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Hi! I'm back!
"DSK" wrote in message ... wrote: Hey, everyone. You have all sure been busy posting away here while I was incommunicado. We finally got phone service established here on our boat, so I'm back to normal emailing. Oh, yeah...I forgot to mention...we are now living aboard Chanteuse, escaping the cold winter up in MI (they've already had 6 inches of snow and expect 6" nore tonight...too bad, so sad). Wait until the river freezes over... well, that doesn't happen *every* year so maybe it won't... I've been told by reliable sources that that does not ever happen....I did hera, though, taht it takes 3 glowplugs yo get your tug moving... We're just taking life esasy for right now and staying away from going out into the Atlantic....the weather off Cape Hatteras to Cape Fear is frightening....45-50 knots with 20 foot waves. Not what I want my first encounter with the Atlantic to be! That's because you're a bunch of fin-keel pansies! Capt Mooron would be ashamed of you! Undountably....he's probablt gasping at the fact I would leave the frigid wasteland in the North which he loves so well (so much for the Congo running through his veins...) ... We've met a bunch of lovely people, including one Doug and Kathy King, who are great folks, interesting to talk to, and enjoyable to be with. True. She forgot to mention that we look like movie stars and are incredibly modest. There is a slight resemblance to Bela Lugosi when you think about it.... ... We are now official liveabords since we installed the requisite blue tarp over our boom when we had a downpour yesterday...sure makes a difference not having the rain come pouring down the hatch. Blue tarp, check. Now you have to put a hibachi on the dock before you can claim to be "true liveaboards." ... We're also shopping for a new mainsail before taking off to do any serious cruising. Haven't decided whether we're going to go north or south yet. Well, don't take my advice or anything, but you'd be crazy to head north for a few months yet. Haven't any plans to.... ... I brought my fishing gear with me and on a warmer day will go out to the beach to surf fish. I caught a 1.5# crappe off the dock the other day and cooked it up for dinner. So, that's where I've been and am....good to be back. Welcome back and say hello to Chopper for me. BTW you can also catch flounder (very good eating) & bluefish (ditto) & sturgeon (said to be good by some) in the river... in fact a world's record sturgeon was caught about 100 yards from your slip, it was somewhere around 9' feet long. Saw it in the paper hanging from the bridge trestle that afternoon... this was back in the 1960s IIRC. The sturgeon can just sit down there on the bottom...they are the world's ugliest fish (almost...dog fish and gobi's are about as ugly...) Fresh Breezes- Doug King \\katy |
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