Anyone "Northeast" still boating?
 

So, what river are you talkin' about?

"noah" wrote in message
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It's just the jon boat, but there's a few days left of the waterfowl
season up
here.

There's still something magic about throttling up in the icy dark, even if
it's
only 15 hp. For the jon boat, that's more than enough.

I've been in boats on streams, lakes, rivers, and oceans, and it's
basically all
the same to me. Whether I'm hunting, fishing, paddling, or riding, there
is an
elemental connection between me, the boat, and the water. I can't truly
describe it, it is beyond me, it is a connection that is buried in my
soul, my
core, and my blood.

I haven't been blessed with a "seafaring" history (perhaps in a previous
life),
so I don't really understand my obsession with boats, but it is there, and
it is
real. It's much more than recreation, far more than a hobby. It is
something I
must do.

So I will take my little jon boat down to the river. In the icy dark I
will
bitch about the cold, crunch through the ice, push through the mud, and
when I
start the engine, I will smile! It is me, and my boat, and the water, and
all
else, right now, is less important.
Regards,
noah

To email me, remove the "OT-" from OT-wrecked.boats.noah.
...as you were. :o)

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I'm up in Philly and I haven't winterized yet so I'm ready. Every once
in a while we get a day nice for boating. It just hasn't happened on a
weekend yet. I'm about to give it up soon, call it a season, and
winterize.

Steve

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The duck hunters in jon boats woke me up this morning, shooting ducks off
Boston harbor islands. Of course the commercial fishing guys and the lobstermen
are out there year round too. My boat is winterized, but in the water. I hear
some guys at my club are going to the city by boat for First Night. The only
boating I am planning on doing this winter is moving my boat to the other side
of the marina when the barge comes in to dredge. Other than that, it is wait
until Spring.

"Listen to the live broadcast of 'Nautical Talk Radio' with Captain Lou every
Sunday afternoon from 4 - 5 (Eastern Standard Time) on the web at
www.959watd.com or if you are in Boston or Cape Cod set your radio dial to
95.9FM.

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Capt Lou wrote:
The duck hunters in jon boats woke me up this morning, shooting ducks off
Boston harbor islands. Of course the commercial fishing guys and the lobstermen
are out there year round too.

Just this minute a nice gaggle of geese flew over the house and landed
in our field. There's a sack'o'corn I tossed out this morning waiting
for them. Edges of the fields around here are posted with variations of
our infamous "NO Hunting. Period. This Means You." signs. We have
several kinds of NO Hunting signs posted, as do our neighbors.


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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:06:11 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:
Just this minute a nice gaggle of geese flew over the house and landed
in our field. There's a sack'o'corn I tossed out this morning waiting
for them.

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If you feed them enough, they will "adopt" you year round, and you'll
never need to fertilize your lawn again.

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Wayne.B wrote:

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:06:11 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:
Just this minute a nice gaggle of geese flew over the house and landed
in our field. There's a sack'o'corn I tossed out this morning waiting
for them.

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If you feed them enough, they will "adopt" you year round, and you'll
never need to fertilize your lawn again.


Well, I wouldn't mind a few, but there are better attactions for the
geese around here. We used to feed about 100 ducks down in St. Augustine.


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On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 22:14:12 +0000, noah wrote:

It's just the jon boat, but there's a few days left of the waterfowl season up
here.

There's still something magic about throttling up in the icy dark, even if
it's only 15 hp. For the jon boat, that's more than enough.

I've been in boats on streams, lakes, rivers, and oceans, and it's basically
all the same to me. Whether I'm hunting, fishing, paddling, or riding, there
is an elemental connection between me, the boat, and the water. I can't truly
describe it, it is beyond me, it is a connection that is buried in my soul, my
core, and my blood.


Ya Got That Right!

