the life of us rough, tough, iron-ass Pacific NW
boaters. Takes a special breed......(of idiots, maybe) :-)


They used to call this area 'the land of wooden boats and iron men'.