I just returned from the marina and while there, was sorely tempted to
take the Contender out for a ride, wind, rain and waves be damned -
face the elements like they did in the old days - a man and his boat
and the sea - like it was meant to be - mano y....um....seao if you
will.

Then I checked the lines and returned home.

~~ sigh ~~

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I just returned from the marina and while there, was sorely tempted to
take the Contender out for a ride, wind, rain and waves be damned -
face the elements like they did in the old days - a man and his boat
and the sea - like it was meant to be - mano y....um....seao if you
will.

Then I checked the lines and returned home.

~~ sigh ~~

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717


I would have. Contender was on my short list when I bought the Parker.
Either the 25 or 27...but...my wife was insistent on a boat with a cabin
and a flush potty. Great boats.

--
We today have a president of the United States who looks like he is the
son of Howdy Doody or Alfred E. Newman, who isn't smarter than either of
them, who is arrogant about his ignorance, who is reckless and
incompetent, and whose backers are turning the United States into a pariah.

What, me worry?

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:35:23 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I just returned from the marina and while there, was sorely tempted to
take the Contender out for a ride, wind, rain and waves be damned -
face the elements like they did in the old days - a man and his boat
and the sea - like it was meant to be - mano y....um....seao if you
will.

Then I checked the lines and returned home.

~~ sigh ~~

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717


I would have. Contender was on my short list when I bought the Parker.
Either the 25 or 27...but...my wife was insistent on a boat with a cabin
and a flush potty. Great boats.

It was a great confluence of events - I wouldn't own one if it weren't
for a nexus of coincidence. Not that I couldn't afford it, it was more
like reluctance to spend that kind of money on a freakin' boat.

What happened was - for lack of a better term - serendipity. I was
down at the shore on one of my winter trips to the beach (R&R) when I
spied the boat at a local broker - no engines. I pulled in, talked to
the guy for a while, asked about the Contender and made him an
absolutely ridiculous lowball offer. He called the bank and they
accepted it. WHOA!!!

Ok, so now I own 32 feet of Contender center console. Gotta find
engines. I know somebody in the biz, so I called and - serendipity -
he had two left over 225 FICHTS and as it happened, counter rotating
and, as it happened - brandy new dual controls - all new, all in a box
all purchased for a customer who backed out of the deal. AWRITE!!!!

So that's the story.

My wife isn't much on boating per se, she pretty much leaves me alone
in that regard, but the flush head is a bonus when she wants to visit
the Islands so she puts up with the whole CC thing.

Much of my life has been spent on the opposite side of the good luck
curve, but occasionally whoever is running the universe rings one up
in my favour and it is usually a biggie. :)

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717

Smart move; saved the Coast Guard from comin' after you!

I had the same temptation up here in NY, and also checked the lines and went
home - there's too much hurricane-related stuff in the water here as well!

Regards,

LJD