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Looking for a usenet group that talks about boats.
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:39:26 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote: "Amigoid" wrote in message ... I need to contact my net admin, this one must be alt.politics.flamewar.... OBPost: My Dad owned a Chris Craft cabin cruiser. 32' sleeps 6, had a head, 2 chrysler watercooled engines, and a generator. He put in a water presurization system since we all hated hand pumping water from the tank. I know the Chris Craft Constellation was a simular boat that had a plywood hull, but this one had wood planks in the hull. No flying bridge, just the cabin below, and the two chairs for the pilot and passenger. I'd be curious to learn what model it was (we owned it in the 70's and it was not new then). He loved that boat. Nora Lee IV. It was docked on Grand Lake in Oklahoma, just east of the Grand River Dam. We'd watch the Cherokee Queen (a replica paddleboat) pull out on evening party cruises from the west end of the Dam. He went out every weekend, even weekends in the winter when the lake was frozen. He'd just relax in the cabin, with shore power and water plugged in, and watch sports on his portable color TV and cook snacks in the little Litton Microwave, pulling Coors beer from the partly melted block of ice they'd sunk into. The weekend of his anniversary, their 17th, it was a cold January, and he'd been running the engines some to keep things lubed and smooth. He went down into the cabin and fell asleep. He later died that Sunday, of carbon monoxide poisoning. His ashes, along with his mothers, are scattered over a spot further up the lake we used to refer to as Green Beacon Shallows. (its not called that on any map, but if you anchored out there, you'd spot the beacon somewhere on the eastern shore, perhaps a private airport beacon, who knows.). Our best summers were spent on that lake, anchored out, using a small old fiberglass ski boat as a water taxi, with its evenrude outboard and two 5 gallon tanks. This last fall my Mom died of alzheimers, and my brother will try to find Green Beacon shallows again to scatter Mom's ashes, and Grandpa's too. Mine will probably go in the pacific somewhere near San Diego, my Navy days and love of the seagoing adventures I had on the USS Leftwich make that the spot for my wife and I. I can still close my eyes and listen to the thrum of those twin engines as Dad let me drive on Friday evenings at sunset... Kansas City Royals baseball playing on a portable radio, as Dad leaned back and smoked his pipe. If you know of a newsgroup where any of this strikes a chord, let me know. TY for the great post. Brings back tender memories of an old Chris cabin cruiser on Lake Mead in my youth. This newsgroup is like walking through a cow pasture. If you avoid the turds, the grass still feels good between your toes. One does have to look for the bits of grass between all the cow turds nowadays, but it's there. I have gotten a lot of useful tips, knowledge, and information here. Use your filters. You'll quickly learn who is a boater and who's a floater. Know whut un mean, Vern? Steve You'd be floater. Why must you circle the bowl so many times? |
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