"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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But then you could join in a chorus of our favorite song...

'Farewell to Nova Scotia' always brings a tear to the eye...especially when
sung by Catherine MacKinnon.
(or at least the way she used to sing it in her younger days)

Don White wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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But then you could join in a chorus of our favorite song...


'Farewell to Nova Scotia' always brings a tear to the eye...especially when
sung by Catherine MacKinnon.
(or at least the way she used to sing it in her younger days)



$145,000 Gasp! Choke! (but sweeeeeeet)

This is the one he wants:
http://www.yachtsales.com/msandy/sa5531.html

$40,000 - still more than we can afford - but it is sooo cute - and it
was built in Lunenburg, which has some sentimental value since I am
originally a bluenoser (although my British-born Ontario-raised husband
is more sentimenal about Nova Scotia than I am)

I love the song too. Once, when pressed by my fellow geologists to
"sing a song from your country", I sang it in the middle of the jungle
in Sri Lanka. Nova Scotia never felt quite so far far away as it did
then and there.

Stella
(my singing would probably make Don cry too, but not in a good way)

"Black Dog" wrote in message
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This is the one he wants:
http://www.yachtsales.com/msandy/sa5531.html

$40,000 - still more than we can afford - but it is sooo cute - and it
was built in Lunenburg, which has some sentimental value since I am
originally a bluenoser (although my British-born Ontario-raised husband
is more sentimenal about Nova Scotia than I am)
snip

That price seems reasonable...if not too much work is required.
Where would you sail?

Don White wrote:
"Black Dog" wrote in message
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snip

This is the one he wants:
http://www.yachtsales.com/msandy/sa5531.html

$40,000 - still more than we can afford - but it is sooo cute - and it
was built in Lunenburg, which has some sentimental value since I am
originally a bluenoser (although my British-born Ontario-raised husband
is more sentimenal about Nova Scotia than I am)
snip


That price seems reasonable...if not too much work is required.
Where would you sail?


The price is reasonable. And I have relatives at A.F. Theriault & Sons
shipyard where much of her work was done so I could find out what shape
she REALLY is in. But it is an WOODEN boat. Hubby really doesn't
comprehend the upkeep involved. He should, he has seen how surprised my
Mom is every spring when we just drop the boat into the water instead of
spending a few weeks caulking and painting and doing all the stuff she
watched men do to boats during her girlhood.

We are fresh water sailors and if this were to come to pass (it is just
a dream at the moment - but that's what I thought about the FIRST
sailboat too) she would probably lie in Little Current, Manitoulin
Island. He would like to sail her from St.John up the St.Lawerence and
into the Lakes.

OTOH, he is very near retirement and has a fancy to retire to Nova
Scotia (I told you he was more sentimental than me). I like the south
shore, Mahone Bay/Lunenburg area, unfortunately it is so popular with
our southern neighbours the price of real estate has skyrocketed. So
(were she to become ours) she could end up in Meteghan, on St. Mary's
Bay. The price of land on the French Shore is still reasonable (likely
to remain so as long the Yanks hate french people - luckily, many
Americans are too ignorant to know the 400 year-old difference between
an Acadian and someone from France).

Stella

"Black Dog" wrote in message
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I like the south shore, Mahone Bay/Lunenburg area, unfortunately it is so
popular with
our southern neighbours the price of real estate has skyrocketed. So
(were she to become ours) she could end up in Meteghan, on St. Mary's
Bay. The price of land on the French Shore is still reasonable (likely
to remain so as long the Yanks hate french people - luckily, many
Americans are too ignorant to know the 400 year-old difference between
an Acadian and someone from France).

Stella


Yes, those %#$$^% Yankees and Germans have made it so expensive that locals
can't afford a nice piece of cottage property on the Bras d'Or Lakes or
South Shore any more.

Black Dog wrote:
This is the one he wants:
http://www.yachtsales.com/msandy/sa5531.html


That's a gorgeous boat. A bit small for a schooner rig, but very nicely
proportioned and seems to have a reasonable cabin plan too.



The price is reasonable. And I have relatives at A.F. Theriault & Sons
shipyard where much of her work was done so I could find out what shape
she REALLY is in. But it is an WOODEN boat. Hubby really doesn't
comprehend the upkeep involved.

Hmmm... Maybe I've been lucky, but I've owned a number of wooden boats
including 40 footer from the 1930s, and IMHO it's only about 10% more
work than keeping a fiberglass boat of similar complexity... provided
that the wooden boat is already fully sound. Rebuilding an old woody is
a labor for Hercules, but those who undertake it are benefactors of
humanity.


... The price of land on the French Shore is still reasonable (likely
to remain so as long the Yanks hate french people - luckily, many
Americans are too ignorant to know the 400 year-old difference between
an Acadian and someone from France).

Maybe so, but it looks to me like most Americans are interested in
moving south, not north. I was lucky enough to be born & raised in the
South and am considering moving north to get away from all the Yankees.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

"Black Dog" wrote in message
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$145,000 Gasp! Choke! (but sweeeeeeet)
This is the one he wants:
http://www.yachtsales.com/msandy/sa5531.html
.....................snip............
Stella
(my singing would probably make Don cry too, but not in a good way)

Hi Stella:
At my marina in Bayfield is a beautiful Bayfield 25 sloop that is very
reasonably priced.
You can check it out at ......

http://www.boatcan.com/halfscreen.in...brokerlist&b=3

This is a good buy if you can negotiate the price with him now that it is
winter.

Jim Carter
"The Boat"
Bayfield

"Black Dog" wrote in message
. ..
$145,000 Gasp! Choke! (but sweeeeeeet)
This is the one he wants:
http://www.yachtsales.com/msandy/sa5531.html
....................snip............
Stella
(my singing would probably make Don cry too, but not in a good way)

Hi Stella:
At my marina in Bayfield is a beautiful Bayfield 25 sloop that is very
reasonably priced.
You can check it out at ......

http://www.boatcan.com/halfscreen.in...brokerlist&b=3

This is a good buy if you can negotiate the price with him now that it is
winter.

Jim Carter
"The Boat"
Bayfield