You have said so elequently what is in my soul as well. Doesn't matter if it's
the 12ft tinny skimming over the Fraser, Far Cove on a Screaming Reach, Valkyrie
rumbling along on plane, or Vinyl Valerie getting pulled around the lake by a
4lb rainbow, it's all boating, and if I'm in a boat, I'm happy!

I was raised near Harrison Hot Springs, and we had a slough on the farm. When my
sister and I were about 8, our dad made a "punt" (I think you'd call it a
jonboat) out of a sheet of plywood and some 1x12s and we happily splashed around
the slough for years. Been "boating" since then.

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36

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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:06:11 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:
Just this minute a nice gaggle of geese flew over the house and landed
in our field. There's a sack'o'corn I tossed out this morning waiting
for them.

===============================================

If you feed them enough, they will "adopt" you year round, and you'll
never need to fertilize your lawn again.


Duck sh-t makes for lousy fertilizer. But they don't deserve to die either.

Eisboch

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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 08:46:53 -0800, "Lloyd Sumpter"
wrote:

it's all boating, and if I'm in a boat, I'm happy!

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Yes, very true.

I suspect that's the one thing we all have in common here.

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I'm guessing Lloyd is from Billy Clinton territory. We've spent a lot of
time around Bull Shoals and Norfork. Nice country. We still own a place in
Briarcliff; no house, just a piece of land full of trees, rocks,
Copperheads, Tarantulas, scorpions, black bears, skunks, etc. Still, a nice
place to live.

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On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 02:08:37 -0600, Eric H wrote:

I'm guessing Lloyd is from Billy Clinton territory. We've spent a lot of
time around Bull Shoals and Norfork. Nice country. We still own a place in
Briarcliff; no house, just a piece of land full of trees, rocks,
Copperheads, Tarantulas, scorpions, black bears, skunks, etc. Still, a
nice place to live.

Harrison Hot Springs + Fraser River = British Columbia

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noah wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:06:11 -0500, Harry Krause wrote:

Capt Lou wrote:
The duck hunters in jon boats woke me up this morning, shooting ducks off
Boston harbor islands. Of course the commercial fishing guys and the lobstermen
are out there year round too.

Just this minute a nice gaggle of geese flew over the house and landed
in our field. There's a sack'o'corn I tossed out this morning waiting
for them. Edges of the fields around here are posted with variations of
our infamous "NO Hunting. Period. This Means You." signs. We have
several kinds of NO Hunting signs posted, as do our neighbors.

Harry, you and I are not as far apart as you think. I hunt, you don't, but I
have spent far more money on the preservation of wetlands and support of the
migratory birds than I have on my hunting equipment. There are few things more
beautiful than a flock of geese or ducks homing in for a landing, or rising up
off the water in the early dim light. They are an essential part of the natural
world, which is so often dismissed by those who have lost their connection with
Mother Earth. Well intentioned people fed geese at the Ann Lee Pond here in
Albany last year. Because of the food, the geese stayed well into the winter.
At Christmas we had a nasty snowstorm, and many of the geese died, because they
were 1,000 miles from habitat and climate that could support them.


I don't feed them every day, Noah. We just put out some food in the late
fall and winter while the huge flocks are heading south. We have some
acreage, and so do some neighbors, and I do believe the geese see the
land as a sort of refuge while they are heading to Boca Raton for the
winter. Or wherever they are headed. At least they won't encounter any
drooling hunters in our immediate area.

From summer through fall, most of the wetland ducks and geese feed in
the harvested fields in our area, or along the shoreline. Despite some
growth, most of the county in which we live still is rural and wooded.
We have deer with decent racks wandering across our yards. They're all
named Bambi, of course, but they do have different last names.

Hopefully, the area will keep its flavor. One of my favorite places to
walk is along the base of Calvert Cliffs, which happen to be the largest
fossil-bearing deposit of Miocene marine sediments exposed on the East
Coast. If you're lucky, you can find the teeth of sharks and sometimes
whalebones exposed or right on the beach. Me, I'm on the lookout for
Moby Dick.

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