On Nov 14, 11:01 am, Joe wrote:

I have another boat ideal that can make money...picking up old growth
lumber from the bottoms on the 1800's logging rivers in Alaska and the
PNW...But the initial investment brick wall is there.

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Oh,,,,, been there alsmost done that. As an ex GOM diver I got out of
dive school 1980. By 1981 there was talk about Underwater Loging in
the Great Lakes. IN fact Wooden Boat Magizine had an article about the
100+ yo wood from an underwater logger in 1982-83.

Somebody in Oregon's lower Columbia river was going to do the
underwater logging a couple years ago but started to run into EPA
salmon habitat problems. Actually pretty easy work. All it takes is a
bubble headed choker setter, a barge, and a couple air tuggers.

Years ago sitting on 180' Tidewater OSV a bunch of us thought of
leasing a derilect small rig and use it for whoreing, gambling, scuba
diving, deep sea fishing, and other debaucheries. Sorta of an offshore
Reno for the different GOM crews, charter boats and, wanna be bayou
pirates. Just get one outside state waters. Im sure youve heard the
old stories about bringing whores offshore.

Juts have a "crewboat" tie up or have an old rivet rattling helo stop
in.

Bob

On 2007-11-13 23:35:32 -0500, Joe said:

Ben Franklin said "Any society that would give up a little liberty to
gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

Close, but he said it a little more powerfully:

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
http://www.bartleby.com/100/245.1.html

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Jere Lull
Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
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