On Apr 8, 8:19*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:02:38 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch

wrote:
Alaska Inside Passage. *Last year, wife asked me if I was interested
in cruising the Inside Passage and of course I said "sure", she shook
her head sadly and said, "I mean on a ship".
Eeeeeeew, a cruise ship, how would that be fun?
So, she is planning her trip of a lifetime with my two daughters,
flying to Fairbanks (been there myself) and taking a train down to
Anchorage and then by boat through the inside passage and then to
Seattle and then flying back here. *YES, Expensive, but I cannot
complain because i have done some bizarro travelling which although
they did not cost much money, did cause her to worry.
So............how to cheaply get my 8000 lb boat to Seattle............

Sail it there. The Panama canal is spectacular.

Our company installed a communication system at the Panama Canal 10+
years ago. We sent two guys down there for about three weeks to do
the install. The main part of the system was installed in the lock
control building at one end of the canal. Part of the system was
remoted to the other end of the canal in another office, so one of the
guys had to go there every day for about a week. They would report to
work, and the one guy would get in a canal work boat, and they'd go
down the canal and across the lake to the other office in the morning,
returning by boat that evening. They also got to operate the locks
when they were there... cool stuff. Unfortunately, I didn't get to go.