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The Joys of Boating
On Mar 26, 10:28 pm, Peter Hendra wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:39:57 GMT, JimC wrote: Snip Cheers Peter Hendra (I do go on - don't I? Blame it on the Greek blood). Reminds me of my first boat; she was a little 30' troller, out of Charlston Oregon. An old converted log pond tug; she only had a foot of free board and a foot of keel. the Fella I bought her from started fishing as a boy in 1919 and his boats had always been rigged like he learned to fish. the Terry L had hand gurdies running tuna cord and cotton spreads. the boat he got to replace the Terry L was almost 100 years old and 22 foot double ender he set it up the same way. every day this 80 year old would be on his boat at 4:30 in the morning. all the young fishermen laughed at him heading out the jaws at 5 knots for a day of fishing. what they didnt see was his daily catch. I had to learn how to use the gear on my boat; so i went fishing as his hand for a couple years. this man never came to port with less than a hold full of fish. The Argus would never win a beauty contest but she sure could fish. |
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