Rosalie B. wrote in
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Up the ICW to the St. Mary's River. (Usually anchor in Melbourne, and
stay in marinas in Titusville, Daytona, St. Augustine, Jax Beach - 5
days)


Let me warn you about St Augustine, and a sailor named Jake on a steel
ketch with arthritis in particular.....(c;

We met Jake on the docks at the SA city marina. He lives near Miami,
somewhere I've forgotten, and when his wife gets fed up with him she
sends him to sea, by himself, to get rid of him. Jake is very old, but
has been at sea for decades. Seeing me programming waypoints into the
chartplotter, he asked me to help him put his waypoints into his Garmin
because his hands are so crippled up he can't reliably punch the buttons
that much. So, I followed him to his boat and entered all the points he
wanted...quite a list he had prepared.

When we got done with that, Jake invited Lloyd, who was delivering the
Endeavour with me back home, and I to have dinner at that great little
restaurant where you can feed the catfish out the window over the ICW,
great fun. After dinner, we made our first mistake. Jake wanted us to
follow him to "a few" of his favorite bars in St Augustine. Noone he
knew, and he knew ALL OF THEM, warned us we were following a gigawatt
dynamo! Man, what a night! Jake had every barmaid in town cuddled up to
his innocent-LOOKING, crinkled face covered with that white beard! I
vowed to start growing one in the morning.

I don't remember what time we got back to the boat, but I know it was not
long before the sun came up. Jake bid us good night and thanked us for a
great time. He looked the same as when we got up from the dinner table!
Lloyd and I crawled on our hands and knees back to the boat and poured
our dead bodies into the racks, begging for mercy. Needless to say, we
were quite late getting off the dock to putter up the ICW to Mayport
before putting to sea. I waved to the people who waved at me, but I felt
just awful and got seasick as soon as we cleared land. We'd both met our
match at bar hopping.

Watch out for old Jake! If he wants you to go with him, BOW OUT! YOU
CAN'T! IT'S DANGEROUS! WARNING!! WARNING!!


Larry
--
Democrats are raising taxes on oil companies by $16,000,000,000.
Oil companies don't pay taxes, just like every other company.
Consumers pay all taxes, corporate and individual.
What's the price of a gallon of regular going to go to to pay $16B more?