On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:17:33 -0700 (PDT), wf3h
wrote:

On Sep 10, 5:18*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:10:29 -0700 (PDT), wf3h
wrote:





ah, labor day...good time for boating...

got the boat all ready...since i just purchased it (an old
tollycraft), i tested all the electronics, and over the course of 3
days, sat at dock letting the engine run, checking oil pressure,
temperature, fittings, etc.....

so we pull away from the slip....got about 3 miles down the channel
and the bilge alarm goes off....the wife checks the bilge and it's
about half filled with water....

i shut the engine off to shut off the cooling pump which has sprung a
leak, and call the CG. *they're on scene in about a minute since
they'd just passed. *they put a pump on board but it doesn't
work...sea tow tosses us 2 bilge pumps but my pumps have pumped out
the water by this time....

the CG tows us back to the marina, escorted by sea tow...the
CG...amazing guys...put my boat right into the slip with their 23'
RHI. *(my boat's a 9000 lb 26' sedan cruiser). *so we start the paper
work....wife says she's going to take our 2 65 pound poodles for a
walk....

we finish up the CG paperwork...and a woman from the marina walks up
to me, saying 'i hate to tell you this, but your wife just took a bad
fall'.....

i walk outside the marina gates. *there she sits along with 2 police
cars with lights flashing...we try to stand her up but she can't put
weight on her left leg. into the ambulance she goes, off to the
hospital.

x rays show she's broken her hip. *the next day a surgeon puts in 2
pins.

so we got in 1/2 of a boat ride, the other half provided by the
CG...and the season is over....

so how was your weekend?

Dude!!!

Well, I got no right to complain - it was certainly better than that -
wow.

Hope all is well with the XYL.

Oh - good thing you got Sea//Tow huh? *:)-

yeah it was one of those weekends when you say "WTF"? but the folks at
the marina were great...kept an eye on the doggies while I was at the
hospital

Well, good luck to her - hope she feels better.

I saw where you were thinking of getting back on with MMSN. I've got
three 20 meter 6 element monobanders in the garage - their set up for
- ahem - a california kilowatt, but I have the original parts. I had
them stacked on a 120' tower when I was active in contesting.

I'm thinking of putting up a tower and TH11 at the new house in SC,
but I don't think I'm getting back into contesting so the monobanders
would just be gathering dust.

If you decide to get around to getting back on, let me know. I sure
as hell don't need them.

A little later: I just went out to the garage - I have the ring rotors
for them too - that was a surprise - I thought I sold those. :)